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Osteoporosis – A New Treatmen

...ts. ‘If you could find a small molecule that would flip 10 percent of the existing NFATc into the active form,’ Crabtree said, ‘you could favor the formation of osteoblasts and make stronger bones.’ (Surce: Eurekalert)...

Soccer Fans Seek Comfort From Alcohol

...drink excessively,’ according to de Visser. ‘The flip side of this is that men who feel that they are not masculine could use unhealthy behaviors like drinking to gain 'masculine' credit,’ he added. As de Visser concludes encouraging men to engage in healthy masculine behaviors would help to reduce an...

Mental Health is National Wealth

Australia: The national economy goes flip flop due to a variety of reasons. Mental Health is one of them. It is estimated that the economic outlay for mental healthcare is to the tune of $21billion annually//. The mentally ill touch rock bottom because of unemployment, family troubles, crim...

Hotel Guests Often Leave Their Cold Behind

...asked to dial phone numbers, hold the handsets and flip on light switches in both rooms. Sixty percent of the contacts with contaminated objects that dried for an hour resulted in rhinovirus transfer to fingertips. Thirty-three percent of contacts with objects that dried overnight resulted in rhinovirus t...

Naltrexone Packs a Punch for Women Smokers Who Wish to Quit

...ss at least during the period of the program. The flip side to this finding shows that, success rates were inconsistent just six months after treatment. Further research on this subject is required to evolve better ways to assist people in completely giving up the habit....

Latest Weight-Loss Pill Offers Modest Results, Blocks 'Munchies'

...ol) by 3.5 mg/dl compared to placebo. But on the flip side, side effects included nausea, dizziness, headache, joint pain and diarrhea. More serious side effects included psychiatric and nervous system disorders. Obesity drugs, which often come on the market with great fanfare, can end up being withdr...

Telomerase Expression Linked To Body Mass

... would be nice to have that healing power, but the flip side of it is runaway cell reproduction-cancer." Up until now, scientists assumed that mice could afford to express telomerase, and thereby benefit from its curative powers, because their natural risk of developing cancer is low-they simply die bef...

Hypercholesterolemia Meets Its Match in an Experimental Drug

...tions by blocking blood fats in the liver. But the flip side to this drug is, that it could cause the liver to store up fat, which could trigger scarring and cirrhosis. The magnitude of risk may actually be slight in patients who portray a very high level of LDL cholesterol, and may not live to experience...

Researchers Investigate Gene Linked With Circadian Liver Clock

...n. By controlling liver clock function with the flip of a molecular switch, the authors showed that only 10% of circadian genes follow temporal expression patterns in the absence of liver oscillators. The authors think these genes probably respond to physical or chemical signals controlled by the maste...

Master Switches Found for Adult Blood Stem Cells

...r of Cancer Research. "We're looking for ways to flip these microRNA switches, to control when stem cells grow into new blood cells," says Robert Georgantas, Ph.D., research associate at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and first and corresponding author of the study. To identify the key microRN...

Timing – Crucial for Asthma Drugs to Wor

... 5:30 p.m., according to Martin. There is also a flip side to this timing. What if, the patients forget to take their drugs ? William E. Berger, MBA and professor of medicine at the University of California, Irvine, had this to say, "It is unrealistic to think that people who have to take preventive med...

Stem Cell Treatment Offers Hope for Paralysis Patients

...ead to stem cell treatments sans the controversial flip side of stem cells harvested from stillborn fetuses. Not long ago, Hollywood star Christopher Reeves, who had portrayed "Superman", had spent the last part of his prematurely snuffled out life bound to a wheelchair because his paralysis couldn't b...

Exposure to Chlorinated Swimming Pools Could Increase Asthma Risk in Children

...ren to take to swimming is alright. But there is a flip side too . Swimming in chlorinated pools could actually increase a child's risk of developing asthma. The traditional advice that swimming is beneficial for young asthmatics could be off the mark, a new study seems to indicate. Pediatrics, a lead...

Cars in UK to Be Fitted With Black Boxes to Reduce Fatalities

...is serious enough to trigger an air bag release or flip the car. The device will dial 112 - the pan-European emergency number - and send a digital text message with details of where and when the accident happened. A voice link to the driver will allow paramedics to find out details about injuries, whi...

Use of Inhaled Steroids on Daily Basis may Not Control Childhood Asthma

...o be on daily steroids," Dr. Sawicki said. "The flip side is that if a child has poor asthma control, the parents and doctor need to make sure the child is adhering to their inhaled steroid treatment. But variation in response to inhaled steroids, as other medications, is well described," he added. ...

Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy

...in behind after prostatectomy tissues that we can flip around and support to our advantage," Dr. Tewari explains. "We reconstruct the anterior and posterior parts of the sphincter and surgically join the bladder and the anastomosis (the gap in tissues left by prostatectomy) with the surrounding structure...

Quick, Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy

...in behind after prostatectomy tissues that we can flip around and support to our advantage," Dr. Tewari explains. "We reconstruct the anterior and posterior parts of the sphincter and surgically join the bladder and the anastomosis (the gap in tissues left by prostatectomy) with the surrounding structure...

National TV Promotion Triples Calls to Smoking Cessation Hotline

...phone number on cigarette packs is one idea. The flip side of this is that if we increase the traffic to quit lines, we also need to be able to staff them so they can handle that increased traffic, he said. That represents a significant challenge. These are state-level programs, and state-level funding ...

Concern in Mizoram Over Growing Tobacco-related Diseases

...ard to part with the addiction despite knowing the flip side. Ramdingliana, a tobacco addict since the age of 10, said: "It sounds really good when they talk about cancer and other diseases caused by tobacco. But the truth is that it is very hard to give up such a bad habit once we are into it. After k...

Interactions Between Food and Drugs Could Lower Drug Costs

...ain, MD, and Ezra Cohen, MD, call attention to the flip side of recent studies showing how certain foods can alter absorption or delay breakdown of precisely targeted anti-cancer drugs. Instead of seeing such studies as highlighting a dosing problem, Ratain and Cohen argue that results like this one sh...

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