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The winter worry

Scientists from Norway looked at 4.7 lakh births between 1977 and 1998 for pre-eclampsia, a problem due to increased blood pressure which is dangerous to the baby and the mother.They found that mothers of children born in August had the lowest risk of pre-eclampsia. However the ...

Relief to pregnant women using fertility drugs

...nly because the original studies were flawed. They looked at only one population of women, those who were infertile. And we knew long before fertility drugs were being used that infertile women in general have an increased risk of ovarian cancer," says Grifo, director of the division of reproductive endocri...

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

...ndependent researcher from Newport News, Virginia, looked at dietary supply data for a number of countries in North and South America, Asia and Europe. Such data reflects only the supply of food in a given country, and not the food intakes of different people. Grant evaluated exposure to the sun's ultraviol...

The brain wave

...low in the brain. In the study where researchers looked at imitation, they discovered a consistent pattern of increased brain activity involving the superior temporal gyrus, as well as differential activity in the two hemispheres within the inferior parietal cortex when imitation was involved. The left in...

Vitamin C to put off cataract

...earchers from the department of Clinical Nutrition looked at nearly 400 people aged between 53 and 73.They gave detailed information about their diet, and any vitamin supplements they were taking. Overall, 35% had "cortical opacities", a common form of cataracts involving a particular type of lens cell. T...

Cancer hazard Found With Animal-Based Nutrients

...healthy people in a control group. The team also looked at the participants' use of nutrient supplements. "We found that many animal-based nutrients found in foods of animal origin are strongly associated with risk of developing these types of cancers and we were able to identify nutrients that presumably...

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

...octors in Vienna have been testing this idea. They looked at patients who had experienced cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation - an abnormal heart rhythm. One group had their body temperature reduced to 34 to 32 degrees - hypothermia - over 24 hours, while the other group received normal care. A...

Exercise lowers Risk of Ovarian Cancer

... affected the odds of getting ovarian cancer. They looked at how active the women were not just recently, but from adolescence through menopause and beyond. Being active lowered the risk of ovarian cancer . In fact, women who stayed active throughout their lifetime cut their risk of ovarian cancer by 27 p...

Harm to the chest can be destructive

... chest may prove more hazardous. The researchers looked at 100 cases of a rare type of cardiac arrest called commotio cordis, which occurred after a blow on the chest. As many as 80 per cent of these individuals died, while resuscitation saved the lives of 19 others (the remaining two recovered spontaneou...

High Cholesterol linked to Alzheimer’s diseas

...rs at the University of California, San Francisco, looked at more than 2,000 women and found that high cholesterol levels appear to harm the brain and lead to the type of mental decline seen in Alzheimer’s disease. But it also found that older women who took drugs called statins had less mental impairment t...

Obesity in children a risk factor for diabetes

...tudy, by researchers at Yale University in the US, looked at more than 200 obese children, aged between 5 and 18. They found that in the 55 aged four to 10, 25% were showing signs of "insulin resistanceThis is where cells gradually become less amenable to the effects of the hormone insulin, which reduces ...

Drugs may fog memory

...aking part in an online questionnaire. The survey looked at drug-taking habits and whether they affected people's ability to remember simple tasks. Dr Andrew Scholey, a psychologist from the University of Northumbria, said: "The more they had taken ecstasy in the past, the more their long-term prospect o...

Heart Drug has grave side effects

...helped lead the milrinone study, said the research looked at how patients fared over the longer term, unlike the research that led to government approval of the drug. The study involved 949 patients given either a dummy drug or a 48-hour milrinone infusion....

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

... executive committee told UPI ultrasound "has been looked at by a number of investigators. There is no doubt that sound waves can (break-up) clots, but safety is a concern." While Alexandrov's study, which was designed as a safety trial, found no safety problems using the diagnostic ultrasound devices, del...

Pregnant women more prone to depression

...ormones could lead to low birth weight. The study looked at over 9,000 women in the Avon area, whose babies were due between April 1 1991 and December 31 1999. Clinically approved scales for measuring depression were used to asses women at 18 weeks and 32 weeks into pregnancy, and eight weeks and eight mon...

Blood test can predict pre-eclampsia

...aby are at risk. Wolf, and his colleagues looked at data from a study of more than 5,000 women who had various tests during pregnancy. They found 56 who had pre-eclampsia, and compared their tests to 90 women who did not. The pre-eclampsia patients had unusually low levels of a protein called SHBG ...

Vitamins suppress artery injury after transplant

...U of vitamin E, taken twice daily. The researchers looked at a measure of artery health called the average i... fraction of the total artery wall area. They also looked at other measures of artery functioning. At the end of the study, those in the placebo group had ...

New hope for eye cancer

...e only option for bigger tumours. The study looked at 1,317 patients with cancer of the choroid,the thin layer of vessels beneath the retina, which contains most of the eye's melanocytes .All the patients had medium sized tumours (2.5- 10mm in height and within 16mm in diameter) ranging from the siz...

Leptin linked to Blood Clots

...ne, studied varying leptin levels in mice. Eitzman looked at a group of overweight mice that were genetically engineered to lack the gene needed to produce leptin. He found they took an average of 70 minutes to clot, almost twice as long as normal mice who clotted at 40 minutes. Blood clotting capabilities...

Cholesterol lowering drugs increase neuropathy risk

...eet. The research team at the University of Texas looked at statin use among those who had peripheral neuro... probable or possible diagnosis of neuropathy were looked at, the risk was four times higher. This doesn't mean that people should stop taking statins - a mov...

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