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A team of scientists from Oxford University in the UK have discovered the reason why people feel drowsier in dim lighting and more alert in bright white light.They have found previously unknown cells in the eye known as the retinal ganglion cells, th ...
Chronic hepatitis B infects 400 million people worldwide, many of them children. Even with three effective vaccines available, hepatitis B remains a stubborn, unrelenting health problem, especially in Africa and other developing areas. The disease an ...
A weather alert service run by the UK's Meteorological Office that forecasts when weather is likely to be bad for COPD patients and alerts them to take simple precautions, has achieved a 20 per cent drop in COPD hospital admissions in areas that ...
Young people who sleep less may be more likely to be overweight, especially if they spend less time in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, according to a report released on August 4, 2008 in Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journa ...
The study, appearing in the American Cancer Society peer review journal CANCER, also finds women, younger survivors, whites, individuals with higher income, and those with more education were more likely to use complementary methods (CM).
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Researchers using conventional, as opposed to high powered MRI equipment, and computer- based methods to analyze the scans, are breaking new ground in the diagnosis of the telltale signs of Alzheimer's Disease, increasing the likelihood that there wi ...
According to a new study by a team at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, the habitual sleep patterns in postmenopausal women could be significant in predicting their risk of an ischemic stroke.
The researchers studied 93,67 ...
Drugmaker Amgen Inc announced yesterday, Monday, that a large trial of its bone drug denosumab increased bone density and cut fractures in men with non-metastatic prostate cancer who were having hormone blocking therapy. A side effect of androgen dep ...
Researchers in France studying over 12,000 couples with fertility problems found that when the man was over 35 pregnancy rates fell and perhaps more surprisingly, miscarriage rates rose, leading them to conclude that the age of the father was just as ...
Data is emerging about use of statins and risk reduction in development of prostate cancer (CaP). How do statins affect PSA?
The authors previously observed that PSA levels decreased upon initiation of statin medications.
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