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The Chattier Gender

...nversations of large groups of people for extended period of time. For eight years, the psychology researchers have developed a method for recording natural language using the electronically activated recorder (EAR). The unobtrusive digital voice recorder tracks peoples interactions, including their conve...

An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk

... women, registered at 318 general practices over a period of 12 years up to April 2007, recording first diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. All the participants were aged between 35 and 74 at the start of the study.They found that the QRISK score was more accurate than either Framingham or ASSIGN. In patie...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Liberation at a Cost

...ffective dose of hormone therapy, for the shortest period necessary, is very sensible. - Hugh Taylor Doctors no longer recommend HRT solely for preventing or treating osteoporosis or heart disease. HRT can usually be customized to provide maximum benefits with minimum side effects. It is prescribe...

Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

...growth-spurt that one would expect to see during a period of relative peace and rising incomes. Now, with an average height of 5'10", American men are now significantly shorter than men from countries like Denmark (6 footers) or the Netherlands (6' 1"). In fact, Americans -- men and women -- are now short...

Doctors Discover Hair-loss Prevention Drug for Cancer Patients

...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....

Fasting Makes Women Talk Less

...study was conducted on 28 healthy women during the period of Ramadan by researchers Abdul-Latif Hamdan, Abla Sibai and Charcel Rameh of American University of Beirut. As a part of the study the researchers acoustically analyzed the voices of the women and inspected their larynxes by video-endostroboscop...

Spicy Cuisine Originated in Mexico 1,500 Years Ago

...can food have been numerous and complex for a long period of time. It reveals a great antiquity for the Mexi...ris, known as Zone "A" and "Super-A," spanning the period circa A.D. 500-1500. Perry distinguished different cultivars among the abundantly preserved chilli p...

FDAs Gesture for Firm Manufacturing Drug for Cushings Syndrome

...). The concept behind the ODA is that the longer period of exclusivity will encourage more companies to invest money in research. Under the act many drugs have been developed, including drugs to treat such diseases as multiple myeloma, bone marrow cancer. Welcoming the FDA decision, Corcept said it was ...

A Balanced Diet can Keep Asthma, Wheezing at Bay in Teens

...ary function and respiratory symptoms. Over the period of one school year, 2,112 students completed a standardized respiratory questionnaire and a dietary questionnaire. They also answered questions about medication use, smoking habits, and recent exercise, before participating in lung function testing. ...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

...came embedded in our genome over a 10-million-year period centered roughly 54 million years ago - right around the time when the first primates emerged. "When new species emerge, their numbers and therefore their genetic differences are very small. This creates a genetic bottleneck during which any chang...

Visual Impairment Linked to Greater Mortality Risk

...ear to have higher mortality rates over an 11-year period than those without such visual impairments. Several studies have shown associations between visual problems and the risk of death in older individuals. "The mechanisms for higher mortality associated with visual impairment remain unclear. It coul...

Singapore Dengue Fever Cases Hit Year's Peak

... figure which is up sharply from 1,679 in the same period last year. Singapore experienced its worst dengue outbreak in 2005 when 19 people died and more than 13,000 were infected. The city-state has launched a massive publicity campaign to educate residents. It has also stepped up efforts to eradicat...

Apple a Day Keeps Asthma Away

...nary function and respiratory symptoms. Over the period of one school year, 2,112 students completed a standardized respiratory questionnaire and a dietary questionnaire. They also answered questions about medication use, smoking habits, and recent exercise, before participating in lung function testing. ...

Bashful Men 50% More Likely to Die of Heart Attack or Stroke

...ding is based on a study that was conducted over a period of 30 years, and included more than 2,000 men who were aged between 40 and 55. As a part of the study the researchers from Chicago's Northwestern University asked the men to fill questionnaires designed to determine how social they were. By the t...

Canadian Cancer Society Calls for Ban on Asbestos

...r they enter the lungs. In many cases, the latency period can be 20 to 30 years after exposure. The World Health Organization says that about 125 million people are exposed to asbestos at work and that at least 90,000 die annually from asbestos-related diseases. In Canada, almost one-third of the 1,097 wor...

US Rejects More Food from India Than from Any Other Country

...0 from Mexico and 1,368 from China in the 12-month period ending in June this year . Some of India's spices, seeds and shrimp contained salmonella while Mexico's seafood, chillies and cheese were found too filthy to eat. Chinese products like seafood, bean curd and noodles were also filthy, The New York T...

Walking Really is the Best Way to Keep Healthy

...the Japanese researchers studied 246 adults over a period of five months who engaged in either no walking or moderate to high-intensity walking. The group who engaged in high-intensity walking experienced the most significant improvement in their health, the researchers found. Dr. Levine says the study l...

Adding Folic Acid to Flour Lessens Congenital Malformations

...shed results for red-cell folate levels, the study period was divided into prefortification and full-fortification periods. During the study period, a total of 2,446 children with neural-tube defects were recorded among 1.9 million births. The researchers found that between 1993 and 1997, the incidenc...

President Bush Not for Expansion of Child Health Insurance

...eate total program funding of $60 billion over the period enough, lawmakers said, to cover 3.3 million additional youths while keeping the focus on children of the working poor. The program, which expires Sept. 30, has helped millions upon millions of low-income, uninsured American kids see doctors when ...

Surgical Repair of Athletic Hernia Speeds Return to Play

...thletes we see have usually undergone an extensive period of conservative management and having failed that,...ne. Typically this pain has been unexplained for a period of time, and there are few indications of the condition in the patients personal history, physical e...

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