much 1 7

Tag: "much" at medical news

Inspiring positive life changes

...arbon monoxide, for instance, for this could do as much psychological damage as the physical harm from smoking....

Watching television for long hours could lead to agressiveness

...hed one or more hours of television a day appeared much more likely to get into fights or behave aggressively towards other people later in life. Only 5.7% of the adolescents who watched less than an hour of television a day consigned aggressive acts in later years, compared with 24% of those who watched ...

DNA helps in cellular function

...l enable scientists to interpret data they collect much more accurately....

Fatty deposits affect the stomach too

...may lose weight. The condition can be treated in much the same way as atherosclerosis in the arteries serving the heart that is, with bypass surgery or with angioplasty, which involves insertion of a balloon-tipped catheter which widens the artery. In fact, mesenteric ischemia should alert those who suf...

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

...ncreased dramatically in the blood, indicating how much amyloid protein had built up in the mouse's brain....detected in the blood had accurately reflected how much amyloid protein had built up in the brain tissue. The m266 injection appeared give an accurate pictu...

Schizophrenia detected early

...ve successful, it could be a major help. "However, much of the current delay is due to poor practice, not the lack of tool for diagnosis," he said....

Exercise is necessary in daily life

...lawn mowers to computer games and TV encourage too much sitting and lying around. Perhaps, he says, it's time to go back to the old ways - even just for a little while each day. Walk, don't take the elevator, and push a lawn mower, rather than riding it. There are many more opportunities to get more act...

Children's snoring may indicate a serious problem

...he or she may be getting too little oxygen and too much carbon dioxide. The condition can lead to poor heart and lung development as well as behavioral problems and even death if unchecked. Problems are reversible if the disease is caught early....

One IV treatment a year rather than a pill a day

...which paid for the research, has already begun the much larger and longer studies. But doctors who treat o...ce-a-week pill. Novartis said it does not know how much the drug is likely to cost. If a version of Zometa is approved for use against osteoporosis, it will...

Young women prone to heart attack

A new US research has found that young women are much more likely to die following a heart attack than young men.The study, which contradicts the stereotype that men// are more likely to die of heart attacks, was published in The Annals of Internal Medicine this week. Researchers from Emory, Yale and M...

Painkiller Linked to Deaths

...Percodan and Tylox contain oxycodone, they contain much lower doses of the drug. OxyContin contains anywhere from 10 mg to 160 mg of oxycodone, while the other drugs contain 2.25 mg to 5 mg of the drug....

Smart Plastic As Surigical Thread

... used to make implants or bone screws that are not much bigger than a piece of string when inserted into the body. One they warm up, the devices change to form the appropriate implant. He said that sine the material has a memory, it could be threaded into an incision as a loose knot. When it warms o the ...

Liver key to extending life

... our research, the liver was not thought to change much during ageing, except for shrinking in size," he s...ohol in moderation is beneficial to health but too much is bad....

How trees affect sun exposure

... built a mathematical model which reveals just how much protecting from harmful ultraviolet B light a tree can provide. It all depends on how much sky you can see through the tree canopy and the latitude you're at. At a latitude between 30 and 6...

Compressed DNA aids gene patients

...metres across - 25 millionths of a millimetre - is much smaller than a liposome, and should be able to pas... test tube, the tiny DNA packets appeared to be as much as 6,000 times more effective at getting their genes working in the nuclei of cells than DNA-carryin...

Clotting Protein plays a role in nerve repair

...tic nerve (located in the leg), myelin regenerated much more rapidly in fibrin-free mice than in normal mice. Strickland's team describes fibrin's role in the repair process--at least outside the brain and spinal cord. After a nerve injury, it seems that a protein called fibrinogen can leak from the bloo...

Elevated Ozone Levels Hurt Sperm Count

...hese very fertile young men, the drop did not make much of a difference. Their average counts were 80 million sperm per cubic centimeter. But in less fertile men, it could matter more. A sperm count of less than 10 million is considered low and less than 20 million is considered worrisome by fertility exp...

Microwave radiation has no hazards

...vy veterans followed in this study were exposed to much more radiation than we get today from our phones and machines. He felt that the average person would never be exposed to the high levels of radar waves that the Navy technicians were exposed to. Tarone explained that the finding that highly exposed ...

A new drug for bladder cancer

...for larger trials of the new drug, which may offer much needed hope to those who have bladder cancer....

Mutating viruses helps produce antibodies

...acteria frequently switches its surface molecules, much as a person might switch their locks to prevent someone with a key from getting in. "In the world of microbial biowarfare, standing still in the face of a ferocious viral attack is a recipe for disaster," explained microbiologist Graham Hatfull of th...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10