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Severe sleep apnea can cause liver problems

...d may result in hepatitis or fibrosis of liver. On looking into the health records of 163 people with suspected obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, patients with severe condition of the syndrome were also insulin resistant. Results of the study show that people with severe sleep apnea may be susceptible to l...

Parent’s mental state may affect the childhood asthm

...an specifically cause these health hazards. After looking into the health records of 9240 parent child pairs, research says that major depression and panic attacks in the parent can increase the risk of having atopic disorders in children. This is especially true for mother children relationships. Severe an...

It is the old drinkers than binge drinkers who are at risk of ill health

...ns leading to violence and aggression. Rather than looking into the emotional psyche of these young drinkers, it is important for the authorities to place importance to the crimes that necessitate from these drunken brawls. Reference: ESRC report, UK Social Science Week 2005, June 2005...

Low birth weight in babies may mean health risk for fathers

... of babies and their parent’s rate of mortality by looking into the data generated from 783,814 children born in Sweden from the year 1973 to 1980. The results have shown that there is a significant inverse association between the birth weight of the babies and risk of cardiovascular diseases in the fathers....

Short term hormone replacement therapy effective

... makes an informed decision on the procedure after looking into all the aspects related to the therapy. Reference: International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, July 2005...

AIDS - The ‘silent but lethal tsunami’ of Asia

...nding its way into the general population. When looking at the larger picture it is clear that the failure...s and homosexuals as part of their population. Not looking or dealing with the problem will not make it go away, but make it escalade into something which will...

Need for better support for chronic pain in children’

...cost. Mostly family doctors spend time and energy looking for severe conditions under lying pain, and they refer to specialists and the parents move from doctors to doctors. Ultimately the child receives only little therapy for pain. Research by pain management unit has shown that psychological improvement...

Oral Cancer Can Be Detected By Saliva Test

...on or in oral cancer lesions. The current study is looking at the possibility of using these bacteria as a marker for oral cancer. Further research is required to validate this important finding of the researchers. If found to be correct, this test could also be used as an early warning system to prevent suc...

Genes More Important Than Exercise for Bad Cholesterol

...can Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Reports a study looking at 28 pairs of identical twins in whom one was a vigorous exerciser and other a couch potato. They analysed the results on how "bad" cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, cholesterol) responded to diets that were either high or low in fat in ...

Yoga Can Be Good For Breast Cancer Patients

... Research Center has accepted this research. It is looking towards a plan to utilize brain-imaging technology...m the Bangalore and Texas institutes are currently looking at a randomized trial to look at the effects of yoga on breast cancer patients undergoing radiation ...

Link between Faith, Health and Healing

...e organisation is located in Hershey. Rather than looking at cancer from the doctors side it has a people centric approach. Motivating people to start living again and pioneering the "cancer survival pyramid," are its major activities. Cancer patients are taught how to join the shattered pieces of their li...

Environmental estrogens can cause breast cancer

...s are planning to continue their investigations by looking into the effects of developmental exposures of nonylphenol on breast cancer....

Exposure to tobacco smoke causes genetic damage in fetus

...lusion from that reached by three previous studies looking at the potential effects of tobacco smoke exposure to babies in the womb, one of which Grant co-authored. -(IANS)...

Nutrient Profiling System Launched By Food Officials in UK

... by the country’s advertising regulator, currently looking at restricting the advertising of certain foods to children. However the system is due for a second reading in the European Parliament at the end of the year or early 2006, if passed, regulators could look towards the UK's nutrient profiling system i...

A Mirror Miracle!

...am as they develop. Doctors can spot the cancer by looking for these markers.// Stephen Mather, head of Nuclear Medicine at Bartholomew's Hospital, UK, states that just a single tumour cell will shed the markers. After surgery or chemotherapy treatment, cancer patients have blood tests taken every...

Skin tests confirms cancer

... of cancers, particularly those of the colon. By looking at skin warts, benign growths and malignant skin tumours in members of families with a history of HNPCC //- hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer syndrome - it may be possible to identify people at high risk. HNPCC has been linked to a defect ...

Mechanical forces drive early heart development

...ion to the right.Taber says engineers are just now looking at growth in mature heart. His theory will be valuable in looking at these situations. Growth occurring in the mature heart is extremely important and plays a role in...

New Stem Cells lines will be required

...ved. While stem cell providers the world over are looking to the National Institutes of Health to fund stem cell research on those existing lines, experts like Vogelstein warn of problems. One issues is that many of the existing lines were "cultured with animal cells and serum" creating the fear that pathog...

Oral Sex may carry AIDS related Cancer Virus

...d the similar one seen with KSHV infection. But in looking at blood samples from homosexual men involved in three San Francisco studies from the late 1970s to the 1990s, Osmond's team found that KSHV was prevalent when HIV infections were still "close to zero." What's more, it remained stable over the two de...

Prohibited diet medicine found in Chinese herbs

... much in the United Kingdom similar to the FDA, is looking into where and when fenfluramine entered the supply chain. Catherynn Conns, researcher and a biochemist, told that there are several changes needed to protect the public and also to protect reputable herbal practitioners themselves. Corns said there...

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