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High Cholesterol Increases Risk of Stroke in Otherwise Healthy Women

...en if you have no history of heart disease and are otherwise healthy,” said study author Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD,...erol levels and later stroke. “Our findings show otherwise healthy women with high cholesterol were more than twice as likely to suffer a stroke compared to he...

Diabetes Risk Factors Develop Earlier in Women Than Men

.... "This is one of the first reports to show that otherwise healthy women are more likely than men to show elevated levels of endothelial factors and other markers of progression to pre-diabetes," said lead author Richard Donahue. "Because these pre-diabetic markers are not routinely assessed, and because d...

Rhythms of Life

... brain, called Supra Chiasmatic Nucleus (SCN), otherwise referred to as the 'Biological Clock'. Sunlight reaches the SCN through the photoreceptors in the retina of the eyes. The signal is transmitted to the pineal gland in the brain to stimulate melatonin production. The concentration of melatonin e...

Drug Companies Should Not Have a Monopoly Over Clinical Trial Data

...atory requirements for pharmaceuticals," she says, otherwise we will lose the battle for access to essential medicines. Source-Eurekalert SM...

Study to Explore Using Magnets to Correct 'sunken Chest'

...unken chest and are between 8 and 14 years of age, otherwise healthy and willing to participate in the 12-month-long study of the new procedure. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Shedding Pounds from Diet or Exercise—Take Your Pic

...diet alone or diet plus exercise in overweight but otherwise healthy study participants. The participants were divided into three groups. One group only reduced caloric intake. A second group reduced caloric intake by a smaller amount, but included exercise as part of their program, and a third set of particip...

Lipid Plays Big Role in Embryonic Development

...arity is absolutely essential for differentiation; otherwise you have a ball of cells, not organized tissue.” In fact, we start out as a wad of cells, but within 24 hours, some cells die and others become part of the hollow sphere with an inner layer – the primitive ectoderm – that will further differentiat...

Funds and Hope for Breast Cancer Patients

...nal changes. The female hormone oestrogen which is otherwise shielded by pregnancy is the villain which gets a lot of time to play foul," Kaul told IANS. Although there are various organisations like Cancer Sahyog that spread awareness about cancer, there are very few that provide financial help. "Hercep...

Ceramide Directs Stem Cells in Embryo

...arity is absolutely essential for differentiation; otherwise you have a ball of cells, not organized tissue.' In fact, we start out as a wad of cells, but within 24 hours, some cells die and others become part of the hollow sphere with an inner layer – the primitive ectoderm – that will further differentiate...

‘Baby Food’ to Battle Obesiy

...and team will test the effect on 50 overweight but otherwise healthy persons who will be asked to take a dietary supplement along with their diet over a three-month period. ANN...

Ancient Genes Used to Produce Salt-Tolerant Wheat

...urum variety with the ancient genes straight away, otherwise we might have been looking for years.” The team used their knowledge of the two genes to construct molecular markers, which are now in use in CSIRO’s wheat breeding program. A durum wheat variety as salt-tolerant as bread wheat is in advanced field...

A New Weapon Against Obesity

...The researchers are looking for 50 overweight, but otherwise healthy individuals living in Calgary, Canada. The subjects would be required to take a dietary supplement over a three-month period while making no other lifestyle changes. Participants' body composition will be tracked using cutting-edge technology...

Going Overboard With a Hand Sanitizer

The behavior of a 49-year-old prisoner, otherwise calm, had suddenly turned awry. Guards in the prison found him red eyed, cantankerous and sermonizing//. Apparently, the prisoner had been consuming from a gallon of hand sanitizer which contained almost 70% alcohol. The alarm regarding abuse of ha...

Benefits of Fruit and Vegetable Juices

...t is “unjustified” and that policies which suggest otherwise about fruit and vegetable juices should be re-examined. The researchers who authored the paper “Can pure fruit and vegetable juices protect against cancer and cardiovascular disease, too? A review of the evidence” suggests that more studies in cert...

Cancer Scientists' Gene Research Offers New Treatment Hope

...off critical genes within a tumour cell that would otherwise stimulate the spread of the cancer. Although the r...ng smaller molecules of RNA to silence a gene that otherwise protects brain tumours from being attacked by the body's immune system. In experiments on mice wit...

Ear Fluid Does Not Impair Development

...tal outcomes in children as old as 11 and that for otherwise healthy children with middle ear effusion, placement of ear tubes is ordinarily not necessary,” said Dr. Paradise, a longtime pediatrician at Children’s and professor emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Among ...

Lethal Staphylococcus can Be Fatal to Pneumonia Patients

...Texas say.// This toxin goes by the name of PVL or otherwise called Panton Valentine Leukocidin has the potency to bring about pneumonia and harm the healthy tissue as well. Staphylococcu aureus is the causative agent of many nosocomial infections. This is normally found in the skin or nose of many people. S...

Is Growth Hormone – a Key to Longevity

... there to suggest that giving growth hormone to an otherwise healthy person will make him or her live longer, we did find, however, that there was substantial potential for adverse side effects.' - says Dr. Hau Liu, a research fellow in the Division of Endocrinology and in the Center for Primary Care and Outco...

Link Between Family Size and Stomach Cancer Found

...tter adapted bacterial population than would occur otherwise if the bacterium was transmitted from a genetically unrelated individual. H. pylori, a spiral-shaped bacterium that lives in the mucous layer lining the stomach where it can persist for decades, is associated with stomach cancer and peptic ulcers....

Advances Have Cut Combat Deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan

... minutes. In addition to saving soldiers who would otherwise bleed to death, the rapid response provided by these teams sets the stage for further damage control, surgery, and rehabilitation. Once their condition has stabilized, casualties are efficiently and systematically transferred to the next level of ca...

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