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New cure for TPP - a rare blood disease

...sity School of Medicine have tried a new cure on a woman with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura(TPP), which has offered great hope. TPP is a rare blood disease in which one// of the proteins in the blood clotting system is missing. This protein is a regulatory molecule and, without it, one of the other c...

Heart disease in women being under-treated

... who was not connected with the study, said that a woman complaining of chest pain is often detected with heart burn, while similar symptoms in men might prompt doctors to think about coronary artery disease first. In an accompanying editorial, Drs. Andrew Miller and Suzanne Oparil of the University of Ala...

Chance of water births being urged for mums-to-be

...option of giving birth in water, for every healthy woman with a low risk pregnancy. They suggested having a birthing pool in every delivery room and training all midwives to support women who wish to use them. Belinda Phipps, chief executive of the NCT, added that this approach would help hospitals reduce ...

Second SARS suspect fuels worry in India

...is happened hours after doctors gave the cleared a woman suspected of being India's first SARS case. In Hyderabed a 48-year-old software worker was immediately admitted to a hospital after he arrived from Australia via Singapore. He had symptoms of high fever, cough and cold similar to those of the deadly ...

Link between pesticide and breast cancer

...gen compounds probably does increase the risk of a woman developing breast cancer....

Infertility may result from bone fragments

...even with a hysteroscope. Is a case, a 36 year old woman who ended a pregnancy 15 years earlier and was not able to become pregnant again. When diagnosed through normal hysteroscope her uterus appeared normal. However when doctors conducted an ultrasound exam they found white evidence of embedded bone frag...

Age should not rule out visectomy reversal

...rs a reasonable chance for pregnancy even when the woman is 35 or older, according to a new study. In this scenario, the chance for success is comparable to that of one cycle of a type of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in which sperm is directly injected into an egg. Besides reversing a vasectomy, another op...

Test tube babies, 25 years later

...ry.// IVF is usually the treatment of choice for a woman with blocked or absent fallopian tubes, through which the egg travels from the ovary to the uterus. "It's hard to look back and remember how surprising and shocking that was -- that human beings can actually be made outside the body," said Arthur Ca...

Alcohol and Sun Don’t Mi

...pondents five men missed nine days of work and one woman missed eight days because of sunburn within the year before the study....

Breast cancer ignorance revealed

...now the most common cancer for women in the UK - a woman has a one in nine risk of developing it at some point in her life. Experts say that to speed early detection - but cut false alarms - women should be "aware" of their breasts and any new changes such as lumps, and should make sure they attend breas...

Eat Less ... Exercise Less

...nificantly increase the amount of weight a dieting woman loses. Though it is known exercise is necessary to help long-term weight loss, the optimal amount of exercise necessary to maintain that weight loss has not been established. However, //it has been thought that more exercise and exercising with more...

World's oldest turns 116 in Japan

A Japanese woman believed to be the oldest person in the world has ... by the Guinness Book of Records after an American woman -- Maude Farris-Luse -- died last March at the age of 115. Along with being the object of national...

Does Radiation Cause Lung Cancer?

Could the radiation a woman receives for breast cancer be putting her at higher risk for subsequent development of lung cancer?// Studies finds women who underwent simple mastectomy and radiotherapy for their cancer were more likely than those who had a radical mastectomy and...

Don’t Blame the High Heels

...s did not appear to make a difference in whether a woman had knee problems or not. In fact, women who did report wearing heels more often actually trended towards fewer knee problems. Researchers did, however, link knee problems with being overweight during the fourth decade of life. Women who reported a...

How a man's mind really works

...tic-imaging scans can now show whether a man and a woman are truly in love by measuring the amount of activity in the cingulate gyrus, an emotion center in the brain, Gurian says. Like a guide through a secret forest, his book leads the nonscientist through the complex world of brain science and relates i...

Just standing next to a large person can be bad for one's image

...se to describe obese people. The man with the big woman was rated 22 percent more negatively than the same man with the thin companion. When seen with the large woman, he was more likely to be described as miserable, self-indulgent, passive, shapeless, depressed, weak, insignificant and insecure. "It sho...

Changing Partners may put Expectant Mothers at Risk

...omen who have the same partner, but increases if a woman changes partners. The same trend holds true when c...ose her baby during its first of life -- even if a woman changed partners. Pre-term birth and low birth weight were less common in women with more education,...

Most Women Unprepared for Operative Deliveries

...n preparation for delivery and explanations to the woman after an operative delivery. They say maternal sat...e addressed. They suggest the medical staff give a woman an in-depth explanation of the delivery when they have recovered from the trauma. ...

Importance of An Active Lifestyle

...hers looked at the physical activity level of each woman in 1985, 1995 and 1999. Not only were women asked ...rs report the physical activity level in 1985 of a woman was predictive of their walking speed in 1999. They also found the consistency of physical activity ...

Importance of An Active Lifestyle

...hers looked at the physical activity level of each woman in 1985, 1995 and 1999. Not only were women asked ...rs report the physical activity level in 1985 of a woman was predictive of their walking speed in 1999. They also found the consistency of physical activity ...

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