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Adolescent Girl Athletes More Likely to Injure Knees Than Boys

... very strong quads overpowering the hamstrings, an imbalance occurs, leading to undue stress on the ACL. Second, girls become skeletally mature earlier during puberty, and they tend to perform their sports activities in a more upright position that adds stress to the ACL. The study followed 53 female and 70 ...

Appraisal of FDA’s Drug Safety Proces

...rug safety seemed to have appeared. "We found an imbalance in the regulatory attention and resources available before and after approval," said Sheila Burke, chairwoman of the committee that wrote the report. "Staff and resources devoted to pre-approval functions are substantially greater. Regulatory authori...

Astra Zeneca's Seroquel Gets FDA Approval For Schizophrenia

...ack. Bipolar disorder is a characteristic mental imbalance in which the patient experiences wild mood swings, feeling elated during episodes of mania and then immediately suffering from a severe depression. An eight week study of 1045 affected patients was conducted before the drug was approved by the FDA...

Amniocentesis Safer for Pregnant Women

...going amniocentesis. Aneuploidy is a chromosomal imbalance of one or a few chromosomes above or below the normal human chromosomal number of 46, which may lead a child to have abnormalities including Down Syndrome. Amniocentesis is the standard prenatal detection procedure for aneuploidy. It has been a stand...

As these women box on, do they risk becoming mothers?

... drugs like steroids is very high. This creates an imbalance in women's hormone system and also increases testo...ale hormone, in the female body," she said. "The imbalance in the hormone system makes periods irregular and due to that they have less chances of getting preg...

Zinc – A New Key Player In Brain Circuitr

...l therapeutic interventions," which could cause an imbalance between the excitatory and inhibitory circuitry in the central nervous system. In a preview of the paper in the same issue of Neuron, Alan R. Kay, Jacques Neyton, and Pierre Paoletti wrote "Undoubtedly this work is important, since it directly dem...

A New Research Explores Connection Between Emotionality And Alcoholism

...portant aspect of personality. The discovery of an imbalance of activity in the right and left frontal areas ma...ticipants as a whole." Study results indicate an imbalance in the right and left frontal cortex regions of the brain. "We found that alcoholics had lower bra...

Hospital Food Needs Improvement to Meet the Nutritional Needs of the Patient

... care of patients of Scotland hospitals causing an imbalance in the overall treatment has lead to the formation of an official watchdog to ensure //that the standards of effective dietary care are met with. According to Scotland s Audit report 50% of the hospitals have not yet analyzed the nutritional value ...

Hope For Bedwetting Children

... urea.They say that this may possibly be due to an imbalance of prostaglandin, which is a hormone-like substance. These doctors who treat enuresis, hope that this finding could help lead to better treatment for these children. The study “Nocturnal polyuria in monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis refractory t...

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

...nd vomiting. This in turn leads to dehydration and imbalance of electrolyte levels in the body. After consuming alcohol there is a tendency to urinate more, as the chemical in the brain that controls dehydration gets blocked by the effect of alcohol. So it’s a vicious cycle. Severe thirst, weariness, and light...

Big Purses Can Cause Big Problems to Your Health

...ge purses mean women are carrying more, causing an imbalance as they walk and stand. 'If you think about how you carry a bag, it’s usually on one side and you kind of pull your neck to one side and lift your shoulder. It’s a very unnatural position,' says Dr. Sadler. That kind of weight pulling down on you...

UIC Researchers Receive $2.1 Million Grant

...d manic-depression, it may be caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. A person who has bipolar disorder at times feels happy, full of energy and able to do anything. In this manic phase the person may not want to rest. At other times, the person feels sad and depressed, not wanting to do anything. Peopl...

A Protein in Brain Cells Controls Obesity: Research

... balance between energy intake and energy use. The imbalance is linked to alterations in leptin and insulin signaling that lead to excess weight gain and Type 2 diabetes, respectively,” says Rui, an assistant professor of molecular and integrative physiology at U-M. “SH2B1 appears to play a key regulatory role...

Genes for Nicotine Dependence Identified

... those that slow firing between nerve cells. "An imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory activity in the brain may predispose people to addiction, such as alcoholism, drug dependence or nicotine dependence," says Laura Jean Bierut, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry and principal investigator of bot...

Falls and Hip Fractures Are Not Inevitable

...d age. An underlying concept that contributes to imbalance and falling is learned disuse. The popular phrase “use it or lose it” applies. Modern man has shifted to sitting most of the day in cars and in front of computers and TV unlike our prehistoric hunting and gathering ancestors who had to walk and climb...

Health Minister Concerned About the Suicide Rates in India

...e every year. Poverty, debt, illiteracy and mental imbalance are the main reasons for this menace," Ramadoss said. "Seven to eight percent of the Indian population is facing some sort of mental problem, of which over 1.5 percent (15 million) needs special care," the minister told IANS on the sidelines of a c...

Be Happy- Get On Your Knees And Play In The Mud

...rk is expected to help the understanding of why an imbalance in the immune system leaves some individuals vulnerable to mood disorders like depression. Canadian researchers have also been exploring the links between serotonin, mood and immunity. A team at Georgetown University Medical Center recently disco...

Who Receives a Kidney Transplant First?

...l advancements and success have led to the current imbalance between the supply// of organs and the demand for them. The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) coordinates the nation's transplant system through a point system based primarily on wait time, sensitization and HLA matching. When a match occurs...

Cytokine Resistance Contributes to Pathology of Type 2 Diabetes

... and lasts longer than it does in others. Why? The imbalance may be the elevation in pro-inflammation. But it probably also includes a loss of anti-inflammatory function, Freund said....

Small Change Could Stop Epilepsy Seizures for Millions

...of the follow up studies and there was a sex-ratio imbalance for one of the drug groups. But even with these shortcomings, the study showed that most children tolerated phenobarbital well and behaviour even improved in many, they reported....

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