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The right is responsible

...in helps people recognise themselves in a picture, say US researchers. A team from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston report their findings in the current issue of Nature. The study joins a growing body of evidence that demonstrates the right hemisphere plays an important role in self-aw...

Sleep apnoea increases post-operative risks

...e on the back after the operation. The researchers say sleep apnoea should, if possible, be treated before this kind of surgery to improve the outcome....

Fingerprinting prostate cancer

...clinical histories were checked. The researchers say that the discovery of prostate cancer's molecular fingerprint could lead to many new diagnostic tests. These could offer more to the patient than the current PSA (prostate specific antigen) test and can be used as a useful diagnostic tool....

Sleep, snoring....stroke

...wsy during the day can damage your health. Experts say this means snoring and sleep disorders will now have to be treated more seriously.// Dr David Smithard, Consultant in Stroke Medicine at East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, said the American data confirmed what they knew of the links between snoring and...

The cocaine danger

...y arteries into spasm, researchers say.Researchers say cocaine is now so widespread that cocaine users presenting with chest pains are beginning to drain hospital resources. One drug abuse expert at St Mary's Hospital in London said he suspected up to 10 per cent of people reporting to hospital with ches...

A poke to cure your snore

American scientists say they have developed a cheap, pain-free injection to stop people snoring. Snoring occurs when airflow vibrates across the soft palate tissue which becomes relaxed during sleep.The "snoreplasty" procedure involves injecting a chemical called tetradecyl...

Sleeping sickness - a silent killer

...y the pharmaceutical giant Aventis. But scientists say free drugs are not enough. According to WHO estimates, some half a million people in Africa are currently infected by African Trypanosomiasis - but because of a lack of medical screening in rural areas, many do not even know they have the disease u...

Pressure on spine cause problems

Chiropractors say that even small amounts of pressure on the nerves exiting the spine may lead to long-term health issues. A chiropractor will carefully examine the way your spine is aligned. The World Chiropractic Alliance now says that misalignments can lead to pres...

Cigerettes unsafe during pregnancy

...e prevented if all pregnant women stopped smoking, say Australian researchers, arguing that healthcare providers need much more support and training in helping women quit.They found that smoking doubles the risk of having a low birth weight baby, a miscarriage or a pre-term birth, and triples the rate of...

Decrease in testosterone levels lead to Alzheimer's

... doubled over the six months of the investigation, say the researchers.// Previous animal research by the team had shown that brain concentrations of amyloid increased significantly in female guinea pigs whose ovaries had been removed. Once hormone replacement therapy had been administered, the brain a...

Hormone contraceptives lead to bone problems

...n levels dramatically decline. Now, researchers say that DMPA, which blocks pregnancy by suppressing e...s. The most significant dangers linked to DMPA, say other experts, occur when taken by young women whose skeletons are not yet fully formed. Those probl...

Drink milk right now

...t against premenopausal breast cancer among women, say researchers.Norwegian investigators have found that childhood milk consumption is associated with a lower risk of breast cancer before the menopause.Dr Annette Hjartaker and colleagues at the University of Oslo studied 48,844 premenopausal Norwegian ...

Renal problem alleviated

...ilure might be alleviated by certain antioxidants, say US researchers. Scientists at the University of California, Irvine, found that rodent models of chronic renal failure had higher levels of nitrotyrosine, a marker of oxidative damage caused by the interaction of oxygen free radicals with nitric oxi...

Wake-up call for peripheral artery disease

...sease is underdiagnosed and treated in many cases, say US doctors. In peripheral artery disease (PAD), th...re seen within three months. // Unfortunately, say physicians at Johns Hopkins University in the US, too few patients with PAD are diagnosed and, even ...

The new born nightmare

...n the commonly prescribed antibiotic erythromycin, say US scientists. A research team from Lousiana University has linked use of this drug to pyloric stenosis, a condition that affects about 1 in 400 newborns and it is the most common cause of abdominal surgery in infants. Using the Regenstrief Medica...

Therapy for stopping the spread of cancer cells

...ncer cells could provide a new target for therapy, say researchers in the US. Cancer cells spread through the body by hanging on to carbohydrate molecules on other, normal cells, and then letting go and moving on to the next cell. The composition of carbohydrates on the cells affects the balance between ...

Wound healing made faster

Australian scientists say they've found a way to make wounds heal at least twice as fast as they would normally.In preliminary findings, a team at the Australian University of Technology reports they have been able to raise the effect of a number of key hormones involved in t...

Relating heart protection and antihypertensive drugs

...sease and is controlled by antihypertensive drugs, say researchers. Dr Jan Staessen and colleagues from L...nd their antihypertensive effects. However, they say their findings indicate the desirability of lowering blood pressure as much as possible to achieve t...

Diabetics and their babies

... than those born to mothers without the condition, say doctors. A study carried out by doctors in the north-west of England also found that diabetic women were two and a half times more likely to have babies with birth defects. The doctors compared these findings with figures from Sweden. They found tha...

Fright could be more harmful

...ely to create illness than the weapons themselves, say experts. Long-term social or psychological damage could be the result of panic caused by the news of anthrax attacks. A letter to the British Medical Journal from researchers in the UK, US and Australia predicted that while bioweapons themselves migh...

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