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Compound Present in Plant may Help to Curb Craving for Cannabis

...e release of dopamine in this brain region. "The increases in dopamine are virtually non-existent because of MLA," the New Scientist quoted Goldberg as saying. The scientists, however, are clueless as to the mechanism by which MLA works. Goldberg also stressed the need for developing medications that m...

FDA Refuses to Lift Ban on Blood Donation by Gays

...itted to donating blood. Yet the demand for blood increases everyday. Americans undergo more bypass operations, organ transplants, C-sections, hip and joint replacements, and other treatments every year. All require the use of blood. And as more and more people live with immune disorders or diseases that h...

Scientists Use Gene Therapy to Reverse Heart Failure in Animals

... therapeutic gene is only expressed in heart cells increases the safety of the gene therapy for human use." Congestive heart failure affects nearly five million Americans, many of whom have poor long-term prognoses, despite recent therapeutic advances....

Magnets to the rescue of Alzheimers patients

...w Scientist magazine reported. They found large increases in the proliferation of stem cells - immature cells that go on to develop into nerves and other kinds of tissue - in a part of the brain called the dentate gyrus hippocampus. These cells divide throughout life and are believed to play a crucial ro...

Exposure to Smoking in Prenatal Stage Increases ADHD Risk in Children

...he risk for ADHD in their children. ADHD, in turn, increases the risk for substance abuse. Thus, it appears that in utero exposure to nicotine may help to perpetuate a cycle across generations that links addiction and behavioural problems," added Dr. John H. Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry....

Drink, Binge and the Genetic Link

...More than a dozen genes have been identified which increases a persons risk of alcoholism, rendering the condit...t codes for GABA receptors on the cell surface increases risk to alcoholism. GABA is a common inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian nervous system. ...

Research may Yield Improved Treatment for Diseased Lungs

...arteries in the lungs. "That reduction in diameter increases resistance, and that increase in resistance overloads the right heart, because it has to produce more pressure," says Chesler. But in this process, she says, researchers have downplayed the role of stiffness in the much larger pulmonary arteries, w...

Robotic Surgery May Improve Survival Rate For Prostate Cancer Patients

... have demonstrated that a positive surgical margin increases the chances that the prostate-specific antigen (PSA)- a protein produced by the cells of the prostate gland - will rise after surgery, and increase the chances that the disease will reoccur and progress, said Edouard Trabulsi, M.D., assistant profess...

NHS Oversupplied With Cataract Surgery, Say Doctors

...1968, to 173 in 1989, and then to 637 in 2004. The increases occurred in every age group. Analysis by area showed wide geographical variation in admissions, ranging from 172 to 548 people per 100,000 of the population, depending on location. The highest rates tended to be in more deprived areas. This sugge...

Loss of Virginity Could Prove Traumatic If Relationship Falls Apart Subsequently

...the average age at first-time sex among your peers increases the chance of depression, as does a lack of commitment or intimacy within the relationship and what happens to the relationship after first-time sex," said Meier. "For girls in uncommitted relationships, ending a relationship with sex has more of an ...

Fat Screen Delivers Plant-derived Chemical With Antidiabetic Effects

...s effects in diabetic mice found that the chemical increases insulin sensitivity in a manner similar to, though more roundabout than, the predominant antidiabetes drugs. Rather than triggering PPAR directly, the chemical blocks a pathway that normally inhibits fat cells' production. "Harmine inhibits an inhibi...

Scientists Report New Take on Sexual Signaling

...rength of female preference for a male signal that increases her own survival increases with her perceived risk of predation. That a females choice of a mate is based on sexual signals tha...

Enriching Environment Stimulates Neurons: Hope For Fragile X Syndrome

...nockout mice, excitatory synapses can show lasting increases in synaptic strength, but this requires increased neuronal activity to occur."...

Lazy Children may Face Chronic Health Problems

...isk of developing coronary artery disease. It also increases the risk of stroke and such other major cardiovascular risk factors as obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes and low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol that is good for health. The American Heart Association recommends that child...

Scientists Identify Four Genes That Raise the Risk of Breast Cancer

...ne of the new genes, when found in a mutated form, increases the risk of developing the cancer by up to 60 per cent, giving a woman a one in six chance of the disease. Since its most damaging variant is carried by one in six women, the researchers say that it is much more common than previously identified ge...

Risk of Parkinsons Increased by Exposure to Pesticide and Head Trauma

...rchers noted that while low exposure to pesticides increases the risk of developing the disease by 1.13 times, exposure to high levels of pesticides increases the risk by 1.41 times. The researchers noted that while people who had been knocked unconscious o...

Policy Changes Have Direct Effect on Nursing Home Care

...ral or state minimum nursing level requirements or increases in Medicaid payments," Harrington said. "We now know that a policy change is an effective way to create an impact, and it might be an easier solution than trying to change Medicaid payments." An increase in Medicaid rates of $90 per day would be ne...

Tobacco Menace and What can Be Done About It

...An equality effective tool could be taxation . Tax increases raise prices and it is estimated that a 10% price increase reduces consumption by 4% in developed countries and 8% in developing countries. Poor and youth are more price-sensitive and high prices deter youth from starting to smoke. But at the e...

Bush Announces Request for $30B, Five-Year Extension of PEPFAR

...the proposed increase would not keep the pace with increases in new HIV cases during the next five years, the Los Angeles Times reports. Paul Zeitz, executive director of the Global AIDS Alliance, said it is "important that [Bush] affirmed" PEPFAR, but called the $30 billion request a "modest increase." He sai...

CIGNA HealthCare Teams With HopeLab to Help Blast Teen Cancer

...eetings, indicate that playing Re-Mission produced increases in quality of life, self-efficacy and cancer-related knowledge for adolescents and young adults with cancer. In addition, young people who played Re-Mission maintained higher blood levels of chemotherapy and showed higher rates of antibiotic utilizat...

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