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Obese Women are more likely to suffer from Major Health Risks

...ceded the increase in extreme obesity. It has been unclear whether health risk increases or plateaus as body weight increases throughout the obese range. Kathleen McTigue, M.D., M.S., M.P.H., of the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues conducted a study to examine the relationship between weight catego...

Muscles May Need Estrogen to Regain Strength, Especially as Women Age

...of female sex hormones on skeletal muscle has been unclear in the past. In fact, some reports have suggested that the hormones have no effect." Brown studied the effect of low hormone levels combined with physical inactivity in rats. The rats' ovaries were removed, and the rats were then put on "simulated ...

Breast-fed Babies Experience Less Pain during Blood Tests

...y effective in reducing pain. While it was still unclear how breast-feeding helps to reduce the pain, researches theorize that factors such as the mother's comforting presence; skin-to-skin contact; the sweetness of breast milk and diversion of the baby's attention probably play a role. Shah noted that h...

Antioxidants Preserve Cone Cells In the Eye

...le as supplements, but Campochiaro said it remains unclear whether the amounts of antioxidants consumed in foods provided any benefit to people with these types of vision impairments. Soure: Eurekalert...

NICE supports application of advanced biological therapies as treatment option for acute psoriasis

...tent fever, bruising, bleeding, or paleness. It is unclear if ENBREL has caused these nervous-system or blood disorders. If a patient's doctor confirms serious blood problems, patients may need to stop using ENBREL. Source: Eureka Alert...

Active Life Decelerates Alzheimer's

...the disease, how such deceleration occurs has been unclear until now. Dr. Kathy Keyvani's group at University Hospital Muenster examined the effects of environmental stimulation on the brain pathology of TgCRND8 mice. These mice, which express a mutant form of A? found in some Alzheimer's patients, develop ...

Nano-sized inhaled particles traverse quickly from nose to brain

...and a cellular stress response, but they are still unclear if accumulation of these tiny particles could result in brain damage. According to a press release by Eureka Alert, the study tested manganese oxide ultrafine particles at a concentration typically inhaled by factory welders. The manganese oxide pa...

Only A Few Differentiating Factors Between Adult And Stem Cells

...ire specific culture environments. It also remains unclear whether iPS cells can do everything that embryonic stem cells can. Source: Eurekalert...

An All Important Breakthrough Reached In Understanding T cell response For Parasitic Diseases

...sites, as that has been one area that has remained unclear for scientists who have so far been able to understood how T cells worked in other kinds of diseases. In the 1980s, the phrase 'T cell count' burst into the world’s medical vocabulary as thousands and then millions of patients died of AIDS. The pub...

Placental Proteins Could Be Responsible For Pre-eclampsia

... The researchers while stating that it was still unclear as to exactly how the disparity caused pre-eclampsia, did suggest that this would probably deny the blood vessels of essential nutrients, which could cause them to sicken and die. Elias Zerhouni, the Health director of the National Institutes said,...

Immune Response Linked to “Ghost” Parasites and Severely Congested Sinuss

Although it’s unclear why it’s so, scientists at Johns Hopkins have linked a gene that allows for the chemical breakdown of the tough//, protective casing that houses insects and worms to the severe congestion and polyp formation typical of chronic sinusitis. A team of H...

Slow brain waves integral in coordination of complex activity

...on between regions of the brain, //yet it is still unclear about how widely separated regions of the cortex involving billions of cells come together to assist a complex activity. A new study by neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and neurosurgeons and neurologists at UC San Francisco ...

A Sun Tan Lotion that is not Skin-Deep

... the latter’s skin being thinner. It is still very unclear how the medications applied on the skin of humans can penetrate to such depths in order to be effective....

Go Green with Popeye: Learn why his eyes pop out for spinach!

...ge AMD will test that idea." Scientists are still unclear regarding the reasons for vulnerability of certain people to age-related macular degeneration. They caution that this trend will only increase with an aging population. Joining hands with Tinsley Ophthalmic Instruments, Dr Murray's lab has conceiv...

Effects of the Drug Ice- A Tip of the Iceberg!

...d bridge the gap in medical research that is still unclear about the link between this drug and violent psychosis. Beaver Hudson, a consultant nurse in emergency psychiatry at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, explained that while scientists grope for the confirmed link, the behavior of patients in casual...

Lack of Evidence on Treatment for Narrowed Kidney Arteries

...at increased risk of heart disease. However, it is unclear whether angioplasty leads to better outcomes for most patients. While many RAS patients are treated with drugs, a growing number of RAS patients are opting for angioplasty. Medicare data show that angioplasty more than doubled from 7,660 in 1996 to...

Discovery of gene stirs hope for Crohn’s disease patient

...e one else related to them having it. Though still unclear as to how the gene IL-23R works scientists are definite that it stores information for that part of the immune system which plays arole in inflammatory processes and thus is useful for fighting infections. The scientists are hopeful that if they succ...

Does Child pornography lead to Child abuse?

...ist at UC Davis Health System. The answer is often unclear – not least because Temporini and his colleagues are still in the process of developing a standardized way to evaluate the risk, or lack of it, posed by someone who collects kiddie porn on the Internet. The stakes are high. Dr. Charles L. Scott, as...

Fears of Pandemic Flu makes Americans Ready for Change

... employees have serious financial concerns and are unclear about the workplace plans and policies for dealing with pandemic flu," said Blendon. Methodology This is the 25th in a series of studies by the Harvard School of Public Health Project on the Public and Biological Security. The study was designed an...

'Good' And 'Evil' Clones Of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia cells

... refractory cells. However, until now, it has been unclear whether these relapses resulted from the acquisition of therapy-induced drug resistance or were caused by a subpopulation of cells that were already intrinsically drug resistant.' Ms Choi, a final year PhD student at the Children's Cancer Institute...

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