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Genetic influence in menopause

...ify the genes that control menopause. In future it might be possible that a DNA test may be able to tell a woman exactly when she will have her menopause and this may enable her to make more informed choices about when to start a family and how to plan her career. The average age of menopause is 51, but so...

Surviving surgery

...rtality. However, without this surgery the patient might die of their disease. So it's a matter of the doctor and the patient weighing up the risks and benefits of different kinds of surgery....

Is acupuncture safe?

.... Some of these were avoidable, and acupuncturists might want to make some changes to make the practice even safer.// In the second study, 574 members of the Acupuncture Council reported on 34,407 treatments done in a four week period. Again, there were no serious adverse events. The public can be reassu...

Avacado a day

...he Researchers discovered three new compounds that might explain why the avocado is protective. "Besides offering taste and nutrition, avocados seem to improve liver health," said Hirokazu Kawagishi, professor of applied biological chemistry, at Shizuoka University. "I have begun eating avocados more mysel...

Drink grape juice for health

...r health through increased antioxidant consumption might prefer a glass of purple grape juice in the morning to orange juice," says Joe A. Vinson, professor of chemistry at The University of Scranton and lead author of the study. "In our tests, we saw dramatically superior antioxidant performance by the gr...

A height problem

...egression and these data demonstrate that doing so might substantially alter their interpretation of a child's growth pattern."...

Less drinking less stroke

...poprotein cholesterol and to thin the blood, which might explain the lowered risk of silent strokes with moderate intake. ...

'Prozac miracle' could end in disaster

... mild depression or anxiety and none was told they might become hooked. When they tried to stop taking it, they suffered violent and disturbing symptoms, including jolting pains in the head, vertigo, loss of coordination, abdominal discomfort, flu symptoms, agitation and confusion. The lawsuit alleges th...

Digital mammography proves effective

...itations of the technology.// Digital mammography might be able to detect cancers in women with dense breast tissue, because it offers higher contrast. The digital method may also reduce the call-back rate by giving a clearer result for women with suspicious lesions. But before switching women to the di...

Alcohol linked to brain activity

...atter lesions are areas of scarring or injury that might affect your voluntary and involuntary actions of the body such as ability to button a shirt or put a key in a lock. It is thought that alcohol exerts benefits through thinning the blood vessels and by increasing levels of high density lipoprotein (LD...

Acupuncture provides relief

...nd the control group suggests the laser substitute might still be stimulating the nerves and so not controlling properly for the effect of needle insertion....

Voice may be improved by surgery

...tions from the larynx resonate in this cavity, you might expect UPPP to affect the voice. Researchers at a number of centres in the US looked at the voice characteristics of patients undergoing surgery. They found that vowels were unaltered, as were most consonants save for 'm' and 'n' which became less ...

The feel of pain

...ions that follow feel worse. But the new research might help in the screening of anti-pain medications for such people. If the anticipation part of the pain response can be removed, it would reduce the overall "pain load"....

Poor diet among smokers

...er or work in a smoky environment - a healthy diet might offset some of the negative effects.// Researchers at California State University, showed in their new survey, that many people living with smokers are compounding the problem of passive smoking by eating a poor diet. Nonsmoking men living with smo...

Mammography aided by computer

...e computer. CAD helps by pointing out lesions that might have been overlooked in the initial exam. It's as if the radiologist had a second pair of highly-trained eyes to help confirm the diagnosis. The hope is that the new method will help women have more confidence in mammography as a way of helping them ...

Psychological consequence of terrorist attacks

...ng or drinking more may be early warnings that you might need help in coming to terms with these tragic events....

Gene therapy - Aim to improve blood flow

...cientists are concerned that manipulation of HIF-1 might have undesirable side-effects of its own. While this is early research, there are a number of diseases which could potentially benefit from a treatment which can safely create new blood vessels to supply specific areas with oxygen....

Decrease in testosterone levels lead to Alzheimer's

...isease – occurs. They suggest that this phenomenon might explain why Alzheimer’s develops later in life and...th a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease might have borderline amyloid levels until menopause, or the male equivalent andropause, reduces gonadal h...

Hemochromatosis Patients' Blood is Safe

... by giving blood, there has been concern that they might donate despite having infectious disease risk factors and that their blood might be less safe. As a result, FDA regulations have not promoted blood donation from hemochromatosis pat...

Sequencing of the Plague

...at could mean that more virulent strains of plague might emerge. More ominously, it suggests that enhanced strains might be relatively easy to develop as weapons. The bacillus that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis,...

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