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First-born babies may be programmed to have a higher risk of asthma and allergy, research suggests.
As the country faces a critical shortage of health care workers to meet the needs of millions of aging baby boomers, researchers and clinicians at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston are rising to the challenge by training and educating those who will be on the front lines of care.
Green TeaPhoto ©Pam Stephan I love to drink green tea. In the news is an intriguing claim that a chemical found in this beverage may be a powerful weapon against breast...
HRT in the early postmenopausal period is safe, and healthy women going through the first few years of the menopause who need HRT to relieve symptoms should have no fears about its use. This is the conclusion and clinical advice of the First Global Summit on Menopause-Related Issues, which was held in Zurich on March 29th and 30th, 2008.The Zürich Summit was attended by global experts in menopause and related issues.
HRT in the early postmenopausal period is safe, and healthy women going through the first few years of the menopause who need HRT to relieve symptoms should have no fears about its use. This is the conclusion and clinical advice of the First Global Summit on Menopause-Related Issues, which was held in Zurich on March 29th and 30th, 2008.The Zürich Summit was attended by global experts in menopause and related issues.
Even couples that have been together for years may be embarrassed to let a spouse or partner see their less than perfect bodies naked in bright light. That shyness can hamper a couple's willingness to do total body skin exams on each other to check for a new or recurring melanoma. Melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, can appear in more than one spot so these checks are important.
Neuroscience researchers at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore have shown for the first time what happens to the visual perceptions of healthy but sleep-deprived volunteers who fight to stay awake, like people who try to drive through the night.The scientists found that even after sleep deprivation, people had periods of near-normal brain function in which they could finish tasks quickly.
MPs vote to keep the upper time limit for abortions at 24 weeks - despite attempts to cut it.
About 150 people in southern Indian have now died from drinking poisonous illegal alcohol, police say.
Experts are to investigate whether magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners can damage health.
Some of the world's leading cardiologists have urged peers at their biennial world congress to recognise the full extent of the dangers of tobacco, in relation to heart disease and stroke. They are allying themselves with youth to help combat tobacco use and other lifestyle factors that threaten global health.
Mutations in two genes that control electrical excitability in a portion of the brain involved in sleep create a human-like insomnia disorder in mice, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found. The findings may help scientists better understand the disorder and provide an animal model for developing treatments."This is one of the most dramatic sleep-disturbance mutations," said Dr.
Thirty-percent of ambulatory seniors over the age of 65 living in a community fall every year. Another 50% of the same age group living in long-term care facilities suffer from at least one fall annually. One in 10 of these falls in turn results in a fracture.1 Falls represent the leading cause of death for people over 65 and the number of fall-related deaths continues to increase with every passing year.
Help the Aged today responded to the Government's unveiling of a nationwide 'dignity tour' by Care Services Minster Ivan Lewis. The Charity has highlighted figures unveiled in its annual Spotlight report, also released today, which show the proportion of older people who say they are not always treated with dignity when in hospitals is 22 per cent .
The New York Times on Monday profiled the ninth annual "Father-Daughter Purity Ball" in Colorado Springs, Colo., which was held on Friday to promote abstinence until marriage. According to the Times, it is not certain how many purity balls are held nationwide, but the
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