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Feeling depressed? You may be at higher risk of STROKE

...People need to understand that our study opens the possibility that depression may be an additional risk factor pending further investigation," Jonas said. "It is not appropriate for physicians to screen for depression (at this time) because we don't know the exact relationship between stroke and depression." ( ...

Sperm washing helps couples – Breakthrough in focu

...o have a child without going through the traumatic possibility of contracting the dreaded virus. However the project is still being fine-tuned to make it fool proof. It is suggested that sperm washing should only be carried out in dedicated units using a multidisciplinary approach to ensure that couples receive ...

Are cancer patients being taken for a ride?

... never knew or that they were never told about the possibility of enrolling in a clinical trial for cancer treatment. Among the 16% who knew about the trials but declined to participate, 30% believed that the therapy used in the trial would be less effective than "the standard treatment" and 31% feared that they...

Breast Feeding prevents obesity later on in life

... the risk of obesity later in life is unclear. One possibility is that formula milk and breast milk have different impacts on babies’ metabolism, with breast milk having more positive effects on fat storage. This might give us an insight as to how we can fight obesity in life. So if you want your kids to stay ...

Antibiotics losing their power against acne

...nate therapy. The scientists are also probing the possibility of harnessing a therapeutic vaccine to prevent acne. If successful, this can prove to be an effective solution for millions of patients, most of them teenagers, suffering from physical and psychological trauma of severe acne....

Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children

...iatricians". Paediatricians should be aware of the possibility that increase in headache frequency might be due to abuse of even paracetamol, which is harmless. Rachel Hering-Hanit, a neurologist at the Meir General Hospital in Kfar Saba and colleagues said "They should avoid advising children to take pain medi...

RANBAXY - enters anti-AIDS segment

...t into a financial bind. Ranbaxy has ruled out the possibility of forming a joint venture with Dade Behring for the diagnostic business, which is a part of Ranbaxy. The company's main motive is to develop this anti-viral drug rather than grab the market share....

Reversing heart failure

... needed - but this discovery raises the intriguing possibility that the LVAD can actually be a cure for heart failure than a support device....

Tomatoes for the heart

...matoes were processed into paste.This suggests the possibility of producing tomato-based products with increased health benefits....

A new growth factor identified

... He also added that the discovery also raises the possibility that other growth factors exist that act on specific tissues, such as the heart or lung or skeletal muscle, which could hold "considerable therapeutic potential....

Helping the neurology of kidney failure

...reatment is applicable to humans. There's also the possibility that this kind of oxidative stress might also play a role in brain disorders like Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease, as well as brain injury....

Creating brain cells from bone marrow

... cells out of bone marrow cells which opens up the possibility of grafts for Parkinson's disease. At the Peterson Medical College scientists grew stem cells from adult bone marrow in a finely-tuned cocktail of growth factors and other chemicals and found they could get them to convert into neurons. Normally su...

Depression a possible danger in elderly

...on or otherwise follow medical directions. Another possibility is that depression is a symptom of an underlying physical illness that leads to the need for hospital re-admission. Whatever the reason, it could certainly be worthwhile diagnosing and treating depression more aggressively in older patients admitted ...

Early delivery can prevent cancer

...ast tissue of young women. The research raises the possibility of one day developing a pill that could protect against breast cancer. In experiments, rats and mice given doses of natural hormones that mimic pregnancy were protected against breast cancer. When the animals were injected with a known carcinogen, ...

Magnetic resonance angiography in clinical medicine

...patial resolution and temporal resolution with the possibility of multiple projections. DSA is useful to detect several abnormalities such as arteriosclerosis, and arteriovenous occlusion or stenosis, cerebral aneurysms, and A.V.malformations.It is an x-ray-imaging test, which takes pictures of the blood vessel...

Miraculous Salads

...have opened up a new field and that this will be a possibility to prevent osteoporosis provided it works in humans and that humans can eat sufficient amounts of this stuff," Dr Muhlbauer said. They also said that eating too much salt can raise the blood pressure and that this, in turn, speeds up the body's los...

Serotonin increases stroke risk

... The experts warn that doctors should consider the possibility of these drugs being the culprit whenever a patient reports a sudden, severe headache. On no account should such patients be prescribed other serotonin drugs - like a migraine treatment - if they suddenly get a bad headache or even develop seizure...

Moderate alcohol consumption protects against dementia

...is often caused by a blood vessel problem. Another possibility is that low levels of alcohol could stimulate the release acetylcholine, a brain chemical believed to facilitate learning and memory....

Herbal Drug In Controversy

...ts, has already asked liver experts to explore the possibility that kava use could be associated with liver disease....

Immune cells halt round in space

...rall seem less able to destroy invaders. While one possibility is that the unique physical and psychological stre...ht might trigger immune-altering hormones, another possibility is that the weightlessness of space might be affecting the immune cells directly. To investigate thi...

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