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Violence Against Women Fueling Spread of HIV Worldwide

...es with one man," Sokunthy said, adding, "When she gets to the venue she finds more than one man, and they all want to have sex with her. When she refuses, she is beaten or raped." In addition, WSF participants discussed how some husbands beat their wives if they discover that they visited HIV/AIDS vol...

New Tool Improves Prediction of Stroke Risk

...on. "Right now, there is no consensus as to who gets admitted to the hospital or has other medical intervention after a TIA," Johnston said. "We are hoping this will be a useful tool for emergency department physicians as well as those in clinics." He added that this would also be useful for patients, ...

How Ion Channels are Organized to Control Nerve Cell Communication?

...is activated by another protein, a receptor, which gets its cue to carry out its task from chemical messengers known as neurotransmitters. But neurotransmitters are general messengers – they can inhibit as well as excite, and the receptors can respond to either message. How, the scientists wanted to know,...

Avoid Diuretic Pills During Pregnancy

...ake are in early pregnancy, or even before a woman gets pregnant," Bodnar said. Researchers and doctors originally prescribed diuretics to prevent preeclampsia because they thought the condition was caused by excess salt and water retained by pregnant women. Diuretics increase urination and remove water...

New Quartz References for Workplace Safety

...mon minerals on Earth. When finely powdered silica gets in the air it becomes a significant health hazard. Respirable quartz is associated with the development of silicosis, lung cancer, pulmonary tuberculosis and other airway diseases. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has...

Ontario Supports OHIP’s Rejection of Claim by North York Ma

...e standards and guidelines OHIP uses to decide who gets reimbursed for out-of-country treatments// . Ontario Divisional Court supported OHIP's rejection of the claim of a North York man who hoped to recover the $450,000 cost of his life-saving liver transplant in England. The retired high-school teacher...

Americans in Dark About Shingles

... between chickenpox and shingles. After a person gets the chickenpox, most often during childhood, the inactivated virus can live on in certain nerve cells in the body. In healthy people, the body’s immune system usually keeps the virus at bay. As people age or their immune system becomes compromised, t...

Uterus Transplant- A Future Reality

...less a donor agrees before death. 'Before anybody gets to use a reproductive organ ... should the donor not have the right to control that?' asked Arthur Caplan, bioethics chief at the University of Pennsylvania. 'It's got symbolic importance that's far different from a pancreas or a liver.' The first ...

Don’t Let Symptoms of Whooping Cough Escape You, Parents Warne

...mon symptoms: runny nose and cough which gradually gets severe, pronounced by loss of breath or vomiting. A vaccine is thought to remedy the infection though its effect may not be long-lasting. The need of the hour will be antibiotics, which can stop the infection from spreading to others, as well as al...

Cure for Most Heart Attacks Is Free, but It's Important to Start Young

...t what smoking does to your body.’ All of which gets back to what can be done to address the problem. The burden primarily falls on parents, McGill said. ‘If you’re a parent, don’t smoke. Eat healthy. Exercise. Set the right example. If you’re eating a lot of junk food, smoking, and letting yourself be...

Heart Defect Is Linked to Some Cases of Migraine Headache

...ortion of the migraine/PFO study. “If the pressure gets too high on the right side of the heart, the PFO can open, and blood can travel from the right to the left side. We think something usually cleared out by the lungs is in that blood and can trigger migraines.” Estimates now hold that PFOs are prese...

Can Prunes Reverse Bone Loss After Menopause?

...a highly unusual twist, no one in this sweet study gets a placebo. "Our FSU research is unique in that all participants, women between two and 10 years postmenopausal, can hope to potentially benefit in some manner," Arjmandi said. "During this 12-month investigation, half the women will supplement thei...

Got a Short Telomere-Watch Your Heart

...y time a cell in the body replicates, the telomere gets shorter. When it gets too short, the cell dies. Just how telomere length may be asociated with heart disesae can be expl...

Renegade RNA: Clues to Cancer and Normal Growth

... goes where no bit of it has gone //before, and it gets there under its own internal code. MicroRNAs, already implicated in cancer and normal development, latch on to and gum up larger strands of RNA that carry instructions for making the proteins that do all the cell’s work. They are, says Joshua Mendel...

'Hooded Horror': Death by Hanging

...w inches and the struggling ensures that the noose gets tightened. Death occurs by strangulation, leading to asphyxia. This method continues to be employed in the Middle Eastern countries, most often, in public. Standard drop hanging is almost the same as the short-drop method. But here the executee dro...

Party Over –now Its How to Get Ove’ the Hangove!

...he chemical in the brain that controls dehydration gets blocked by the effect of alcohol. So it’s a vicious cycle. Severe thirst, weariness, and lightheadedness are the end results. Getting out of such a hang over will need plenty of water to flush out the symptoms of dehydration. It is absolutely essen...

Alcohol in Moderation Could Increase the Life Span

...is time it is not just cardiovascular disease that gets advantage from this: drinking in moderation reduces all-cause mortality. The research, published on the American journal Archives of Internal Medicine, assembled 34 scientific studies conducted during the last years worldwide using the statistic p...

Mother’s Diet During Pregnancy Could Prevent Cancer in Childre

...n, it's also true that only about one smoker in 10 gets lung cancer. It's possible, researchers say, that dietary and other factors in addition to smoking may predispose some smokers to get cancer while others don't. That this process may begin with carcinogens crossing the placental boundary – and might ...

Living Liver Donor Who Saved Life of Mother-in-law Represents Cedars-Sinai in Rose Parade

...en to it, and they think it’s pretty cool that Dad gets to do this. We’re going to get the whole family ou...cess, you know why you’re doing it and that’s what gets you through. And then you recover, and then you’re back to normal. You can go through this process a...

US Company Develops Better Weight Reduction Pill

...solve and end up piling weight back on. Excalia gets round this by tricking the hypothalamus - the brain's weight and appetite thermostat - into keeping the metabolism running fast. The pill contains two drugs, which are already widely used, against epilepsy and smoking, so there is a reduced danger ...

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