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Being Lonely is gene regulated

John Cacioppo and researchers have found that the habit of being lonely is genetically programmed and it runs in to families making it a genetic character. Researchers also have found that lonely people should join a group which has more social character people in it.// Researchers conducted survey in 8...

A bird's eye view of the Bird Flu scare

...he bird or avian flu scare has acquired this nasty habit of sending a shiver down the spine. That birds have turned out to be man's greatest enemies in the 21st century is an irony worth noting. So what exactly are the origins of this disease// and what exactly should we be looking at to avoid becoming a v...

TWO India Doctors Listed in TIME for Contribution to Global Health

...fant death, including malnutrition and the strange habit of starvation among expectant tribal mothers who believe this makes the delivery easier, the couple started working to solve them. They found that simple improvement of skills and education to health workers will effectively reduce the reproductive a...

Lawmakers alerted on new tobacco control policies by research team

...ng recommendations have been suggested to curb the habit among the smoking population, especially teenagers and adolescents. 1. Raise cigarette taxes by 20 percent to levels equal to or greater than those of highest-taxing states. 2. Urge law enforcement to actively implement existing laws that prohibit...

Children At Risk For Chronic Disease Due To Consumption Of Fried Food

It has now become a habit for adolescents to eat large amounts of fried food. The number of adolescent queuing up in front of fast food joints is proof enough. This has raised severe reasons for concern following the finding // that there is a significant weight gain among 9-...

Quit smoking for healthier gums

...cks havoc on your lungs is a well-known fact. This habit does not spare your mouth as well.// Besides confe...Periodontology has found that smokers who quit the habit have a greater chance of saving their teeth than non-smokers. The research, which was conducted at t...

Differences in brain pattern among liars and cheats in comparison to honest people

...ied into different categories related to the lying habit and were further analyzed using psychological tests and interviews. The study has been the first to highlight the structural brain abnormalities in pathological liars. Differences in brain structure were recorded using images obtained through a techn...

Smoking a Cigar increases risk of dying by heart diseases and lung cancer

...to 9 cigars a day and many had also given up their habit of smoking. The research study was conducted by reviewing statistics and data from 43,000 men and women aged between 35 and 49 from mid 1970s up to 2002 whose health and death rates were taken into consideration. People who smoked between 1 to 5 ...

Neurobiology Provides Answers To Block Memory-Related Drug Cravings

...aces and objects previously associated with a drug habit can trigger overwhelming memory-based cravings, many former drug users often relapse into drug-taking behavior. Research has shown that memory for places associated with cocaine use can be strikingly altered by inactivating a specific protein calle...

Popularity Among Peers Increases Susceptibility To Smoking Habit Among School Children

...roblem for parents because of the vulnerability to habit formation, the curiosity to experiment and susceptibility to get easily influenced by peers // . A new study throws light on the fact that teenagers who enjoy popularity are more likely to smoke than less popular classmates. The study has been cond...

Habit Memory May Enhance Learning In People

...hat humans might have the same capacity to acquire habit memory, but that this capability is ordinarily obscured by our excellent capacity to learn by conscious memorization. In the study reported in Nature, two human volunteers with amnesia, called EP and GP, participated in a series of simple object dis...

Clampdown On Fake Drugs Manufacturers In India – New Bill Enacte

...to make licensed drug manufacturers who are in the habit of designing or packing their products in such a look-alike manner a criminal act. Officials say the Bill attempts to bring in imitations or substitutes (look-alike) cases where a drug resembles another drug in such a manner that it could be mistaken...

Use Of Sunscreen In Childhood And Prevents Future Skin Cancer

...age of the study was the inculcation of a positive habit of sunscreen. Source: American Academy of Dermatology...

Gambling related to Parkinsons medication

...ssion. Researchers had learned about the gambling habit acquired by the patients of the disease during the...nts of Parkinson’s disease with the newly acquired habit of gambling to the use of the drug carbidopa/ levodopa. One result of the research was also that the...

Metabolic problems related to clogged arteries

...nd the current link in cases where neither smoking habit or heightened cholesterol levels is present. Experimenting on mice, the researchers found out those mice, which overproduced a protein called uncoupling protein-1 on the walls of the artery, with low energy levels, it can cause stress and atheroscl...

Giving up smoking is good for health, but causes weight gain too

In a study that looked into the smoking habit of 6654 people for a period of eight years, researchers //have found out that giving up smoking do causes weight gain, but the overall health effect is beneficial to the people. The population under study was measured for effect of giving up on smok...

Smoking may affect multiple sclerosis

... the diseases from the first time diagnosis to the habit of smoking. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic neurological disease of the central nervous system. The disease affects the brain and spinal cord and medication till date had only been able to treat the problem symptomatically. In the initial stages of...

New treatment possible for drug addiction

...blem because the addicts find it hard to break the habit formation. One of the reasons// for this type of behavior may be that drugs affect the mechanism of the brain and makes the addict less attracted towards other rewards of life, like eating and fulfilling of other need, physiological or psychosocial. ...

Antibiotics not to reduce rate of cardiac diseases

...mycin, irrespective of their ages, gender, smoking habit or the presence of antibody of the bacteria. There were no effects of antibiotics on stroke, or total mortality. However the researchers feel that it will take more extensive study to find out the role of the C. pneumoniae bacteria in causing or ai...

Association of maternal and granny’s smoking on children’s asthma provd

...nection between the pediatric// asthma and smoking habit of mother and maternal grandmother. The study had taken detailed histories of families with children suffering from asthma regarding the smoking habits of the mother before, during and after the pregnancy. The history of smoking of other family mem...

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