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Asthma may actually be prevented by Dust and Dirt
...cialist and principal author of the article in the issue from 11.6.00 of The Lancet. Because asthma rates are very low in many agriculture-based countries and farming communities-compared to metropolitan areas-researchers believe that early exposure to environmental endotoxin may provide protection agains...A report from June issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology reports that People of shorter stature face higher mortality rates than taller people from most causes except cancer. In a study of more than 30,000 men and women undertaken by Dr.Pekka Jousilahti and his colle...PRIMARY PULMONARY HYPERTENSION GENE DISCOVERED
...nstitutes of Health and published in the September issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, provides new insights for determining the molecular basis of PPH and opens new avenues of study for understanding the fundamental nature of both familial and sporadic PPH. PPH is a rare lung disorder which...More to Garlic than warding of Dracula
...ction, according to a review published in a recent issue of Nutrition in Clinical Care. The researchers looked at studies investigating the effect of garlic on risk factors for heart disease. Several studies suggest that garlic may lower total cholesterol, LDL ("bad") cholesterol and blood pressure. It may...Developmental, neurologic problems common in extremely preterm infants
...isabilities, researchers report in the August 10th issue of The New EnglandJournal of Medicine.The EPICure Study Group identified 308 children born at the gestational age of 25 weeks or earlier in the UK and Ireland. Of these, 283 were assessed for neurologic function Based on their lower scores on the Men......fferent research teams -- reporting in the current issue of the journals Science and Nature --have successfully cloned pigs. One of the teams promises to produce an "ultimate pig" for human transplantation studies in 4 years. Even as these studies race off the press, a third report -- its publication al...Serum Progesterone Helps Stratify Ectopic Pregnancy Risk
...pic pregnancy, according to a report in the August issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine. They measured progesterone levels in 716 first-trimester patients who presented to an emergency department with abdominal pain or vaginal bleeding. Patients were monitored until intrauterine or ectopic pregnancy...Pancreatitis: Minimially Invasive Procedure Offers Long-Term Pain Relief
...author of the study that appeared in the July 2000 issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. "Chronic pancreatitis, long-term inflammation of the pancreas, affects up to 5% of the United States population. Caused by various factors including alcoholism, the disease creates severe and even crippling upper-ab...New Way to "See" Genes, Evaluate Effectiveness of Gene Therapies Discovered
...ase. The discovery is outlined in the August 2000, issue of the journal Nature Medicine. UCLA researchers plan to test the tracking system in prostate cancer patients within a year, and are working with researchers at other institutions to help them evaluate other gene therapy studies for cancer patients. ...El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks
...e climate-disease model are reported in the latest issue of the journal Science by ecologists at Cornell University and the universities of Barcelona, Maryland and London. Cholera is caused by the pathogenic microorganism Vibrio cholerae , a bacterium that lives among zooplankton in brackish waters and i...Long-Term Survival can be Predicted by a Simple Lung Test
...men. Their findings are presented in the September issue of Chest. Researchers studied survival rates based on a lung function test, called forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1).They performed the lung function test on a group of more than 550 men and more than 640 women who varied in age from 20...Inhaled Steroids Safe & Effective for Children with Asthma
...es." Another study published in October 12, 2000 issue of NEJM, which followed children with asthma into adulthood, found that the children with asthma who received long-term treatment with inhaled steroids attained normal adult height....Evidence Links Protein Damage to Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
...esearchers, was published in the November 3, 2000, issue of Science. The researchers said, "The protein, called alpha-synuclein, is one of the building blocks of the brain lesions characteristic in patients with neurodegenerative diseases. Oxidative damage, normally occurs when the body's cells are over...Cancers of Colon & Rectum linked to Cigarette Smoking
... risk, according to the report in the December 6th issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Although the risk of rectal cancer death was also elevated in smokers,the risk was slightly lower than that for colon cancer.The more years one smoked, the greater the death rate from colorectal cance...Patients With Filariasis More Prone To HIV Infection
