links 1 8

Tag: "links" at medical news

WHO's New Chief Very Optimistic

...out the health in Africa, we must never forget the links between poverty and health. Poor health anchors large populations in poverty. Better health allows people to work their way out of poverty and spend household incomes on something other than illness.’ Dr. Chan notes that although infectious diseas...

Drug Strategy Makes Cancer Genes Get Lost in Translation

...4EGI-1, effectively silences oncogenes, which have links to cancer. They also found evidence that the small molecule inhibitor exhibits activity against multiple cancer cell lines, including lung and blood cancer cells. While cancer-promoting proteins may be lost as a result of such treatment, more readi...

Food Outlets Not to Blame for Typhoid Cases

...h health officials investigated four retailers for links to several cases of the disease but tests on 26 workers came up negative. Dr Greg Simmons of the Auckland Regional Public Health Service says based on what he has seen, it is unlikely the infection is water or food-borne and is likely to be transmi...

How Bloods Vessels are Linked Together?

...d a heretofore-unknown mechanism for -how the body links together its blood vessels.// New blood vessels ...rinciple is critical to the number of branches and links that form and to attaining the correct density of vessels. Too great a blood supply to a tissue is j...

Doctors Asked to Play ‘Peeping Tom ‘ in Their Patients’ Lies

... in The Lancet. The researchers searched for links between sexual problems and diseases such as Parkinson’s , heart ailments, multiple sclerosis , diabetes , depression among others. Sure enough a link was established. Researchers noted that men with erectile dysfunction (ED), the most co...

Symptoms of Depression Associated With Artery Diseases

...his approach will be critical in understanding the links between these psychological variables and physical disease, they conclude. "Identifying these components, in turn, may provide insights into the mechanisms underlying the negative emotion–coronary artery disease relationships and may facilitate the d...

Growth Factors Given With Chemotherapy may Increase Risk of Blood Diseases

...r early-stage breast cancer. Using a database that links cancer registry data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program with data from Medicare, the researchers identified 5,510 women age 65 and older who were diagnosed with breast cancer and treated with chemotherapy between 1991...

Study Urges Doctors to Go Easy on Antibiotics

...oach as "We now have strengthened evidence for the links between antibiotic use and resistance." “It should serve as a wake up call for individual prescribing physicians, nurse practitioners, midwives, dentists and others that inappropriate use of antibiotics does have consequences,” says Dr. John Conly...

Madness- the Genius Connection

...haping and controlling a circuit in the brain that links the prefrontal cortex with another region of the brain, the striatum. This circuit affects brain functions that play an important part in schizophrenia like motivation, and certain types of learning. Daniel Weinberger lead author of the study publi...

Anti-Aging Powers of Enzyme Sirtuins

...ecules." Marmorstein's research on sirtuins also links to a long line of observations concerning calorie-restricted diets and longevity. "People have known for some time that low-calorie diets result in life extension in many organisms, but they didn't know why," he says. "Recent research has shown tha...

Little Convincing Evidence That Omega-3 Combats Depression

...vidence from circumstantial research has suggested links between omega-3 levels and behaviour and mood disorders, such as depression. And the findings have attracted widespread attention. Omega-3 fatty acids are polyunsaturated fatty acids, or PUFAs, which include ALA, EPA, and DHA. They are involved in ...

Large Study Finds No Need to Screen HIV-positive Patients for Thyroid Disease

... However, multivariate analysis indicated that the links with markers of progressed disease (AIDS diagnosis and lower CD4 cell counts) were explained by the associations with gender and risk group. Thus, they did not detect any variables that were significantly and independently associated with hypothyroid...

Intense Cessation Treatment Proves Successful in High-Risk Smokers

...ssful and that it saves lives.” “Smoking clearly links patients with cardiovascular disease to adverse outcomes,” said Mark J. Rosen, MD, FCCP, President of the American College of Chest Physicians. “It's never too late to quit smoking and all patients who smoke should work with their doctors to find the...

Sexualization Linked to Mental Health Problems in Girls and Women

...nd anxiety. Mental and Physical Health: Research links sexualization with three of the most common mental health problems diagnosed in girls and women-eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression or depressed mood. Sexual Development: Research suggests that the sexualization of girls has negative ...

Modified Ligament Surgery Improves Outcomes Players, Athletes

...irs a torn medial collateral ligament (MCL), which links and stabilizes bones of the lower and upper arm where they meet at the elbow. Less traumatic than the classic Tommy John surgery, the modified surgery called the docking procedure, with time, is likely to become the gold standard for treating thes...

Health Officials Approve Plan for New ￡28m Maternity Hospita

...t a number of options to achieve the best possible links with the new children's hospital and we are confident that this layout offers the best solution for newborn babies and staff." Dr Alan Mathers, clinical director for obstetrics and gynaecology, at the Princess Royal Maternity, said: 'These plans wi...

Inflammatory Myopathy may Indicate Intolerance to Gluten

...B's Vall d'Hebron Hospital have investigated these links by looking at coeliac patients whose cases suggest a similar immunopathogenic mechanism in coeliac disease and certain myopathies, as well as a common genetic substrate. The scientists are considering the possibility that, at least in part, some in...

Homeopathy and Hypnosis Come to Dentistry

...example can lead to dental problems, which quickly links dental care to gastrointestinal care. Natural me... Mouth and Jaw Care in Dusseldorf. Recent research links periodontal disease to heart attacks. Meyer still queries alternative treatments. "No one has be...

A Call To Band Online Drug Pharmacies and Online Consultation by So Called “Cyber Doctor

...ate marketing sites. These affiliate sites provide links to anyone and everyone having an audience to sell to. A report by a web analysis company called Envision proposed that there are nearly 2,300 sites, selling prescription-only drugs direct to consumer. With more and more people turning to the intern...

Nepal to Introduce Art of Living for Golfers

...rity. With the crown prince seen frequenting the links with his bodyguards, the question everyone is bound to ask is: will he too enrol for the camp? Source-IANS...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10