Tag: "regardless" at medical news

A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...f AB42. Still, Drs. Golde and Koo realized that, regardless of how NSAIDs might be working to decrease the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, conducting clinical trials of NSAIDs in populations at risk for Alzheimer’s or in those with the disease would be difficult. Long-term use of high-dose NSAIDs can cause st...

Embryo Protection Law in Germany

...yos can be created per cycle of IVF and all three, regardless of their quality, must be transferred to the patients womb at one time, and cannot be frozen or discarded. For the first time, figures for 2004 from the ESHRE European IVF monitoring consortium show that out of 8,500 deliveries in Germany in 2004 t...

Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness

...o cats may be beneficial for allergic individuals, regardless of their specific allergies. This was an unexpected finding, said Susan Chinn, D.Sc., lead author of the study. We presupposed that we would find increased responsiveness only in those individuals who were exposed to cat allergen and whose blood te...

Low Income Family Adolescents Suffer Migraine

...heyre more likely than other teens to get migraine regardless of their socioeconomic status, since they are predisposed. But for teens without a strong predisposition, reflected by the absence of migraine in first-degree relatives, family income factors into the prevalence of migraine, particularly among tho...

Women are the Real Bosses at Home

...e taking more responsibility for the relationship, regardless of whose topic was being discussed," he added. The researchers requested participation from married couples in and around the Iowa State campus. On average, spouses were around 33 years of age and had been married for seven years. Most participants...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...am. But during a health threat, the project sprays regardless of whether calls come in, Lawson said. Although environmental advocates have protested the pesticide spraying -- saying the chemical could wreak havoc on aquatic ecosystems and taint organic farms -- state officials have argued that it's worth it t...

Erection Drugs Don't Boost Men's Self-esteem

... "In fact there was no difference in the reports, regardless of whether they were on drugs," Dr Matic added. A spokesman for Viagra manufacturer Pfizer, maintained that the drug "improved the sex lives of more than 30 million men worldwide". The findings will be published in the International Journal of I...

Drug Patent Compulsory Licensing

...nt elements to any new compensation system. But, regardless of the approach that is ultimately adopted, Cahoy argues that "a revision of essential international law is required to both better enable access and shore up innovation incentives. "Considering the problem in terms of remuneration rather than the le...

Natural Selection in Butterflies

...suppressor gene is identified," said Charlat. "But regardless of which of the two sources of the suppressor gene is correct, natural selection is the next step. The suppressor gene allows infected females to produce males, these males will mate with many, many females, and the suppressor gene will therefore ...

Smokers may Be Motivated to Quit During Interventions in Hospital Stays

...ound that when smokers become hospital inpatients, regardless of the reason for admission, they are receptive to efforts to help them to quit smoking after discharge and more likely succeed in the long run. Smokers know that smoking is harmful to a persons health, but many of them dont really believe that smo...

Two, Not One Networks Rule Brain's Voluntary Chain-of-command

... injury started undressing everytime he saw a bed, regardless of whether it was in a furniture store or his own bedroom. This research may help us understand what's happening to these patients." For the new study, Dosenbach, Petersen and colleagues including graduate student Damien Fair and Bradley Schlaggar,...

Roshan Announces Launch of Afghanistan's First Telemedicine Project

...'s regional hospitals, patients across the nation, regardless of their socio-economic status, will benefit from the combined expertise and resources of FMIC and AKUH." Roshan has spearheaded development of the Telemedicine project from initial conceptualization through implementation as part of its ongoing com...

Diet Could Be Life or Death for Prostate Cancer Patients

...e not engineered for prostate cancer, all survived regardless of diet, according to the study funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dietary sources of omega-3 fatty acids include cold water fish such as salmon, halibut, tuna, sardines and mackerel, and fish oil such as cod liver oil. English walnuts and ...

Software Improvements in Breast MRI Scans

...ous by the radiologist should be further evaluated regardless of the enhancement features determined by CAE, according to the study. Williams said she advocates the use of CAE software analysis of MRI scans as an aid to radiologists interpretations. The software is already commercially available and it has sh...

Its too Little, Not too Much Work That can Make a Marriage Collapse!

...d that though 1.7 percent of the couples separated regardless of whether the husband was working 35 to 40 hours, more than 50 hours, or more than 70 hours, the number of broken marriages increased to 2.7 percent when men worked shorter hours. This is because, Dr Wooden, due to the fact that men in part-time j...

Estrogen Therapy Protects Against Fading Mental Powers: Study

...tests, the younger animals performed equally well, regardless of whether they got estrogen or not, but it was an entirely different story in the older animals. The older rhesus monkeys that got the estrogen boosters performed as well as the younger animals, whereas the older untreated monkeys displayed dramat...

Scientists Find Evidence of Human-like Altruism in Chimps

...anzees and human infants helped the altruistically regardless of any expectation of reward, even when some effort was required, and even when the recipient was an unfamiliar individual. Previously all these features were thought to be unique to humans. The team is now of the opinion that the evolutionary r...

Whites Have Highest Risk of Diabetes in U.S

...0 to 4 years and 5 to 9 years, most DM was type 1, regardless of race/ethnicity. The incidence of type 1 DM was highest among non-Hispanic white children, and lowest among American Indian and Asian-Pacific Islander children. Similarly, for older youth (10-14 years and 15-19 years), the incidence of type 1 DM wa...

Allergic Individuals Should Keep Away from Cats, Say UK Scientists

...o cats may be beneficial for allergic individuals, regardless of their specific allergies, the researchers said. This was an unexpected finding, Susan Chinn, lead author of the study, said. We presupposed that we would find increased responsiveness only in those individuals . . . whose blood tests showed that...

Depression Therapy Reduces Suicide Attempts

...the time pattern was the same for both age groups, regardless of the type of treatment they received: Suicide attempts were most likely during the month before treatment started, falling by at least 50 percent in the month after treatment began, with steady declines thereafter. At all time pointsup to three m...

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