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Why skin sags

...and eyes begin to appear. Young female smokers are likely to be wasting money on anti-ageing face creams if they continue to smoke. The best beauty treatment by far is to quit smoking....

Cut your puff's

...e risk and severity of heart attacks as it is more likely to block blood flow to the heart completely. The less blood that gets to the heart, the more severe the damage. Researchers studied 800 heart attack patients who were given angiograms before the blocked artery was opened with balloon angioplasty or...

Reduced POD linked to fatal asthma attacks

...archers found that patients with low POD were more likely to suffer from fatal and near-fatal asthma attacks than those with high or normal POD.The researchers said that patients identified with low POD should be monitored carefully and more often, and should be educated in self-management....

Sniff to compatibility

...at a man who smells similar to a woman's father is likely to have a compatible immune system. The natural odours that all humans produce are called pheromones. They are influenced to a degree by a cluster of genes related to the immune system called the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) . 50 unmarrie...

Vaccination to prevent strokes

...t people who have been vaccinated for flu are less likely to suffer a stroke.Researcher Dr Pierre Amarenco, from// Bichat Hospital in Paris, said if the results were confirmed it would mark a "major advance in stroke prevention". The theory suggest that they destabilise fatty deposits on the walls of arte...

An aide to cold

...king the supplement who did catch a cold were more likely to make a speedier recovery than those taking the placebo and the chances of re-infection following a cold were significantly pared. Mr Josling said the results of his research could metamorphose future treatments of the common cold. He said: "We h...

New Birth Control Pills increase the stroke risk

... women taking the third-generation pills were more likely to develop these clots than those on the second-g... study didn't look at whether newer pills are more likely to cause hemorrhagic, or bleeding, strokes, which are the most common form of stroke in women of chi...

Depression elevates heart failure risk

... study shows that women who are depressed are more likely to develop heart failure A connection between depr...have shown that women who// are depressed are more likely to suffer from heart failure. The study included 2000 participants - 1000 men and 1500 women - of ...

Find a partner

...and unmarried women. The reason behind are more likely to entrust in their wife than a friend, while women are more likely to have intimates who are friends, in addition to confiding in their husbands.Having a wife as a clo...

Less sleep increases mortality rates

... risk, but those who took sleeping pills were more likely to die sooner. It is not clear why sleep has this effect upon mortality, although the highest risk seemed to be linked to sleeping longer, rather than shorter, hours. More needs to be done to work out why long sleep is risky - in the meantime, you ca...

Tobacco chewing leads to dental caries

...e chewing tobacco exclusively were four times more likely than those who had never used tobacco to have one or more decayed or filled root surface. On average, the men who used chewing tobacco exclusively had 4.45 decayed or filled root surfaces more than any other tobacco-use group and those who had never ...

Mutation connected to Osteoporosis

...ion or born resorbtion or mineralization, the more likely we are to be able to design therapies for various metabolic bone diseases, including osteoporosis." Econs was not involved in the research.Dr. Craig Langman of Northwestern University Medical School and the kidney and mineral metabolism center at Chi...

A Blood test for suicide risk?

...Those with high cortisol levels were 14 times more likely to commit suicide. If the findings hold up in larger studies, Coryell believes the test could prove to be a powerful tool for the mental health community....

Dental x-rays to prognosticate heart attacks

... with plaque in the carotid arteries were twice as likely to die from heart attack or stroke than those with no plaque....

Winter months encourage binge eating

...s, preferring to eat in dimmer lighting, were more likely to binge. It's not clear why this is, but if such people become overweight and decide to diet in the New Year, they're doomed to failure. Counsellors could, perhaps, help them identify these weak points and devise a healthy eating plan that works, wh...

Fresh approach to TB treatment

...B. These results suggest that the drugs are also likely ot be active against the strains that cause infection.Further tests will confirm which of the family of azole drugs could be candidates for fast-tracking the drug discovery programme.Professor Steven Kelley, of the Institute of Biological Sciences at...

Mothers with periodontitis may deliver premature babies

... mouth affected with periodontal disease, the more likely a woman is to deliver a premature baby, according ... periodontal disease may be up to seven times more likely to deliver a preterm low birth weight baby. The women in the study had no other major risk factors...

A treatment for Osteoporosis

...onfirmed everyone's suspicion: People are far more likely to stick with a once-a-week schedule. The drug has already been approved for weekly dosage by the US government....

Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of cleft palate

...e while pregnant are 60 percent to 70 percent more likely than nonsmokers to give birth// to a baby with a cleft lip or palate. The risk of the birth defect rises with the number of cigarettes that a mother-to-be smokes each day, even after factors like the mother's race, age and educational level are consi...

Ranbaxy Labs' Entry Into Anti-Acne Market

...atories' entry into the global anti-acne market is likely to be delayed as the mandatory inspection by the US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) for the company's ANDA (Abbreviated New Drug Application) for the generic isotretinoin has been postponed. The US FDAs investigator had not yet arrived. The U...

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