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Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

... the authors of a variety of popular diet schemes, mostly of the low-carb variety. To believers, the glycemic index is a kind of nutritional Rosetta stone that explains much of what has gone wrong with the world's health and girth over the past two decades: Why diets so often fail. Why diabetes is becomin...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

...intense genetic sequencing, more than 150 species, mostly bacteria, have been completed, but the study appearing this week in the journal Science is the first for a companion animal. // A standard size poodle named Shadow, the family pet of gene researcher J. Craig Venter, provided the specimen that resea...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

...intense genetic sequencing, more than 150 species, mostly bacteria, have been completed, but the study appearing this week in the journal// Science is the first for a companion animal. A standard size poodle named Shadow, the family pet of gene researcher J. Craig Venter, provided the specimen that resear...

Link Between Mothers Depression and Violence in Children

...e was more common in boys at age 11 than girls and mostly involved fighting with peers. Researchers say mothers depression and violence in children was associated with the child’s inability to regulate attention and emotion. Previous research has found that problems in regulating one’s attention and activ...

Benefits and Risks of Asthma Treatment Questioned

...g in both adults and children, but the effects are mostly related to dose, length of use, and the gender of the patient. ?h ICS therapy is associated with a decrease in childhood growth rates, but the effect is small and studies suggest it may not persist with long-term therapy. Adult height of asthmatic ch...

Bullying – a Common Problem Among Childre

...en and teachers. The research involved about 2,000 mostly Latino and black children from 11 schools in low socio-economic urban areas. Results show 22 percent of the children were involved in bullying -- 7 percent as perpetrators, 9 percent as victims, and 6 percent as both perpetrators and victims. All de...

The Effects Of Estrogen Therapy

...stin would reduce coronary heart disease events in mostly healthy women. Postmenopausal American women use CEE more frequently than any other hormone therapy.The estrogen-alone trial was halted because researchers found it had no significant effect on reducing the risk of coronary heart disease but it did c...

Triglyceride Drug Found To Lower The Risk Of Diabetes

...or the study researchers compared results between mostly male heart attack patients who received either a daily dose of the triglyceride-lowering drug bezafibrate or a placebo. All were followed for about six years. Men taking bezafibrate, which also lowers LDL (or “bad”) cholesterol and increases HDL (or ...

Treatment For Prostate Cancer Found To Increases Fracture Risk

Androgens, are produced mostly in the testicles and cause prostate cancer cells to grow. Lowering androgen levels can make prostate cancer // shrink or grow more slowly. However, hormone therapy will not cure the cancer and is often used when other treatments such as surgery or ra...

Adding An Additional Drug May Help Patients With Glaucoma

...-year period. However, a subgroup of 127 patients, mostly with an eye color known to be susceptible to color change, did see changes in pigmentation. Patients affected by the change were mainly those with two different colors in their irises, such as green-brown or yellow-brown. However the pigmentation cha...

Oral examination may not predict relationship between snoring and sleep disturbance

... from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) have mostly been related to snoring in their sleep. And so snoring was known as one of the predictors of OSAS. OSAS, also known as the condition of fragmented sleep is associated with hypertension, heart problems, stroke, and obesity, breathing problems, sexua...

Caesarian sections may not help in reducing post-pregnancy blues

...had plagued new mothers all over the world, // was mostly due to the trauma of the delivery. As a result of this belief, many pregnant women opted for a planned caesarian birth to avoid the depression. A new study that comes in the recent issue of British Medical Journal says that this may not be the case. ...

Essential tremor can lead to dementia

...ng impaired intellectual ability. Dementia affects mostly the people in the age group of 65 yrs and above....

Hormone Replacement Therapy increases the risk of endometrial cancer

...lining of the uterus. This form of cancer is found mostly in postmenopausal women. The research came out in the current issue of The Lancet, as part of a greater study called Million Women Study. The researchers had studied more than 70,000 postmenopausal women in UK without previous cancer or previous hys...

Late sleeping may lead to diabetes

...ns due to rising levels of sugar in the blood, and mostly is due to defects in insulin secretion, insulin function or both. This may be the reason why often sleeping less is associated with high risk of cardiac arrest. The researchers feel that this probably also explains why doctors prescribe seven to eig...

Right attitude makes you benefit from exercise

...ound out that exercising for health in mid-life is mostly due to the attitude of motivating one self through actions and self-encouragements than prescriptions from the doctors, self talks or anything else. In a random trial taken of 40 adults in the age group of 40 to 55 years, surveys were conducted to k...

Biomarker for prostate cancer may be separated for treatment

...s is one of the deadlier cancers that affect males mostly above 40 years of age. The new research may make the worst cases of prostate cancer treatable and curable as well. Using both chemotherapy and immunotherapy together may also benefit those patients in whom the cancer had spread from prostate gland to...

Target of diabetes type 1 identified

...ns due to rising levels of sugar in the blood, and mostly is due to defects in insulin secretion, insulin function or both. Type 1 diabetes is caused when specific cells that produce insulin in the pancreas are destroyed. Previously it was thought that these cells might be of different varieties that exis...

Overweight mothers overfeed obese children

... carbohydrates than other normal infants. This was mostly because of extra feedings given in between meals. Infants of obese mothers eat more as the weights of their mothers increased. These mothers also spend less time interacting with their children, and the overweight children slept more than the childre...

Differing reactions to anti clotting drugs may be due to genetic variation.

... variations in reactions to medications, the tests mostly concentrate on the sex, age, weight and medical history of the patients. It may take months of visits to the physicians to find out the right dose for the patient even then. Genetic variations are often not considered here. The new research will emph...

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