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Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis.

...er day during pregnancy, the risk of chronic joint sickness increased significantly for girls. But this coherence seems to apply only to girls and was not found in boys. The reasons for this gender difference are unclear. This is one more study stressing the ill effects of smoking and in particular smoking d...

Ginger to reduce nausea for pregnant women

...that taking ginger will not only alleviate morning sickness but will also have no side effects on the fetus as...d with vitamin B6 for relief of nausea and related sickness due to pregnancy. Ginger was administered in capsules containing 350 milligrams (mg) of ginger. The...

Old Drugs Safe To Use In Cancer Treatment ?

...960s. This drug was given for treatment of morning sickness // to pregnant mothers and resulted in seal like babies ( shortened limbs). Now, doctors see a new future use for the infamous medication: helping cancer patients maintain their weight. The effects of this drug were studied in pancreatic cancer pat...

Treating Altitude Sickness With Viagra

...d be significant because in severe cases, altitude sickness can cause dangerously high pulmonary arterial pressures and pulmonary edema, putting sufferers at significant risk of death. The study was conducted among 12 healthy men who were exposed to an altitude of about 14,000 feet. All were measured for phy...

Screening Of Blood Samples For Viruses

...among organ and tissue donors who show no signs of sickness may reduce risk of disease // transmission among transplant recipients, say researchers according to a new study. Testing for the presence of blood antibodies to diseases such as HIV or hepatitis C is the usual method of screening. However, this meth...

Problems Of a Growing Company

... 18 percent or more were associated with increased sickness and hospital admissions. The study also found mode...earchers looked at changes in personnel, long-term sickness absence, and hospital admissions. Researchers say their study found that a growing company does no...

S. Africa AIDS in 'death phase'

... of HIVAIDS starts to plateau at about 33 percent, sickness and deaths are on the increase. Activists say AIDS kills about 600 South Africans each day -- a number that seems sure to grow as more people enter late stages of the disease without drug treatment. Reports have shown, that in one major South Afric...

ICMR along with other International Research organisation with drug development for Neglected Diseases

...n projects registered for Chagas disease, sleeping sickness and kala - azar. The DNDi will be registered as a not-for-profit Organization in Geneva on 3 July 2003. (1) UNDP/ World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Disease...

Altitude sickness connected to genes

Altitude sickness is one of the most common encountered among the mo...hy some mountain climbers are affected by altitude sickness and others are not. They say two changes in a gene related to lung function may increase the risk of...

Morning sickness maybe pronounced

...ers are more likely to suffer from serious morning sickness if they are pregnant with a girl, researchers clai...kholm's Karolinska Institute. The cause of morning sickness is not known, but it is thought to be related to increased production of a pregnancy-related hormone...

Acupuncture can ease cancer

The extreme sickness experienced by cancer patients undergoing high-dos...Among the acupuncture group, the average number of sickness bouts during the five following days was six, 11 for those receiving the less intense acupuncture, a...

Kissing can cause Kaposi’s Sarcoma in AID

...ttack the internal organs. The virus rarely causes sickness among people with normal disease defenses but attacks those with weakened immune system as in AIDS. The virus known as herpes virus 8 was discovered six years ago. Almost 30% to 50% of HIV-infected people who catch herpes virus 8 will eventually ge...

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