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Stress Found To Worsen Acne In Teenagers

Acne is a condition of the skin that affects more than 80 percent of teenagers and up to 25 percent of adults. While stress has often been cited // as a source of acne, these claims have been unsubstantiated until now. Twenty-two university students participated in this study. Each participant had at least one academic examination within the time of the study. Exam sessions are common so...

Stress may Worsen Acne

Researchers say stress may worsen acne! Acne is a condition of the skin that affects more than 80 percent of teenagers and up to 25 percent of adults. While stress has often been cited as a source of acne, these claims have been unsubstantiated until now. Twenty-two university students participated in this study.Each participant had at least one academic examination within the time o...

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...

Caffeine Found To Worsen Diabetes

A cup of coffee at breakfast may be making an individuals diabetes worse, report researchers who conducted a study to determine how caffeine impacts blood sugar control and insulin levels. Early studies done suggest, // drinking two cups of instant coffee a day significantly impaired glucose tolerance in men with type 2 diabetes. More recent studies have associated caffeine with decreased...

Depression Can Worsen Heart Disease

Depression in people may accelerate the heart conditions by releasing the levels of a protein that causes inflammations. In a study of 32 people with heart failure, the 14 patients who felt the most depressed had nearly twice// the levels of this protein in their blood. The protein, tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), is one member of a large family of proteins called c...

Explosion Worsens Conditions Of Patients With Respiratory Disorder.

Health care sector officials fear that the explosion will cause severe respiratory dysfunction among asthmatic and elderly patients.// The explosion ejected black thick smoke which is still hung over the city.Hospitals have already prepared themselves to take in patients with breathing difficulties due to the smoke. Some of the problems encountered could be congestion of the...

A strategic study: Soy diet makes heart disease to worsen in male mice

Soy which is generally considered excellent for health has a counter which states that heart conditions became worse in male mice carrying a genetic // mutation for heart disease when they were fed a soy diet. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or HCM was the mutation that the male mice carried and were severely affected by the soy diet. It was shown by enlarged heart muscles and eventual hear...

NHS Dentistry Would Worsen After the New Reforms

NHS doctors say that after the new reforms very few patients were expected to come in. the main reason being that there is a radical overhaul of dental charges to take effect next week. // This has angered the dentists who are threatening to leave the NHS. A survey showed that out of 45 local dentists in England 23 responded saying that this would be the net result. The survey was carri...

9/11 Escapees Have Worsening Respiratory And Psychological Problems

Federal health officials have revealed that many people who escaped from the horrifying attacks on the World Trade Center or 9/11 attacks //suffered from respiratory ailments and depression, anxiety and other psychological problems even three years after the event. Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the people who escaped from the WTC were at...

Passive Smoking Worsens Allergies

A recent study has revealed that passive smoking worsens allergies.The study, entitled “Challenge with environmental tobacco smoke exacerbates// allergic airway disease in human beings” can be found in the Articles in Press area of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI) Web site located at www.jacionline.org. The JACI is the peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of...

NHS Dentists Shortage worsens over New Contracts

Official figures released have shown that over 1,600 dentists have quit the NHS rather than sign new contracts. Around one in 10 has rejected Labour's reforms//, which has left around one million patients without an NHS dentist. Besides this another lot of dentists are still "in dispute" over the changes. If their issues are still not resolved, they will be forced to leave the Health...

It's the Heat and the Humidity: How Each Worsens Gout Symptoms

Climatic factors such as heat and humidity that lead to dehydration can signal a future attack for gout sufferers, according to research presented this week at the American// College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington DC. Gout, caused by deposits of monosodium uric crystals, causes severe pain and swelling of the joints. The attacks, which typically affect one joi...

Children’s Immunization Status Worsens as Mothers’ Income, Education Rie

Mothers with more income and education may be less likely to keep their children’s immunizations up-to-date, a large new study finds. // Children in the poorest Hispanic and non-Hispanic black families were more likely to have received the recommended childhood vaccinations compared to children of non-Hispanic white mothers. “This finding, at least in the case of immunizatio...

Obesity Worsens Life Quality of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

Researchers have found that obesity worsens the quality of life of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on four key levels including pain, fatigue, physical function and overall utility scores. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Dr Siri Lillegraven at Diakonhjemmet Hospital, Oslo. As part of the study, researchers examined 1041 obese patients an...

Prison Healthcare Under Strain as Overcrowding Crisis Worsens, Warns BMA

Recent figures from the Prison Service revealed that the prison population in England and Wales reached a peak of 80,846 at the end of May and that there were fewer than 300 cells available for new inmates. The prison authorities have already begun using police cells to house prisoners in some areas of the country. Dr Ashok Rayani, a prison doctor and member of the BMAs Civil and P...

Marijuana Worsens Breathing Problems in Current Smokers

Marijuana worsens breathing problems in current cigarette smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study presented at the American Thoracic Society 2007 International Conference. The study found that among people 40 and older, smokers were two-and-a-half times as likely as nonsmokers to develop COPD, while smoking cigarettes and marijuana together...

Mild Stress During Pregnancy may Worsen Offspring's Risk of Cerebral Palsy

A new study has shown just how important it is for mothers-to-be to relax, by finding that chronic mild stress may increase the risk that their offspring will develop cerebral palsy . Cerebral palsy is a group of neurological disorders marked by physical disability. Though the study was conducted on a mouse model, the researchers from Inserm, l'Institut national de la...