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Ten Percent of Americans Has A Relative With Kidney Failure

...ers of their family also haves ESRD. The new study sought to estimate the percentage of Americans having a family history of ESRD, and to determine the risk of kidney disease risk for these individuals. "The results add an important new piece of evidence that family members of ESRD patients are at high ri...

Hostile Behavior in Women may Be Gene Based

...s. In the study being presented today, researchers sought to determine if this relationship was genetically determined. Completed at the University of Pittsburgh's Behavioral Physiology Laboratory, the study looked at 550 unrelated women of European descent. In order to find normal variations in genes and...

Doctors Not Drowsy When Treating Women’s Sleep Issue

...umer-focused NSF 2007 Sleep in America Poll, which sought to look at the sleep patterns of adult women. "This poll demonstrates that chest specialists take sleep problems seriously. ACCP members are asking about sleep problems and taking action when problems are identified," said Barbara A. Phillips, MD, ...

Kerala Sees Medical Tourism Soaring

...has gone up. According to reports, 15,000 visitors sought healing at various hospitals of the state last year," said Augustine. Jancy Joseph, who runs a private dental clinic here, said tooth treatment for foreigners was a hit on account of the huge cost difference. "The biggest advantage that Kerala ha...

Doctors Not Drowsy When Treating Women's Sleep Issues

...umer-focused NSF 2007 Sleep in America Poll, which sought to look at the sleep patterns of adult women. "This poll demonstrates that chest specialists take sleep problems seriously. ACCP members are asking about sleep problems and taking action when problems are identified," said Barbara A. Phillips, MD, ...

Research Finds Why Omega-3 is Able to Improve Our Mood

...n the study being presented today, the researchers sought to investigate if grey matter volume was proportionally related to long-chain omega-3 intake in humans, especially in areas of the brain related to mood, helping them attempt to explain the mechanisms behind the improvement in mood often associated w...

Children Find Effective Pain Relief With Ibuprofen

...diatrics. Nearly 336 children aged from 6 to 17 sought treatment for musculoskeletal injury to neck, back and extremities in the emergency department of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa. The children were randomly administered oral doses of 15mg per kg of acetaminophen, 10 mg per kg o...

Honeydew Honey Better Than Nectar Honey

...re important ingredients of many foods, and keenly sought in many ‘health foods’. They are believed to help protect people from diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disorders, neurodegenerative diseases and aging. They operate by mopping up potentially damaging free radicals that are released in the body. ...

Delhi High Court Set Deadline to Reconstitute Medical Council of India

...I to ensure funds for the election. Dr Tyagi had sought early reconstitution of the MCI, due for almost a year. The court issued the directions in the presence of representatives of four defaulting states - Bihar, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu - and member universities of Delhi, Allahabad and G...

More Bones of Aborted Fetuses Recovered from Hospital Premises

... and all documents were being examined. "We have sought complete details of the matter from the district administration and no one found guilty would be spared," said Madhya Pradesh Women and Child Welfare Minister Kusum Mehdel. Ratlam District Collector J.L. Malpani has constituted a committee of five ...

Car Airbags Will Cause Permanent Hearing Loss in 17 Percent

....” In Price’s study of car airbag deployment, he sought to determine whether the auditory danger was greatest in cars with the windows down or the windows up. Previously, experts thought rolled-up windows were more dangerous because they allow for higher pressure to be created inside the cabin. The rese...

Genetic Testing Sheds Light on Degenerative Eye Disease

... genetic testing for eye disease. Another 75 tests sought to determine whether an individual was a “carrier” of a disease, and nine tests were used to predict the likelihood that an individual with a family history of a given eye disease would go on to develop it. Ayyagari’s team was able to determine the...

Women Wary of Coronary Diseases Get Two More Risk Factors to Worry About

... did not have a coronary event. The researchers sought to figure out which of the potential risk factors most accurately forecast that women would have a serious cardiovascular problem. It turned out that the traditional risk factors were still relevant, but so were two others, which researchers believ...

Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads to Respiratory Complaints

... author Jeanette M. Tetrault, M.D., and colleagues sought to find the relationship between marijuana smoking and pulmonary function or respiratory complications. “While there is convincing data on the effects of tobacco smoke on pulmonary clinical outcomes, the effect of marijuana smoke has been poorly u...

Scientists Discover New Gene

...where the tumor suppressor resided, the Mills team sought to identify which genes in that area were responsible for tumor suppression. Their results showed that reducing expression of a single gene--CHD5--made cells that had been rendered slow growing by adding an extra copy of the region, grow like normal ...

Inadequate Communication Reduces Benefits of Mammogram Screening for Black Women

...iving mammograms in Connecticut, the investigators sought possible race-related differences in the screening mammography process. Jones and colleagues compared self-reported mammogram results, collected by telephone interview, to results listed in the radiology record of 411 black women and 734 white wome...

Potentially Pathogenic Virus Found in Mad Cow Cells

...ere is a reasonable possibility these are the long sought viral particles that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies,' Manuelidis said. 'The abnormal protein is probably not infectious, but is a pathological result an infectious virus binding to this host protein. Highly infectious cultures are id...

Going Overboard With a Hand Sanitizer

... Poison Control Center, Dr. Suzanne Doyon, who has sought to raise awareness about the abuse of hand sanitizers. According to Doyen, the hand sanitizer contains many other chemicals in small amounts, along with alcohol, equivalent to levels found in other liquor. "I don't think a lot of people realize the...

Esophageal Cancer Rates Climb With Obesity

...cult operation for the patient. The researchers sought to determine if THE is a safe procedure for the growing number of obese patients requiring esophageal surgery. They pulled the records of 133 profoundly obese patients who had this surgery at U-M between 1977 and 2006. Profound obesity was defined as...

Germany's Therapeutic Mud Baths Have Healing Qualities

... a long history as a natural cure. Patients have sought out the brownish-black mud in Bad Wilsnack in Brandenburg for more than a century, originally to ease back pain or arthritis. Today, it is also available to those who simply want to relax or get away from it all. The case is similar at the Therapy ...

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