Strokes more common in women than in men
Last national statistics tell that strokes affect more women then man. Strokes affect women in significant numbers and are gaining more attention from physicians and researchers, who are studying gender differences in symptoms that could improve treatment. Overall, stroke is the country's third...
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First West Nile case in Kansas this year
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Thursday that a 51-year-old in Douglas County had symptoms of West Nile virus. It is a virus of the genus Flavivirus antigenically closely related to Murray Valley virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, and Japanese encephalitis virus, that causes...
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Drinking during pregnancy increase infection risk for baby
Few days ago new study suggests mothers who drink during pregnancy to quit drinking alcohol because of high infection risk for their newborns. Theresa Gauthier, an assistant professor of pediatrics and attending neonatologist at Emory University, in Atlanta, said that excessive alcohol use,...
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Exposing to sun may provide prostate protection
A new study showed that a man exposed to sun are less likely to get prostate cancer than their less tanned one. However, there’s another problem and that’s skin cancer. The greater a person's lifetime sun exposure, the greater a person's risk of skin cancer. The main arguments for this study are...
The death toll from the bad air is rising
Londoners labouring reported 5,800 people will die prematurely because of smog this year at a cost of a billion dollars in health care and lost productivity. That's three times more than estimated in a 2000 study. And if air quality doesn't improve, the medical association warns the annual death...
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Smokers and Obese individuals are biologically older then ot
This sounds very logical to me. If you smoke or are obese you are most likely biologically older than other slim non-smoking individuals, because we all know that obesity and smoking are important risk factors for many age-related diseases. Tim Spector (St. Thomas' Hospital, UK) and colleagues in...
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Over 1 million people in the U.S. infected with HIV
The US government came out with latest research data showing that more than a million Americans have the virus that causes AIDS. This is the first time that the 1 million mark has been passed since the height of the epidemic in the 1980s. The government health officials have failed to accomplish...
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American kids need more physical activities
Latest studies in area of physical activity by American children showed astounding negative results in last decade. Journal of Pediatrics concludes that American children need to get up and away from the TV and computer and out exercising at least an hour a day. There are very clear evidences that...
People who use painkillers increase risk of heart attack
Ibuprofen is one of widely used painkillers. Today’s “Daily Telegraph” reports about latest researches related to painkiller side effects. The researchers say that painkillers can significantly heighten the risk of having a heart attack. They are also concerned about another group of drugs...
First Birth After Ovary Transplantation
An Alabama woman Stephanie Yarber (25) gave birth to a baby girl after the first ovary transplant in the United States. The ovary transplant came from her twin sister Melanie “Her pregnancy went great and her labor went great without any complications” said Dr. L. Braden Richmond. Dr. Sherman...
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