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The phenomenon of sexual attraction

...o grade the women's attractiveness. They were more likely to think the women were attractive when they were exposed to the pheromones and the testosterone in their saliva increased. There were also fewer differences in perceptions about attractiveness between the men when they were under the influence of ...

Misleading Advertisements for Prescription Drugs

...ampshire. // Instead of telling the consumer how likely it is that the medicine is going to prevent some outcome, these advertisement often use vague qualitative messages, such as "Try it, it works," or "Take the drug and be there for your future," he said. Dr. Woloshin and colleagues did a content anal...

Over-The-Counter Drugs May Prevent Alzheimer's

...t people taking certain NSAIDs regularly were less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease. // The study suggests that three types of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) markedly reduce production of a protein linked to the amyloid-beta plaque characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. The plaque col...

Levels Of Blood Proteins May Help Heart Disease Care

...all, patients with higher levels of IL-6 were more likely to die than those with lower levels. And while surgery reduced mortality by about 5% in the patients with high IL-6 levels, it had no effect on mortality among those with lower levels of the protein. In the second study, researchers report that ano...

Hydroxyurea derivatives kill colon cancer cells

...nt structures that they hypothesized would be less likely to cause complications. The researchers tested the drugs against colon cancer implants in mice. One of the compounds, EPH116, blocked the tumor growth at doses that did not appear toxic. EPH116 brought considerable cancer cell death, but did so by a...

Smoking Delays Pregnancy

... smoking a year before attempting to conceive were likely to get pregnant within a similar time period as non-smokers. The growing body of evidence that continuing to smoke while attempting to become pregnant may increase time to conception suggests that greater emphasis on this public health message is war...

Asthma linked to obesity

...searchers found the fattest children were 77% more likely to have asthma symptoms.They suggest increased weight might lead to inflammation in the respiratory tract, which could be the key factor in inducing asthma.// Appropriate strategies for the reduction of body weight in children may contribute to a red...

Dampness related to asthma

...to need more antibiotics than others and were more likely to suffer from pneumonia, bronchitis or tonsillitis. The study published in the journal Allergies, showed that 2 in 9 of the students quizzed had homes with mould, damp stains or water damage. A body of medical evidence is growing on the insidious h...

Exercises reduce risks of cancers

Taking regular exercise is likely to decrease the chances of getting bowel cancer, ... that people who exercised regulatly were 50% less likely to develop the disease.// Dr Linda Sharp, from Aberdeen University, found that sport, manual work,...

Toddlers stressed out

...g children into learning too much too soon is more likely to produce stressed-out toddlers than high achievers, say nursery experts. This setting of targets for three to five-year olds could lead to symptoms of anxiety, such as tantrums and bed-wetting, rather than achieve accelerated learning, says the rep...

Older men 'father' schizophrenics

Older fathers are more likely to have children with schizophrenia, research suggests. Men aged 50 or over are three times more likely to father a child with the illness compared to men of 27 or under. And men aged between 45 and 49 ar...

Miscarriage linked to late embryos

...tilised egg implants in a woman's uterus, the more likely she is to have a miscarriage, new research has found.The report in the latest New England Journal of Medicine details the most precise information the timing of implantation - the true start of pregnancy - influences its success or failure. Fertilis...

Bronchitis in the young

..."Moderate smokers were three-and-a-half times more likely to be affected by chronic bronchitis than non-smok.... Smokers who developed the disease were also more likely to suffer complications, such as obstruction in the lungs. The researchers stressed, however, that ...

Mouthwash as a weapon

...th officials.Any potential new avenue of attack is likely to be fully investigated, particularly as triclosan could prove cheaper to manufacture than many existing antimalarials.// Triclosan is the anti-bacterial ingredient of mouthwashes, and acne medications, but has never been considered as something w...

New light on Cardiology

...the researchers said was “intriguing” but was more likely to be due to other risk factor modifications among the study participants. Since the regression of LVH found with the drug was independent of blood pressure reduction, the study authors suspect that ACE inhibitors have a direct effect in causing reg...

Photographs as a parameter

...sels - their vascular system - that make them more likely to suffer a stroke.// Previous research has shown ...ssels on the retina were two and a half times more likely to suffer a stroke during the study. This finding held true even when the team controlled for risk f...

Allergies are related to mothers' menses

...nger than 12 were almost one and a half times more likely to have children who later developed allergies than mothers who started menstruating at 16. The pattern was confirmed by looking at the ages in between - the higher the age at first periods, or "menarche", as doctors call it, the less chance of all...

Breast cancer evidence

...ing the nights for up to three years were 45% more likely to develop breast cancer than those who did not work at night. And the risk increased to 65% for those who regularly worked nightshifts for more than three years. The results of the study, carried out in Seattle, suggest that bright light at night ...

Shapely sperm-a valuable indicator of fertility

...o had children. His study found that men were most likely to be fertile if their semen had more than 48 mill...e than 10 percent of them looked normal. They were likely to be infertile if there were fewer than 12.5 million sperm per milliliter, fewer than 28 percent we...

Morning sickness maybe pronounced

Mothers are more likely to suffer from serious morning sickness if they are pregnant with a girl, researchers claim. A study of over a million pregnancies in Norway between 1977 and 1985 showed there was a greater risk of the condition for women who were carrying a female c...

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