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OBESE LIL' GIRLS !! SWEAT IT OUT OR U MIGHT BE ASTHAMATIC !!!

Yes its true , this salient disclosure revealed its truth when then Researchers of Arizona University did a study headed by Dr. Fernando D. Martinez According to Dr.Fernando D.Martinez and collegues , girls who become overweight or obese when they are between 6 and 11 years of age have a sevenfold increased risk of developing asthma .The boys do not have any such associated risk of asthma...

Suicide might be inherited

According to a new study, children of people with mood disorders who have attempted suicide are more likely to try to take their own lives as well. The link is especially strong among those who have been exposed// to sexual abuse and women who suffer from mood disorders themselves. Research has shown people with a family history of suicide are at increased risk of committing suicide, b...

Cleanliness might lead to Asthma

mong the young. According to a new study out of Switzerland finds children who are exposed to greater levels of dust are actually less likely to also have asthma or allergies. Researchers had parents of children ages 7 to 12 fill out questionnaires// regarding asthma and hay fever. They also took blood samples from the kids to test for measures related to allergic sensitization. Then they...

Stroke risk might be linked to antibody

According to this new study, young women with a self-attacking antibody are at an increased risk for a stroke. Antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) fight a person's own body tissue. //Generally, antibodies fight foreign infections. Researchers say aPL antibodies increase the chance of blood clots, which can lead to an ischemic stroke. University of Texas Health Science Center researchers...

Change in walking might indicate Dementia

According to new research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, they have observed that doctors have a new tool that may help them predict who will develop a form of dementia later in life.// The research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine finds the presence of an abnormal gait in elderly people without dementia predicts the risk of developing dementia. The form of dementia is...

Drug might prevent Prostate Cancer Spread

A drug commonly used to prevent bone loss may also help prevent prostate cancer from spreading and killing men. A new study from the United Kingdom indicates oral sodium clodronate may slow the spread of cancer to the bone and reduce the risk of death. //This is a drug commonly used to prevent bone loss. Estimates show prostate cancer spreads to the bone in about 85 percent of men. The r...

Anemia Treatment for Cancer Patients Might Not be a Good Idea.

Many patients being treated for cancer complain of feeling weak and tried, and doctors often prescribe //an anemia treatment to relieve these symptoms however a new study suggests otherwise. Since anemia has been associated with worse prognosis after radiotherapy, the doctors assumed the treatment would make patients feel better and improve results of the therapy, as well. Not...

Diet might just have an Effect on Breast Cancer

Does what you eat play a role in whether you’ll end up with breast cancer? Maybe, find researchers who studied about 200 healthy women between //ages 20 and 40 for one year. Their research finds those who ate a low-fat, high-fiber diet containing at least eight servings of fruits or vegetables a day had lower levels of the hormone estradiol in their blood than those who ate their usual di...

Tomatoes Might Inhibit the Development Of Prostate Cancer

A new study finds that lycopene is not the only compound in tomatoes that could prevent prostate cancer.Lycopene is a carotenoid in tomatoes that gives //them that familiar red color. Research has suggested lycopene could reduce the risk of prostate cancer. But it is unclear if lycopene itself is responsible for the risk reduction. Researchers from the University of Illinois studied th...

Mad Cow Disease Might Be Linked to Blood Transfusions

The human disease believed to be caused by eating beef from cattle with mad cow disease may also be // caused by blood transfusions from infected individuals, say researchers according to a recent study. In two studies, investigators outline the possibility that the variant form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), which has been linked to a prion protein found in cattle with bovine spon...

Strategies That Might Lower Blood Pressure Questioned

According to a new study simple strategies to improve lifestyle habits may not lower blood pressure in patients with a single high blood pressure reading .// Researchers investigated whether simple interventions, such as providing patients with an information booklet, encouraging lower sodium intake, and advice for a healthier diet, had more or less of an effect as standard care. Near...

Factors That Might Increase The Risk Of Schizophrenia

A history of gluten intolerance, a hereditary disease that affects thousands of Americans, appears to be a risk factor for schizophrenia, according to a new study.// Researchers identified nearly 8,000 people over age 15 , with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. The known risk factors such as socioeconomic class, urban residence, and family history of schizophrenia, as well as untested risk f...

A Drug That Might Relieve Chronic Cough

Cough is the fifth most common complaint seen in the medical office accounting for 30 million office visits annually. Chronic cough is considered a disease of the lungs, organs and tissues of the respiratory tract and upper // part of the digestive tract, or even psychiatric in nature. The common treatments are successful for a great majority of patients with chronic cough. A seizure...

Biochemical Markers Might Help Predict Heart Problems

Damage to the heart is one of the most worrisome long-term side effects of high-dose chemotherapy, say specialists. Hence they feel the // need to identify biochemical markers that might indicate which patients are at greatest risk and how severe their heart disease might be. Troponin I is a protein present only in heart cells. TNI blood concentration is a well-established marker of hea...

