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Gender difference in Pain Experience - Women feel More Pain than men

...their pain threshold and tolerance of pain, it was unlikely to have any benefit for women”. He further said: “omen who concentrate on the emotional aspects of their pain may actually experience more pain as a result, possibly because the emotions associated with pain are negative.” Researchers believe that i...

Vitamin E May Not Reduce Risk Of Death Due To Heart Disease In Women

A large new study reports that Vitamin E is unlikely to prevent heart disease// or cancer but it may lower the risk of heart attacks and stroke in older women. Professor Maret Traber, the main investigator at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University and an expert on vitamin E, said: “Vit...

FDA Diminish Hopes On ‘Female Viagra

...ed to an increase in "satisfying sexual events" is unlikely to change the mind of the FDA as it is set for a review of the drug, according to the report. One study published last week in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that women who used the patch for 24 weeks reported, on average, a 67 percent inc...

Older People May Not Need Multivitamins To Prevent Infections

...able multivitamin and multi-mineral supplements is unlikely to reduce the number of self-reported infections or associated use of health services for people living at home, say the authors. It remains to be seen whether those at higher risk of infections, such as older people living in care, would benefit fro...

Bird flu infection spreads from Asia to Europe

...he Wild Bird Society of Japan in Tokyo, says it is unlikely that the disease has come to Russia from China, as birds do not usually fly in that direction at this time of year. Brown suggests instead that the new cases might have spread from undeclared poultry outbreaks in nearby China. But Juan Lubroth, head ...

Gene treatment maintains normal Heart Beat

...xperimental" and cautioned that use in patients is unlikely in the near future. Hajjar agreed that this genetic approach is at least five years away from clinical use. And the first human studies will probably combine this gene transfer with another therapeutic approach, possibly a mechanical assist device....

Oral Sex may carry AIDS related Cancer Virus

...ma to develop. In most healthy people the virus is unlikely to lead to Kaposi's sarcoma, but the immune system damage caused by HIV makes infected individuals susceptible to the cancer. Because of the cancer's close relationship to HIV and AIDS, experts have suspected that the HIV epidemic triggered the simi...

Decreasing Multiple Births By Single Embryo Transfers

...h to claim an equivalent result, the difference is unlikely to exceed 11.6 percent. Thus in conclusion researchers suggest that in women under 36 years of age, transferring one fresh embryo and then, if needed, one frozen-and-thawed embryo dramatically reduces the rate of multiple births ....

Trained Counselors Counseling Pregnant Smokers To Quit May Not Work

...omen who continue to smoke at maternity booking is unlikely to be effective enough to provide good value for money, say the authors. Nicotine replacement therapy is effective in the general population but is not routinely recommended during pregnancy. However, the authors suggest that midwives could provide ...

Latest Research Shows That Multivitamins Might Not Prevent Infections In All Elderly

...able multivitamin and multimineral supplements are unlikely to reduce the number of self-reported infections or associated use of health services for people living at home. At the same time researchers say they cannot exclude the possibility that the intakes provided in the supplement were inadequate to affec...

Dark chocolate can help ease symptoms of diarrhea

...ments that are inexpensive, easy to access and are unlikely to have side effects....

Milk from cloned cows and meat safe to use: But at what cost?

...he future regulations that might be imposed. It's unlikely that cloned animals themselves will be sold any time soon because of the high expense. But their offspring may end up on the market if Health Canada follows the FDA lead. Starbuck has infact fathered 15 offspring. "Once in every hundred years you ge...

Women might be at increased risk of HIV during pregnancy

...acquisition rises during pregnancy. This change is unlikely to be due to sexual risk behaviours, but might be attributable to hormonal changes affecting the genital tract mucosa or immune responses. However, they admit that they cannot generalise these findings beyond the Rakai setting and it would be importa...

Sex Played A Vital Role For Evolution Of Infectious Diseases

... The fungus appears to have become entrenched is unlikely to disappear, and all indications are that it is spreading. Our findings suggest that sex played a role in the expanded geographic range for this pathogen. The fungus, which lives in trees and soil, has also infected a variety of domestic and marin...

Treatment For Prostate Cancer Relapse Linked To Marital Status

...tatus of the men. Konski said that single men were unlikely to return for retreatment. "We need to come up with strategies to support them, such as nurse follow-up and patient navigators who can help them through the healthcare system," he added. He also observed that the trend might have something to do wi...

Embryonic Genetic Testing Is Boosting IVF Pregnancies

...ria, which conducts pre-natal testing, said it was unlikely parents would be allowed to use PGD to choose their child's physical characteristics. She could not see infertility regulators allowing such social engineering. In theory, anything for which you could do a gene test could be screened using PGD. But P...

Even Moderate Drinking Is Not Good For The Heart

...tective effect on the heart will be very small and unlikely to outweigh the harms. (ANI)...

Alcohol lovers: It has no role in Heart disease

... light to moderate drinking will be very small and unlikely to outweigh the harms. While moderate to heavy drinking is probably coronary-protective, any benefit will be overwhelmed by the known harms.” "If so, the public health message is clear. Do not assume there is a window in which the health benefits of...

Rolling Stones Guitarist Wants Chemotherapy

...ave chemotherapy - whether needed or not is a very unlikely request. Keith Richards, the guitarist for the rock band ‘The Rolling Stones’ has revealed that// he is seriously considering undergoing chemotherapy whether he needs it or not. Keith said that he had was seriously thinking about it after seeing i...

Lead levels in disturbed soil post-Katrina unsafe

... concentrations of most of these contaminants were unlikely to pose an immediate human health threat. The peer-reviewed study, which represents one of the most detailed environmental sampling efforts to date following the flooding caused by Katrina, will appear in the Jan. 15 issue of ES&T. For the curre...

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