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Hormone contraceptives lead to bone problems

...strogen production and stopping ovulation, has the same effect on the bones as menopause -- preventing a woman from making new bone fast enough to keep up with the level of bone loss. The most significant dangers linked to DMPA, say other experts, occur when taken by young women whose skeletons are not...

Sequencing of the Plague

...nome, sometimes creating different variants in the same population. These recombinations could mean differences in virulence in a single batch of plague, they note. That could also mean that the bacteria - or bioweapons developers - have the genes at their disposal for new and potentially vexatious stra...

E. coli strains resistant to a common antibiotic

... the same, investigators assume they came from the same source, and the most likely such source is food. ...oxazole, sold as Bactrim or Septra. They found the same strain caused 51 percent of the drug-resistant infections at Berkeley, 38 percent in Michigan and 39...

Wake-up call for peripheral artery disease

...eries in the legs and arms become blocked with the same kind of fatty deposits - plaque - which cause coronary artery disease. The best way of treating it is very simple - keep walking. While the disease makes walking painful, regular exercise does actually increase the ability to walk with ease. Positive...

Heart disease correlation to periodontal disease

...eart disease, my advice to my patients remains the same – do not take your gum health for granted or you may have more to lose than just your teeth.” <br...

Medications to Prevent Relapse to Cocaine Use

...nal Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), found that the same system — the cannabinoid system — that governs the pharmacological actions of marijuana in the brain also plays an important role in the neuronal processes underlying relapse to cocaine use. By blocking cannabinoid receptor activity with chemical ant...

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

...e small intestine. The proteins did not affect the same type of muscles in the heart, arteries or lungs, indicating that the prokineticins played an exclusive role in regulating intestinal muscles. The researchers found two prokineticins that are chemically similar. In addition, the researchers found a ...

Detecting brain aneurysms

...rchers wondered if it would be possible to get the same diagnostic result with a non-invasive method. A team from Glasgow, Scotland, studied a group of 114 patients undergoing the standard method for detecting aneurysm and also tried a number of non-invasive techniques for comparison. They found if they...

FDA's control is inherently weak

... trial participants in those countries receive the same level of protection as those in the United States. The FDA has little idea where research takes place overseas, what level of ethics review exists, how foreign researchers recruit participants or how many patients are taking experimental medicines...

Fish for the lungs

...noma; eating dried or salted fish did not have the same protective effect on two other forms of lung cancer. Studies also point out that fish is rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which some research indicates may inhibit tumour growth and development. Oily fish, such as herring and mackerel, are particularly r...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

...t explicitly addressed. Another group received the same smoking cessation program plus diet advice to prevent weight gain (i.e. weight control). The third group received the standard smoking cessation program and therapy to reduce their concern about gaining weight, but dieting was discouraged in this gro...

Relating heart protection and antihypertensive drugs

...m-channel blockers and ACE inhibitors provided the same overall protection against cardiovascular complications as diuretics or ?-blockers. However, calcium-channel blockers were found to be more protective against stroke than against myocardial infarction – resulting in an overall cardiovascular benefi...

Inadequate epilepsy treatment

...est medication and 7 per cent had been kept on the same drug despite failing to achieve remission after two years. UK doctors are reluctant to prescribe drugs to patients who have had one seizure, the researchers say. About 15 per cent of the patients monitored received drugs after their first epileptic...

Health at heights

...ations at altitude. However, the body requires the same amount of oxygen regardless of how much is available, so the breathing rate increases to compensate - even when the body is at rest. Altitude itself also has negative effects on health. If the human body is left exposed at high altitude without acc...

Pollution- hazardous for diabetics

...le that pollution exposure and diabetes affect the same pathways to heart disease and when both are present the risk is compounded. But people with diabetes were not at any extra risk of PM10-induced respiratory symptoms. The message is that people with diabetes should check pollution reports and be wary ...

Photographs for Diagnosis

...e the changes in the vessels on the retina are the same as any in the brain, " says researcher Larry Hubbard. The team photographed the retinas of 10 358 people and monitored their health for three years. They found that people with 'blots' or narrowing of tiny blood vessels on the retina were two and a...

Drugs to stop burgeon of HIV

...his would affect it but we didn't know how." "The same part of Vpu is involved in making ion channels and budding, so the ion channels formed by Vpu could have a role to play in budding," said Professor Henry.Earlier this year the researchers showed that Vpu could dramatically increase the rate of buddin...

Why running noses are a good thing

...ral, the first symptoms of inhaled anthrax are the same as the flu and other wintertime viruses -- fever, ache, cough, no energy. // As a result, some worry that doctors will prescribe lots of anthrax-killing antibiotics -- which do nothing for colds and flu -- just to make sure they don't miss a case o...

Drugs For Anthrax May Interfere With Oral Contraceptives

...ficantly less effective when they are taken at the same time as some antibiotics. This interaction is commonly known within the medical community and is noted in the prescribing information for leading antibiotics and for oral contraceptives. There have not been any clinical studies on the effects of C...

Hydroxyurea derivatives kill colon cancer cells

... hydroxyurea were extremely active in blocking the same cell targets as hydroxyurea, but had serious side effects. This prompted the researchers to synthesize similar drugs with different structures that they hypothesized would be less likely to cause complications. The researchers tested the drugs again...

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