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Untreated Scoliosis patients found to lead productive and active lives

...ir condition to people without scoliosis who where similar in age and gender. They found that 22 patients out of 98 complained of shortness of breath during everyday activities compared to 8 out of 53 in the control group. About 66 scoliosis patients out of 109 reported chronic back pain compared to 22 out o...

New fertility drug development techniques by Organon

...ified through high-throughput screening, compounds similar to hCG, but with lower molecular weight. These compounds have been optimized with respect to potency, selectivity and safety. The new compound, an LH/hCG agonistic agent, interacts with the human LH receptor just like LH (and hCG). Scientists carried...

Safety of soy under suspicion

...s. Though there is no evidence to suggest it has a similar effect on humans, its effects on rats were so severe that// researchers believe that further tests are needed to ensure it is safe for pregnant women to eat. In the study conducted by the researchers, pregnant rats were fed a diet laced with geniste...

Gene linked to 'Missing Eye' condition in newborns

...with SOX2 may be mutated in children affected with similar and more common conditions. The scientists involved in the study believed that this finding will help doctors understand anophthalmia better and also help patients with other degenerative eye conditions, such as retinal and macular degeneration, cata...

Hypertensives could benefit regular alcohol consumption

...llers and occasional drinkers. These findings were similar to both men and women. They also studied the frequency distributions of apo(a) isoforms and liver function parameters and log lipoprotein(a) concentrations. They found that the former were comparable across these intake groups while the latter(log li...

Second hope for men with erectile dysfunction

...ir hopes high, since all the three drugs work in a similar fashion, and those men for whom Viagra did not wor... the new drugs. And finally, all three drugs share similar side effects(headaches & heartburn) and precautions(relating to cardiac events)....

Risk of early neonatal death high in infants born in the night

...ng the day. However, researchers did not observe a similar increase in infant deaths during childbirth at night relative to daytime births, suggesting that night time factors may only affect early infant care, and not deliveries themselves. Also, researchers added that the risk that a newborn will die during...

Curbing medication errors with new rules

...ve been attributed to problems of medications with similar names, poor handwriting by doctors on prescriptions, or too many new drugs for doctors to remember as they go from patient to patient. A 1999 study reported// between 45,000 and 98,000 death due to medical mistakes. The proposed new rules require bar...

Little sleep as bad as no sleep

...han 5 hours a day haveimpaired mental ability much similar to those who go without sleep for two orthree days...ory tasks. Theimpaired level of mental ability was similar to those who did not sleep at all.However, participants who actually slept a few hours reported that...

Second SARS suspect fuels worry in India

...ore. He had symptoms of high fever, cough and cold similar to those of the deadly SARS virus.// Airport authorities in Delhi said they planned to segregate flights coming in from east and southeast Asia, where most SARS cases have been reported, to ensure passengers on those flights do not come in contact w...

Mental growth in babies at risk

...er than normal to mature. Since all mammals share similar basic patterns of brain development they are likely to apply to humans. Further experiments showed that rats whose brain development was held back were able to improve once they left the noisy environment. Hence researchers emphasise the importance t...

Virus Helps Remove Brain Cancer

...n conducted since this study and they all produced similar results....

Swimming in Chlorinated Pools Raises Asthma Risk

...who swam most frequently had damage to their lungs similar to that in regular smokers, the researchers found. Levels of trichloramine vary depending on ventilation, on how crowded a pool is and how clean the swimmers are. The researchers measured levels of lung proteins, which are linked to cellular damage,...

Music training and Ginkgo biloba benefit memory

...cted that musicians and non-musicians would have a similar aptitude for remembering what they see. Both of these theories were borne out in the results of the Chan study....

Women Benefit More from Quitting Smoking than Men

...ion in those who continued to smoke was on average similar for men and women. Cigarette smoking is a leading cause of COPD, a slowly progressive disease of the lung that is characterized by a gradual loss of lung function. COPD is the fourth most common and the most rapidly increasing cause of death in the ...

New target for antidiabetic agents identified

...acking the Akt gene demonstrate insulin resistance similar to that seen in humans with type II diabetes. Dr. Montminy's team found that TRB3 acts as a negative modulator of Akt and that its expression is increased under fasting conditions. By binding to Akt, TRB3 prevents the enzyme from being activated by ...

Breast Cancer in Men Often Underestimated and Under-treated

...were over age 65 at first diagnosis. "survival was similar between 1,762 men without nodal involvement and 762 men with node-positive disease." The respective median survival in these groups was 139 months and 136 months. Breast cancer is rare in men; there were about 1,600 cases in the US in 2002, accounti...

Drugs Deter Heart Disease for Transplant Patients

...fatal heart attacks -- 70 vs. 104. This finding is similar to results from studies of statin use in other populations. Researchers conclude fluvastatin may be beneficial in reducing the heart disease risk common in kidney transplant patients. They write, "These findings have implications for the management ...

ASPIRIN MAY HELP LOWER PREGNANCY RISK

...ere less likely to develop pre-eclampsia than were similar women who didn't take aspirin. Also, the rate of spontaneous preterm births decreased and birth weights increased with aspirin therapy, they said....

Study reveals how stress can make you sick

...caregivers was compared with that of 106 people of similar ages who were not living under the stress of constant care giving. Blood tests showed that a chemical called Interleukin-6 sharply increased in the blood of the stressed caregivers compared with blood of the others in the test. Previous studies have ...

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