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Passive smoking may be harmless

... chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which were linked to smoking.// However the study prompted an immediate backlash from critics who called it biased and inaccurate. They challenged the findings, stating the research was partially underwritten by the tobacco industry. They said the study is neither rel...

Swimming in Chlorinated Pools Raises Asthma Risk

...rchers measured levels of lung proteins, which are linked to cellular damage, in the blood samples of school children....

Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses

...child, especially in early infancy, is intricately linked with the health of the mother, her nutritional status, and the reproductive health care she receives. Nutrition for healthy development better nutrition can break the vicious spiral of poor nutrition leading to ill-health and ill-health causing furth...

Shorter infants have lower incomes in later life

...y hampered brain development. Biological processes linked to poor growth in infancy lead to lifelong impairm...irth and age 12, measurements that the researchers linked to records of their level of education, information about income and occupation taken from the 1990 ...

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...el it is. The previously unknown disease, which is linked to the corona family of viruses which cause the common cold, quickly spread to 30 countries, helped by global travel, and prompted the WHO to issue a global alert in March. Its virulence startled the health community which is still trying to establis...

What Makes Teens take Drugs

...ubstances is controlled by the same genes that are linked to behavioral problems, treatment efforts that target the antisocial behavior itself may be effective. Boys' substance use may be reduced by directly altering those family and peer characteristics that are most influential," Silberg says....

Gene increases risk of depression after stress

...hibitors. Serotonin is a message-carrying chemical linked with mood. The 5-HTT gene, also known as the serotonin transporter gene, controls the recycling of the chemical messenger....

Dad's Age Affects Baby

...ort to the theory that de novo mutations, possibly linked to the X chromosome and associated with increased parental age, may be responsible for some cases of schizophrenia. The X chromosome contains many genes expressed in the central nervous system and the gene for many diseases with cognitive impairment....

Overcoming Chronic Fatigue

...or cure for CFS. Doctor now think the condition is linked to a decrease in red blood cells. "Because the red blood cell transports oxygen and glucose to the cells, it's vitally important in providing these nutrients. Without it, we feel fatigued," says biobehavioral researchers.Researchers are studying the...

Bowel diseases linked to bug in milk

...n may be needed to fight "a public health tragedy" linked to a bug causing illness in hundreds of thousands of people, it was claimed last night. Researchers believe they have found the strongest association yet between a disease commonly found in livestock and Crohn's disease,// a condition of the digesti...

Sunshine Reduces MS Risk

...etween ages 6 and 15, and greater skin damage were linked to a decreased risk of MS. Higher exposure in winter seemed more important than higher exposure in summer. For the study, higher exposure was defined as two to three hours or more a day in summer during weekends and holidays. The associations remaine...

Depression doubles mortality risk after CABG

...ssion that persisted from baseline to 6 months was linked to a 2.2-fold increased mortality risk (p = 0.015). The results suggest that "physicians need to be more cognizant of the potential importance of depression," Dr. Blumenthal noted. "In addition to looking at conventional cardiac risk factors, such ...

Teens' vitamin D deficiency an epidemic

...ere's even evidence that chronic deficiency may be linked with some cancers, diabetes and high blood pressure say specialists. Youngsters with less intense year-round sunlight are especially prone to vitamin D deficiency, as are blacks and other dark-skinned ethnic groups whose pigmented skin doesn't absor...

Exercise to Prevent Breast Cancer

...ars to determine if a lack of physical activity is linked to the disease. Results of the study show women who engaged in regular strenuous physical activity at age 35 had a 14-percent reduced risk of breast cancer. Similar findings were also reported in women who engaged in strenuous physical activity at a...

Exercise found to Prevent Breast Cancer

...ars to determine if a lack of physical activity is linked to the disease.Results of the study show women who engaged in regular strenuous physical activity at age 35 had a 14-percent reduced risk of breast cancer. Similar findings were also reported in women who engaged in strenuous physical activity at age...

Weight-loss Products Dangerous

...en off the market in the United States after being linked to heart problems. Researchers did not find any other potential causes for liver problems in the patients. One of the 12 patients died and another needed a liver transplant. The remaining 10 patients recovered after they stopped taking the supplement...

West Nile and Blood Transfusions

... after donating blood. Seven of the 16 donors were linked to two or three patients who contracted the West Nile virus. Researchers say their findings may underrepresent the number of transfusion-related West Nile cases. They say testing donors with nucleic acid-based assays for the West Nile virus could re...

Link Between Migraines and Behavioral Disorders

...aches to determine if behavioral problems could be linked to the episodes. They say children should be treated aggressively if headaches occur more than three times a month. However more research is needed to confirm these findings.Researchers say: In the future, they hope to examine the correlation betwe...

Happiness Survey

...ecades.Researchers believe the unchanging trend is linked to consumerism. Survey after survey has shown that the desire for material goods, which has increased hand in hand with average income, is a happiness suppressant....

Memory said to automatically improve with age

...generate themselves. One of those triggers may be linked to individuals fitness level.Cardiovascular exercise that's done over a longer period of time will tend to reduce the amount of tissue you lose as you age, say researchers . That includes brain tissue, and losing less of it may mean keeping more pre...

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