Treating depression helps slow physical decline in older adults, study shows
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...e was not broken during mummification. It is more likely that it was dislodged in the 1925 autopsy, as scientists searched for possible treasures hidden inside the skull." Mr Connolly has also conducted an analysis of Lindow Man - the body found in a peat bog in Lindow Marsh, Cheshire, in 1984, which is no...Gene for age-related macular degeneration discovered by Yale researchers
...aucasian AMD patients are at least four times more likely to have one particular alteration in the CFH gene that produces a different form of the CFH protein compared to individuals without the disease." AMD is a debilitating eye disease affecting about 15 million people in the United States. It destroys vi...Will your kids grow up to be fat?
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..., or had a diagnosis of male infertility were more likely to want a daughter. Based on these recent findings, the researchers suggest that it may be important for clinics, and perhaps society, to determine what is an acceptable use of nonmedical sex selection. The President's Commission on Bioethics has ide...2005 Basic Research in Periodontal Disease Award
...bacterial virulence determinants, glycosylation is likely to play an important role in interactions of the pathogen with the host. Research in this area examines the genetic machinery of glycosylation in Gram-negative bacteria and the role of these modifications in host-parasite interactions...Common anesthetics appear safe for developing fetal brain
... the increase in oxygenation in the fetal brain is likely due to isoflurane, one of the three commonly used agents, which induced reductions in oxygen metabolism along with increases in cerebral blood flow. Isoflurane is known to produce these actions in the adult brain but it had not been appreciated that ...Breakthrough in medical research: New chemotherapy gives hope to brain tumour patients
...owed for the identification of those patients most likely to benefit from this type of treatment. The findings are leading to a new standard of care for patients with this fast growing and devastating cancer. The results of this landmark trial are published in two companion papers in this weeks' edition of ...Women less likely to get quality heart attack care
...ce may be in part because women patients were less likely than men to have a one-on-one session with doctors...le, men treated after the quality effort were more likely to receive pre-discharge prescriptions for all four classes of recommended heart medications than we...Is your job giving you a heart attack? Occupational health conference answers that, and more
...orked 50 hours a week or more were 13 percent more likely to report hypertension than people who work less a...ress and little decision-making authority are less likely to stop smoking, irregardless of their socio-economic levels and intensity of smoking habit. In addi...Violence exposure and traumatic stress reactions can lead to poor health in children
...hese three health problems were significantly more likely to have been exposed to violence within the family...trointestinal problems were almost four times more likely to have post traumatic stress disorder than the children without these health problems. Dr. Graham-...News tips from the 2005, 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American College of Cardiology
...ancer and other diseases, when treatments are most likely to succeed, and for guiding devices during minimally invasive surgery. During a four-month period, the Hopkins team tested 18 different pacemakers and 15 implantable defibrillators previously found safe in animal experiments. In a study of 33 pati...Student identifies electrical changes preceding heart failure
...regions of the heart. The early electrical changes likely contributed to mechanical abnormalities of the heart, and the later changes were a consequence of the compromised mechanical function. The scientists found that both the early and late changes in the electrical properties were required to cause a let...Cigarette smoke worsens respiratory infections in infants
...hood asthma and because African-Americans are more likely to suffer from asthma and to be hospitalized because of it, Castro and colleagues hypothesized that African-American children would be at increased risk for serious RSV infection. But the study showed just the opposite. Another surprise was that chil...Simple question from your doctor can help identify your risk for breast cancer
...showed that minority women were significantly less likely to have this information asked about or recorded than white women. "A woman with a family history of breast cancer is at greater risk of developing breast cancer than women without relatives with breast cancer and as such, many guidelines recommend ......) developed adenocarcioma, while the men were most likely to develop squamous cell carcinoma (36.3%)." The study also found that women had significantly higher rates of survival at every stage of the disease. From 1975 to 1987, the five-year survival rate was 12.1% greater in women than in men, and, from...