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A need for new stem cell lines

...normalities over time and new stem cell lines will likely be needed. Dr. Burt Vogels, chairman of a key ste...ce much biomedical research is international, it's likely most useful lines and reagents will be developed outside the U.S..Therefore, a ban on importation wo...

Erythromycin and infants’ intestinal disorde

...rst two weeks of life, babies were 10.5 times more likely to develop pyloric stenosis than babies who were not given the antibiotic. The newborns were given erthromycin by mouth in a 10-to-14 day course, usually because of maternal chlamydia at the time of delivery. Erythromucin has had a long history as a...

How do patients benefit of clinical trials

...ments do not realise that future patients are more likely to benefit than themselves.There can be no progress in treating cancer - or any other disease - unless there are clinical trials. Henceforth what do patients expect from a trial. Doctors in California gathered views from more than 200 patients involv...

Legume Consumption Can Cut Heart Disease Risk

...lood pressure and total cholesterol, and were less likely to be diagnosed with high blood pressure and diabetes. // The findings have implications for the health of America, where heart disease is the leading killer of adults and one of the leading causes of premature and permanent disability, according t...

Hormones Linked To Migraines

...pressure and blood sugar metabolism, and were more likely to have delayed peak levels of melatonin, the hormone that controls sleep cycles. Nearly half of patients with migraines had a delay in peak melatonin levels, compared with none of the healthy volunteers, and those with migraines and insomnia had low...

Women recognise faces better

...udying and remembering faces is that they are more likely to take on the role of primary care in the family, and may have lenthier eye contact with children. ...

Simvastatin Plus Niacin May Lower Heart Risks

...atients on simvastatin-niacin were 60% to 90% less likely than placebo patients to have a heart attack or stroke, need artery-clearing surgery or to die from causes related to their artery disease. These patients also showed a slight regression in their artery blockages, while on average all of the other gr...

Women more susceptible to brain damage from ecstasy

Women are more likely than men to suffer brain cell damage from long-term use of the party drug ecstasy but the harm can sometimes be reversed if they stop taking the drug. Studies have shown that the popular all-night dance drug, known chemically as MDMA, can damage nerv...

Depression a possible danger in elderly

... study elderly patients who are depressed are more likely to be re-admitted to hospital. It has long been kn...hs. Those who were depressed were 40 per cent more likely to be re-admitted during this time and used more in-patient services. The researchers suspect that i...

Ritalin May Lower Cocaine Abuse

...howed those treated with stimulant drugs were less likely than untreated children to abuse illicit drugs later on. They found that rats given methylphenidate (Ritalin) appeared to have an aversion to cocaine in adulthood, compared with untreated rats....

Birds breed viruses

...tablish how every case became infected, it is most likely that the individuals who contracted avian flu did so directly through exposure to chickens.However, there was no evidence of wider spread and no evidence of human-to-human transmission with either strain. The symptoms of A (H5N1) are very similar t...

Enzyme may be target for obesity drugs

...ho tend to gain weight around the waist , are more likely to develop certain health conditions than "pear-sh...ly elevated in the fat of obese people, it is very likely that the same pathway is involved in many cases of human obesity. Blocking the enzyme may be an impo...

Constipation can be a cause

Men who suffer from constipation are more likely to get diagnosed with the progressive brain diseas...gree. Men who were constipated were 2.7 times more likely to develop Parkinson's as men who had an average of one bowel movement per day. The researchers to...

No vaccination - diabetes link

... cough, chickenpox and other diseases were no more likely to have developed diabetes than those who had not been given the vaccines. // Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a number of health care institutions in Oregon, Washington who conducted the study said earlier res...

Cut down on fries

...mmediately after making them were three times more likely to develop the disease as those who waited a while for their drinks to cool down.Dr Sharp said: "It's interesting that the risk seems to be higher with tea than with coffee, but perhaps people drink their tea at a higher temperature."...

Teens listen to parents about smoking

...think their parents disapprove of smoking are less likely to pick up the habit. Teens are much less likely to smoke if they think their parents disapprove of the habit. Parental disapproval works even if the...

Too much fibre can aggrevate cancer

...many, suggests that new adenomas are actually more likely to grow in patients given this fibre supplementation. In 456 patients with a history of polyps, roughly a third each were given extra fibre, extra calcium, or nothing at all.// Three years later, the patients were given a second colonoscopy to see ...

Overweight children Don't Necessarily Become overweight adults

...res. It's true that overweight teenagers were more likely to become fat adults, but most fat adults were not overweight as children. That's important to know for people who treat childhood overweight....

IVF technique May Increase The Risk Of Birth Defects

...nce, say that men whose infertility is genetic are likely to have other, more serious genetic faults that can be passed on when spermatozoa are injected directly into the egg. // Dr Andre Van Steirteghem of the Free University in Brussels, who originally developed ICSI, has recently found that in ICSI pre...

Armpit odour enhances mood

...eople. Hormonal changes in old age, she said, were likely to make the odour of the elderly, particularly women, signal approachability....

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