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Circassia Announces Acquisition of Organ Transplant Anti-Rejection Technology

...hing between the donor and recipient to reduce the risk of rejection. Organ rejection can occur when the r... recipient's immune system, and thereby reduce the risk of rejection....

Meth Users Involved in Violence, Sexual Risk-Taking: Study

...ch Scientist at PIRE's Chapel Hill Center. "Sexual risk taking including having more than one sex partner, not having safe sex, and having regretted a sexual situation due to alcohol or drug use also was more prevalent among meth users." Additionally, about 16 percent of reported meth users had their ow...

Vaginal Bacteria Vary Among Healthy Women

...tem, we will be able to better understand a womans risk to disease and individual health care needs, and assist doctors and women to make more informed decisions about health issues and treatment plans. Its important for us to understand that the bacterial landscape in vaginas is different in different ...

Vets To Team Up With Human Health Specialists

...ians. This according to Mahr, could increase the risk that new diseases could go undiagnosed. In the past 25 years, he says, 75 percent of new infectious diseases have come from animals, and in some cases, veterinarians were the first to spot them. Animals provide food and companionship, says Mahr, and ...

Now a Polio Scare for Air Travellers

...eported 105, India 62 and Afghanistan three. The risk to the flight's passengers is low, Dr Carnie said. "We are just being extra cautious in advising them to have a vaccine." There is no specific treatment for polio, patients are kept in bed then given physiotherapy, he said....

Diaphragms offer no extra protection Against HIV

...showed the women who used it had a slightly higher risk of becoming infected. A similar trial testing wh...xperiment was conducted. Women there run twice the risk of infection as men. In cultures where women are traditionally subservient to men, they have less of...

Evidence Underlying Repeated Courses of Steroids for Preterm Birth may Be Unsound

...ng repeated courses of steroid drugs to mothers at risk of preterm delivery may be based on unsound eviden...making the same errors in subgroup analyses "or we risk repeating the errors made in the conclusions of the original antenatal steroid trials."...

New Genetic Clue to Type 1 Diabetes

A faulty gene on Chromosome 16 boosts the risk of developing Type 1 diabetes, according to the la...variants of a gene called KIAA0350 were spotted as risk factors in a genetic profiling of 563 patients with Type 1 diabetes, which were compared to 1,146 he...

Move To Ban Asbestos Welcomed

...ve federal governments because they do not want to risk endangering their political prospects in Quebec as a result of potential job losses created by any mine closures. Every year about a third of Saskatchewan workers who die from work-related causes die from asbestos-related diseases, says Anderson."T...

Efficacy of Lyme Disease Vaccination Examined

... had not. The researchers looked for evidence of risk compensation a phenomenon in which people maintain...mple, some studies find that people compensate for risk reduction caused by seatbelt use by driving faster. When you talk about risk compensation, there a...

Suntan Helps to Prevent the Cancerous Effects of Ultraviolet Rays

...ting the skins tanning process without running the risk of the DNA damage that occurs with exposure to UV light, either naturally from the sun or artificially at a tanning salon. The research is published in the July 2007 issue of the Harvard Health Letter....

Genetics is Not the Reason for Family Break-ups

...ll accounts for around 66 percent of the increased risk of divorce faced by children of divorced parents. "This means the transmission is not due to psychological or substance abuse problems that are passed from parents to the offspring. It's something very unique about the separation of one's parents. ...

C -reactive Protein is the Marker for Cardiovascular Disease

...mmatory disorder, and is associated with increased risk for cognitive deficits. At the sleep center, the children underwent overnight polysomnographic assessment and then, in the morning, completed tests to determine their reasoning and conceptual abilities. The results of the individual tests were aggr...

Key Mechanism to Emergence of Strep Bacteria

...hypervirulent bacterial variants with an increased risk of producing invasive infections, said lead author Mark Walker, Ph.D. a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Wollongong. In the case of the invasive strep clone, a bacteriophage provided the bacterium a genetic advantage that turne...

Consuming Grape Fruit Increases Breast Cancer Risk: Study

...it can be dangerous for women, as it increases the risk of breast cancer by almost a third . Researchers ...vels of oestrogen the hormone associated with the risk of breast cancer a boost. The findings were based on a study carried out by researchers at the un...

Study Finds Most Women Getting Wrong Dose of Fertility Drugs

... also that they may be exposing women to a greater risk of side effects. During each menstrual cycle, women usually release one egg. The number is however increased during IVF, by giving them drugs. The eggs are then collected surgically. Geoffrey Trew of Hammersmith Hospital in London and his colleag...

Yo-yo Dieting Increases Kidney Cancer Risk in Women

... found that yo-yo dieting can more than double the risk of developing kidney cancer . Yo-yo dieting, als...i Halliwell along with a large waistline pose high risk in the development of the kidney cancer in older women than just obesity. Scientists found that w...

Nasal Cannula Treatment for Sleep Apnea Patients

...rease the chance of having high blood pressure and risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes, as well as putting patients at risk for work-related accidents and driving accidents. At present, CPAP [continuous positive airway pre...

Patients Taking Inhaled Steroids may Develop Pneumonia

...ated with a significant 70 percent increase in the risk of being hospitalized for pneumonia, said the rese...ng to death within 30 days of hospitalization, the risk with current inhaled corticosteroid use was also significantly increased. These and other findings ...

Complaining Girls Faces Higher Depression, Anxiety Risk

...y has found that those who do so, are at a greater risk of developing anxiety and depression . Amanda Rose, associate professor of psychological sciences in the College of Arts and Science conducted the study, which was carried out over a period of six months. The study, which included 813 third, fift...

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