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Fat overrides effects of vitamin C

...s Annual Main Meeting on Monday 2nd of April. The incidence of cancer of the proximal stomach has been increasing over the last 20 years for which environmental factors, such as diet, certainly play a part. Nitrite, which is present in our saliva and is derived from nitrate in our diet, is thought to be a pre...

Risk of lymphoma increases with hepatitis C virus infection

...se is the first step in finding ways to reduce its incidence and lessen mortality." HCV causes hepatitis, which is an inflammation of the liver. The HCV virus is carried through the blood and is passed from person to person through the exchange of bodily fluids -- via shared needles, open wounds, and sexu...

Ice Age extinction claimed highly carnivorous Alaskan wolves

... those of modern wolves. They also showed a higher incidence of broken teeth than living wolves. “Taken together, these features suggest a wolf specialized for killing and consuming relatively large prey, and also possibly habitual scavenging,” Leonard said. Chemical analyses of the bones back up this c...

Researchers discover 'acquired' DNA key to certain bacterial infection

...dy a problem – may be increasing. In contrast, the incidence of lung infection in patients with chronic lung diseases and cystic fibrosis is increasing. Understanding the mechanism by how M. avium penetrates the macrophage and infects humans may eventually lead to interventions that can prevent, or at least...

Potent possibilities for parasite attack

...ur continents are at risk of Leishmaniasis and its incidence has risen sharply over the past ten years. It is transmitted by the bite of various species of sandfly: wild and domesticated animals - as well as humans - act as a reservoir for the disease....

Risk of stroke doubles if diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes

...f 64 years. After five years of monitoring, stroke incidence rates were compared between the cohort and the general population. “What we found is that 9.1 per cent of the diabetes cohort had a stroke within the first five years of their diagnosis,” Dr. Thomas Jeerakathil, an assistant professor in neurology...

Alzheimer's disease to quadruple worldwide by 2050

...tions population projections and other data on the incidence and mortality of Alzheimer’s. ...

New study reports hotel guests at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning

...icine, researchers from LDS Hospital report on the incidence and impact of CO poisoning of hotel guests. Using data collected at the LDS Hospital Hyperbaric Medicine Department and searches of legal databases and online news databanks, the researchers found 68 incidents of CO poisoning occurring at hotels, mo...

Gene therapy delivery of nerve growth factors reverses erectile dysfunction in animal model

...e of the variability of symptoms, estimates of the incidence of ED vary but range from 15 million to 30 million affected men in the United States. ED is frequently associated with damage to the cavernous nerve that results from surgery for prostate cancer. Even if a patient receives a nerve-sparing procedure d...

Liver cancer patients with high serum levels of hepatitis B virus face poorer outcomes

...py levels of HBV DNA had a significantly increased incidence of severe hepatitis which was associated with the ...h pre-treatment HBV DNA had a significantly higher incidence of developing severe hepatitis during chemotherapy and had poorer survival. Other factors significan...

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