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Intrahepatic cholestasis during pregnancy predisposes to later liver disease

...epatic cholestasis during pregnancy women are more susceptible to liver disease late on.// This case control study was performed in Finland on 21,008 women and found the above mentioned result. Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is an itchy skin condition when bile gets backed up in the liver. The ...

Preventive Mastectomy Does Not Carry Emotional Baggage For Most Women

...of developing cancer or carry genes that make them susceptible to develop the cancer. Preventive mastectomy does lower the risk of the cancer spreading to the second breast as well. Geiger's team looked at the emotional effects of preventive mastectomy and found that most women were happy with their decision. Th...

Promotion of Pneumococcal Vaccine Slow in Europe

...a serious health problem that could make them more susceptible means that only a small percentage of the overall ...adults aged 50 years or older, who tend to be more susceptible to IPD than younger adults. This clearly demonstrates that universally vaccinating children provides...

Costly mistakes help better understand OCD: obsessive compulsive disorder

...eing promoted or having a baby. In a person who is susceptible to OCD, conceivably because of the rACC differences described by these researchers, these periods of increased stress may well be the very times when ' everyday mistakes' are perceived as carrying a greater penalty. An exaggerated perception of error...

New Research Offers Hope In Kidney FailureTreatment

...ore consume a high amount of energy and are highly susceptible to apoptosis and injury. In a oxygen starved state, two killer proteins termed Bid and Bax get activated and establish a partnership to induce cell death. This system is highly active in the kidney. A $1 million grant has been sanctioned by the Nat...

Poultry Workers in Scotland to Be Vaccinated For Bird Flu

... provision of seasonal bird flu jabs to the highly susceptible group just as farmers and poultry workers will help prevent the mutation of the bird flu virus into a more virulent form, capable of sparking a bird fu pandemic. Those who work in the poultry units with strength of 50 or more birds, and researcher...

14% Of Pune Population Diabetic: Children Most Affected

...op behavioral problems. They are particularly more susceptible to anxiety, depression and social withdrawal. 'It is thereby essential to treat the child— rather than just the blood glucose values — and give him/her a sense of complete well-being,' Dr. Mutha. The role of the family in the provision of emotiona...

Dissatisfied Marriage Have a Bad Effect on the Health of Older Adults

...portant factor. Additionally older adults are more susceptible to these health effects due to age-related declines in immune function. Umberson and her colleagues focused on 1,049 men and women who were interviewed at three points over eight years and remained married throughout that time. Study participants ...

Mumps Outbreak In The US

...ne thereby not completely vaccinated, leaving them susceptible to the disease. Dr Gerberding said that it is a go... get both doses of the vaccine may be still remain susceptible to mumps. She stated that the CDC would be sending another 25,000 doses of measles-mumps-rubella (M...

Sepsis risk increased due to the absence of one key enzyme

...s a result, some of these individuals are far more susceptible to severe sepsis and have a significantly increased risk of dying from it," said Richard Ulevitch, chair of the Scripps Research Immunology Department and an author of the paper. The study appears in Nature. The new study showed that caspase-12 defi...

A New study Throws Light On The Growth & Functions Of Insulin Producing Beta Cells

...the "knocked-out" receptors, the beta cells became susceptible to cell death as the mice aged. Dr. Kulkarni's laboratory in the Section on Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Joslin is currently conducting experiments using mice that lack both receptors and exploring what growth factors are altered. He said t...

Measles Rate Shoot Up among Nursery Children in Scotland

...ren out there who are not vaccinated and hence are susceptible to the disease....

Depression Accompanies Heart Attacks in Younger Women

...l in New York City younger women are probably more susceptible to depression because a heart attack is such a major event, especially at a younger age and fears of being able to take care of the family after a heart attack usually preys on their minds. The study has clearly revealed that depression does influe...

Hispanic Farmworkers Need More Information on Skin Disease

...rst, the notion that it affects only those who are susceptible needs to be dispelled," he said. "Second, the delayed effects of some risk factors, such as sunlight exposure, need to be stressed"...

Kenyan Children at Risk of Measles

...t been immunized against measles and are therefore susceptible to the virus. Dr. James Nyikal, Kenya’s Director of Medical Services reports that almost 35% of newborns are not being immunized leading to a population of about a half a million unvaccinated children. The national mass measles vaccination campa...

Doubts About In UteroTransmission Of Senile Amyloidosis

...rchers have also shown that injecting fibrils into susceptible mice accelerates disease onset. That led researche..., are known to be transmissible, with spread among susceptible hosts demonstrated in the laboratory and in the real world. Non-prion amyloidosis, however, has not ...

Indicator of your state of mind is your saliva

...ar-olds with higher alpha amylase levels were more susceptible to illness and had less close relationships with their preschool teachers. The associations between alpha amylase and illness were somewhat stronger for girls than for boys”, said Dr. Granger These new studies can be found as a paper, ‘‘Integrating...

Asthma Risk Pronounced In Children Living Close to Traffic Ridden Roads

...ook at characteristics that may make children more susceptible (or that may be protective), such as genetic characteristics. Soure: Newswise...

Save Budhia - The Indian Wonder Kid

... to the bone. Muscles and tendons are particularly susceptible to sports injuries. The most common injury involves the knee and causes pain especially in the front of the knee, under the kneecap. The affected knee would then swell up due to the underlying tendon or cartilage inflammation. This type of an injury ...

West Nile Virus Can Be Tackled By New Strategy

... Shaman said, while others - like crows - are very susceptible and may die from the virus. Birds that are effective hosts may carry the virus and infect biting mosquitoes for 4-5 days before recovering from the illness. 'It is this coming together of factors that leads to the spread of the disease,' Shaman sai...

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