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Hormone replacement Therapy a headache

...om osteoporosis and heart disease.// Research has shown the drugs, which replace natural hormones that decrease with menopause, cause a slightly increased risk of cancer of the breast and endometrium, the lining of the womb. Dr Elisabeth Weiderpass, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, says that low...

Big and Bright

...o taken into account. Many studies have shown low birth weight babies (those born weighing less than 2500 grams) have lower IQ test scores at school age - and the smaller the babies at birth, the larger the IQ deficit. The new study showed the association between birth weight and IQ was st...

Heart Attacks during Menstruation!

...in a wide range of functions. Research has already shown that the time of the month can profoundly affect the symptoms of migraine, asthma and cardiac arrhythmia.The early follicular phase - the week during or immediately after a period-produced the worst exercise performance and the quickest time to angin...

Reversing heart failure

... donor organ. Researchers at Dallas, USA, have now shown that the LVAD does more than just keep the patient going - it actually improves the condition of the heart muscle. The researchers looked at heart tissue from two groups of transplant patients - one group had received LVAD support, the other had no...

Herbs for Rememberance

...reduction in senile dementia". The herb has been shown to arrest memory loss due to normal ageing.Brahmi ...ther herb called mucuna pruriens, it has also been shown to help Parkinson's disease. This herb is an economical option for the treatment and prevention of...

Need to use defibrillators

...ublic Health services in Seattle, Washington, have shown that domestic AED use is also quite feasible. They found that older people could readily be trained in AED use without any other aids. However, periodic re-training in the skill would also be needed, they say, to ensure prompt action in the case of...

Male infertility in relation to pesticide

...years ago, when the process of sperm formation was shown to be severely impaired among pesticide manufacturers and agricultural workers. ...

The right is responsible

... brain surgery to treat epilepsy. Each patient was shown and asked to remember a morphed computer image ble...riment, 10 people in the neurology department were shown a morphed image of their face with the face of a famous person and a second image of a familiar coll...

Lemon tea combats cancer

...e meant a 40% reduction. These studies have also shown a protective effect of tea against sunburn which may lead to skin cancer Researchers Iman Hakim and Robin Harris, of the University of Arizona, hope the study will help them develop food supplements to help prevent skin cancer....

Drugs disrupt formation of blood vessels

... angiogenesis - blood vessel formation - have been shown for the first time to be effective. It also provid...of California in San Francisco, USA, said: " We've shown that these drugs have beneficial effects when used to treat mice developing organ-specific cancer "....

Quit Smoking

...anently away from cigarettes. Foreign studies have shown that despite treatment advances to help people stop smoking, 70% to 80% of smokers who stop relapse within six to 12 months. // But now an anti-depressant drug called bupropion - known commercially here as Zyban and made by GlaxoSmithKline - is s...

Gene therapy restores sight

...ndness. "It's impressive that the researchers have shown such a degree of improvement in sight - a several fold increase." However, Dr Stone told ABC Science Online that applying this work to humans would not be immediate nor straightforward."In the dog, LCA shows a slow progression and so the researchers...

Decrease in testosterone levels lead to Alzheimer's

...hers.// 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 amyloid levels decreased. Dr Chater said that people with a genetic...

Alternative therapies popular with Parkinson's patients

...ith Parkinson's patients, but a rigorous study has shown it not to be effective....

New gene for hairloss

...tists figure that mechanism out. Previous work has shown that people who inherit a malfunctioning version o... in which the gene was identified. Other work has shown that a malfunctioning hairless gene can cause another hair-loss disorder, called papular atrichia. T...

For healthy lungs

...er cancer development. Antioxidants have also been shown to encourage already damaged cells to "commit suicide". The research is published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute....

Photographs for Diagnosis

...kely to suffer a stroke.// Previous research has shown that people with a narrowing of certain brain blood vessels are at a higher risk of stroke. A team led by Tien Yin Wong at the University of Wisconsin in Madison reasoned that a narrowing of similar blood vessels in the retina should be a good indica...

Pregnant smokers could harm their child

...acco smoke while in the womb. Earlier studies have shown that children exposed to smoke before birth suffer development problems, including attention deficit disorders. Dr Marie Cornelius, who led the research, said: "The role of prenatal tobacco has been largely overlooked as a risk factor for the devel...

Anti-Cancer Drug Restores Normal Cell Growth

An experimental anti-cancer drug has shown effectiveness in treating a resistant type of lymphoma, according to a new report. Researchers say the drug probably acts on many types of cancer cells, so it may be useful for treating other types of cancer. Dr. Antonio Fojo of the National Cancer I...

Drugs For Anthrax May Interfere With Oral Contraceptives

...ancy. In clinical studies, antibiotics have been shown to diminish the effectiveness of birth control pills. Studies have shown that birth control pills, which are typically 98% effective in preventing pregnancy, are significant...

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