Yoga Might Be Helpful For Cancer Patients

According to findings from a recent study researchers say, the ancient Eastern tradition of yoga may have a modern medical application. Lymphoma patients// who took part in yoga classes reported better sleep quality than those in a control group. The study was conducted among 39 lymphoma patients who were either undergoing treatment or who had concluded treatment within the last year. Ab...

Healthcare Professionals Might Want To Rethink Their Dress Code

A new study shows nearly half the neckties worn by medical staff carry disease-causing bacteria. Researchers sampled the neckties of physicians, // physician assistants, medical students and security personnel at a teaching hospital. Their data confirmed that nearly 50 percent of the neckties worn by the medical staff were contaminated with bacteria. Although there is no evidence to sugg...

Embryonic Cells Might Prevent Parkinson’s Disease From Worsenin

Patients with Parkinson’s disease may be able to stop or even slightly improve the progression of the disease if they undergo a surgical procedure to implant // embryonic cells into their brains, say researchers. The cells work by producing dopamine, a neurochemical that helps control movement. People with Parkinson’s don’t produce enough dopamine, which leads to the movement problems com...

Counting Calories Might Be The Ideal Way To Stay Healthy

Burning calories is the means to maintaining a healthy weight. According to a recent Harvard study of 17,000 people, burning an extra 700 to 2,000 calories // a week by walking, playing sports, or doing some other form of exercise increases life span. The health benefits seem to level off at about 2,000 calories a week, which is equivalent to walking three miles a day. Because the amount...

Mixing Ginseng and Blood Thinners Might Be Dangerous

New research shows mixing warfarin with ginseng, one of the best-selling herbal supplements, could have significant consequences. Researches say // anyone who takes both ginseng and warfarin, also known as Coumadin, should tell his or her doctor. They also urge doctors prescribing the anti-clotting drug to ask their patients if they regularly take ginseng. Specialists say warfarin has a...

Cancer Patients Might Be Able To Actually Help Themselves

New research looks at why and what can be done to activate the cells to destroy tumors. Researchers say the failure of these immune cells to kill // cancer may be due to different cell priming or suppressing mechanisms. Researchers now say that they have found a method to activate the anti-cancer cells in mice. For the study, researchers took bone marrow from breast cancer patients and...

Vitamin use in Babies Might Lead to Asthma and Allergies

Starting your kids on vitamins too early may result in asthma or food allergies say researchers. Vitamin supplementation during the first six months after birth has shown an increased risk for asthma in black children // and food allergies in children who are only formula fed. Vitamin use at age 3 was also linked to an increased risk for food allergies but not asthma. A higher risk for a...

Simple Exercises Might Help Vertigo

The inner-ear form of vertigo affects about 64 people in every 100,000. It is most common in people over age 50 and occurs twice as often in women.// Simple exercises performed at home may help patients with vertigo find relief, say researchers according to a new study. Researchers studied 70 patients who had a form of vertigo caused by loose particles floating in the inner ear canal. Pa...

Imaging Modality That Might Help Diagnose Depression

Researchers say they may have found a way to diagnose melancholic depression using an imaging technology that allows them to observe // levels of certain substances in the brain. Melancholia is a relatively common form of depression marked by insomnia, loss of appetite, and loss of pleasure. Results of the study show low levels of the inhibitory transmitter GABA and high levels of the e...

Green Tea Might Help Patients With Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is currently one of the most common male cancers and the second leading cause of cancer death in men.// Findings from a recent study suggests that green tea may help fight prostate cancer . The study, conducted in a mouse model of human prostate cancer, showed that substances called polyphenols present in the drink combat the disease on multiple levels. Polyphenols alter...

New Drug That Might Help Congestive Heart Failure Patients

Most patients with congestive heart failure respond to standard treatments, which include diuretics, ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers. However, nearly 30 percent of these patients return to the hospital //within two months, and some of the medications can cause serious side effects such as electrolyte abnormalities and worsening kidney function. Researchers say a new drug Tolvaptan may be...

Drinking Coffee Might Have Another Benefit ...

Latest research shows that drinking coffee could decrease the risk of liver cancer.Researchers from Japan// pooled data from two cohort studies that showed self-reported frequency of coffee consumption among more than 60,000 people. After adjustment for potential confounders, researchers say they found that those who drink coffee occasionally reduced their risk by almost 30 per cent, wh...

Chlorine might be a cause for Asthma

Chlorine is one of the most widely used disinfectantsfor indoor swimming pools. It has been used for thepast decades due to it's ability to kill Bacteriaefficiently and at a more economical reate. But thischemical might be the likely reason for the suddenincrease in childhood asthma among asthma victims. The culprit is a chemical known as trichloroamine//(chemical name : n...

Pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing

It's the latest wrinkle in research toward finding a pill that will help protect and even treat hearing loss from exposure to loud noise. While the effort is hardly new, experts say it has picked up steam in just the past few years.// Starting in a few months, a group of 600 Marines will face rifle training with not only foam plugs in their ears, but also a drink that tastes very much li...

Gene That Might Be Responsible For Aging

A new study sheds light on the theory that aging is associated with the shortening of chromosomes in non-reproductive cells. Research results suggest the gene responsible for shortening the ends of chromosomes is inherited via the X chromosome. // Investigators measured the length of the end of the chromosomes, known as telomeres, in white blood cell DNA taken from a random sample of fa...

Drug might prevent Prostate Cancer Spread

A drug commonly used to prevent bone loss may also help prevent prostate cancer from spreading. A new study indicates oral sodium // clodronate may slow the spread of cancer to the bone and reduce the risk of death. This is a drug commonly used to prevent bone loss. Estimates show prostate cancer spreads to the bone in about 85 percent of men. The researchers recruited 311 men who were b...

Latest Research Shows That Multivitamins Might Not Prevent Infections In All Elderly

Multivitamin and mineral supplements do not appear to prevent infections in older people living at home, report researchers in Scotland today, raising questions for a significant segment of the supplement-taking population. // Studies in the past have shown that when taking vitamin E supplements, elderly people in nursing homes were 20 per cent less likely to get a cold and also had fe...

Aspirin Might Counter Side Effects of Cox-2 Painkillers

After the failure of Vioxx, pain killer which was found to cause the death of Robert C. Ernst on May 2001 after taking Vioxx. Merck Pharma the manufacturers of Vioxx were asked by the Texas Jury to pay $253.5 million as compensation // to Mrs. Ernst. Over 5 years, about 20 million people worldwide took Vioxx before Merck stopped selling the drug in September 2004, after a clinical trial...

Women might be at increased risk of HIV during pregnancy

Women might be at increased risk of HIV during pregnancy because of their own or their partner's sexual behaviours, or because of the physiological changes during gestation. Irrespective of the mechanism of heightened risk, // findings that rates of HIV acquisition are significantly higher during pregnancy than in the postpartum period, have important implications for HIV prevention, both...

Young Children Might Be Harboring Mental Health Problems

Experts addressing a recent conference at the Institute of Psychiatry in London warned that a tenth of children under five might be harboring a serious psychiatric illness // . In more than 11 % of cases, the children suffered symptoms bad enough to disrupt their daily lives, and failure to spot and treat these conditions early might be cause of unnecessary distress and suffering.<b...

Older generation might pose a threat to increase the NHS budget

A research in the United Kingdom by Dr Foster and his team reported that by 2031 there will be an increase in the number of old people, increase in the requirement of health care facilities for them. // Statistics show us that UK older generation is pressurizing the National Health Sector (NHS).There is an increased rate of Coronary Heart Diseases (CHD), heart attacks and other heart rel...

Cabbage, cauliflower might contribute to cancer prevention

Plants belonging to Brassica family like cabbage and cauliflower have a potent chemical glucosinolates which can aid in cancer prevention. This chemical works very much like anti oxidants and can be used for cancer.// Research on this aspect is taking place across the globe and at present a feasible extraction method and thereby use in therapeutic nutrition is underway. Thes...

The juice of our very own tomato might be helpful in protecting lungs

In a study conducted in Japan it has been shown that tomato juice prevented emphysema in mice exposed to cigarette smoke, which is a known cause of the lung-destroying disease. // The lung protective effect was attributed to Lycopene, present in tomatoes. This study appears to be the first to link tomato consumption to emphysema prevention. As a cautionary word b...

Mental Stress Might Result In Heart Problems

There is a greater chance of people who undergo a lot of mental strain contracting heart diseases, according to a new research which correlated simultaneous changes // in blood pressure and brain activity during stress. Most of what is known about the brain and its links to stress and heart disease has been taken from research on animals. But the new study on humans used functional...

Drinking too much water might be a cause of worry!

So it was drilled into us that drink to your heart’s content to remain fit and stay healthy. But a study done on Boston marathon runners proves otherwise. 488 runners of the Boston marathon were tested for hyponatremia- diluted sodium levels in blood- and it was// found that more than one in eight had the condition. This condition arises when a person drinks too much water during exercis...

Florida State University declares a breathtaking study which might solve the Hepatitis C Virus maze and find a cure!

The Hepatitis virus scare is too much to handle, Hepatitis C alone infects more than 170 million people worldwide. The main danger is to the liver which leads to both acute and chronic liver diseases. // The protective mechanism that denies any anti viral therapy to be produced against it the refusal to reproduce in test tubes for more than a few hours or days. This has been a major prob...