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Risk Factors for Alzheimers Disease

... of the medial temporal lobe. Subjects showing any one or a combination of these symptoms were more likely to develop Alzheimers in the following years. Similarly to heart disease, brain blood vessel damage is more likely to occur in patients with high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes, says ...

Boom in Internet Shopping may Be Adding to CO2 Emissions

...ilers have, however, said it is more efficient for one van to deliver to several addresses than for each household to travel by car to the shops. According to the report, the number of vans on the road has increased by almost a third, or more than 730,000 in the past decade. The total distance trave...

Neurotransmitter That can Yield New Insights in the Fight Against Diabetes Identified

...works to begin with, then how can we expect to fix one when it is not burning fuel appropriately," he added. During the study, a group of animals were injected with insulin to drop their blood sugar levels, while another group was injected with norepinephrine directly into the paraventricular nucleus....

Genzyme Announces First Phase III Study of Tolevamer in Diarrhea Patients

...ous unmet medical need." C. difficile has become one of the most significant infection control concerns in healthcare today. Physicians worldwide are confronting a worsening epidemic, with an alarming rise in the incidence of disease, higher numbers of patients with complications and more frequent fail...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...of a walker. There have been other cases of EEE, one of several types of encephalitis carried by mosqui...are clusters of EEE roughly every dozen years, and one of those clusters, a total of 13 known cases, has unfolded over the past three years. A 5-year-old H...

Significant Advances in VCJD Prion Detection

...y ongoing to develop a screening test for vCJD but one of the issues common to various screening tests is that of false positive results. By developing a reliable confirmatory test, such as this one, the impact of these false positives can be minimised. However, the ethical dilemma remains over screeni...

Singapore Firm Launches MBBS Programme in Eastern India

...nd the duration would be four and a half years and one year of internship," Singh said, adding that the admission procedure will be according to the Medical Council of India (MCI) guidelines. "We have also started a national-level admission test, as a pilot project, in Jharkhand this year. From next ye...

Chromosone Disorders - Unrevealed Facts

...syndrome only occurs in females and is caused when one of the two X chromosomes is missing. Girls with Turners have arrested development and if no treatment is given do not enter puberty. Klinefelters syndrome affects males, who receive an extra X chromosome. Symptoms include concentration difficulties...

Awareness About Condoms Among Pakistani Punjabis is Very Low

...province were least aware of the AIDS and the ways one could get infected by the HIV. While, 26 percent...fected person could cause the disease. Less than one percent of the respondents knew that unborn children could catch HIV/AIDS from the infected mother, ...

Global Warming Threatens Tibet

...d his colleagues, 15 percent of rich grassland and one fourth of wetland at high altitude have vanished in the past 15 years. The scientists have called for more support for ecological research on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. They said that a foundation to attract public donations and help fund the r...

Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

...ed while Europeans continued the growth-spurt that one would expect to see during a period of relative pe... country in Western and Northern Europe. How can one explain that reversal? The study's authors, believe it's a result of "differences in the socioeconom...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

... "Obviously, though, this grim trajectory is not one that all past societies followed to completion," a...rought problem. But environmental abuse was only one factor. Food shortages were worsened by the destruction of human, social and financial capital, wh...

Doctors Discover Hair-loss Prevention Drug for Cancer Patients

...he said. No clinical tests are yet in sight, but one possible use for humans would be to apply it to the head in the period when hair loss is most likely to occur during chemotherapy, he added....

Efforts on to Tackle Health Problems Faced by US Truck Drivers

...Americans. Many truckers are obese, and only about one in 10 get regular aerobic exercise. Sleep apnea,...23 years, Belvin says these days he's not the only one jogging around in the mornings before he drives off for the day. Lisa Miles, an independent driver...

Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

...live like a prisoner anymore in a society where no one is allowed to be different," says Gramoz Prestresh...show why you would be singled out," she said. In one recent groundbreaking case, a lesbian from Uganda won U.S. asylum after her family had a stranger ra...

Backpacks and Backaches

...dents over -pack their backpacks and sling it over one shoulder. This means unequal distribution of weight, putting more pressure only on one side of the body. This can result in muscle spasms, shoulder or lower back pain, posture problems, w...

First Genetically Engineered Maize Resistant to Maize Streak Virus Produced in S. Africa

...erted it into maize plants. When the virus infects one of these transgenic maize plants, the mutated protein, which is expressed at a high level, prevents the virus from replicating and killing the plant. The transgenic maize variety has proven consistently resistant to MSV and the trait can be reliab...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

...y painful to the horse, he continued. Laminitis is one of the most devastating and debilitating problems ...c literature, the researchers discovered that only one documented study on equine obesity existed prior to this research, according to Thatcher. It was ...

Americans Bloated On Happy Pills

...ignificantly more likely to get a prescription for one than patients who did not....

Imaginary Friends are Good for Kids

... talking to an imaginary friend rather than a real one need not worry , for a new study has found that su...haracters. She also noted that an only child or one with a large age gap from his or her siblings is most likely to create imaginary pals to keep him or...

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