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Traffic pollution linked to severe asthma attacks

Asthmatic children exposed to traffic pollution before getting a viral infection have more serious asthma attacks. In children, about 80 percent of attacks are due to viruses -- most of them from the common cold virus. Researchers have discovered that exposure to nitrogen diox...

Diabetics Need to Guard Against Nail Fungus

...eveloping nail fungus. That's because they're more exposed to specific risk factors such as walking barefoot in swimming pools, communal showers and other areas potentially contaminated with nail fungus. The AADE offers these tips on preventing nail fungus: Don't wear tight-fitting shoes or the same pair of...

Vitamin D Wipes out Cancer Cells

...rowth in mice treated with radiation alone to mice exposed to both radiation and EB 1089, a derivative of vitamin D. After treatment, the tumor volume in those women treated //with EB 1089 was 50-percent lower than in the group that received radiation alone. Radiotherapy is commonly used to treat breast can...

When Man Bites Man

...ore than two-thirds of the patients presented with exposed cartilage. Patients received tetanus shots when ne... Post-operative infection was also associated with exposed cartilage and receiving less than 48 hours of IV antibiotics. The investigators conclude human bite...

Smoking and its Effects

... to have good respiratory function unless they are exposed to secondhand smoke. This new study went a step fu... Lung growth was also negatively affected in those exposed to cigarettes. Another reported finding is that significantly more smokers had asthma at both 8 and...

Tea Prevents Skin Cancer

... teas and, unlike sunblock, work after the skin is exposed to sunlight. The chemicals are thought to decrease...yme JNK-2, which naturally increases after skin is exposed to sunlight. Because JNK-2 levels are decreased, researchers believe the polyphenols help inhibit tu...

Teen brain changes increase cigarette addiction

...4-year-old girls - take twice as much as rats only exposed to nicotine in adulthood. And this insatiable use carries on when they grow up. "The results indicate that early nicotine exposure can leave a lasting imprint on the brain," says Levin. "The brain continues to develop throughout the teenage years. E...

Does Radiation Cause Lung Cancer?

...e the higher doses and greater volumes of the lung exposed to radiation in the first study may have led to th...r surgery, an increasing number of women are being exposed to radiation that also affects the chest wall and lungs. Some studies have hinted such exposure coul...

Enzyme Associated with Memory

...heir partner’s scent. After mating, a female mouse exposed to the scent of a strange male will not continue her pregnancy. On the other hand, a female exposed to her partner’s scent even a month after mating will continue her pregnancy. Investigators say this...

Enzyme Associated With Memory

...heir partner’s scent. After mating, a female mouse exposed to the scent of a strange male will not continue her pregnancy. On the other hand, a female exposed to her partner’s scent even a month after mating will continue her pregnancy. Investigators say this...

Senate assures ban on smoking

...re an employee of a nursing home, you can still be exposed to smoke every day," said Senator Richard R. Tisei, Republican of Wakefield. "Maybe we didn't include people who work in nursing homes because they're poor -- many of them are immigrants; they're on the lower rung." The measure lifting the Commonwea...

Animals Can give us a second chance at life

...percent. “We do know that patients who have been exposed to pig cells and tissues do have pig DNA circulating in their blood,” says Fano, “And that means they most certainly have pig viruses in their blood as well.” It’s these viruses that concern her most. “We’re talking about putting the entire populatio...

Animals can give us a second chance at life

... percent. “We do know that patients who have been exposed to pig cells and tissues do have pig DNA circulating in their blood,” says Fano, “And that means they most certainly have pig viruses in their blood as well.” It’s these viruses that concern her most. “We’re talking about putting the entire populatio...

Exposure To Tobacco Smoke Can Lead To Sickle Cell Crisis

...ckle cell disease. Twenty-two of the children were exposed to secondhand smoke on a regular basis. None of th...ization. Over the course of the study, patients exposed to secondhand smoke were about twice as likely as those not exposed to be hospitalized with a crisis...

Onset Linked To Severity of Asthma

...e 12 say they wheezed most or all of the time when exposed to dust or pollens. In contrast, only 40 percent of patients diagnosed after 12 reported the same scenario. Even though the early onset patients had had the disease for a longer period. Researchers also found that the lung function was worse in the...

Reducing Number Of Cigarettes Not Enough

...// the number of cigarettes they smoke per day are exposed to lower amounts of a potent tobacco carcinogen, or cancer-causing agent. However, the reduction in the amount or concentration of the carcinogen exposure is often temporary and not proportional to the reduction in cigarettes smoked. Researchers fro...

Persistent Childhood Wheeze Probably Inherited

...set of the wheezing in some children. Children not exposed to these hazards but with a family history that puts them at increased risk for wheezing are more likely to develop the condition later in childhood but are not more likely to escape it altogether. Researchers thus believe that ,early and late onse...

Drugs Taken During Pregnancy Found To Affect Unborn Babies

...ssants during pregnancy. Studies involving infants exposed to SSRIs in the womb have shown few ill effects, s...le neurobehavioral differences. They found infants exposed to SSRIs in the womb were more likely to have had a shorter gestational age, and were also more like...

Antidepressants For Children: How safe is it ?

...they say about 28,000 children and adolescents are exposed to antidepressants .Results also show a 4.5-fold increase in the rate of prescriptions of SSRIs between 2000 and 2002. Researchers say that appropriate, studies should be planned to guarantee effective and safe evidence-based therapeutic approaches...

New Virus : A Threat In the Future?

...Researchers say 1,100 of the people reported being exposed to blood or body fluids of primates from hunting. Study authors say 1 percent of the exposed participants had antibodies to SFV.Researchers say their findings show that retroviruses are activel...

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