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Vitamin D Reduces Chances of Colon, Breast And Ovarian Cancers by 50%

...nal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, linking vitamin D deficiency to heightened risk of colon cancer. The researchers say that this deficiency is also found in breast and ovarian cancers. These conclusions have been arrived at after an exhaustive review of studied on vitamin D and risk of can...

Tooth Loss And Heart Disease Exist Side By Side

...ings of this study were identical to previous ones linking periodontal disease and tooth loss to heart disease and atherosclerosis. “Smoking has strong relationships to both tooth loss and heart disease. Nonetheless, when we stratified by age group and smoking status, a significant association remained betwe...

Problem in physical exertion, in obese, could have a GI reason.

...essor of social work “the physiological mechanisms linking gastrointestinal symptoms, obesity and exercise still need to be determined.” Her research focuses on common gastrointestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome in adults. "Our main finding is that the amount of exercise people in a weight ...

MMR Vaccination not linked to Autism

...itish medical journal The Lancet published a study linking the injections with the onset of autism and Crohn’s disease — an inflammation of the gastrointestinal system — in 12 children. The new comprehensive review of studies adds to the weight of evidence supporting the safety and efficacy of MMR. “MMR rem...

Worlds Largest Cord Blood Bank to be started in India

...similar banks in Mexico, Australia and Europe, and linking them, Histostem expects to offer Histocompatibility Leucocyte Antigen –HLA matched stem cells for every patient around the world. (Source: Nature Biotechnlogy)...

RNA Nanotechnology To Rescue Cancer Patients In Future

...uld assign. The nanoparticles have been created by linking together different kinds of RNA, after the successful manipulation of these stringy molecules into different shapes, including rods, triangles and arrays. An effective agent against cancer needs to accomplish several tasks. It needs first to recogn...

Controversy over spread of Mad Cow disease from India

...estions, regarding the outbreak of mad cow disease linking to India. For instance, no one has shown that human brain and spinal cord tissue from the river Ganges contains CJD. He says that if the outbreak occurred due to dead body contamination in the river banks, then there would have been a major epidemic ...

BRAC2 mutations is also linked with cancers in men

...searchers have published the results of their work linking mutations in BRAC2 gene leading to development of cancers in men, which was published in the Journal of Medical Ethics. //Mutations in BRAC2 gene which was found to cause development of breast and ovarian cancer in women has now found to increase the...

No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

Recent studies on birth control pills have been linking them to increased risk of heart attacks in women using these pills. However, a new study published by Walter Spitzer, an emeritus professor of epidemiology// and his colleagues, has contradicted previous studies by stating that women who take third-g...

Proteinomics Research holds Key to Stomach Cancer

...butions to the understanding of Stat3, the protein linking those ‘genes behaving badly’ and central to development, tissue equilibrium and the immune system. “We showed that, in mice, hyperactive Stat3 shuts down a vital controller of stomach cell growth, called TGF beta, and this allows cancer formation, an...

Obesity Can Increase The Chances Of Injuries

...eport that while there have been other researchers linking obesity with increased risk of injuries, but the research for that had been conducted on a typical workforce or children, this is one of the first studies that try to find out the risk of injury to obese people of the general population. Body mass i...

Gum inflammation increases the risk of Alzheimer’

... other factors of the survey. The research report linking poor oral health to increased risk of the disease was the surprise result of the research. Scientists of the study suggest that good oral health may not prevent the disease but early exposure to gum inflammation can have severe and long reaching con...

Hearing loss can happen from regular exposure to carbon monoxide

...lth of the individual. This is the first research linking carbon monoxide to oxidative stress. The research is published in the new issue of Journal of Neuroscience Research....

Childhood leukemia linked to residence close to high voltage power lines

... possible reasons they have been able to establish linking the high incidence of leukemia in children and close proximity to the high voltage power line, in spite of the study results....

Asthma linked to irregular menstruation

...that female sex hormones play an important role in linking asthma and allergy with irregular menstruation. The authors feel that the underlying metabolic condition that may trigger both the conditions may be insulin resistance. This could not only explain the relationship between asthma and irregular period...

Study Proves That MMR Vaccine Is Not Connected To Autistic Babies

...f the original 13 researchers of the initial paper linking autism and MMR have decided to retract their study. Their retraction will be published in the March issue of The Lancet. Link: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18524895.300...

Low Testosterone Levels the Cause Of Depression In Men

...mptoms also play a role in depression, but studies linking depression to hypogonadism are lacking. Researchers studied the association between hypogonadism and depression in men age 45 and older. At a two-year follow-up, results show nearly 22 percent of the men with low testosterone levels had developed de...

Traffic Violations Result in Safer Drivers

... fatal crashes over an 11-year period in , Canada, linking the crashes to traffic convictions during the same time period. Nearly 9,000 drivers were involved in such crashes, and more than 21,000 traffic convictions were issued to all drivers during the study. The risk of a driver being involved in a fatal c...

Breast Cancer risk for women on dopamine antagonists

... to promote tumor growth in rats. However, studies linking the drugs and breast cancer in women have been limited and researchers say that further studies are needed before changing treatment strategies for women taking anti-psychotics....

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

...rchers have expressed astonishment at the delay in linking a connexin gene to the disorder which affects so many body systems as connexin 43 and related genes are present in many tissues during development. However, they also add that until now problems with connexins had only been tied to simpler manifestat...

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