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New virtual colonoscopy procedure for easier colon screening

...s more comfortable for the patient. The patient is made to lie down in a computerized tomography (CT) scanner while a small probe is inserted into the rectum so that the colon can be inflated with carbon dioxide gas. The CT scanner then takes 3 dimensional images of the whole colon, which can then be exam...

Dads to blame for longer pregnancies

...is claimed by the researchers as the first to have made suchobservations, has not been completely accepted by UK experts who say that theremay also be other factors that are responsible for the findings. ProfessorAndrew Calder, a consultant obstetrician at the University of Edinburgh, claimedthat pre ecla...

Reducing the risk for type 2 diabetes

...hroughout the body. Cells use the hormone insulin, made in the pancreas, to help them process blood glucose into energy. People with diabetes can prevent or delay complications by keeping blood glucose levels close to normal. Being overweight and inactive increases the chances of developing type 2 diabete...

Scientists open the book of life

...urselves from which revolutionary progress will be made in biomedical sciences and in the health and welfa...ody's development, growth, functions and aging are made of specific sequences of these chemical pairs. A small change in these sequences can be enough to ca...

Tea helps protect Heart disease

...anti-clotting effect.// In an observational study made on 1,900 individuals, which included both men and women, the researchers found an inverse relationship between tea consumption and mortality. The heaviest tea drinkers had a significantly lower mortality rate than non-tea drinkers. However critics ar...

Medicaid cuts leave patients in a lurch

...ve been unnecessarily long delays in the payments made to physicians. The state of Massachusetts has gone in for a huge and extensive termination of its services to people and this means they won't be eligible for Medicaid rolls. Even more, benefits on prescription drugs have also been cut . Further cu...

Liver diseases: The enemy with an accomplice

...t hospitalization. In two cases this diagnosis was made posthumously. In some cases the disease was caused by the virus of hepatitis B; there have also been cases when there was a combination of both viruses. Sometimes physicians were unable to define the virus although the viral nature of hepatitis was ...

Secret behind Babies soft skin

...essings and lotions. Collaborations have also been made with pharmaceutical companies involved in skin care. This could help premature babies born without vernix....

Canadian Youth at risk of heart disease

In a recent study made by Heart and Stroke Foundation it was found that C...dian health-care System. Recommendations were also made on how health professionals and policymakers can address the growing problem....

Answers For OCD soon

...om obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Scientists made a study on how brain responds to fearful images. Fearful or disgusting images were flashed on a TV screen and people were studied based on their MRI scans. Scientists said that the brain uses different areas for processing disgusting images than for ...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...ed States and China- both large tobacco producers, made no immediate commitment to sining the treaty For more information contact:Helen Green - Information Officer Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO Telephone: (+41 22) 791 3432 Mobile phone: (+41) 79 475 5572 Fax: (+41 22) 791 4832 Email: grenh@who.int...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...ed States and China- both large tobacco producers, made no immediate commitment to sining the treaty For more information contact:Helen Green - Information Officer Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO Telephone: (+41 22) 791 3432 Mobile phone: (+41) 79 475 5572 Fax: (+41 22) 791 4832 Email: greenh@wo.int...

World Health Organisation Takes a Historic Decision and Approves Treaty to Discourage Smoking

...ed States and China- both large tobacco producers, made no immediate commitment to singing the treaty. For more information contact: Helen Green - Information Officer Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO Telephone: (+41 22) 791 3432 Mobile phone: (+41) 79 475 5572 Fax: (+41 22) 791 4832 Email: greenh@who.i...

Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses

...ial exploitation, those affected by natural or man made disasters, or those living with disabilities need special attention. For more information contact: Chris Powell - Information Officer Family and Community Health WHO, Geneva Telephone: (+41 22) 791 2888 Mobile phone: (+41) 79 217 3425 Email: po...

Hope for First New Melanoma Treatment in Decades

...rring in non-cancerous cells, to resume. Apoptosis made the cells behave more like normal cells, thereby clearing away the dysfunctional and damaged cells. Of the three forms of skin cancer, melanoma is the most likely to result in death. In 90 percent of cases, severe sunburns trigger melanoma. Each yea...

Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle

...ne to the common respiratory syncytial virus "that made the natural disease worse." After vaccination with a harmless, inactivated form of the virus, children who were subsequently infected with respiratory syncytial virus -- the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections in children -- suffered ...

Benefits of Vitamin Supplements Unclear

...n supplement use. However, the length of the study made it impossible to examine the long-term effects of taking vitamins. Although some of the data studied suggested vitamins pose possible benefits for some cancers, the Task Force could not determine if the benefits were due to vitamins or healthier life...

Low-dose Growth Hormone (GH) with diet and exercise may help weight loss

...p period. Importantly,the weight loss was entirely made up of body fat, largely in the abdominal area. The patients did not lose any muscle mass. Weight loss in the control arm was not significant. Changes in body fat in the GH arm correlated with normalization of IGF-I levels. GH-treated subjects also ...

Work out to fight impotence

...n in a large trial of Viagra. The pelvic floor is made up of layers of muscle and other tissues. This study included 55 men, average age 59, who had experienced erectile dysfunction for six months or longer. //The men were given five weekly sessions of pelvic floor exercises and did daily home exercises....

Test tube babies, 25 years later

...king that was -- that human beings can actually be made outside the body," said Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist . At first the general medical community was a little unsure and a bit skeptical about exactly what this meant and whether it would be a viable procedure. Initially, the procedure offered a 3 to 6...

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