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Air pollution affects the heart

Air pollution is known for its adverse effects on the heart among the young and old.There are tiny pollutant particles called PM10s, which have a diameter of less than ten micrometres. These can cause problems with lung and heart function, by entering the circulation, especially in people with pre-existing disease. According to a new study by researchers at Harvard University now reve...

Passive smoking affects respiratory system

Scientists have produced strong evidence that passive smoking has a lasting impact on the respiratory systems of children. A team from the US National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta studied data from 3,400 children aged 3 to 16 years. The researchers analysed the children's blood to determine the concentration of a substance called cotinine, produced when the b...

Particulate matter affects lung development

When children living under polluted, hazy skies move away to communities with cleaner air, their lungs begin to grow more quickly, according to a study by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.Preventive medicine researchers followed more than 100 children through their teen years and compared those who moved away to other communities in the West.Resulting changes in air poll...

Attitude affects life's quality

According to a new study, your attitude about life may not only help you live longer, it may also help you enjoy life more. Researchers at the University of Illinois, found two years ago that optimists live longer than pessimists. Now, the same group of researchers// looked to see if one's outlook on life affects their quality of life. In the 1970s, participants were assessed using a...

Brain damage affects artistic skill

Researchers in the US felt that artistic skill is often preserved after brain damage. It's not really known how the brain influences artistic creativity. But you might assume that brain damage from a stroke, dementia, or trauma// - would destroy your ability to create. Researchers at University of Dallas, set out to look at how professional and amateur artists, as well as those with no in...

Smoking habit affects your baby's health

To ensure the health of their children most expecting moms will do whatever needs to be done. Whether it be vitamins, right diet or plenty of rest. But are those moms who smoke, ready to set aside their habit or smokers who live or work with expectant moms willing to put their habit on hold for the sake of the child? A statistics that came out of a recent meeting of the Bax...

Race Affects Sleep in Children

A new study shows Hispanic children are more likely to suffer from sleep disorders than white children. Researchers from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and the University of Minnesota School of Medicine examined data from the Tucson Children’s Assessment of Sleep Apnea study.The study consisted of more than 1,200 surveys completed by parents with children between ages 4 an...

Dad's Age Affects Baby

The age of your father when you are born may affect your risk of schizophrenia. Researchers in Denmark found an increased risk of schizophrenia associated with advanced paternal age, particularly in females. Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder that distorts the way a person thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives reality and relates to others. It is a life-long disease that cann...

Age Affects Lung Disorder

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome is a severe injury to most or all of both lungs. Patients with ARDS have severe shortness of breath and often are on life support. //A new study finds the age of a patient affects his chance of developing ARDS after a trauma. ARDS is not a specific disease; instead, it is a lung dysfunction that is associated with a number of diseases including pneum...

Exercise Affects Alertness

A new study shows exercise may allow for better brain development and may cause a person to become more mentally engaged.// Researchers from the Oregon Health and Science University studied 24 primates to determine if exercise causes physical changes in the brain. Researchers say they used monkeys for their study because they did not want environmental factors such as smoking, drinking...

Survey shows how bipolar disorder affects the quality of life for patients

A global survey on bipolar disorder conducted by the World Federation for Mental Health reveals that patients of the // disease feel that their quality of life suffers because of their disease. Bipolar disorder is a psychotic disorder characterized by successive feelings of elation and depression. Also known as manic-depressive illness that affects 3 to 4 5 of the global adult populati...

E-Mail Affects Brain More Than Marijuana

Today’s technology has replaced the smoking pot and cigar of the 70s. If you want to kill your brain //cells in true 21st-century style, just stay on your cell phone and check your e-mail multiple times over the course of an afternoon. A study commissioned by Hewlett-Packard shows that today's dependency on daily technology, including e-mail and cell phones, can be slightly more detrim...

Obesity, diabetes in pregnant women affects babies

New York, Aug 28 : Researchers report that mother to be who are obese and have associated diabetes can have impact on the growth of their unborn babies. Researchers examined the possible link between obesity, diabetes and three adverse pregnancy outcomes // - primary caesarean delivery, pre-term birth and low birth-weight (LBW)- by racial, or ethnic group. Terry J. Rosenberg...

Alcohol Drinking Affects Risk Of Colorectal Tumours

Drinking beer and alcohol increases the risk of colorectal tumours, while drinking wine in moderation lowers the risk, according to a study. // The study, conducted by Joseph C. Anderson, M.D. and colleagues at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, was meant to examine the impact of regular alcohol consumption on the detection of significant colorectal neoplasia in a screening...

