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Health at heights

... the breathing rate increases to compensate - even when the body is at rest. Altitude itself also has negative effects on health. If the human body is left exposed at high altitude without acclimatisation, the effects can be devastating. Sometimes the combination of high altitude and lower atmospheric p...

Diabetes on the rise

...t any point in the last century. Diabetes occurs when the body can no longer produce enough of the hormo...s, often referred to as juvenile diabetes, happens when the cells in the pancreas which produce insulin are destroyed. Patients require daily insulin inje...

Iron is a two sided sword

...t into the bloodstream. The experiments show that when such cells are exposed to iron, they become more susceptible to infection by the common food poisoning bacterium Salmonella enteritidis . The researchers suggest that iron supplements and fortified foods should only be consumed by those with proven i...

New gene for hairloss

...or a gene that causes two rare hair-loss disorders when it is disabled.Gone are the days when scientists were finding it diificult to treat ordinary baldness. So far, even with the new work, the...

Pollution- hazardous for diabetics

...flammation. The data show that the risk is doubled when you have diabetes. It's possible that pollution ex...etes affect the same pathways to heart disease and when both are present the risk is compounded. But people with diabetes were not at any extra risk of PM10...

Nobel laureates in chemistry

...nation was feasible. The breakthrough came in 1968 when William S. Knowles was working at the Monsanto Company, St. Louis, USA. He discovered that it was possible to use a transition metal to produce a chiral catalyst that could transfer chirality to a non-chiral substrate and get a chiral product. This...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...n in pregnancy." She added that it was not known when stress would have a worse effect on a foetus' deve...t could have more of an impact in the early stages when the placenta is being formed, said Dr Glover....

Pregnant smokers could harm their child

...ssible that there may be some physiological effect when the foetus is developing so the child becomes predisposed to smoking because they are accustomed to the smoke component. She said it was important that both mothers and fathers gave up smoking during pregnancy and did not start again once the child w...

Contraceptives decreases Libido

...er studies - to peak around the time of ovulation, when a woman releases an egg and can conceive a baby.//...cycle in which fertilisation is possible. However, when the women took the contraceptive pill, which uses hormones to artificially control the cycle, their ...

Snoring could be a warning

Women who snore when they are pregnant may be at risk of developing dan...igh blood pressure that could threaten their lives when they give birth. Around 10% of pregnant women suffer from pre-eclampsia, a condition in which high b...

The phenomenon of sexual attraction

...ere more likely to think the women were attractive when they were exposed to the pheromones and the testos...n perceptions about attractiveness between the men when they were under the influence of the chemical messengers. Professor Grammer said: "The most amazing ...

Detection of Cancer

...on a specific molecule which appears to be missing when cancers begin to develop."The lack of this diagnos...the diagnostic molecule, which seems to be missing when cancer is present.The 'immunostimulator' nature of this diagnostic molecule points to its use as a p...

Anthrax drug doxycycline could stunt fetal growth

... been exposed to anthrax -- can stunt fetal growth when taken by pregnant women. Instead, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged doctors to prescribe Cipro to pregnant women. The recommendation comes as health officials worry that Cipro is being overprescribed in the general population, poss...

Drugs For Anthrax May Interfere With Oral Contraceptives

...enting pregnancy, are significantly less effective when they are taken at the same time as some antibiotics. This interaction is commonly known within the medical community and is noted in the prescribing information for leading antibiotics and for oral contraceptives. There have not been any clinical ...

Cipro Has Cheaper Cousins to Treat Anthrax

...de range of organisms. Doctors sometimes use Cipro when they are waiting to find out exactly what type of bacteria they're dealing with. It's especially effective against anthrax because it may take days for scientists to discover what kind of strain is involved in an attack. According to experts, all k...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

...mber, the diastolic value, represents the pressure when the heart is at rest between beats. // In the study, the team of researchers monitored blood pressure levels of 6,859 men and women. They then compared heart disease related illness in people with high-normal blood pressure to people with high bloo...

Levels Of Blood Proteins May Help Heart Disease Care

...the results of two preliminary studies. CAD occurs when fatty deposits narrow the arteries that supply blood to the heart, and can lead to chest pain and heart attack. In the first study, researchers identified interleukin-6 (IL-6)//, an immune system protein that plays a role in inflammation, as a ris...

Better Treatment for obesity

... of obesity and overweight. The study shows that when injected into the bodies of rats, OEA caused the rats to eat significantly less food and gain weight at a slower pace. Studies are now under way to investigate how OEA works on a cellular and molecular level, and to determine whether OEA has appetite...

Ranbaxy gets US FDA approval for Lisinopril

...t expects to launch the product only in June 2002, when the original patent expires on the drug, Zestril. Zestril is a registered trademark of Astra Zeneca UK Ltd. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, RPI expects to be able to access retail pharmacy outlets, wholesalers, hospitals and ge...

Infertility in relation with virus

... genital tissues - infection appears to take place when a child is in the womb, during childhood, or young adulthood.// In the German experiments, 67 men with semen abnormalities were tested for traces of AAV. These were found in 28 of them - compared to only one out of 22 in the group of men with norma...

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