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An Accurate Score to Measure Heart Risk

...essure lowering drugs, despite known links between these factors and poor health.So a team of researchers from The University of Nottingham, Bristol Primary Care Trust, and the Universities of Bristol and Queen Mary, set out to derive a new cardiovascular risk score (QRISK) for the UK and test its performa...

A New Study Throws Limelight in HIV Vaccine Production

...munity understand how immune pressure impacts HIV, these findings hold tremendous promise in terms of globa...kerman. The original idea for the development of these statistical methods came from Dr. Bette Korber at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Korber and co-rese...

Risk Factors for Alzheimers Disease

...lobe. Subjects showing any one or a combination of these symptoms were more likely to develop Alzheimers in...s, says Rosano. Since we know that prevention of these conditions can lower risk of heart attack and stroke, it is likely that it would also lower the risk...

Signalife Recorder Transmits Heart Rate Data From Champ Car Driver in Real-Time

...t race car presents several challenges. To address these challenges, Signalife developed a novel ECG recorder capable of acquiring full clinical-bandwidth data from drivers participating in the Champ Car racing. "The data that we have been able to collect during development of this monitor is of high quali...

Neurotransmitter That can Yield New Insights in the Fight Against Diabetes Identified

...arning. "Norepinephrine is capable of activating these signals just like hypoglycemia does," Khan said. He insists that norepinephrine is not only sufficient but necessary for conveying hypoglycemia signals from the hindbrain....

Divorce Leaves Women Significantly Worse Off Financially Than Men

...massive divorce settlements," Kaufman said. "But these are very rare cases. In run-of-the-mill cases, where couples earn between 20,000 pounds and 30,000 pounds, both men and women are normally worse off. They have to sell the family home, their standard of living goes down, men often have to pay mainten...

Significant Advances in VCJD Prion Detection

...confirmatory test, such as this one, the impact of these false positives can be minimised. However, the ethical dilemma remains over screening and testing for a disease for which there is no cure. A total of 161 people have died from variant CJD since the disease emerged in early 1990, including three peo...

Ships to the Rescue of Medically Deprived Assamese

...abited by more than 2.5 million people. In most of these islands, there are no health centres, schools or p...ese encephalitis cases. As most of the people on these islands, comprising Assamese, Bengalis, Bihari migrants and tribals, are cattle herders the ships al...

Hormone Replacement Therapy Liberation at a Cost

... effective treatment. Low doses of HRT can relieve these symptoms. The paradigm of treating menopause symptoms with the lowest effective dose of hormone therapy, for the shortest period necessary, is very sensible. - Hugh Taylor Doctors no longer recommend HRT solely for preventing or treat...

Global Warming Threatens Tibet

...Southeast Asia. In the past 100 years, the area of these glaciers has shrunk by 30 percent, the scientists claimed. Scientists say that if the temperature at the end of this century is 2.1 to 4 degrees Celsius higher than now -- a reasonable hypothesis given global warming trends -- this figure will incr...

Americans Grow Shorter, Blame It on Weak Healthcare

... literally too Americans have been growing shorter these days, falling behind the Europeans. The title of the study published by Benjamin Lauderdale at Princeton University and John Komlos at the University of Munich in the Social Science Quarterly tells it all: Underperformance in Affluence: The Remarka...

Global Warming: Lessons of History Help the Future

...ed around a million. It might seem nothing links these three events. Outwardly, Ireland's famine was ca...famine began to bite. Fraser says the lessons of these disasters can be brought together into an analytical tool to help predict if an agricultural system ...

Efforts on to Tackle Health Problems Faced by US Truck Drivers

...l in his cab. A driver for 23 years, Belvin says these days he's not the only one jogging around in the mornings before he drives off for the day. Lisa Miles, an independent driver based in Fort Wayne, Ind., lifts weights in the cabin of her semi, too, while her partner driver takes the wheel. She gave...

Hospital Rapped For Failing To Combat Superbug Infections

...whether they meet the three standards laid down - these relate to cleanliness, infection control and safety procedures. Points against the Barnet and Chase hospitals include failing to provide and maintain a clean and appropriate environment, put into place sufficient management systems, assess risk and...

Protein Instrumental to Brain Development and Repair Identified

...ed biological activity they observed a decrease in these processes. Dr. Gallo noted that the signalling of the EGFR protein was instrumental in the proliferation and migration of progenitor cells, which are integral to white matter development and repair....

First Genetically Engineered Maize Resistant to Maize Streak Virus Produced in S. Africa

...t into maize plants. When the virus infects one of these transgenic maize plants, the mutated protein, which is expressed at a high level, prevents the virus from replicating and killing the plant. The transgenic maize variety has proven consistently resistant to MSV and the trait can be reliably passed...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

...ausing cell death or changing the functionality of these macro-molecules. Other problems caused by equine...her food animals, with little thought given to how these forages might affect horses, which often share the same types of pastures. In addition, the majori...

Americans Bloated On Happy Pills

...ear for which statistics are available, the use of these drugs rose 48 percent. Yet, for most psychiatris...pressants," he says. Goodman questions whether all these prescriptions are necessary. "It's hard to believe that number of people are depressed, or that anti...

Erection Drugs Don't Boost Men's Self-esteem

... masculinity and lower personal satisfaction. Of these 400 men had erectile dysfunction (ED), including h... Matic said that the survey showed that pills like these are not enough to give self-esteem a boost. The findings contradict earlier surveys that show that...

Experts Propose New Criteria for Alzheimer's Diagnosis

...ant episodic memory impairment...the timeliness of these criteria is highlighted by the many drugs in development that are directed at changing pathogenesis," say the authors, whose proposal is put forward in a Position Paper published in The Lancet Neurology. The researchers, however, admit that valida...

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