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Report on the Safety and Effectiveness of Melatonin supplements

...and to control the sleep cycle. In the evening the level of the hormone in the bloodstream rises sharply, reducing alertness and inviting sleep, and in the morning it falls back, encouraging waking. Among those problems for which melatonin supplements appear to provide little benefit are jet lag, a proble...

Link Between Sex Hormones And Risk Of Breast Cancer

...ew study shows there is an association between the level of sex hormones and an increased risk of estrogen ...ect association between breast cancer risk and the level of both estrogens and androgens and in the patients with estrogen and progesterone positive receptor...

Olive Oil Found To Offer A Protective Effect Against Breast Cancer

...However, they say the findings do suggest a higher level of oleic acid in breast tissue could provide an effective means of influencing the outcome of breast cancer patients who have high levels of Her-2/neu....

Tsunami Survivors Face Pneumonia Threat

...ffering from diarrhoea does not exceed the typical level of the illness usually found in the region, experts say. Medical teams on the lookout for cholera have instead seen respiratory diseases on the rise. "The biggest killer is pneumonia," says Hakan Sandbladh, health officer for emergency relief at the...

Risk Factors For Stroke Studied

...est people who carry a gene that produces a higher level of the amino acid homocysteine have a small increased risk for stroke.// Researchers reviewed medical literature on homocysteine levels and stroke and it was found that previous study results were observational in nature. A standard scientific appro...

Body Weight Found To Influence PSA Levels

...ke this factor into account when deciding if a PSA level deserves further investigation in order to assess whether consideration of BMI in PSA interpretation results in earlier detection and, ultimately, in better prostate carcinoma prognosis for obese men....

Understanding The Link Between Phobias And Fatal Heart Disease

...any possible phobias the patients had. The women's level of anxiety was classified into four groups of scores from zero to four and higher based on their answers. The relationship between the score on the phobia index and the subsequent risk of having a heart disease event was analyzed and it was found th...

A New Evaluation Tool That Could Predict Death Risk in Heart Patients

...ictor for mortality was a high blood urea nitrogen level (above 43 milligrams per deciliter), followed by a low systolic blood pressure (above 115 millimeters of mercury) and a high serum creatinine (higher than 2.75 milligrams per deciliter). Now that researchers have the ability to easily categorize pat...

Kids Not Getting Enough Fiber

...ers call for more study to determine a recommended level of fiber intake in children....

Treating Altitude Sickness With Viagra

...were measured for physiological functioning at sea level and then again soon after arriving at a high altitude region in Europe. All the men showed some signs of elevated systolic pulmonary artery pressure after arriving at the high altitude region. Researchers then randomly assigned half the group to thre...

Neglected Gum Disease Could Increase Risk Of Heart Attack and Stroke

...sclerosis, was also measured. People with a higher level of the specific bacteria that causes periodontal disease also had an increased thickness in the carotid artery, even after researchers accounted for other cardiovascular risk factors. The study showed that atherosclerosis is associated with the type...

Can your bulging abdomen lead to cancer?

...visceral fat. Researchers have found that a higher level of visceral fat may make the people more at risk to prostate cancer. When 63 prostate cancer patients were compared with same number of healthy counterparts by assessing their body fat distribution, the results hinted at a significant relationship ...

Common Thyroid Problems In Women May Lower Their Risk Of Developing Breast Cancer

...ogic effect of the thyroid hormone at the cellular level hence they recommend further studies for preventive and therapeutic purposes....

More Importance To Be Given To Prenatal Nutrition

...ice babies born underweight began showing a higher level of blood glucose . By 6 months of age, the mice had extremely high levels of blood glucose, similar to full-blown diabetes in humans and were not programmed to secrete a limited amount of insulin later in life, no matter what signal they got from glu...

Higher Statin Dose Safely Reduces Stroke and Cardiac Arrest

...statin and got 77 milligrams of LDL as an achieved level of LDL had 22-percent less major cardiovascular events.These included fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular events. Also, stroke rates went down 25 percent, and this is comparing them to patients already at a reduced risk from taking the 10-milligram dos...

Greek Study Shows Living In The Hills May Be Healthier

...lifestyle may be increase in the physical activity level by walking on the uneven terrain. http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/59/4/274...

Traffic Smoke May Damage DNA

...stress due to traffic exhaust exposure. The stress level was also high in these workers of the toll stations. During the lifetime of a human being DNA receives potentially damage causing biological and chemical toxins from the environment. This may lead to cellular death or some other forms of distress li...

Can There Be A Diabetes Type III?

...n the neurons of some areas of the brain. When the level of insulin production drops, the brain cells degen...y symptoms of Alzheimer's. This fall in insulin level do not correspond to any form of diabetes. Scientists are of the opinion that this reflects a new an...

Infections in childhood may lead to adult heart disease

...cardiac arrest. Studies are still at a preliminary level to make such a conclusion. It is still not known which infections cause the stiffness of arteries in children. Researchers of this study are of opinion that more research is needed to find out the exact infections that cause childhood arterial dysfu...

Enlarged waistline may predict atherogenesis for postmenopausal women

...diac health of post menopausal women through their level of triglycerides and increased waistline. Enlarged waist with elevated triglycerides (EWET) was successfully linked in the study with increased risk for atherogenesis, cardiac problems or even fatal cardiac attacks. Researchers feel that this tool E...

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