According to a report published in the December issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, HIV infection is significantly enhanced in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from individuals with untreated filarial infection compared to PBMCs from infected patients treated with antifilarial agents....Debate Rages over firing of HIV infected health care workers
... is known that they have the dreaded virus. In one issue of “INDIA TODAY” it was reported that a high profi... But the matter is snowballing into a major ethics issue and Waddell has moved a higher court and is seeking justice! "The fact that very reputable professi...Want skin cancer? Please have a cigarette
The January first issue of the Journal of clinical oncology has come out with a damning indictment of smoking. It says smokers have a three-fold chance of developing skin cancer than people who have not smoked before. The report is based on a study conducted by Dr. Jan N. B...Abstain from sex- the latest mantra of American teens
...ght come out of all this. In the U.S. however this issue of teen abstinence has consumed tons of print and lots of television time and is catching up as a major national debate. Though the situation in India is still different in more ways than one, being promiscuous has become a fad amongst the teen folk....Heart disease in the newborn is related to maternal malnutrition
In its December issue Heart has carried a study on maternal malnutrition in the first trimester of pregnancy and how it causes coronary heart diseases in the newborn. Dr. Tessa .J. Rosé boom of the university of Amsterdam and her team have studied the occurrence of corona...... findings of this study are reported in the latest issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Samantha M. Walker, PhD, of the Imperial College School of Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute in London, and colleagues in the United Kingdom and Italy observed that the vaccine when g...Other Tagsmolecules 2molecules 3molecules 4molecules 5molecules 6molecules 7molecules 8molecules 9molecules 10stressful 2stressful 3stressful 4stressful 5stressful 6stressful 7elders 2elders 3growth 2growth 3growth 4growth 5growth 6growth 7growth 8growth 9growth 10promise 2promise 3promise 4promise 5promise 6promise 7promise 8promise 9promise 10their 2their 3their 4their 5their 6their 7their 8their 9their 10embryonic 2embryonic 3embryonic 4embryonic 5embryonic 6embryonic 7embryonic 8embryonic 9embryonic 10Other Contentsparaplegiaparonychiaparenteralparenteralparenteralparesisparesthesiaparkinson
(Date:1/9/2009)..., the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (...mission tomography (PET) national coverage determi...w for reimbursement of PET by the federal governme...osed decision expands coverage to include cancer s...osis. Two important items in the CMS draft include...
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(Date:1/9/2009)...-- A unique discovery in a Florida State Universit...research with the potential to one day help scient...n the tissue where they are forming. , Jamila Ho...at the College of Medicine, has received a four-ye...s of Health to pursue her work. Horabin recently d...
Breaking Medicine News(10 mins):Health News:SNM praises CMS decision to expand reimbursement for cancer treatment 2Health News:Paul Markovich Named Chief Operating Officer of Blue Shield of California 2Health News:Paul Markovich Named Chief Operating Officer of Blue Shield of California 3Health News:Researcher wins $1.2 million grant for gene regulation work 2(Date:1/9/2009)...st Athene Donald is one of five women scientists w...O Women in Science Award. She and the other recipi...l receive the awards on 5 March 2009 at the UNESCO... $100,000 in recognition of her contributions to s...Athene Donald for her work in unraveling the myste...
(Date:1/8/2009)... N.Y. That pesky buzz of a nearby mosquito is the...e. But a new Cornell study reports that males and ...create a harmonic duet just before mating., Corne...ale mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti), which can spread s...t acoustically with each other when the two are wi...
(Date:1/8/2009)...earch published in the international journal Neur...ds that being physically fit helps the brain funct...undation for Medical Research Senior Scholar, Poul...w in the brain, and, as a result, cognitive abilit... factor for stroke and dementia," says Poulin, a s...
(Date:1/8/2009)...elease is available in Spanish . , Anti-in...nflammatory processes, but also those that do not....nti-inflammatory drugs which affect healthy cells.... of the Basque Country is working on analogues of ...lammatory pharmaceutical drugs are available: ster...
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