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Endometriosis connected to fertility

...the two, but now research shows one of the reasons why the disease may cause infertility. // Doctors worked with only seven patients, but concluded that endometriosis causes a certain action that decreases fertility. The researchers examined the peritoneal fluid, fluid located near the fallopian tubes. ...

Eczema patients lack natural antibiotic in skin

...c dermatitis patients. "This study helps explain why 90 percent of atopic dermatitis patients are colon... Center, in Denver. "It is important to understand why people with this common skin disease are so susceptible to skin infections especially in light of re...

Women's stroke indications vary from men's

... and disability. US stroke researchers now suggest why there could be a delay in diagnosing stroke among women. The traditional symptoms of stroke include sudden weakness and/or paralysis of one side of the body, balance problems, visual disturbances and speech difficulties. But some people with stroke...

Vegetable and fruit intake depends on shopping

...ck Americans' diet than on whites. It is not clear why this is - maybe there is a lack of private transport in black neighborhoods, making people more dependent on locals shops. Clearly, the type and location of shopping facilities needs to be taken into account when trying to persuade people to eat a he...

Light therapy devotes new hope in advanced lung cancer

... in NSCLC. More research is now needed to see just why PDT is proving so effective in this form of lung cancer....

Pregnancy shouldn't be dissuaded in older age

...ere is no conclusive medical reason, based on age, why women in their 50s should not try to become pregnant by in vitro fertilization. Researchers from the Keck School// of Medicine of the University of Southern California investigated pregnancy outcomes in women, ages 50 and older, who conceived after i...

Longer airway in males increases sleep disorder risk

...chers say. This may be at least part of the reason why men are more susceptible to sleep apnoea than women are....

Hormone Imbalance may lead to prolonged fatigue

... the cause of chronic fatigue. It may also explain why hydrocortisone causes some improvement - it may restore the balance to the HPA axis....

Anxiety and Peptic ulcers may be linked

...ere to report ulcers. The researchers don't know why such a link exists. It may be that stress undermines the immune response to H. pylori , or that ulcers cause anxiety - rather than the other way round. It is possible that treating anxiety, as well as H. pylori may be a more powerful way of healing a...

Tumour marker for melanoma found

...le in many other cancers. However, it is not clear why high levels are linked to a good outcome in melanoma. But its role as a molecular marker may well help doctors to target and refine therapies to the individual patient with melanoma, the researchers say....

Handling forgetfulness

... by the middle aged people. There are many reasons why women often report forgetfulness at mid-life, but simple guidelines can help you preserve memory. There is little evidence that healthy women undergo a decline// in their memory or thinking skills before the age of 70. Yet many women younger than th...

Memory deprivation after operations

Researchers in there study are trying to observe why surgery may trigger cognitive problems in some people but studies are ongoing. It's long been known that some older people develop problems with memory and other mental functions after an operation// - a condition known as Post Operative Cognitive Dy...

Discovering cholesterol-absorbing genes

...a recent study on both mice and humans are showing why some people absorb more cholesterol into their bod... bad for you. But little has been discovered about why some people absorb a lot more of the cholesterol in their diet than others. Researchers at Rockefe...

Help Quit Smoking

...an addiction quiz proves as a medium to understand why a child smokes and what the child requires to do to help quit smoking. The program provides parents with newsletters on steps to help quit smoking. It provides a better platform for parents to communicate effectively to their teens, initiating a lea...

Research on causes for falling helps develop preventive strategies

... once in our life. But how many of us wonder as to why we fall? Not many, in fact, not even a few of us. But researchers at the Locomotion Research Laboratory at Virginia Tech believe that finding the cause of a fall// will help prevent them better. The researchers, who claim that around 50 per cent of a...

New oral antiviral treatment of cold sores approved

...sores at some point in time, it is not clear as to why some people get cold sores while others do not. Several factors like stress, exposure to sun, a cold, fever or flu could trigger the herpes simplex virus, which starts reproducing almost immediately, causing damage to skin cells that could lead to ch...

Weight gain following smoking cessation not linked to Leptin

...regulation, must be looked into, for reasons as to why smoking cessation leads to weight gain....

Autopsy reports could be valuable and informative

...esearchers pointed out that there are many reasons why discrepancies can occur between clinical examination and autopsy findings which could be as varied as the patient having presented with atypical symptoms of a disease, or due to limited information from lab results. Sometimes a doctor may fail to con...

Wash your hands to keep healthy!

...ork and gardening, and this is probably the reason why many of us do not bother to wash our hands even before a meal. Recent research has however, proved that frequent hand washing is the most simple and low cost way of cutting rates of infection by nearly half. A recent American study included a huge n...

Progression of Glaucoma could be controlled with early detection

...laucoma Trial, conducted a study which looked// at why some patients had their disease progress while others did not. The Early Manifest Glaucoma Trial had included 255 patients from 50 to 80 years old who had early stage glaucoma in at least one eye. Half of the patients were treated with medicines and ...

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