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Vitamins may Not Ward Off Pneumonia

...ong well-nourished women. Pneumonia is a general term that refers to an infection of the lungs, which can be caused by a variety of microorganisms, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. Often pneumonia begins after an upper respiratory tract infection (an infection of the nose and throat)...

Regular Smokers are at the Risk of Developing Depression

..., may be surprising, as nicotine as such in short term is assumed to have some positive effects on mood"...hould look for explanation to our result from long term effects of cigarette smoking, from addiction mechanisms and from other substances than nicotine with...

Experts to Develop New Weapons Against Food Poisoning

...he control of Campylobacter. Bacteriophages the term literally means 'bacterium-eater' are naturally o...ut affecting beneficial bacteria or gut cells. The term is commonly used in its shortened form, phage. Both GangaGen and The University of Nottingham are ...

Cosmetic Genital Surgery may Be Fuelling Womens Insecurity About Their Bodies

...ies risk, such as loss of sensitivity and the long term benefits are unclear, they say. Some doctors even align the practice with female genital mutilation. So what makes women take such risks when their genital characteristics fall within typical ranges? They interviewed healthy adults who had undergon...

Blue Moon at Midnight from June 1

...l the year 1999 that the origin of the calendrical term "Blue Moon" was at long last discovered. It was during the time frame from 1932 through 1957 that the Maine Farmers' Almanac suggested that if one of the four seasons (winter, spring, summer or fall) contained four full Moons instead of the usual thr...

Computer Mouse can Cause Arm Pain

...ion cause damage to the tissues that over the long term can lead to inflammation of the nerve fibres," Bergmann says. Even initially minor symptoms represent a danger that the brain may form connections between the pain and the activity of clicking. "The mouse click movement on its own can then trigge...

Remicade Responders Maintain Improvement

Long term extension trials of ACT (Active Ulcerative Colitis... symptoms and maintain response and remission long term is a significant benefit to patients." Separate data also presented at DDW today show the signific...

Significant Scientific Breakthrough in Stem Cell Banking

...tion of MSCs derived from the cord, and their long term preservation, maybe of significant value to stem cell therapy applications. "Storing MSCs from the cord lining has the potential to broaden future cellular therapeutic application. We already know that umbilical cord blood contains stem cells which...

Diabetes Management in Schools Act Will Help Ensure Oklahoma Students With Diabetes Are Safe at School

... safety of students with diabetes, for their long- term health, to ensure that students with diabetes are ready to learn and to participate fully in school activities and to minimize the possibility that diabetes-related emergencies will disrupt classroom activities. The passage of this legislation will e...

CMPMedica Adds Oncology Search Engine to SearchMedica.com

... would from mainstream engines. Searching on the term melanoma on Google, for example, returns more than 10,000,000 results, most of which are geared toward consumers. The same search on SearchMedica Oncology nets fewer than 75,000 results from credible sources of reliable medical information. Results a...

Dystonia Awareness Week: 4 -11 June, 2007

Does the term Dystonia bring to mind the word tone? You are righ...her, impaired muscle tone . Dystonia is a medical term for a neuro-muscular condition. It is more aptly described as a movement disorder. Individuals affec...

Velcade(R) Plus Doxil(R) Improves Previously Treated Multiple Myeloma Patients

...yeloma toward becoming a chronic disease with long term survival achieved by using drugs in combination and in sequence. The VELCADE/DOXIL combination fits perfectly into this paradigm and offers an important and powerful new opportunity to extend and improve patients' lives." DOXIL is a specially (lipo...

Prison Healthcare Under Strain as Overcrowding Crisis Worsens, Warns BMA

...sfer health information or records. In the short term this bleak picture places vulnerable prisoners at risk from serious complications because their conditions are not being assessed immediately and treated adequately. In the long term, the prison system is failing the public by not addressing the seri...

Eating Smartly- A Key to Lose Weight

... their role in promoting weight loss over the long term was not clear, said Dr. Barbara J. Rolls, who directed the study and who holds the Helen A. Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State. We have now shown that choosing foods that are low in calorie density helps in losing weight, without t...

Low Calorie Diet can Promote Healthy Weight Loss and Help Control Hunger

... their role in promoting weight loss over the long term was not clear, said Dr. Barbara J. Rolls, who directed the study and who holds the Helen A. Guthrie Chair of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State. Ello-Martin said that the study showed choosing foods that are low in calorie density helps in losing w...

Orissa Woman Gave Birth to Identical Triplets

... medical complications two weeks prior to the full term of the pregnancy, hospital paediatrician Nakul Sahoo told IANS. He said the children weighed 1 to 1.5 kilograms each, less than the normal weight of newborns. But Sahoo warned that the mother carries the risk of losing all the three babies due t...

Paris' 'medical Condition' is a Sexually Transmitted Infection

...nce. Hilton may still get to serve half the jail term if she is in the best of behaviour. Her lawyers will file an appeal against the sentence next week....

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

...in the midst of his campaign for a third four-year term -- to reinvestigate possible land pollution. While Ishihara stands by the 2012 move date, the schedule has been delayed. The government was supposed to pick a contractor in March for the relocation but delayed it due to the new probe of potential p...

Bio-fuels Would Increase Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Says Senior British Scientists

... He said: The G8 has a record of putting the short term interests of rich countries before those of the environment and developing countries and this year was no exception. Bio-fuels come from plants: bio-ethanol from sugars and starches, bio-diesel mainly from rapeseed and palm oil. They are blended with...

Landmark Study Prompts Rethink of Genetic Code

...tedious stretches that appear to do nothing. The term for them is "junk" DNA, reflecting the presumption that they are merely driftwood from our evolutionary past and have no biological function. But the work by the ENCODE (ENCyclopaedia of DNA Elements) consortium implies that this nuggets-and-dross co...

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