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People suffering from fatty liver disease may be three times more likely to suffer a stroke than individuals without fatty liver, according to a study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the London Health Sciences Centre. The study is the first to find a link between non-alcoholic fatty liver disease - a disease characterised by the accumulation of fat in the liver in non-drinkers - and stroke.
Read more >>Chronic diseases
The ability to ride a bicycle could hold the key to diagnosing certain forms of Parkinson's disease after doctors found it was far cheaper and more accurate than a battery of tests.
Read more >>Infectious diseases
Stomach flu is one of those ailments that tends to strike from time to time - and it sees a crush of patients crowding into area physician offices and hospital emergency rooms as individuals of all ages suddenly find themselves laid low by a highly contagious and quick-striking virus.
Read more >>[Dr Ananya Mandal, MD] Planning a trip to the UK? The flu season continues to affect more people and experts have warned the Britons are still at risk as the surge in flu cases has still not yet peaked. The cases would increase they warn, over the next two to four weeks.
Read more >> Medical Research
Emotional crying is a universal, uniquely human behaviour. When we cry, we clearly send all sorts of emotional signals. In a paper published online recently in
Science Express, scientists at the Weizmann Institute have demonstrated that some of these signals are chemically encoded in the tears themselves. Specifically, they found that merely sniffing a woman's tears - even when the crying woman is not present - reduces sexual arousal in men.
Read more >>Babies, even those too young to talk, can understand many of the words that adults are saying - and their brains process them in a grown-up way.
Read more >>Breast feeding newborn babies has lots of advantages in the short and in the long-term for babies. A study has confirmed the recently discovered benefits, which had not been researched until now. Adolescents who are breast fed at birth have stronger leg muscles than those who received artificial milk.
Read more >>A study by Canadian researchers examined the prevalence of maternal depression and its impact on children newly diagnosed with epilepsy. Prevalence of depression in mothers ranged from 30%-38% within the first 24 months following a child's epilepsy diagnosis.
Read more >>The
British Medical Journal on Wednesday (% January 2011) accused a disgraced British doctor of committing an "elaborate fraud" by faking data in his studies linking vaccines with autism.
Read more >>Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre (WFUBMC) have discovered what may become a new weapon in the fight against breast cancer. For the first time, a peptide found in blood and tissue has been shown to inhibit the growth of human breast tumours in mice, according to a study recently published in the journal
Cancer Research.
Read more >>Researchers have produced a lasting anti-cocaine immunity in mice by giving them a safe vaccine that combines bits of the common cold virus with a particle that mimics cocaine.
Read more >>Medical Technology
[Dr Ananya Mandal, MD] Soon scientists will be able to detect a single cancer cell among the billions of cells that circulate in the human bloodstream.
Read more >> Mental health
Taunted, harassed, and pushed to a deadly breaking point. Last year, stories of teen bullying brought to life the heartbreaking consequences of young lives cut short by ruthless and unchecked behaviour. While recent media coverage of these violent acts has increased national awareness of bullying's deadly consequences, it has done little to stop it from happening.
Read more >>Nutrition
The record prices of staple grains in 2008 made investment in agriculture an attractive proposition for countries exporting as well as importing food. The African Union (AU), with its mix of producers and buyers, has been steadily gearing up for self-sufficiency.
Read more >>Food prices began to climb in the second half of 2010 and are at their highest since the 2008 crisis, according to new figures released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Read more >>Oncology
Elevated fat and cholesterol levels found in a typical American-style diet play an important role in the growth and spread of breast cancer, say researchers at the Kimmel Cancer Centre at Jefferson.
Read more >>Many young people who've just learned that they have cancer also are told that the therapies that may save their lives could rob them of their ability ever to have children. Infertility caused by chemotherapy and radiation affects a sizable population: Of the 1.5 million people diagnosed with cancer in 2009, nearly 10% were still in their reproductive years.
Read more >>Paediatrics
A multidisciplinary clinical practice guideline, "Tonsillectomy in Children" will be published in the January issue of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (watch for a new cover and publisher in that issue of the journal).
Read more >>Lifestyle changes between childhood and adulthood appear associated with whether an individual will maintain, improve or develop high-risk cholesterol levels, according to a report in the January issue of
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
Read more >>Tuberculosis
Viveve, Inc, a development stage women's health company, has announced that it has received the European CE (Conformite Europeenne) mark for the use of its Viveve System for the non-surgical treatment of laxity of the vaginal introitus (opening), after childbirth, to improve female sexual function.
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