Heavy alcoholism has adverse affects on sex life in healthy males

That alcohol is the culprit in many of the illnesses affecting man was generally known. It has now emerged that addiction to alcohol can adversely affect sex life and the sperm quality in healthy men as well. // A new study by Indian scientists led by Biochemist Koonakapalyam Ramasami Muthusami in Coimbatore has found that chronic alcoholism decreases the level of testosterone in men. T...

Bisphenol A in plastics affects brain

Bisphenol A (BPA) is used in the manufacture of plastics used in food industry. BPA present in the plastics as a tendency to become highly unstable due to break in its chemical linkage// and integrates with the food in the container causing damage to human health. BPA is found to be an artificial estrogen which may lead to breast cancer and developmental problems. Estrogens is a female se...

Depression affects one in 10 U.S. teens: study

Nearly one in every 10 American teenagers experienced major depression last year, and less than half received proper treatment, according to government statistics // . Overall, nine percent of teenagers, or 2.2 million, were depressed, with older teens more at risk than their younger peers, said the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, or SAMHSA. The olde...

Season affects weight loss drive: summers the best!

New Year brings with it the burden of making resolutions. But how true are they? We all know. We might decide // to loose weight and look gorgeous at the New Year’s but it gets relegated to the summer season. March is when most people actually try to follow through on it, as put by a study based on a survey. According to a survey by the research firm NPD Group, March is the pe...

Doctor Shortage Affects Women And Babies' Health

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has said that there is a severe shortage of specialist doctors and this is putting women and babies' health in jeopardy. // The report also called for 1,000 consultants to be appointed so that this shortage can be overcome. The report said that the problem was that O&G was becoming unpopular because doctors were not sure if their car...

Gum Disease Affects Diabetic Children Earlier Than Anticipated

Researchers from the Columbia University Medical Center have found that the lethal impact of diabetes can affect the gums much earlier than anticipated. Researchers from the Mailman School of Public Health and Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center also collaborated in this study, which// appears in the February issue of Diabetes Care. "Our research illustrates that programs to prevent and treat p...

Location largely affects weight

Contrary to popular belief that input less than output is the key to weight loss a new study says that location of work and home is what determines weight. // This study comes from the Canadian Institute for Health Information which shows that where we live, learn and work can help make or break our battle against the weight gain. According to Elizabeth Gyorfi-Dyke, directo...

Baby Bottle Tooth Decay Affects Kids Physically and Emotionally

February is being marked as the National Children's Dental Health Month and the focus is on preventing tooth decay. Despite the widespread use of fluorides and school water // fluoridation projects, preschoolers are developing cavities at an alarming rate. However, it must be pointed out that the problem begins much before the kid reaches the school stage. Baby Bottle Tooth Decay affe...

Bird flu affects the export of poultry products to Sri Lanka and Nepal

In Sri Lanka the Health Ministry Epidemiology Unit Director Dr Nihal Abeysinghe said that the country has banned import of all the poultry products from India. This is due to the result of the confirmation of the first bird flu infection death in India. // They are requesting the public to avoid importing poultry products from India. He also said that if the virus was not contained by th...

Pesticide exposure penetrates the womb and affects blood and brain

Harvard school of Public Health released alarming data that children in Ecuador whose mothers were exposed to pesticides while pregnant had increased blood pressure and diminished ability // to copy geometric figures as compared to a control group. This is the result of an epidemiological study in the March issue of Paediatrics. Philippe Grandjean, adjunct professor in the Departme...

Mind Affects Body –Link between Anxiety Disorder, Depression and Obesit

Childhood depression and anxiety disorder has a connection with obesity risks as they grow up, more so, in the case of women, according to a new study. // A team of researchers led by Sarah E. Anderson, M.S., from Tufts University carried a study on a group of 820 people - 403 women and 417 men - who underwent assessment four times between 1983 and 2003. The participants were in the age...

Insomnia affects direction and route memory negatively

According to a US study insomnia or loss of sleep affects finding way around negatively. It has an impact on route and navigation and there is difficulty finding the way around.// This was tried and tested on rats. When sleep was tampered with rats' spatial memory was affected. Still, experts at UK were not convinced and divided over the findings published in the Journa...

Ape Humans? Alterations in Proteins Affects Genes.

Did you know that the genetic code of chimpanzees is so much alike the code of humans, almost a 98% similarity, and perhaps that explains why they ‘ape’ us. And yet, // there are glaring differences, despite the 98% similarity, that make us humans. According to scientists, it was not a different set of genes that caused the difference, but a difference in the manner the genes were utilize...

