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Modified Herpes Virus Keeps Arteries Free-flowing Following Procedures

... low in the group treated with herpes and remained high in the untreated group. One undesirable, yet expected outcome of angioplasty and stent placement is the disruption of the arterys endothelial layer, which forms the inner lining of the artery. Loss of this inner layer predisposes the artery to bloo...

Organic Farming Can Feed the World

...armers use in developed countries to produce those high yields, she said. After comparing yields of organic and convention farms, the researchers looked at nitrogen availability. To do so, they multiplied the current farm land area by the average amount of nitrogen available for production crops if so-...

Tumours in Dogs may Give Insight into Human Cancer Development

...anding of human tumour metabolism. We are using high throughput screening techniques to identify new biomarkers of prognostic significance in cancer. The approach involves using clinical samples from a tissue bank to carry out hypothesis driven immunohistochemical studies to look at tumour metabolism, ...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

...- showing the preference for sons persists despite high incomes and education. Sons are typically seen as breadwinners. They are also needed to light their parents' funeral pyres according to Hindu rites. Girls are often viewed as a burden because of the matrimonial dowry demanded by a groom's family. ...

Genes Play Major Role in Determining Individual's Sour Taste Perception

...t by their taste genes. So someone who inherited a high sensitivity to sour taste may find foods containing lemons or vinegar off-putting, whereas the same foods may be better accepted by a person whose genes make them less sensitive. "These taste perceptions presumably evolved because they have a signi...

US Teen Birth Rate Drops to Record Low: Report

... of sexual activity, the report said 46 percent of high school girls reported having had sexual intercourse in 2005, a slight reduction from 50 percent in 1991. The report found an increase in the use of condoms among sexually active girls, with 56 percent saying they used the contraceptive in 2005 comp...

Paris at Her Self-obsessive Best

...the event wearing a figure hugging green dress and high Christian Louboutin shoes, reports the Daily Mail. Late last week, Hilton got back to the club scene, just two weeks after she finished serving time. The socialite was seen at hotspot Les Deux on a girls' night out on June 6, with a group includ...

Extroverts are More Likely to Drink Under Pressure

...d in the observations of young adults. Here, a high degree of imitation was also found yet no distinct...n between either best friends or participants with high status, the so-called leader figures. Although these factors may play a role in the decision to actu...

Tomato Fever Replaces Chikungunya in Kerala

...auses a non-fatal self-limiting illness, marked by high fever, headache, severe joint pain, rashes and nausea. Symptoms of tomato fever have been seen in around 2,800 people so far. The symptoms include tomato like wounds especially on hands and legs, from which fluid oozes out. N. Thanganath, Medical...

Diaphragms offer no extra protection Against HIV

... By the end of the study, HIV infection rates were high and almost identical: about 4 percent of the women in each arm of the study were infected per year. Infections were found in 158 women given diaphragms and condoms and counseling; 151 women were infected among those given condoms and counseling only....

Surgical Repair of Athletic Hernia Speeds Return to Play

...habilitation protocol. The investigators found a high rate of successful return to athletic competition....atment, these athletes typically cannot perform at high levels and may no longer be successful at their sport. The standardized rehabilitation protocol is m...

Shoulder Protection by Throwing Motion in Baseball Players

...rs from injury. However, pitch counts that are too high and playing year-round can push those adaptive changes to the point of injury. Parents of young baseball players need not be overly concerned about their childrens shoulders. Throwing is fine as long as it is in moderation and the parents and child...

C -reactive Protein is the Marker for Cardiovascular Disease

...almost no likelihood of OSA and those indicating a high likelihood of OSA were randomly selected, and the children were invited to a sleep research center. Obese children were excluded from the study, because the condition is now viewed as a low-grade systemic inflammatory disorder, and is associated wi...

Yo-yo Dieting Increases Kidney Cancer Risk in Women

...l Geri Halliwell along with a large waistline pose high risk in the development of the kidney cancer in ol...at linked weight cycling to increased incidence of high blood pressure, another risk factor for RCC. Researchers also explained that frequent weight fluc...

Nasal Cannula Treatment for Sleep Apnea Patients

...nasal cannula to deliver warm, humidified air at a high flow rate. Our findings provide evidence that TN...ated sleep apnea can increase the chance of having high blood pressure and risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes, as well as putting patients at risk fo...

Patients Taking Inhaled Steroids may Develop Pneumonia

...to analyze pneumonia frequency, its small size and high drop-out rate, he suggested, might lead a reader to reasonably conclude that its pneumonia findings were spurious. Now, with the addition of the Canadian population-based study, Dr. Woodhead wrote, the unexpected conclusion--that drugs prescribed t...

Complaining Girls Faces Higher Depression, Anxiety Risk

... "When girls co-ruminate, they're spending such a high percentage of their time dwelling on problems and concerns that it probably makes them feel sad and more hopeless about the problems because those problems are in the forefront of their minds. Those are symptoms of depression," Rose said. "In terms...

Drink Milk for a Healthy Heart

...e last 25 years amid concerns about the effect its high saturated fat content may have on health and the heart. But growing evidence suggests this idea is false. "We are reviewing worldwide studies on the link between dairy (product) consumption and effects on vascular disease, including rates of heart d...

Highway Robbers-Stealing Your Hearts Health

... than 200 meters from major traffic. The chance of high coronary artery calcification was 63 percent great... this is the first to demonstrate that living near high traffic is associated with coronary atherosclerosis. The researchers plan a five-year follow up s...

US FDA may Be Asked to Monitor Toxic Levels of Cigarettes

... tobacco used in American cigarettes is especially high in nitrosamines. _Acetaldehyde, a potential carcinogen that may make tobacco more addictive. It's produced when sugars, added to tobacco, are burned. _Cadmium and lead, two heavy metals that are toxic. Their levels generally depend on the environ...

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