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Common ancestry of bacterium and plants could be key to an effective new treatment for chlamydia

... and lead to infertility. An estimated 2.8 million men and women in the U.S. are infected with chlamydia each year. Chlamydia can be easily treated and cured with antibiotics. However, bacteria often develop resistance to antibiotics, meaning that new ones must be continually discovered. Moreover, an inh...

Hopkins scientists link immune response to 'ghost' parasites and severely congested sinuses

...for Disease Control and Prevention. Thirty-three men and women participated in the two-year study at Hopkins, designed to find out if any of the genetic traits already known to be common in asthmatics were as active in patients with sinusitis. Twenty-two were scheduled to have surgery for sinusitis, w...

Sex and the heart: It's not what you think

... reflect a change from previous decades when older men were at greater risk for heart disease. Instead th... last 10 years, older women are doing worse, while men are doing better. Women's risk for heart disease is still lower than men's through middle age. But ...

Did 'ABCs' cause Uganda's fall in HIV rates?

...on and gender empowerment policies, both women and men benefited and HIV prevalence declined." Countering Murphy and Greene's viewpoint, Alexandra Mihailovic (University of Toronto) and Peter Olupot-Olupot (Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda), argue that "by emphasizing abstinence, the ABC approac...

Amateur boxing linked to brain cell injury

...fluids (via spinal tap) from 14 amateur boxers (11 men and three women, average age 22 years) seven to 10...also tested the cerebrospinal fluids of 10 healthy men who were not boxers as controls. Levels of several chemicals that indicate damage to brain cells (n...

Older men treated for early prostate cancer live longer than those who are not

...ty of Pennsylvania School of Medicine suggest that men between 65 and 80 years of age who received treatm...ed prostate cancer lived significantly longer than men who did not receive treatment. The study will be published in the December 13th issue of the Journal...

Leading reason for corneal transplants comes into focus

... The Virginia family had severe early disease with men and women equally affected, and the cornea had smaller, finer bumps." Gottsch is looking to one day use various gene therapies to suppress the mutations that he has found. It is hoped that someday the millions of people who suffer from FCD in the ...

Male circumcision reduces HIV risk, study stopped early

...ry results indicating that medical circumcision of men reduces their risk of acquiring HIV during heteros...f Health halted the trial and recommended that all men enrolled in the study who remain uncircumcised be offered circumcision. "Circumcision is now a pr...

New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community

...ma and discrimination against, black gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM). African-American MSM is the population hardest hit by HIV, with diagnosis rates twice that am...

Pleasure and pain: Study shows brain's 'pleasure chemical' is involved in response to pain too

...spond to." The study, which involved 25 healthy men and women, showed that dopamine was active in areas of the brain region known as the basal ganglia, the same region where it has been observed to respond to positive stimuli, such as food or sex. But when the researchers induced pain in the volun...

Gene therapy for hereditary lung disease advances

...s disease. Patients in the clinical trial - 10 men and two women who ranged from 42 to 69 - were asked to discontinue their replacement therapy 28 days before receiving the gene therapy. One volunteer who had not been on protein replacement therapy exhibited low-level expression of alpha-1 antitry...

More kidney cancer is detected and treated early, yet death rate rises

...about 38,890 new cases of kidney cancer (24,650 in men and 14,240 in women) in the United States this year, and about 12,840 people (8,130 men and 4,710 women) will die from the disease. This study included data from 34,503 kidney cancer pat...

Walking not enough for significant exercise benefits

...le program," Dr. Harber said. Of the 128 sedentary men and women who completed the six-month research program, those who took part in a more active traditional fitness regimen increased their peak oxygen uptake, an indicator of aerobic fitness, by 10 per cent. Those who took part in the walking program e...

Spike in testicular cancer is focus

... conduct a population-based, case-control study on men in Connecticut and Massachusetts. The researchers will determine whether exposure to environmental factors such as environmental hormone disruptors increases the risk of testicular cancer. They will measure the levels of these environmental compounds...

Blue eyes -- A clue to paternity

...oral Ecology and Sociobiology, show that blue-eyed men find blue-eyed women more attractive than brown-ey...models of either eye color. Similarly, brown-eyed men showed no preference for either blue-eyed or brown-eyed female models. However, blue-eyed men rated...

Why Popeye only has eyes for spinach

...tudies in the UK have shown to affect up to 12% of men and 29% of women over the age of 75. "The macula is a small area of the retina responsible for seeing detail and colour in our central field of vision," said Dr Ian Murray, who is leading the research in Manchester's Faculty of Life Sciences. "Ou...

Incidence of stroke decreases over last 50 years

...rs) decreased from 19.5 percent to 14.5 percent in men age 65 years and from 18.0 percent to 16.1 percent...ithin 30 days of stroke decreased significantly in men (from 23 percent to 14 percent) but not significantly in women (from 21 percent to 20 percent). "...

Halving daily cigarette quota has no health benefit

.... They base their findings on more than 51,000 men and women, all of whom were aged between 20 and 34...n who cut back, where the reverse was true. And men who cut back only had slightly lower death rates from all causes combined than the heavy smokers dur...

Smoking changes brain chemistry

... magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to study 21 men and 22 women, age 21 to 59, in a smoking cessation program two weeks after quitting and again six months later. Patients were encouraged to use nicotine patches during the initial six weeks of smoking cessation; however, only 36 of the patients compl...

How many genes does it take to learn? Lessons from sea slugs

...f independent evolution in the lineages leading to men or sea slugs. Moroz and his collaborators uncovered new information that suggest that gene loss in the evolution of the nervous system is as important as gene gain in terms of adaptive strategies. They believe that a common ancestor of animals had...

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