male 1 9

Tag: "male" at medical news

Switching Genes to Overdrive Improves Muscular Dystrophy Symptoms in Mice

... mouse. In the new experiment, the scientists bred male high-PGC-1alpha mice with female MDX mice (the muscular dystrophy gene is carried by females in mouse and in humans.) As a result, the offspring of these matings had muscular dystrophy but also had elevated PGC-1alpha. Using exercise and chemical tes...

Gender Linked to Development of Skin Cancer

...ariables that accounted for the difference between male and female rates of developing these malignancies,...zyn’s laboratory, Jennifer Thomas-Ahner, subjected male and female mice to a single, identical, acute exposure to UVB light. It is UVB rays, as opposed to U...

Arthritis Pain Processed in Brain’s 'fear Zone,' First PET Scans Revea

...n the same group of patients." Six female and six male patients with osteoarthritis of the knee underwent PET brain-scanning during three different pain states: arthritic knee pain, experimental knee pain (when no arthritic pain was present) and a pain-free state. Each patient also rated their perceived ...

African Americans Tend to Suffer More from Drug Abuse

...ion African American men -- 13% of the total black male population -- were unable to vote in the 2000 election because of state laws barring felons access to the polls. In Florida, one in three black men is permanently disqualified from voting. That might have made the difference between victory and def...

Fruit Crop Fungicide Induces Permanent Changes in Mating Behavior

...of female rats, who simply give a cold shoulder to male rats// whose descent is contaminated by a common f...rop fungicide; instead they showed a preference to male rats whose ancestors were untainted. Their research shows that environmental contamination could ...

Patch To Increase Libido In Women

...he stomach or bottom and it works by releasing the male hormone testosterone into the bloodstream. Intrinsa is intended for women with sexual problems and is strictly a prescription drug. This patch is similar to Viagra for men and is said to be a lifestyle drug soon. Trials have been done on Intrinsa a...

Study Attributes Elevated Liver Enzymes in HIV/hepatitis to Coinfection Rather Than Antiretrovirals

...Also of interest would be further explanation of a male gender-associated risk of LEE. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Severe Mental Retardation Gene Mutation Identified

...he condition runs in families and only affects the male offspring. So far only a few of these genes have been identified. Working through a large, international collaboration, the researchers collected genetic samples from 250 families in which at least two boys have mental retardation to help identif...

Playing Video Games Could Improve Eyesight

...er and other researchers who conducted tests on 10 male college students. The students started out as non-gamers and then received 30 hours of training on first-person shooter action video games, reports the online edition of FOX News. The participants showed a substantial increase in their ability t...

NCPAP Decreases Cerebrovascular Risk in OSA Patients

...rain tissue death from lack of blood supply, in 50 male patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The r... (nCPAP) on serum inflammatory marker levels in 24 male patients who had moderate to severe OSA. According to the authors, the occurrence of stroke in pat...

Neurological Recovery Aided by Manliness

...culinity. They also found that men who believed in male dominance over women were less happy in their life. But men who had concentrated on their career, success, power and competition had good standing in their society. They also had better recovery after hospitalization. Hence Good opines that when p...

Beta Carotene Pills Do Not Remedy Age-related Macular Degeneration

...dy, researchers followed data pertaining to 21,000 male doctors for more than 12 years. Beta carotene pills were advised to 50% of the lot and a placebo to the remaining 50%. The finding revealed that the number of doctors who came down with the eye condition in both groups were the same. The findings r...

Bring on the ‘Santa Clauses

... In a 16-year study that followed more than 45,000 male health professionals, Mukamal and team found a steady decrease in suicides as B.M.I increased, even after controlling for variables including smoking, dietary factors, physical activity, marital status and alcohol use. There were 131 suicides duri...

Obesity And Environmental Chemicals: Research Probes Potential Link

...eloping Type II diabetes. The fat cells of growing male rats that were fed PBDEs daily for a month acted metabolically like the fat cells of obese rats, although the PBDE-fed rats weighed the same as a control group. Tagliaferro, whose research interests concern whole-body energy and metabolism question...

STIs Significantly Increase Risk of Drug-resistant HIV Transmission

...: of the 185, 175 (95%) were white, 174 (94%) were male and 169 (96% of the males) were men who have sex with men (MSM). The median age was 34 years. Genotypic resistance testing was performed on blood samples from all individuals; 28 (15%) were found to have resistance mutations based on IAS 2005 defin...

Circumcision May Lift HIV Risk for Women

...ultation in Switzerland on the potential impact of male circumcision on AIDS in Africa suggested that if H...the side of caution to protect women in any future male circumcision program," said Dr. Maria Wawer, the study's lead investigator, a researcher at Johns Ho...

Panic may Lead to Serious Mental Health Problems in Adolescents

...between puberty and panic-type responding for both male and female adolescents. They published the results, titled “The Interactive Role of Anxiety Sensitivity and Pubertal Status in Predicting Anxious Responding to Bodily Sensations among Adolescents,” in a recent issue of Journal of Abnormal Child Psych...

Nonsurgical Therapy Highly Effective for Pain and Infertility in Men

...d the recurrence rate is lower,” said Grosso. “The male fertility center at St. Anna Hospital in Turin, wh...eo, Italy, was conducted over seven years with 918 male patients ranging in age from nine to 65 years-old. During the procedure, the interventional radiolog...

Doctors Put on Their Dancing Shoes to De-stress

...wo days, for a duration of one hour. Initially the male doctors would just peep in and go away while the women took to the floor with great gusto. 'But slowly the men came around. Now I have one-is-to-one ratio,' Ahmed pointed out. Following the success with the doctors of Apollo Hospital, their count...

‘Mesothelioma’- Trouble Under the Asbestos Rof

... Hospital in London, says, 'The typical patient is male and in his 60s. Most are manual workers or engineers...but there is an increasing number of patients in their 40s or 50s have had no obvious asbestos exposure. This Baby Boomer group is definitely expanding.' A grim picture has been forecast by Can...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10