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Photographs for Diagnosis

...indow to the vascular system," she says. Yin Wong looked at vascular changes on the micrometer scale - far too small to be seen with the naked eye. He developed a computer program to measure and compare the ratio between the size of arterial blood vessels, taking blood to the eye, and venuolar blood vessel...

Contraceptives decreases Libido

... woman begins her period. In all the researchers looked at 60 women aged 18 to 40, and asked them to try to identify six distinctive substances - anise, musk-ketone, clove, pyridine, citrus and ammonia. Dr Claire lead researcher said: "Our data seem to show that iatrogenic steroids - such as those contain...

Snoring could be a warning

...rds and her colleagues at the University of Sydney looked at 32 women with severe pre-eclampsia and 40 with normal pregnancies and found that all the women with pre-eclampsia were snorers.Women with the highest degree of airway obstruction during sleep also had the highest blood pressures. The Australian ...

Vitamins reduce pre-eclampsia

...// The study, carried out at hospitals in London, looked at 346 women known to be at high-risk of the condition. Half were given 1000mg of vitamin C, and 400 IU of vitamin E a day, and compared with the other women, who received a placebo instead. Pre-eclampsia happened in 17% of the placebo group, compare...

Older men 'father' schizophrenics

...uld be caused by the father being old. Their study looked at records of almost 56,000 people// born in Jerusalem between 1966 and 1986, and compared them to data from the Israel Psychiatric Register, which is part of the Israeli Ministry of Health. Lead researcher Professor Dolores Malaspina, of the Colum...

A new contraceptive

...ocalises to only one tissue," said Dr Clapham. "We looked carefully through at least fifty human tissues, and the only place it turned up was in the testes." "Futhermore, the only place it turned up within the testes was in sperm. And within sperm, it is found only in the principal piece of the tail." It i...

Shapely sperm-a valuable indicator of fertility

...them were moving, and more 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 were moving and fewer than 8 percent were well-formed. A well-shaped sperm has an oval head and whippy tail. Circular heads, ...

Eating More Often May Help Lower Cholesterol

...higher calorie and fat intake. The researchers looked at data on more than 14,600 men and women aged 45 to 75.// Participants were asked about their current eating habits and activity levels, and had their cholesterol levels, blood pressure and weight recorded. Frequent eaters did not, however, have hig...

Constipation can be a cause

...e large study, part of the Honolulu Heart Program, looked at 6,456 aged between 51 and 75 who were followed for 24 years.// Constipation was defined as having less than one bowel movement a day - approximately 5% of the population are thought to be affected to this degree. Men who were constipated were 2....

Overweight children Don't Necessarily Become overweight adults

...ave the highest adult risk of disease. The study looked at the health records of 1,142 children. Two-thirds of the group// were followed until the age of 15 years. The researchers collected data on adult lifestyle, including height, weight, and self-reported illness through questionnaires. It's true that ...

Strokes increased during squatting

... the morning than any other time of day. Doctors looked at records for 232 patients, and found just over a half the strokes were occurring between five and nine o'clock in the morning. The Calcutta team also found that squatting, whether defecating or not, raises blood pressure. They say the rise was espe...

No link between blood groups and prostate cancer

... A are no more likely to get cancer. And when they looked at the stage of the cancers, they also learned that type A men did not have more aggressive tumours. So men can be reassured on that count. There are more risk factors for prostate cancer which are yet to be confirmed....

The superior steroids

...eted a quality-of-life questionnaire. Researchers looked for chemical evidence of allergic reaction, such as eosinophils, in participants' blood. Eosinophils are white blood cells involved in defending the body from allergens. For best results, experts generally recommend that you use either an inhaled ste...

New technique to diagnose heart disease

...) gives results that are equally effective. They looked at 80 patients, in the US and all over Europe, that were scheduled for a conventional test, giving them an MRI scan in addition. The new imaging technique, which does not involve any injections, was 63 per cent accurate in diagnosis of heart disease....

Link Between Infection And Heart Disease

...e Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, looked at more than 570 people with heart disease. They tested their blood for the common bacteria and viruses to see if they had evidence of past infection or exposure. They found that the number of infections was directly related to dying from heart dise...

A new study surpasses Gene Therapy Hurdle

...s. After 9 weeks, Chengh felt that the researchers looked at all the cells descending from the stem cells and found only the APCs showed the green fluorescence. This is a green light for regulated gene therapy. The APCs were chosen as the target, Chengh said, because they play a key role in regulating the i...

Immunisation to prevent cot deaths

...rs of deaths. Scientists from Bristol University looked at more than 470,000 cot death cases from between 1984 and 1994, checking to see if they had been immunised or not. They found that only half the babies who had died from cot death had been immunised. Two-thirds of the live babies had taken part. A...

Hidden influenza virus protein found

...much of it infected cells contained. “The cells we looked at just lit up.Researchers saw large amounts of this molecule in the mitochondria of flu infected cells, and we knew it was a real protein.It turns out that this protein is created when ribosomes, the cellular machines that translate genes into prote...

Do gardening and be fit

...Fenn and colleagues at the University of Arkansas, looked at the health habits// of over 40,000 women, including more than 3,000 aged 50 years and older. Those in the 47 plus age group that gardened at least once a week showed higher bone density measurements than those who regularly did other kinds of exer...

Take care of constipation

...e large study, part of the Honolulu Heart Program, looked at 5,324 patients aged between 50 and 80 who were followed for 22 years. Constipation was defined as having less than one bowel movement a day - approximately 7% of the population are thought to be affected to this degree. Men who were constipated w...

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