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Gene Linked With Restless Leg Syndrome Spotted Out

...ealthcare Program in Sleep, and one of the study's lead authors, as saying. "This is the most definitive link between genetics and RLS that has been reported to date. We have known for quite some time that the majority of RLS patients have a close family member with the disorder, and now we have found a...

People Living Near Nuke Facilities at Higher Risk of Leukemia

...ed common methods and draw wider conclusions, said lead author Dr. Peter J Baker. Eight separate analyses including unadjusted, random and fixed effect models also showed considerable consistency. However, dose-response studies, which describe how different levels of exposure affects an organism, did n...

Chain Smokers Prepared to Lessen Their Daily Cigs Rather Than Quitting

...cing the number of cigarettes you smoke a day will lead to a corresponding reduction in a persons risk of ...use in control groups where no NRT was given, says lead researcher Lindsay Stead, who works at the Department of Primary Care at Oxford University. Second...

Male Casting Couch in Bollywood?

...hek Bachchans elder brother in Yuva and a parallel lead with Emraan Hashmi in Aashiq Banaya Aapne. Nigar...another co-ordinator during a party and promised a lead role if he compromised. There were days when a producer would call an actress that she may have to...

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

...ntested. Despite this, "the man has been able to lead a life that can be considered normal," said Feuillet. "Even if he has a slight intellectual handicap, this has not hampered his development or building social networks."...

Novel Method of Adult Stem Cell Growth may Help to Treat Cornea Disorders

...he adult stem cells so obtained in the damaged eye lead to the recovery of the corneal epithelium, and thereby, the transparency of the cornea. Experiments on rabbits with induced limbic insufficiency showed that 60 per cent of the animals had recovered the corneal epithelium after the adult stem cells...

New Analysis Puts Cot Death Under Scrutiny Once Again

...f parents, but they are concerned that it may also lead to mistakes in child protection. Uncertainty may be uncomfortable, they add, but it is truer to reality, more conducive to scientific inquiry, and safer for children than a dogmatic stance at either pole. We would encourage professionals to keep...

Three Gene Variants Could Hold Key for HIV Vaccine: Study

...hursday. The researchers hope their finding will lead to a vaccine that would boost the protective effec...others," Goldstein said. "This should ultimately lead to novel targets for vaccines, the primary goal of CHAVI," a seven-year project launched in 2005 by ...

Indian Government Asks the Supreme Court to Keep Off Environmental Issues

...forestry science." Such a situation may not only lead to errors of judgment but also result in accentuat...esses/fallacies are allowed to prevail, they might lead the forests to a situation of extreme risk, which is the opposite of the purpose for which the court...

China Vows to Improve Food Safety in Wake of Health Scares

... Inspection and Quarantine. "I believe this will lead to the enhancement of supervision." Li said China has shut down two companies in eastern China blamed for adding the dangerous chemical melamine to protein products later used in pet food for US and Canadian markets. The companies used administra...

Experts Identify Vaccine Target for HIV

...trol the virus than others. This should ultimately lead to novel targets for vaccines, the primary goal of...d perform research to better understand the virus, lead researcher, Barton Haynes, M.D said. When someone becomes infected with HIV, the amount of virus i...

Wealthy Australian Women More Prone to Breast Cancer New Study

...nts of ionised radiation, such as X-rays, can also lead to breast cancer. One in 11 women will get breast cancer by 75, according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation....

Drink-drivers Not Influenced by Ads Unless It Affects Them Personally

...eople aware of the painful life they might have to lead should they lose their licences as a consequence of drink-driving. Most young men dont think that accidents will happen to them. They need to know that their own lives could become very painful if they lose their licences, Gifford said....

Pediatric Use of ADHD Drug may Affect Developing Brain

...raduate student in the Program of Neuroscience and lead author of the study. The researchers first looked at behavioural changes in the treated rats, and discovered that Ritalin use was linked to a decline in weight. In the "elevated-plus maze" and "open field" tests, rats examined in adulthood three mo...

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...e general population than previously thought, says lead author Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson, PhD, a psycholo... attraction to suicide and death. The answer could lead to significant changes in how we initially treat adolescents who start to exhibit self-harming behav...

US Companies Cut Junk Food Ads on Kids' Shows

...ile said the company-by-company approach "can only lead to confusion for parents." The group asked why the companies were not applying the measures to advertising outside the United States. "These half measures by multinational companies only serve to reinforce the need for mandatory action on an inte...

Glaucoma can Be Cured by Oven Cleaner!

...bsorption rates across the cornea. Sudipta Seal, lead researcher at University of Central Florida, was testing cerium oxide nanoparticles, or nanoceria, for use as a catalyst to remove grime from oven walls, when he realised they might have medical applications. "Before using any nanoparticles we have...

Policemen Could Face Sleep Disorder

...disorders adversely affect personal health and may lead to chronic sleep loss, which, in turn, increases the risk of accidents and injuries. These problems are exacerbated in shift workers including police officers, who may experience chronic sleep loss due to their schedules, said a research abstract ...

UK Suggestion for Restricted Use of Anti-AMD Drugs Draws Flak

...ntral part of the retina called the macula and can lead to blindness in as little as three months. The two drugs are known as anti-VEGF drugs and they work by targeting VEGF (Vascular endothelial growth factor), a protein that helps the formation of new blood vessels. In the case of AMD these new bl...

Scientists Identify Previously Undetected Drug-resistant Forms of HIV

...can grow rapidly under drug selection pressure and lead to therapy failure, as it is limited to detecting ...e HIV strains present at the one percent level can lead to premature failure of therapy. It is our hope that in the future, clinicians can use this knowledg...

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