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Counseling Helps Young Women Cut Drinking, Improve Contraception Use

...y at Harvard Medical School, said “not every child gets fetal alcohol syndrome. There are all these very subtle neuro-behavioral effects that are lifelong, that are preventable and that are all induced by alcohol.” “There is no safe drinking limit during pregnancy,” Chang said. And she says motivational...

Regrowth of Zebrafish's Tail Fin may Offer Clues for Treating Human Injuries

...ts, something has to tell it to stop before growth gets out of hand. In the Dec. 21, 2006 online edition of the scientific journal Development, UW researchers report on laboratory evidence that suggests that Wnt/Beta signaling also promotes the regeneration of tail fins in zebrafish. Another, distinct ...

Cancer Prevention Begins During Pregnancy

...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 ...

Intestinal Bacteria Blamed for Rotund Figures

...ria. The excess energy if not actively dissipated gets converted to padding around the waist! The researchers conducted a controlled test in experimental mice .When the mice were given extra helpings of bacteria from fat ,they were found to become more rotund .If these findings find a footing with more...

Clues to Allay Aging

...s enmeshed in DNA. If the DNA within a living cell gets damaged, it may advance the aging process of an individual. This is especially true if the cell is too weak to help itself to rejuvenate and repair itself. This was reported in a study published in the scientific journal Nature. "Damage occurring i...

Novel Brain Scan to Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease

...s. This compound after reaches the brain cells and gets affixed to abnormal l protein deposits that are de...” of protein within the brain tissues. This marker gets picked up by PET scans. Those with advanced Alzheimer’s disease showed massive collection of the che...

Celebrating Christmas With Wine – The Elixir of the God

...’, ‘still’, ‘fortified’, ‘rosé’, and ‘blush’. Wine gets its color not so much from the juice of the grapes, which is mostly transparent and clear, but more from the skin, which is either present or absent during the fermentation process. It is often stated, older the wine the better it gets, owing to the ...

Husband - Causes Or Relieves Stress ?

A happily married woman gets stress-relief by just holding her husband’s hand, says a study. This is indeed great news to people who are worried that the institution of marriage// is losing ground. A new study conducted by James Coan, a neuroscientist at the University of Virg...

Defibrillators Should Be Available in Ski Resorts

As the ski season gets underway, doctors in this week’s BMJ say that more defibrillators should be placed in ski resorts to help prevent sudden cardiac deaths//. Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are electrical devices used to restore a normal heartbeat. They are o...

Options Improving for Patients With Acromegaly and Gigantism

...nd their hormones get higher and the tissue damage gets worse. Therefore, the earlier we can diagnose and treat the disease, the more effectively we can control the negative implications.” Acromegaly develops when somatotrophs, cells of the pituitary gland that are responsible for producing growth hormo...

Sea Snails May Aid Chronic Pain Treatments – Says Researcher

...umans. It could take a decade before the treatment gets produced in the marketable quantities. With one in five Australians suffering from chronic pain at some point in their lives, the potential benefits are enormous - she added. However, the conotoxin is yet to be tested on humans and Dr Ekberg said i...

Hysteria Has Palpable Underlying Causes: Says Canadian Researchers

...nferred that the somatosensory region of the brain gets activated only when both affected limb and the unaffected limb is stimulated. The patient seems to get distracted when both limbs are stimulated said lead researcher and author of the study Dr. Omar Ghaffar, in Toronto. Yet another study is being p...

Light Drinkers Tend to Shirk Work Often

...rs to consume alcohol excessively. As the drinker gets older he/ she reduced the number of sick leaves. Paul Ritchie, spokesperson of ABL State Chamber, a business group said that even problem drinkers had showed effects at work because of impairment of their overall perfomance. KOM...

Painkillers may Reduce the Risk Enlarged Prostate

...te gland slowly grows or enlarges. As the prostate gets bigger, it may press on the urethra and cause the flow of urine to be slower and less forceful. Source-IANS...

Video Games Fun but Pose Social, Health Risks

... the action they want to see on-screen. The system gets users off the couch, but it's still not like playing soccer or jogging, Storch said. On the other hand, research has shown that Dance Dance Revolution, a game that requires players to dance on a mat to mimic moves they see on their TV, elicits the ...

Choked Roads, a Trouble for Ambulance Drivers

... ‘despite of being equipped with sirens, ambulance gets stuck up in the traffic especially during the peak hours and it is a Herculean task to reach the hospitals or the accident spots in time.’ In addition, the lives of the drivers are at risk due to fast driving in the busy roads. ‘It is only when...

7 Workers Tested Positive For Polonium In London Hotel

...d to food and ingested. When soluble polonium-210 gets dispersed in soft tissues, Kidney and bone marrow will receive high doses – they added. Moreover, traces of polonium have been found in a number of places in London, which were visited by Litvinenko before falling sick, and many people including hi...

Creating Memories During Sleep

...d the hippocampus. Newly acquired information then gets moved after a few hours or in couple of days, to t...is occurs usually during deep sleep. Thereafter it gets stored as long term memory. Investigations by Thomas Hahn, Mayank Mehta and the Nobel Prize winne...

British Heart Experts Use Cricket To Target South Asians

... be a burden and preferring to 'wait and see if it gets better'. Apart from these reasons, the BHF is worried that there are additional barriers, such as language and cultural reasons, that may put off those from South Asian communities, particularly older people, from calling 999. The British Heart F...

Holiday Baking Frenzy May Mask Eating Disorder in College Kids

...cising – 'It should raise a red flag if your child gets anxious or scared if he or she has to skip a day of exercising,' Dr. Fassihi said. ? Frequent trips to the bathroom or showers – Young adults with bulimia often attempt to control the amount of calories they consume by purging after a big meal. The...

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