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Have sex and stay young

...ntists have claimed. Couples who have sex at least four times a week look more than 10 years younger than the average adult who makes love twice a week, says consultant neuro-psychologist Dr David Weeks, who has made a 10-year study of the subject. "Pleasure derived from sex is a crucial factor in prese...

Micro-camera provides new breast imaging technique

...re-cancerous cells have already been identified in four women who had symptoms such as nipple discharge. br>...

Smallpox as Biological Weapons?

...gress to provide $509 million to buy vaccines from four drug companies. He is talking to the drug companies that used to make it, hoping they will agree to make the vaccine and deliver it next year so it can be stockpiled. Smallpox is highly infectious, and can be fatal. When Europeans brought it to the...

Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

...s lost just 1 percent of muscle and bone mass over four weeks of recovery. The untreated group lost 9 percent. The children all had burns over at least 40 percent of their bodies. None suffered from pneumonia or needed much mechanical help to breathe. Dr. David Herndon, who led the study, said more res...

Resurface your skin

...ter three to five treatments spaced out over about four weeks. You do need to protect your new skin from t...ts of resurfacing your skin will last for at least four years....

Animal Fat Enhances Risk Of Stomach

...itamin B6 were associated with a lower risk of all four cancer types studied. Use of a vitamin C supplement at least once a week for 6 or more months also showed a significant association with a lower risk of these cancers....

Detection of Cancer

...ostate, breast, lung and colo-rectal cancers - the four major causes of cancer deaths worldwide."The ability to do a broad test for cancers will be extremely important, as early detection is a major factor in determining the success of cancer treatments," said Professor Pat. The C-test also has the advan...

Asthma linked to obesity

...chers add. Seven thousand children, aged between four and 17, took part in the US National Health and Nutrition Study, which began in 1988 and was carried out over six years. Parents were asked about factors including children's exposure to tobacco smoke, their birthweight and if they were breastfed, fa...

Dampness related to asthma

... the undergraduates studied said they had suffered four or more colds during the last year and 16% said they had a constant runny nose. The study also found that just under 43% of the students who lived in damp homes had suffered pneumonia, bronchitis, sinusitis or tonsillitis over the last year. Report...

Older men 'father' schizophrenics

...ehind the research estimate that as many as one in four cases of schizophrenia could be caused by the father being old. Their study looked at records of almost 56,000 people// born in Jerusalem between 1966 and 1986, and compared them to data from the Israel Psychiatric Register, which is part of the Isra...

An effective way to treat angina

...by researchers in Japan, reveals that three out of four known blood vessel growth factors have their levels raised during EECP. Eleven individuals with angina, average age 60, took part and reported reduced chest pain alongside the increase in growth factors. EECP is non-invasive and safe and, if larger s...

Photographs as a parameter

...nas of 12000 people and monitored their health for four years. They found that people with 'blots' or narrowing of tiny blood vessels on the retina were two and a half times more likely to suffer a stroke during the study. This finding held true even when the team controlled for risk factors that might af...

Deprived sleep leads to ageing

...ng six nights, the participants were restricted to four hours' sleep a night. Finally, they were allowed 12 hours' sleep a night for the concluding seven nights of the study. The investigators took measurements during the day of glucose tolerance, cortisol concentrations (a hormone that helps to regulat...

Breakfast improves memory

...ave 18 men and women aged between 60 and 80 one of four breakfast drinks: three contained calories from either fat, protein or carbohydrate, while the fourth// was a placebo with no calorie content. Those taking in calories - whatever the source - did better than the controls on a memory test carried out ...

Altering genes through calories

...d.// To their surprise, cutting calories for only four weeks in old mice mimicked most of the genetic effects of a lifetime of calorific abstinence.Even old people may be able to benefit rapidly from switching to a calorie-restricted diet they speculate.Drugs could be rapidly screened for those that repr...

Legume Consumption Can Cut Heart Disease Risk

...rt disease. Men and women who ate legumes at least four times a week had a 22% lower risk of coronary heart disease than those who consumed legumes once weekly. The most enthusiastic legume eaters also had lower blood pressure and total cholesterol, and were less likely to be diagnosed with high blood pre...

Alcohol within the body

... liver disorder is thought to affect around one in four people in developed countries. It particularly affects obese people. The condition is currently untreatable, and one in ten sufferers go on to develop cirrhosis of the liver, which in turn increases the risk that cancer will develop in the organ.Th...

Armpit odour enhances mood

... or deodorants, or eating strong smelling food for four days, although they were allowed to take showers using unscented soap. Throughout this period, a gauze pad strapped under the arm absorbed any odour they produced. Then more than 300 university students sampled smells taken at random, filling in be...

Genetic disorder related with sleep patterns

...e". This means the person's body clock is three to four hours faster than normal. Writing in Nature Medicine, the scientists, led by Dr Louis Ptacek, say they found 34 people in three families who suffered from the disorder. In one family, a grandmother, daughter and grandchild all had the disorder whic...

New HIV cases resist drugs

... and living near-normal lives for years. There are four classes of these drugs available, each of which attacks HIV at a different point, and a mixture is required to make it work. The timing and composition of this cocktail is an art for AIDS doctors....

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