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Inquest of Date-rape Drug Victim Attracts Wide Attention in Australia

... tell him Mrs Brimble had died, because she had no history of cardiac or respiratory problems. The ship's doctors initially thought she might have died of a heart attack. The inquest continues. The case has prompted stricter security measures for Australian cruises with the introduction of security sniff...

The Queen Of All Contraceptives Released

...hing the pros and cons of the monthly cycles. Yet, history shows that such debates are, well, cyclical. In the 1870s and 1880s, when Americans were debating the value of higher education for women, a flurry of research asserted that womens cycling constitutions made them unfit for sustained mental and physic...

Study Finds Genetic Link Between Smoking Addiction and Major Depression

...d with conduct disorder, is why some people with a history of depression become smokers or why smokers trying...diction and major depression. Some people with a history of depression may become smokers as a way of self-medicating. Some people who are smokers might beco...

Genetic Variation may Increase Premenstrual Depression Risk

...at least three months. Another 56 women who had no history of mood disorders related to the menstrual cycle s... group. They found that these women, who have no history of psychiatric problems or menstrual cycle-related symptoms, may have gene variants that protect aga...

Doctors Puzzled Over Man's Normal Life With Unusually Tiny Brain

...t with an extraordinarily tiny brain . In a case history published in next Saturday's Lancet, doctors led b...irtually absent," he said. The patient's medical history showed that at the age of six months, he suffered hydrocephalus, also called water on the brain, and...

Chennai Hospital Conducts Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully

A hospital in Chennai has created history by successfully conducting a unrelated bone marrow transplant in an eight-year-old Ugandan boy using the cord blood cells from an American donor, at a fraction of what the procedure would cost internationally. Howard Kafeero from Uganda suffered f...

Briton Set for Pacific Solo Odyssey to Highlight Warming

...reness of maritime pollution and secure a place in history when she sets out on a solo row across the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco on Thursday. Roz Savage, 38, has already traversed the Atlantic Ocean in her lightweight 24-foot (seven meter) silver rowing boat and is now attempting a far greater chall...

Blood Transfusions Does Not Increase the Risk of Cancer Transmission

... Edgren set out to determine whether there was any history of increased cancer diagnoses among individuals th...dmittedly limited number of donors with a previous history of cancer, it would seem that long-term cancer survivors might be a fairly safe donor group, the stu...

Help is Hard to Find for Child Sex Abuse Victims in India

...pist for five years. Not once did they discuss her history of being sexually abused. "That's not very good therapy," said Gupta. But counselling is vital, Gupta said, especially for learning how to cope in a society where families are closely-knit and where it is difficult to avoid a former abuser after ...

Experts Identify Vaccine Target for HIV

...s, and this is the point in the infections natural history that the researchers studied. The CHAVI investigators wanted to study those patients who had many sequential blood samples taken during this plateau in viral load. Before their analyses began collaborators in the EuroChavi consortium, coordinated b...

Wealthy Australian Women More Prone to Breast Cancer New Study

...younger age. Those who are older, have a family history of breast cancer or undergo a late menopause are at greater risk of developing the disease, according to the Cancer Council of Australia. Hormone replacement therapy and long-term use of the oral contraceptive pill are believed to make women more ...

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...e more likely than minor self-injurers to report a history of psychiatric treatment and hospitalizations, suicide attempt, and current suicide ideation. Results from the study also indicated that the most common reasons teens in the study engaged in NSSI included to get control of a situation, to stop bad ...

Longer Term Breast-feeding Reduces the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Women

...eloping RA. For women with between 1 and 12 months history of breast feeding, the odds ratio was 0.74, with a 95% confidence interval compared directly to those who had never breast fed. The data was taken from a community-based health study incorporating information from the Swedish National Hospital Dis...

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease, Kidney Disease

...e of 52.9 years) all reported a personal or family history of diabetes, hypertension or kidney disease on a s...oalbuminuria. A total of 1,835 (4.9 percent) had a history of heart attack, 1,336 (3.6 percent) had a history of stroke and 2,897 (7.8 percent) had a self-repo...

Non-invasive Screening in Early Pregnancy Halves Down's Syndrome Births

...t national level. "When we looked further at the history of children born with Down Syndrome, we found that their mothers had declined the offer of screening, or had taken it up too late in pregnancy", she says. Women whose test results showed an elevated risk were offered an invasive procedure (chorioni...

Early Pregnancy Test Reduces Down Syndrome in Children

...e at national level. When we looked further at the history of children born with Down Syndrome, we found that their mothers had declined the offer of screening, or had taken it up too late in pregnancy, she says. Another group had risk assessment that did not lead to invasive procedures. Women whose test r...

Non-invasive Screening in Early Pregnancy Halves Down's Syndrome Births

...t national level. "When we looked further at the history of children born with Down Syndrome, we found that their mothers had declined the offer of screening, or had taken it up too late in pregnancy", she says. Women whose test results showed an elevated risk were offered an invasive procedure (chorionic ...

Tea Pill, Tea Cola Hitting Markets Soon

...l patent rights. "It would be a milestone in the history of tea when these products would be made available in the market for commercial use," said Mridul Hazarika, director of the Tocklai Experimental Station in Assam's Jorhat town. A four-member team of scientists, headed by Hazarika, developed the two...

Studies Identify Interactions Between Heart Disease, Kidney Disease

...e of 52.9 years) all reported a personal or family history of diabetes, hypertension or kidney disease on a s...oalbuminuria. A total of 1,835 (4.9 percent) had a history of heart attack, 1,336 (3.6 percent) had a history of stroke and 2,897 (7.8 percent) had a self-repo...

Premature Vascular and Bone Changes Occur in COPD Patients

...nning of the study, none of the participants had a history of heart disease or possessed cardiovascular symptoms. Of the 75 COPD patients studied, 18 had osteoporosis, while among the controls, only two individuals suffered from abnormal loss of bony tissue. Also, those who had osteoporosis of the hip had a ...

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