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Longer airway in males increases sleep disorder risk

...thing to stop momentarily many times in the night, leading to daytime sleepiness and a higher risk of heart disease and stroke. Men are far more prone to sleep apnoea than women and researchers in the US now believe they may have discovered the underlying reason. They have studied the anatomic and physiolo...

Sun burns treated with creams

...is known to have numerous ill effects on the skin, leading not only to the typical signs of aging, but also to skin cancer. Tazarotene has been shown in several studies to reduce these effects, but none have tested the treatment for longer than six months. These researchers measured the safety and effectiven...

Renal problem increased

...ing cystitis and kidney stones, with renal failure leading to about 7,000 deaths in the UK each year....

Memory deprivation after operations

...urgery - but the reason for this is unclear. The leading UK charity, Research into Ageing, has been helping fund a large international study into POCD and its causes. Results are to be published, but so far it looks as if surgery may be a major stressor for some people and maybe there is a genetic factor i...

Myth of 'female impotence' created to boost sales

...partners. However, a spokeswoman for one of the leading pharma companies denies such reports stating, "We work on unmet medical needs. There were academics who were working on this long before they came to us to ask us for support."...

Weight gain following smoking cessation not linked to Leptin

...after one stops smoking, the leptin levels plummet leading to weight gain. A new study by researchers in the University of Pittsburgh has however proved this wrong, by measuring leptin levels in non-smokers, current smokers and ex-smokers. They found no significant difference among the three groups. Researc...

Human wasting disease linked to a gene

...umans which may help those at risk of cachexia, by leading to development of new drugs that can moderate cytokine production....

New hope for spinal cord injury victims

...nd the axons of the first cranial nerve (the nerve leading directly from the brain to the nasal cavity). Researchers have created a 'cell line' of OECs in the laboratory, which divides indefinitely, forming a source of cells for repair of spinal cord injury. These OECs were then introduced in rats which had...

Cervicogenic headache can be identified with a fibromyalgia test

...cervical disc origin are diagnosed// as migraines, leading to inappropriate treatment and unnecessary pain. Researchers conducted a study of 40 men and 160 women who were administered the fibromyalgia examination to detect the presence or absence of neck pain that might be causing a headache. Researchers fou...

Blindness can be stopped with drug for acne treatment

...pofuscin// results in the deterioration of the RPE leading to loss of rods and cones and subsequent central vision loss. Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, have now found that Accutane, an acne treatment drug, stops the accumulation of lipofuscin in the eyes of mice with Stargardt's...

Poorer breast cancer prognosis with reduced physical activity

... breast cancer are less active after the diagnosis leading to increase in body weight and body fat, which, in turn, leads to poorer breast cancer diagnosis. The population-based, multicenter study involved 856 patients with breast cancer. The researchers collected information// on physical activity of the su...

Awareness increase Prostate cancer detection

...cancer in men, after skin cancer, it is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in men, after lung cancer. Because of better detection there has been a increase in number of detected cases. Most men are uncomfortable as the screening consists of digital rectal exam and a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blo...

New Gene Identification Help Asthma Treatments

...ht lead to new understanding of the disease, hence leading to bettertreatments. There are about 10 genes that have a significant effect on a person's susceptibilityto asthma. With combined efforts internationally, doctors have identified about half of these genes. This new gene, PHF11, was found on chromosom...

Drop in global deaths from measles

... Measeles is a contagious disease and is the fifth leading cause of death for children under the age of five.This has largely been possible due to improved vaccination programs in Latin America and southern Africa. Measles has been virtually wiped out in the industrialized countries but still continues to ex...

Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses

...ion can break the vicious spiral of poor nutrition leading to ill-health and ill-health causing further deterioration of nutritional status often leading to death. Preventable communicable diseases can be drastically reduced through three activities: the...

Hope for First New Melanoma Treatment in Decades

...percent to 60 percent of melanomas. // The process leading to the formation of melanoma begins when a cell growing in the top-most layer of the skin is damaged, such as through severe sunburn. The damaged cells act as a melanoma trigger and, at first, the body's natural defense system is often able to fight ...

Protection from Dementia

...oncern in developed nations, ranking as the eighth leading cause of death and disability. Studies have shown elevated blood pressure levels and prior incidence of stroke put people// at especially high risk for these mind-robbing conditions, but doctors are unsure whether treatment of high blood pressure can...

Women Benefit More from Quitting Smoking than Men

...similar for men and women. Cigarette smoking is a leading cause of COPD, a slowly progressive disease of the lung that is characterized by a gradual loss of lung function. COPD is the fourth most common and the most rapidly increasing cause of death in the United States. Emphysema, chronic bronchitis, chron...

New target for antidiabetic agents identified

...events the enzyme from being activated by insulin, leading to increased glucose output from the liver. Elevated hepatic levels of TRB3 RNA and protein were identified in diabetic mice compared with wild-type mice, the authors report. Hepatic overexpression of TRB3 was associated with hyperglycemia and gluco...

Admission to Russian varsities is looking up

...llowed to practise in India. Also , it is only the leading universities in Russia which offer a medical degree in English . Another aspect that should be noted is that all foreign students will have to undergo one year preparatory course in Russian language....

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