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Sleep disorders can have anomalistic sexual acts

...ing to actual sexual assault of a bed partner were related to several types of sleep disorders and, in many cases, psychiatric conditions. In all cases, the researchers found evidence of a sleep disorder, and a majority of the patients had a history of sleep-related problems, including sleepwalking and nigh...

Watch your weight when pregnant

... a formula that is based on height and weight, and related it to her chances of having a Cesarean section. Women requiring the surgery were an average weight of 191 pounds and had an average BMI of 53, while women who delivered vaginally weighed an average of 182 pounds and had an average BMI of 31. The re...

Link between birth weight and Insulin Resistance

... 2 diabetes in adulthood. Low birth weight is also related to parental cardiovascular disease. Researchers say poor intrauterine nutrition leads to babies with low birth weight and may program selective changes in body composition, hormones, and metabolism, which can lead to an increased risk of cardiovascul...

Compound of Broccoli combats breast cancer

... that sulforaphane,// which occurs in broccoli and related vegetables, can help prevent cancer. It does so by.... They have been working on a synthetic compound related to sulforaphane, called oxomate. They find this is far less toxic than sulforaphane, yet it still pr...

New Vitamin K Recommendations

...here are several reports that low vitamin K may be related to osteoporosis, but the committee concluded the evidence was not strong enough to establish this. This nutrient is most important for people taking anticoagulants or blood thinners. Greatly varying intake of rich sources of vitamin K can interfere...

Antibiotics help heart patients

...ital, England //say that the reduced risk was not related to the presence of two bacteria suspected of playing a role in heart disease. The effect was seen regardless of whether a person was infected with the bacterium known as Helicobacter pylori or Chlamydia pneumoniae. For the study, resea...

Link between athleticism and neurological disease

... ALS, as well as motor neurone disease, which is a related condition. The team, at the Neurological Institute, New York, studied 200 patients with motor neurone disease, and 152 with other neurological problems. Previous research has shown a link between ALS and being lean and athletic throughout life. The...

Lung cancer gets better with new radiotherapy rule

...etter chance. This was borne out in practice. In a related study, the researchers learned that the remission rates increased from 45 per cent to 60 per cent while combining the new regime with chemotherapy....

Apollo inaugurates centre for back and neck pain

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Cleanliness might lead to Asthma

...k blood samples from the kids to test for measures related to allergic sensitization. Then they gathered dust from the children's bedding to test for levels of endotoxin, a component of the cell wall. All of the kids lived in rural areas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Results showed an inverse relatio...

New approach to anti-anxiety drugs

...on people might have had the necessity for anxiety related treatment.The anti-anxiety drugs have always been very effective in such needy times. The major class is known as the benzodiazepines but these have the drawback of causing sedation that may make it hard to function. They also have the potential to c...

An insight about Schizophrenia

...zing faces and facial expressions, and this may be related to many of the social problems associated with the disease. These researchers used MRIs to assess the volume of gray matter in the fusiform gyrus areas of the brains of patients suffering from a first episode of schizophrenia. Results for the patien...

Clean air protects lives

...cent. There was a 5 percent decrease in non-trauma related deaths and a 20-percent decrease in respiratory deaths. Researchers say they even observed a 15-percent decrease in cardiovascular deaths. In a second study reported in the same medical journal, researchers from the Netherlands observed the link bet...

Shunt for Alzheimer's Disease

...here seemed to be a high incidence of side effects related to the shunts. Recent studies of this type of shunting on patients with abnormal amounts of spinal fluid in their head revealed a lack of cognitive decline in patients who also had Alzheimer's disease. Researchers from Stanford University, Universit...

Modified antibiotic may support fight cancer

According to recent experiments a molecule related to tetracycline can aid stop the spread of cancer ...een looking at a new drug called COL-3,// which is related to the well-known antibiotic tetracycline. In a series of experiments, they find that COL-3 acts upo...

Sun burns treated with creams

...esearchers then assessed each for various measures related to skin health. About 25 subjects in the tazarotene group dropped out due to skin irritation, compared to one in the placebo group. Blood levels of the medication, however, remained in the acceptable range. After the initial 25-week period, all part...

Hormone Imbalance may lead to prolonged fatigue

...nts do improve on hydrocortisone, which is closely related to cortisol. Researchers in Germany and Switzerland have studied a group of patients with chronic fatigue and a control group. They subjected them to hormone tests during physical and psychological stress testing. Those with chronic fatigue were fo...

Genetic indicates memory

...rking with animals say they have located the genes related to memory and learning. Although the research is early, they say it could one day lead to better treatments// for memory and learning disorders. Researchers say previous research into this area was only able to locate a few genes and didn't provide a...

Personality Impacts Arthritis

...ins doctors need to pay attention to factors// not related to the disease when they screen at-risk patients. ... level at the time of diagnosis were significantly related to an increased psychological distress at the three- and five-year follow-up. However, the personali...

Mountain biking connected to infertility

...uggests the reduction in count and motility may be related to vascular damage caused by continuous trauma to the testicles.The ultrasound images taken during the study also indicate mountain bikers have an increased risk for calcifications in the testicles and other problems, which may increase a man's risk ...

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