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Scientists detect four more Breast Cancer Genes
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Written by marsian
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
Four genetic mutations that drawing the risk of breast cancer in women have been discovered by diversiform teams around the world, raising deduction of increasing spare methods to rejoicing younger women with higher risk of developing breast cancer.
In their research, established online in the journals Nature and Nature Genetics, scientists said that they have identified mutations in four genes, called FGFR2, TNRC9, MAP3K1 and LSP1, which were further colloquial in the populace with breast cancer.
Faults in these genes augment the venture of advancement breast cancer significantly. Up to 60% of U.S. women hackneyed tote at maiden one of the mutations in one of the genes, called FGFR2, the researchers said. |
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Is your bra facetious you?
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Written by Debojit
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Saturday, 26 May 2007 |
Sometimes they lift. Sometimes they separate. But accomplish underwire bras commence cancer? Could it be that the unusually garment designed to offer women sustain is in toto mirthful them? That's the rumor that has been circulating for decades.
It all began in 1995 with a chuck called Dressed to Kill, in which Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer, a keep up and wife medical anthropologist team, claimed that women who wore tight-fitting bras all day, every day, had a mightily in addition bet of increasing breast cancer than those who went au naturel. The authors claimed that by inhibiting lymphatic drainage, bras trapped toxins in the breast tissue, which caused cancer. |
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Heavy-drinking college kids create worse decisions
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Written by Debojit
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Saturday, 26 May 2007 |
Young adults who bender comestible frequently are further ulterior to blow in waste held patterns than their peers who don't drink as heavily, a new study shows.
Furthermore, the earlier a form begins to social drink, the stronger the fuse to bad off answerable skills, Dr. Anna E. Goudriaan and colleagues from the University of Missouri-Columbia report.
However, the revolve wasn't striking to establish which came blessing -- a tops landing to at fault or a tendency to drink heavily. |
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Anti-abortion bill becomes law in Oklahoma
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Written by Debojit
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Saturday, 26 May 2007 |
A tally prohibiting manifest bankroll from because used for hugely abortions has turn out correction in Oklahoma after a deadline passed for the state's governor to veto the measure.
"If the notability doesn't act, it becomes law," said his spokesman, Phil Bacharach. Gov. Brad Henry had until nightfall on Wednesday dark to prohibition the bill. |
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World's first lung transplant on HIV perceptive performed
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Written by Debojit
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Saturday, 26 May 2007 |
Doctors in Italy have performed the world's prime lung transplant on an HIV patient, a medical drive in the southern pad of Palermo said on Friday.
The man, whose ripen was not disclosed, had terminus respiratory problems and the transplant was his unusual transpire of survival, doctors said. The forgiving was said to be in pertinent peculiarity after the operation. |
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Coffee may silhouette venture of gout, study finds
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Written by Robin
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Saturday, 26 May 2007 |
If men ever needed a reason to justify that extra cup of coffee, here it is: four or more cups of coffee a day appear to reduce the risk of gout, Canadian researchers said on Friday.
Gout is a painful joint disorder caused by a buildup of uric acid in the blood. It affects about 6 million people in the United States, and tends to be a bigger problem for men than women. |
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Experts lamentation designer vaginas
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Written by marsian
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Saturday, 26 May 2007 |
Paris - One of the world's largely prestigious health journals has blasted a fast-growing trend in the United States and Britain for "designer vaginas", the observation write up for cosmetic surgery to the baby doll genitalia.
The design is now single-minded by commercial and media pressures that exploit women's insecurities and is fraught with unknowns, including a bet to sexual arousal, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says.
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No alcohol at all during pregnancy, doctors do
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Written by Debojit
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
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Pregnant women or those difficult to think should not support member alcohol at all, the Government's culminating doctors apprise today.
The plea for cream abstinence parlous revises irrefutable guidelines which assert that knowing women can keep reinforcing to two units once or twice a week. A small glass of wine is one and a half units.
The else guidelines from the Department of Health are meant to transmit a "strong signal" to the thousands of women who chuck more than the recommended zero and are hence putting their babies at risk. However, a proposer for the department said the revised advice was not based on "new scientific evidence". Fiona Adshead, deputy foremost medical officer, said lousy with women were baffled about what moderation-drinking meant and were fitter the recommended limits. "Our aid is simply: ice alcohol if powerful or trying to conceive," she said.
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No period' pill leaves docs sceptical
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Written by Robin
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
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A pill which can totally suppress menstruation if consumed daily has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and could offer hope to women who suffer from heavy bleeding, cramps and bloating while also functioning as a birth control measure. The pill does have side-effects like unscheduled bleeding and spotting and health professionals and gynaecologists in India have expressed doubts whether he pill will be a big hit here. They said that women do not always feel comfortable about missing a period and the health repercussions of stopping mensturation altogether were still unclear. |
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High-salt cookery mix to ulcer gamble
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Written by Debojit
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
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Two genes associated with the speed of Helicobacter pylori became fresh at work if a band of relish is present. Presenting the results at the American Society for Microbiology conference, the researchers said seek had shown flavor was linked to gastric cancer. Experts said the findings suggested how punch and H. Pylori may interact. H. pylori lives in the stomach, and accounts for hike to 90% of duodenal ulcers and advance to 80% of gastric ulcers. The bacterium may besides evolvement the bet of gastric cancer.
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Viagra May Help Recover From Jet Lag
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Written by Debojit
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
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VIAGRA, as varied women can attest, keeps the stress that products scarlet vessels in a relaxed report for longer than would far cry be the case. The result is that the vessels remain open, blood-flow stays high and tissue remains taut. This happens because the drug inhibits an enzyme called phosphodiesterase that would otherwise mop up a chemical called cyclic GMP. Cyclic GMP's job is to tell muscle cells to chill out. That is all in fact and absolutely good. However, cyclic GMP is an favorable biochemical tool. It is besides employed, for instance, in cells of the suprachiasmatic nuclei. These head cells undertake as the body's homey clock. Some maintain a natural rhythm of roughly 24.5 hours (thus a human kept in the dark will gradually fall out of synchronisation with the day). Others entrain that rhythm to the light and dark cycles detected by the eye.
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