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More about HIV

...tions and the risk of illness and disease not even related to the infection.Currently, there are two problems with the new class of drugs used to treat HIV. Firstly, many patients suffer worse physical side effects that they did with AZT, which adds to the already emotional stress associated with the disease...

Heart disease starts early

...ambers (ventricles). Higher insulin resistance was related to a higher systolic blood pressure in the the15-year-old boys. Researchers also found that insulin resistance in adolescents was linked to a decrease of "good" HDL cholesterol and an increase of triglycerides. In addition, the correlation between h...

Patients Pressure Would Result In Overprescription

...family practices in the US. All of the visits were related to acute respiratory tract infections such as the common cold, bronchitis or middle-ear infection. The findings show that "the encounter between the physician and the patient with respiratory infection is an intricate dance in which both partners pla...

Morning sickness maybe pronounced

...ing sickness is not known, but it is thought to be related to increased production of a pregnancy-related hormone called human chorionic gonadotropin. Dr Michael De Swiet at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital, London, said the size of the study meant its r...

Cardiac diseases develop early

...hers wanted to determine if high blood pressure is related to other heart disease risk factors seen in adoles...ambers (ventricles). Higher insulin resistance was related to a higher systolic blood pressure in the the15-year-old boys. Researchers also found that insulin...

The cancer-fighting gene

...as been the C-terminus, which consits of a pair of related structures, called BRCT repeats. BRCT repeats not only occur in BRCA1, but are a hallmark of a large family of proteins which play a role in the repair of DNA damage.Researchers know that the ends of the complex protein are particularly susceptible...

Simvastatin Plus Niacin May Lower Heart Risks

...need artery-clearing surgery or to die from causes related to their artery disease. These patients also showed a slight regression in their artery blockages, while on average all of the other groups showed worsening artery narrowing. Patients on the combination plus antioxidants had more artery narrowing a...

Night borns' risk

... there was a 60% increase in the risk of mortality related to asphyxia in preterm infants born at night, compared to preterm infants born during the day. The Hong Kong study, based on data from the Swedish birth register, analysed more than two million births from 1973-95. The first risk period started fro...

Warm yourself to sleep

...flow to hands and feet. The phenomenon is closely related to the release of hormones such as melatonin, which regulate sleepiness and wakefulness. The researchers say that a hot water bottle at the feet may not directly act on the central nervous system to cause sleep, but it can trigger widening of the blo...

Drooping eyelids more common in men

... laxity of eyelid tissues with age. It may also be related to a loss of fat around the eye socket. Researcher Dr Willem van den Bosch said eyelid droop was associated with two painful conditions. Inward rotation of the eyelid, or entropion, leads to the eyelashes rubbing against the surface of the eye, the...

Red Wine Helps Fight Heart disease

...hers found the decrease in endothelin-1 levels was related to the amount of polyphenols in the wines. The white and rose wines -- which contain little or none of the pigment -- had no effect on endothelin-1 levels. Red grape juice, which has plenty of the pigment, was markedly less potent in reducing endothe...

Unnatural death common in mentally ill

...alth problems like depression or schizophrenia are related to higher rates of suicide.// What's not been clear is whether mental illness also increases the risk of other causes of unnatural death. Researchers at the University of Texas along with other colleagues in Italy did a comparative study They foun...

Drug Combinations May Boost Stroke Risk

...s on three patients who developed ischemic strokes related to the use of serotonin-enhancing medications, which include certain antidepressants, anti-migraine drugs, decongestants and diet pills. Ischemic strokes occur when a blockage or extreme narrowing of an artery cuts off part of the brain's blood suppl...

Link Between Infection And Heart Disease

...y found that the number of infections was directly related to dying from heart disease or stroke. People with 3 or less of these infections had a death rate of 3%. The death rate jumped to 10%, however, for those exposed to 4 or 5 infections, and to 15% for those with 6 or more infections. In people with adv...

Lengthy Fingers could predict heart attacks

Scientists at Liverpool University have related a link between the length of a young boy's finger and their chances of having a heart attack at a later age.// They believe the link could provide doctors with a simple way to to spot potential heart disease victims at a very early age. The rese...

Third artificial heart patient introduced

...ding and organ failure, which doctors said was not related to the performance of the artificial heart. The fourth person to get the implant, an unidentified 74-year-old man, died after 56 days with the device. The sixth patient died in surgery to implant the heart. Four additional implants have been approved...

Choose your mate

...cess of sexual selection can lead to a genetically related increase in the components of adult fitness."...

Sniff to compatibility

...y are influenced to a degree by a cluster of genes related to the immune system called the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) . 50 unmarried women were tested by asking them to smell T-shirts worn by men for two consecutive nights. The US researchers, led by Dr Shirley Bean from the University of Chicag...

Plague creates panic in India

...nce of tests collectively confirmed that the cases related to infection with yersinia pestis, commonly known as pneumonic plague," Federal Health Minister C.P. Thakur said. "The good news is that the disease has not spread to any other area and there have been no new cases in the last one week. We don't feel...

Bruxism linked to anxiety disorder

...percent of those with tooth grinding reported some related problem.Mental disorders, mainly anxiety disorders and hallucinations, were also significantly related to tooth grinding during sleep. About 73 percent of those with sleep bruxism related their conditi...

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