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Pancreatic Cancer may be linked to Diabetes

...mes an indicator for further diagnosis. Chari and others were careful to note that the research does not suggest diabetes causes the cancer, but instead said it presents further evidence that the pancreatic cancer is likely already established and the cancer may actually cause the diabetes. He told that he...

Mild Depression may guard aged women

... widowed and some divorced. Some lived alone while others lived with their families. During the interviews, researchers screened the subjects for depressive symptoms to determine if they met the criteria for mild depression, meaning symptoms such as occasional sleeping problems or feeling blue but not seve...

Fish rich diet lowers leptin

...e members live in a village close to a lake, while others live inland. The lake-dwelling tribe members eat a diet that includes 300 to 600 grams of fish a day and accounts for about a fourth of their total daily calories. The inland-dwelling tribe members eat a vegetarian diet. Both groups consume about 210...

Gene glitches connecting pot with Schizophrenia

...ppeared significantly more often than normal while others appeared less frequency. Clinical neuroscientist, Carol Tamming at the University of Maryland, found that this was the first to report a potential abnormality of the cannabinoid system in schizophrenia. The importance of a finding here cannot be ove...

Altitude sickness connected to genes

...ain climbers are affected by altitude sickness and others are not. They say two changes in a gene related to lung function may increase the risk of high altitude sickness.// The illness, high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), can result when people climb higher than 8,000 feet. It is a potentially deadly b...

Stop and think before you eat

...easons why some people are able to stay trim while others gain weight remain unclear.// To investigate the role of eating behavior in weight gain, the researchers evaluated three eating behaviors--restraint, disinhibition and hunger--as well as the weight and height of 640 healthy, non-smoking women aged 5...

Skin specialist advise on cellulite

...me dermatologists still don't 'believe' in it, and others see it as just a cosmetic problem). Dr. Goldman reviews the four main approaches for treating cellulite: creams, massage, diet and exercise. Cellulite creams can contain a wide array of ingredients and, unfortunately, there have been no controlled ...

Breastfed babies grow rapidly

...tals that encouraged exclusive breast-feeding, and others were born in hospitals that did not promote breast-feeding. More than 43% of infants born in baby-friendly hospitals were breast-fed exclusively at 3 months of age, compared with less than 7% of infants born in the other hospitals. And while there w...

Vacuum device increase breasts

...y.Some women couldn't commit to the time involved, others had breasts that were too large or chests that were too narrow. Some felt the system was not worth the relatively small gain (one cup size) made in breast size. According to Greco, a few patients dropped out because we could not ma...

Advantages of Red Wine

...vels. The researchers say this study supports many others that have shown, "an inverse relationship between regular and moderate alcohol consumption and the risk for myocardial infarction (heart attack)." This latest study is one of a long line of research to support the benefits of moderate drinking on he...

Relief of pain for suffering patients

...hing possible to relieve it. It's to be hoped that others will adopt the Toronto guidelines - so that no-one ever has to die in pain....

How to arrest cough

Some coughs are harmless, while others merit medical attention. A cough is a very common, and irritating, symptom. Most often it's part and parcel of a cold or flu and, aside from resting and trying not to spread the infection, there's little you can do.// Other coughs, however, may signi...

Gastrointestinal conditions affect sleep

...er gastrointestinal disorders are more likely than others without these conditions to report excessive daytime sleepiness, insomnia, and poor sleep quality.// Researchers from Pennsylvania State University selected more than 1,550 adults, who reported having risk factors for sleep-related breathing disorder...

Aggressiveness is a prime heart disease risk

...ge age 65, noting their level of hostility towards others and the world around them.// They also asked them about traditional heart disease risk factors, like smoking, high cholesterol, and weight to hip ratio. They found that among the men with a high level of hostility, 5.0% experienced at least one car...

Memories change with age

...- some researchers believe that it deteriorates,// others that we start to remember in a different way. Psychologists in Toronto have been comparing how people of different ages remember significant events, like their first kiss. They studied a group of 15 younger adults, aged 18-35, and 18 older adults, ...

Cholesterol lowering drugs aid people after heart transplant

...g simvastatin four days after treatment, while the others went on a strict low-cholesterol diet. Later, they too went on the statin drug. There was a marked difference in survival between the two groups. The rate for the simvastatin group was 85.4 per cent and for those who did not go on simvastatin strai...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

...and deafness syndrome), while previous findings by others have linked a connexin to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease. The researchers concluded that other genes - possibly even other connexins or environmental factors could also account for the variety of effects seen in patients....

New oral antiviral treatment of cold sores approved

...t clear as to why some people get cold sores while others do not. Several factors like stress, exposure to sun, a cold, fever or flu could trigger the herpes simplex virus, which starts reproducing almost immediately, causing damage to skin cells that could lead to characteristic blisters. Valtrex, is now,...

Women with diabetes could benefit from HRT

...y involved some women who already had diabetes and others who did not or had "impaired fasting glucose" - a condition with some similar traits to diabetes but not severe enough to be called diabetes. The women were given either estrogen and progestin HRT, or a dummy pill, and followed up for four years. It...

Caffeine is not the only culprit in coffee!

...ar to be captured by the paper of a coffee filter, others - like caffeine - filter through to the brewed coffee. The authors suggest that the metabolism of one of these substances may slow down the body's ability to clear homocysteine from the bloodstream. The researchers concluded that though this finding...

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