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Kissing can cause Kaposi’s Sarcoma in AID

...eosis,long known as the kissing disease.“Teenagers tend to get this when they start kissing,” she said. “The reason they get Epstein Bar virus and not herpes virus 8 is that most people have Epstein Bar virus, but relatively few have herpes irus 8.”...

And now they say infections can cause heart disease!!!!

...lications of chronic infections, which we normally tend to brush aside. Some lifestyle modifications like stopping smoking, improving dental hygiene, and better nutrition can lessen the chances of infections there by reducing the risk of contracting heart disease. So the next time you have a nagging infec...

And now they say infections can cause heart disease!!!!

...lications of chronic infections, which we normally tend to brush aside. Some lifestyle modifications like stopping smoking, improving dental hygiene, and better nutrition can lessen the chances of infections there by reducing the risk of contracting heart disease. So the next time you have a nagging infec...

Hostility can hurt your heart

...t Ohio State University have found that people who tend to get angry showed an increase in the levels of h...e reason that people with high hostility and anger tend to get heart disease. The study measured the levels of homocysteine related to behaviour and mood c...

Blocked viens block eye sight

...e at cutting tissue during microsurgery. As lasers tend to damage the surrounding tissues by creating bubbles in local body fluids, the pure saline jet might make even finer cuts without causing stress to the nearby tissue....

Prevention is better than cure

... is low as compared to an adult. Cigarette smokers tend to have more severe colds than non-smokers and are more likely to suffer serious complications such as bronchitis and pneumonia. Though colds are generally contracted from other people, social isolation also increases susceptibility to colds.Stress ...

Big and Bright

A new study shows that smaller babies tend to have lower IQs.While the differences are too small to have any practical significance they might be of importance at a population level. Researchers at Columbia University have examined over 2500 children at age seven to study the relationshi...

Eat Vitamin C and stay young

...ant in less healthy people, including smokers, who tend to have higher levels of isoprostanes, said Dr. Ja...tudies in men, however. It assumed that women, who tend to have less muscle than men, would need less vitamin C, said Levine, chief of molecular and clinica...

Need for Colon cancer screening

...rch should be repeated among women too, since they tend to develop colon tumours later in life than men. Source : Journal of Medicine August 2001...

Women find difficulty in calling it 'Quits'

...isks of smoking-related diseases than do men, they tend to have less success than men in quitting smoking. Dr. Kenneth A. Perkins from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who conducted the review offers several reasons for this disparity in a paper published in the May 2001 issue of CNS Drugs....

No allergy at all !

...ts. People with allergies or allergy-like symptoms tend to use antidepressants at a higher rate. Allergy symptoms mimic the symptoms of other upper respiratory conditions that affect the nasal cavity and sinuses, such as a runny nose and eyes. Almost anything can cause allergy-type symptoms - perfumes, ...

New Drug ALT-711 decreases blood vessel stiffness

... the natural flexibility of collagen strands. They tend to proliferate with age. Crosslinks appear to toughen tissues and may contribute to some of the deterioration associated with aging and diabetes, such as elevated systolic blood pressure, stiff arteries, and impaired kidney function. The ability to...

Look out for gout

...y after the menopause. However, the condition does tend to affect middle-aged men and some people find an attack follows eating foods such as anchovies, sardines or liver. Typically gout affects the big toe joint which becomes hot, red, swollen and very painful. // But gout affects other joints too and i...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

People with blood pressure levels that tend to be slightly elevated but still considered to be within normal ranges--called high-normal--are at increased risk for suffering from heart disease. Blood pressure readings are taken in two numbers. The systolic value i.e., the first number in a bloo...

Left handed have better episodic memory

Does coming from a family full of “lefties” tend to make a person better at remembering events? The data from two recent experiments answer in the affirmative. This recent reasearch is reported in the jornal Neuropsychology. Stephen D. Christman and Ruth E. Propper of the University of Toledo in Oh...

Enzyme may be target for obesity drugs

...also matters. So-called "apple-shaped" people, who tend to gain weight around the waist , are more likely to develop certain health conditions than "pear-shaped" people, whose extra pounds settle on their hips, buttocks and thighs. Researchers studied the role of stress hormones and enzymes. One of part...

Back injury cured by engineers

...common problem. People who have had a back problem tend to find it recurs. Researchers at the Biodynamics Laboratory have found that this is because they tend to protect their injury by creating a big stress on their spine afterwards.// This study comparedh...

The superior steroids

.... But the researchers point out that most people tend to wait until symptoms appear before taking allergy medications. This may be one reason for the superiority of the steroid nasal spray in the study. Unlike inhaled corticosteroids, antihistamines like Claritin are not very effective in blocking the a...

Depression increases heart attacks

... //the researchers concluded that depressed people tend to have poor heart rate variability (HRV). Heart rate variability is the rythm of the heart and ability to contract, which can affect its ability to handle stress or exertion. These findings suggest that if depression can be diagnosed and treated, p...

Excess vitamin A increases fracture risk

...of the nutrients is not good and ineffective.// We tend to think that vitamins are good for us - but that's not always the case, particularly when one component is taken in excess. The latest report from the long-running Nurses' Health Study, which covers over 60,000 women followed for 15 years, suggests ...

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