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Breast Cancer in younger women can be detected at an early stage by mammograms

... found that nearly 25% of all breast cancer deaths occur in women who were diagnosed between ages 40 and 49. Buseman claimed that while breast cancer incidence has increased over the past decade, breast cancer deaths had decreased. She attributed this to the widespread adoption of mammography screening, in...

Arsenic in drinking water

...rse atmospheric deposition. Inorganic arsenic can occur in the environment in several forms but in natural waters, and thus in drinking-water, it is mostly found as trivalent arsenite (As(III)) or pentavalent arsenate (As (V)). Organic arsenic species, abundant in seafood, are very much less harmful to he...

Metapneumovirus - a common cause of adults' colds, kids' illness

...nipresent as this. "Thousands of hospitalizations occur every year due to this virus in infants," say doctors. Research suggests that the metapneumovirus is second only to respiratory syncytial virus as a cause of severe lower respiratory infections in the young, occurring about two-thirds as often. Both...

Sudden Rise in PSA Dangerous for men

...nd that since deaths from prostate cancer begin to occur in men in their 40s, men should begin tracking their PSA levels at age 40 to recognize a sharp rise. They also recommend biopsies be conducted when PSA levels rise .75 nanograms per milliliter or more over a year. Other indications for a biopsy are a...

Drug Delivery Made More Patient Friendly And Safe

...ble for hundreds of deaths a year. Drug errors can occur if medicines have similar packaging, handwriting on the hospital drugs chart is illegible or the wrong patient is identified and given the incorrect drugs. The new system, if adopted by hospitals in the future, could prevent these situations and red...

The effects of Curcumin: a natural pigment in turmeric explored for its anti-cancer properties

...agus is caused by acid reflux, and although it can occur early in life, most sufferers are in their 40s and 50s. Another feature is that 90 percent of patients never develops into cancer.There are surgical and pharmaceutical ways to reduce acid reflux, but no firm link has been made between Barrett’s esoph...

Platelets May Be The Source Of Gene Regulations

...ported that a key process in gene regulation could occur in human platelets. These are unique cells that are unusual because they don’t have a nucleus // (anucleate). Scientists long have thought the transformation of pre-mRNA into mature mRNA—called splicing—happens only in a cell’s nucleus. But using s...

Ankle Fracture Surgery – Diabetics fare worse than non-diabetics

...rmation of deep venous thrombosis (DVT), which can occur in surgery patients who are bedridden for extended periods of time. It is also widely appreciated that diabetic patients tend to have slower healing rates than non-diabetic patients, Ganesh continued. This can be important not only during hospitaliz...

Gene Target For Tuberculosis Identified

...appear to accelerate disease progression when they occur together. Tuberculosis is a very common disease, affecting about one-third of the world’s population. Of the estimated two billion people infected, only 5%-10% actually develop tuberculosis disease in their lifetime. The other 90%-95% appear to cont...

"An Armour against pleasure, and a cobweb against infection" – Has the condom withstood the test of time

...human papillomavirus (also known as genital warts) occur on the skin of genitalia and can get passed from one partner to another even if a condom is used. The effectiveness of a condom against STDs also depends on whether the condom was stored correctly, used correctly and if it was used all the time. ...

Brain Fever or Encephalitis Spreading in North India

...t 50 years. Occasionally sporadic cases of disease occur in Indonesia and northern Australia. The disease has not occurred in the rest of the world. Postulated explanations include migration of birds, certain irrigation projects, animal smuggling and global warming. Japanese Encephalitis is caused by a v...

Experts Insist That Neonatal Herpes Be Reported Regularly

... perhaps as many as 2,800 cases of neonatal herpes occur each year in the United States. By contrast, congenital rubella and HIV infection, syphilis, and gonorrhea in newborns all are less common than neonatal herpes. Yet these are reportable in almost all states and are tracked by the Centers for Disease ...

Sensations Generated By Cocaine And Methamphetamine Abuse Are Not Same.

...hile cocaine users typically engage in binges that occur most often in the evening. In addition, the study results may impact development of medication treatments for addiction to these two very different stimulants. The study examined the onset, pattern and duration of the response to cocaine in 14 coc...

Drugs As Alternative To Surgery After Miscarriage

...een used to reduce the risk of stomach ulcers that occur in people who take certain pain relievers for arthritis. Misoprostol is now more commonly used to induce labor, as it stimulates contractions of the uterus. The study authors wrote that pregnancy failure, or miscarriage, occurs in 15 percent of pre...

Obesity, diabetes in pregnant women affects babies

...u produce. The cause may be metabolic changes that occur due to the effects of hormones in pregnancy. Gestational diabetes usually disappears after pregnancy, but more than half of women who experience it eventually develop a permanent type 2 diabetes. "Diabetes is a wonderful affection, not very frequen...

Dengue fever in Delhi after the Monsoon

...ches and vomiting occurs. Flushing of the skin may occur on the palms, soles of feet, face and neck with red spots may appear on the skin. These indicate internal bleeding, which is on of the symptoms of dengue with aching joints, which may appear swollen. The most dangerous period is the leakage phase, wh...

Children With Epilepsy Can Be Treated With Nerve Stimulation

...han 12 to help control or reduce the seizures that occur because of epilepsy, but until recently, there was no data to illustrate how children younger than 12 years of age would respond to VNS implantation. Researchers for the study have demonstrated that using a VNS in children is effective in reducing se...

Bird Flu Risk In Europe, Middle East And Africa

...ts should ensure that no pandemic human infections occur due to bird flu. Wild water birds flying from Siberia, where the virus has recently spread, may carry the disease to the Caspian and Black Seas...

Safe Driving Is Possible For Older People If They Are Prepared

... Cognitive impairment: Minor memory lapses that occur with normal aging should not pose any problem, but the forgetfulness, impaired judgment, and loss of directional skills that suggest dementia are very troublesome. The danger is compounded because many people with cognitive impairment don’t know they...

Occupational Exposure To Radiation Causes Chromosome Aberrations

...es, Chromosomes & Cancer. Chromosome aberrations occur in DNA [Deoxyribonucleic acid], in which nucleotide breaks occurs in the chromosomes leading to aberrations, which may lead to cancer. Earlier studies of occupational exposure to ionizing radiations where carried out by the same author at Mayak weapo...

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