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No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

...kins Hospital in Baltimore. He points out that the earlier study in Netherlands does not see any association of third generation oral contraceptives with cardiac events which makes the study insufficient to deny women birth control pills. However, Bluementhal also adds that birth control pills are not given ...

Breast Cancer in younger women can be detected at an early stage by mammograms

...heir 40s leads to diagnosis of breast cancer at an earlier stage. This could facilitate the use of more effective and less radical treatment options.// Sandra Buseman, MD, lead author of the study and colleagues found that nearly 25% of all breast cancer deaths occur in women who were diagnosed between ages...

The Future Pattern Of Weight Gain Is Laid As Early As Three Years Of Age

... the children were reassessed two years later. The earlier findings held true, leading the investigators to conclude the children had established a sedentary lifestyle that would increase their risk for obesity. Specialists from the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado Health Sciences C...

Gene That Might Be Responsible For Aging

...ociated with age-related illness and death. In one earlier study, telomere length was shorter in patients with atherosclerotic heart disease than in age-matched healthy patients. Clinical markers of aging, such as pulse pressure and survival, have also been associated with telomere length. However research...

Early Detection Of Breast Cancer

Breast cancer may be detected earlier using a computer-assisted detection system ( CAD) ...us researchers conclude saying that finding cancer earlier is the best way to increase cancer-free survival, resulting in less surgery, less chemotherapy, and ...

Pregnancy Complications Could Be Prevented With A Urine Test

...l. Thus researchers say diagnosing this condition earlier could help women with preeclampsia avoid major complications. A simple urine test could help predict the onset of this disease one to two months before the onset of clinical symptoms, and that could make a tremendous difference in outcomes for patien...

Platelets May Be The Source Of Gene Regulations

... and emerged while the researchers were engaged in earlier studies of how platelets communicate with certain leukocytes (white blood cells). During that investigation the scientists had found evidence of platelets making new proteins, which led them to pursue the mechanisms that are involved. Researchers th...

Researchers Relate Arthritis And Obesity With Baby-Boomers

... predecessors but that the baby-boomers got a much earlier start, and have spent more of their lives in an obese state even though we’ve known that they have had better access to nutrition and information about exercise for much of their lives. Arthritis risk soared along with the obesity rates of the baby-...

Parents Should Beware of Violent Video Games

...n of science journal Nature. Some researchers had earlier said that playing such games was directly linked to aggressive behavior in children. The study also shows that children who play violent video games are much less likely to be helpful to others than they are when they play more social and non-viole...

First-Born Children Are Not At Increased Risk From Multiple Sclerosis

..., which suggests that people with MS would be born earlier than expected within their sibships. The data presented suggest that environmental risks for MS must be accounted for by factors that do not affect birth-order position. Source: Newswise, The Lancet...

Watch out those of you planning for a predetermined Cesarean Section

...eries were infected by the bacterium almost a year earlier than vaginally delivered infants according to the ... to determine if C-section births can be linked to earlier acquisition of this and other oral bacteria in a broader cross-section of the population, and if a h...

Red haired withstand to pain more than blond headed

...or drugs in that area”. Jackson acknowledged the earlier work done by Jeffrey Mogil at Mc Gill University in Montreal, Canada. Mogil identified a mutant version of a gene called melanocortin-1 (Mc1r) that is linked to ginger hair and fair skin and makes women, although not men, more resistant to pai....

New Blood Test To Detect Iron Level In Infants

... all set to measure the iron deficiency in infants earlier than other blood tests, reports the recent issue o...ows that CHr can be used to detect iron deficiency earlier and more accurately than standard hemoglobin screening. Once confirmed in larger, multicenter studie...

General Anesthesia For Heroin Detoxification Is No Good

...xone treatment. Taken together with the results of earlier studies, the findings suggest that general anesthesia for rapid antagonist induction does not currently have a meaningful role to play in the treatment of opioid dependence Source: Newswise...

Encephalitis Deaths Cross 220 in Uttar Pradesh

...atment for the same," said Dr. Dhole. Contrary to earlier statistics by the state health directorate of 1,500 Japanese encephalitis deaths in 27 years, Dhole said their survey had revealed that 7,874 people had died of the disease during that period. He wondered why successive state governments had failed ...

The Two-In-One Estrogen Therapy For Managing Menopause And Maintaining Healthy Skin

...tages of the same. Long-term hormone therapy used earlier in menopause has been found to be associated with fewer wrinkles and less skin rigidity in postmenopausal women, and may have cosmetic benefits according to a new study. Hormone therapy, if started early can be a key to the prevention of wrinkles by...

Ovarian cancer risk reduced by regular exercise

...or the effects to be manifested. US studies have earlier suggested that exercise may have an effect on breast cancer, just as Danish researchers have indicated that active men have a reduced risk of developing colon cancer. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

Brain Patterns In Amusia May Be Related To Other Disorders

...ty in the right half of the brain, consistent with earlier findings by the researchers. It may be possible to compensate for amusia by training pitch discrimination abilities. Amusic adults show a normal range of intelligence and have no other brain deficits. They get little payoff from pitch training and t...

Women’s Heart Conditions Are Often Ignore

...rdiology studies. Better awareness and education, earlier and more aggressive control of risk factors, and appropriate access to diagnosis and treatment are desperately needed to tackle this potentially fatal disease, she concludes. Source: BMJ, Newswise...

Teaching the immune system to fight diseases is the key to reducing childhood infections

...ion occurs and combat it more effectively than the earlier exposure. This theory holds good in the development of immunity to asthma as well. Scientists believe that knowing exactly which type of dirt provides the best 'education' for the immune system, could be key to providing new treatments for diseases ...

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