Use Of Alcohol During Pregnancy Affects Newborns

A new study in Australia has found that babies born to women, who are hospitalized for alcohol-related reasons during pregnancy, have poor birth weight and lower APGAR scores and are more likely to be put under special care. // These women have a higher number of previous pregnancies, smoke more heavily and are less likely to be privately insured, according to the study in the April i...

Global Seagrass Decline Affects Shallow-water Ecosystems

Disappearance of seagrass beds around the world has resulted in sharp decline in important habitats, food sources and sediment stabilizers affecting the shallow-water ecosystems // , according to Frederick Short, researcher of natural resources and marine science, University of New Hampshire. The disappearance of underwater meadows has deeply affected even the commercially valuable va...

Viewing TV During Lunch Affects Children's Food Intake

According to a latest research, it has been found that children who have the habit of watching TV during lunchtime are prone to overeat than if they don't watch. // And it has also been found that those children, who are not in the habit of watching TV during lunchtime, ate comparatively less if they are made to watch TV shows. Dr. Lori Francis, assistant professor of biobehavioral hea...

Mothers Diet During Pregnancy Affects Childs Behavior

According to a recent study, it has been found that intake of foods during pregnancy plays a vital role shaping the child’s behavior. Scientists have found that the intake of diet// and behavior of child are interrelated, and for mothers whose young children are misbehaving may have eaten less nutritious food at the time of pregnancy. Dr. Laura Murray-Kolb, a postdoctoral fellow at Penn...

Pollutant TBT Affects Hearing in Marine Mammals

According to the researchers from Yale School of Medicine it is found that chloride ions are critical to hearing in mammals//. Joseph Santos-Sacchi, professor in the Departments of Surgery and Neurobiology and first author of the study said that hearing in marine and other mammals could be affected by environmental toxins, such as TBT (tributyl tin). The study indicates that this envir...

New Immigration Rule Adversely Affects Indian Doctors

For many young Indian doctors the dream of getting trained in the UK, is about to get a lot more difficult, with the new immigration rule that makes it mandatory to have a work permit. // The new immigration rule is to be implemented from this July making it mandatory for a non-European doctor to have a work permit to train at the UK's National Health Service (NHS). The rule to obtain...

Indefinite Strike By Doctors Affects Medical Services In Delhi

Medical services in all the major hospitals in the capital were severely affected Saturday as resident doctors continued their indefinite strike against// a proposed reservation quota for backward classes. Patients from outside New Delhi who had come to the hospitals seeking better treatment are regretting their decision. "I arrived at the All India Institute of Medical Sci...

UV Rays Affects the Power of Vision

According to the recent survey which was conducted in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata it was shocking to realize that many people are not aware of the harmful effects of ultra-violet (UV) rays. // The results are that about 85% of the people in Mumbai are unaware that UV rays affect the eyes. About 73% of the people do not go in for a regular eye check-up. It is also found t...

Drug Controller General to Withdraw Drug that Affects Vulture Population

Concerned at the effect of the anti-inflammatory drug Dicolofenec on the country's vulture population, the Drug Controller General has decided to withdraw licences for manufacturing it for veterinary use //. At a press meet here today, the director of the prominent NGO Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS), Asad R Rahmani, presented a copy of Drug Controller General Ashwini Kumar's May...

Stress Affects Fertility

A new research has shown that stress may be one of the main reasons for infertility in women, which is preventing thousands of otherwise healthy women in Britain from starting a family //. Many women who struggle to conceive could increase their chances greatly by learning to cope more. Scientists have stated yesterday that many women who are struggling to conceive could greatly incre...

Cell Phones EMF Affects Brain - Study Finds

From a double-blind study, Italian researchers have found that brain cortex gets excited, when exposed to electromagnetic fields from cell phones. // An article published in the journal, Annals of Neurology revealed the effects of electromagnetic field from cell phones on the human brain functioning, having implications for patients with epilepsy, or other neurological conditions. <...

Stress At Job Adversely Affects Blood Pressure

Researchers from Laval University, Quebec say that chronic job stress can raise blood pressure. This is especially true of white-collar workers. // The research, appearing in the American Journal of Public Health, found that low support levels and tight deadlines increased blood pressure especially in men. The study followed 6,719 workers over more than seven years. "Our study supports...

Ecological Changes affects human health, food security

Scientists are now monitoring data human welfare, spread of infectious disease and food security using remote sensing technology and satellite imagery in order to acquire the proper balance between ecological systems//. Doug Goodin, the geography professor of Kansas State University has used a satellite imagery to enable the study of changes in land use, and land cover and its related...