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Folic Acid helps Kids with Diabetes

...separated by an eight-week washout period. All had normal folate levels at the beginning of the study. Researchers measured endothelial dysfunction using flow-mediated dilatation in each of the children. Endothelial dysfunction occurs in children with type 1 diabetes and is associated with folate status. E...

Stopping Prostate Cancer from Spreading

...ns before a tumor spreads. Tumors that produce a normal amount of RKIP are unable to spread to the vascula...er cells when RKIP production was stunted. Thus, a normal amount of RKIP can keep a tumor from spreading. Researchers say their results are promising. "These...

Restricted Activity Predicts Disability

...past month. Most physicians believe this is just a normal sign of aging and not necessarily something that leads to declining function.// In this study, researchers followed 680 older people who were living in their own homes to see if restricted activity might predict increasing disability and functioning...

Finasteride lowers risk of prostate cancer but increases risk of high-grade tumors

... baseline, digital rectal examination results were normal in all subjects, and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels// were no more than 3.0 ng/mL. Among the 4368 men in the finasteride group treated for 7 years, prostate cancer was detected in 18.4%, compared with 24.4% of the 4692 assigned to placebo gro...

Finasteride lowers risk of prostate cancer but increases risk of high-grade tumors

... baseline, digital rectal examination results were normal in all subjects, and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels were no more than 3.0 ng/mL. Among the 4368 men in the finasteride group treated for 7 years,// prostate cancer was detected in 18.4%, compared with 24.4% of the 4692 assigned to placebo gro...

Study reveals how stress can make you sick

... they added. Exercise reduces IL-6, they said, and normal sleep helps regulate levels of the chemical. Thus it clearly points to the need to control stress better....

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...ad been reported within the previous 20 days. The normal incubation period for the disease is 10 days, and twice that time is the mandatory transmission-free period before //the WHO can declare a local emergency situation over. The move, due to be announced at a news conference called for 0700 GMT, will c...

Easier Dialysis for Kids

...table, so it allows the family to engage in pretty normal family activities." It can also deliver small amounts of dialysis fluid to children more safely. The machine’s efficiency means fewer alarms, which means a better night’s sleep for everyone. While Maya waits for a kidney transplant, this machine k...

Spinal Cord Patients Walk Again

...lphia brings paralyzed people a little closer to a normal life. With the push of a button, something amazing happens to Les Kirk.Instead of us doing it by our brain, it’s being done by a computer.Kirk has an implanted receiver with an external antenna. //Wires connect the electrodes located on his muscles. ...

Study reveals how stress can make you sick

... they added. Exercise reduces IL-6, they said, and normal sleep helps regulate levels of the chemical. Thus it clearly points to the need to control stress better....

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

...ients.The dose of GH was calculated to replace the normal amount the body would make if the patients were not obese. Researchers randomized 59 obese subjects 20 to 45 years of age, to exercise, a calorie-restricted diet, and either human GH or placebo administered by nightly injections for six months. Thirt...

Gene Mutation Causes Ovarian Failure

...were activated earlier and more widely than in the normal mice. Lead study author Ronald DePinho, M.D., from Dana-Farber, explains: "There is a finite number of grains of sand that are released in a metered way. Similarly, a woman's eggs are gradually released over her reproductive lifespan. Menopause occur...

Skip Breakfast, Get Fat

...tetic Association. "You are starving. How does the normal person respond? They eat, and they keep eating to compensate." As for the study's rebuttal of the time-honored belief in the fattening properties of late-night meals, Ma says more research is needed to confirm that finding. But it makes sense, Fran...

Death Risk Higher in Obese Women with Colon Cancer

...se in overall risk of death compared with women of normal weight. Obese women were also more likely to experience cancer recurrence. Body weight had no significant influence on overall risk of death or cancer recurrence in men.It is noteworthy, the investigators say, that obese patients did not experience ...

Tight necktie may raise glaucoma risk

...easured the intraocular pressures of 40 eyes in 20 normal subjects and 20 patients with open angle glaucoma. Pressures were measured with the shirt collar open, then with a tie placed tightly, and lastly after the tie had been loosened. In both groups, wearing a tight tie produced a significant rise in int...

Anemia may Lead to Physical Decline

...y to develop physical declines than those who have normal blood hemoglobin levels.// Investigators followed 1,146 people, ages 71 and older, for more than four years. Researchers assessed participants' standing balance, a timed eight-foot walk, and the ability to rise from a chair. Each activity was scored...

'Designer' baby for British couple

...choose between the embryos to find the one that is normal and can save the life of its sibling. "There was no selection on the basis of color of eyes or hair or sex."Charlie has Diamond Blackfan anemia which can only be cured with a transplant of stem cells from a sibling with a perfect tissue match. "The...

Mutant sperm beat out healthy brethren in study

...ions is more likely to be used to make a baby than normal sperm," said researchers. The researchers studied... each batch, so in most cases there are still many normal sperm available. Because the few mutated sperm are more likely to be used to make a baby than would ...

Depression Weighs Heaviest on the Elderly

...ntrary to conventional wisdom, depression is not a normal part of aging. But certain aspects of depression d... of depression in older individuals, thinking it's normal to feel that way at that age....

Extra hormone found to cut appetite by a third

... it. They don't feel as feel as full after food as normal people do as a result of their obesity....

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