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Diabetes Doubles Liver Cancer Risk For Patients With Advanced Hepatitis C
Patients who have chronic hepatitis C with advanced fibrosis have twice the risk of developing liver cancer if they also have diabetes. Recent studies have suggested that diabetes increases one’s...
Quest For Better Treatment For Effects Of Menopause
During menopause, lack of estrogens increases the risk of suffering cardiovascular diseases. Menopause is a natural period in the aging process of a woman. On ceasing the ovary function, the...
New Breathing Exercises Help Manage Asthma
A presentation that demonstrates breathing exercises designed to help reduce the use of asthma inhalers is today available to the general public for free from the Cooperative Research Centre for...
C-sections A Critical Factor In Preterm Birth Increase
C-sections account for nearly all of the increase in US singleton preterm births. Between 1996 and 2004 there was an increase of nearly 60,000 singleton preterm births and 92 percent...
Could Amyloid Deposits Have Potential As Nanomaterials?
Amyloid deposits in tissues and organs are linked to a number of diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, type II diabetes, and prion diseases such as BSE. However, amyloids are not just...
New Vegetarian Food With Several Health Benefits
A new vegetarian food that boosts the uptake of iron and offers a good set of proteins. The food, called tempe, is moreover a whole-grain product with high folate content....
U.S. Reporters Often Do A Poor Job Of Reporting About New Medical Treatments, Analysis Finds
Most medical news stories about health interventions fail to adequately address costs, harms, benefits, the quality of evidence and the existence of other treatment options, finds a new analysis in...
Has Decreased Infection Load Of Infants Led To Increased Allergic And Autoimmune Diseases?
The starting point of the hygiene hypothesis is that the decreasing infection load of infants in the developed countries leads to an increase in allergic and autoimmune diseases. Such development...
Tourists To Caribbean Urged To Pay One Dollar Each To Help Fight Tropical Diseases Of Poverty
In an editorial in this month's PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, the journal's Editor in Chief, Professor Peter Hotez (George Washington University and Sabin Vaccine Institute) proposes that a modest $1...
Skin Defects Set Off Alarm With Widespread And Potentially Harmful Effects
When patches of red, flaky and itchy skin on newborn mice led rapidly to their deaths, researchers looked for the reason why. What they found was a molecular alarm system...
Life, but not as we know it?
Researchers at The University of Nottingham have taken some important first steps to creating a synthetic copycat of a living cell, a leading science journal reports.
When your memories can no longer be trusted
You went to a wedding yesterday. The service was beautiful, the food and drink flowed and there was dancing all night. But people tell you that you are in hospital,...
Key allergy gene discovered
Researchers have found a gene that is involved in allergic disorders, such as asthma, findings that could provide the first step to new treatments.
Passion fruit extract eases asthma
A passion fruit extract developed in New Zealand can significantly reduce the severity of wheezing and coughing in asthma patients, a study has revealed.
Childhood Lead Exposure Linked To Criminal Behavior In Adulthood
Researchers have found the first evidence of a direct link between prenatal and early-childhood lead exposure an increased risk for criminal behavior later in life. Based on long-term data from...
Combining Exercise With Hormone Could Prevent Weight Gain
Pairing leptin with just a minor amount of exercise seems to revive the hormone's ability to fight fat, researchers discovered. The combination of leptin and a modest dose of wheel...
Varied breakfasts boost mental health
Adding fruit to cereal could be the key to a teenager's happiness, according to new research that found varied breakfasts improve adolescent mental health.
Gut superbug causing more illnesses, deaths
(AP) -- The number of people hospitalized with a dangerous intestinal superbug has been growing by more than 10,000 cases a year, according to a new study.
Flu pandemic medical help left in the waiting room
GPs are not an integral part of Australian influenza planning, despite the important role they will play in limiting deaths in the event of a pandemic hitting the country, according...
Kennedy has major cancer bill in Senate
(AP) -- Sen. Edward Kennedy's battle with a malignant brain tumor is likely to put a dramatic personal stamp on a health care cause he first championed nearly 40...
Key to Angelina-like cheeks? Add volume to deep fat compartment
Not only are cheeks central to your face - they are central to the American concept of beauty. A study in June`s Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official...
High throughput microscopy quantifies regulation of estrogen receptor
High throughput microscopy that uses robots and special microscopes and techniques to generate thousands of images of a cell in a short time enabled researchers at Baylor College of Medicine...
'Pixie dust' used to regrow finger
SAN ANTONIO, May 28 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers are testing a regeneration powder that could help injured soldiers regrow fingers and other body parts lost in battle.
New bird flu dangers investigated
ATLANTA, May 28 (UPI) -- A study led by U.S. researchers suggests H5N1 is not the only strain of bird flu that could cause a pandemic.
Hint of Hope as Child Obesity Rate Hits Plateau
Childhood obesity, on the rise for more than two decades, appears to be holding steady, a new study indicates.
New Cancer Stem Cell Driving Metastatic Tumors Identified
The molecular profile of cancer stem cells that initiate metastatic colon tumors is significantly different from those responsible for primary tumors, according to new research. New data, generated by analysis...
Remote pools cut childhood infections
Swimming pools in remote Aboriginal communities are associated with huge redections in skin, ear and chest infections in children, according to a study.
Children in Katrina trailers may face lifelong ailments
(AP) -- The anguish of Hurricane Katrina should have ended for Gina Bouffanie and her daughter when they left their FEMA trailer. But with each hospital visit and each...