Three Kinds of Drugs That Can Kill Your Sex Drive

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Three Kinds of Drugs That Can Kill Your Sex Drive

If you're having sex drive issues, check your medicine cabinet. Several varieties of prescription medication can dampen desire.

Birth control:
Some hormonal birth control methods such as pills and patches can increase women's levels of sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), which drops the amount of testosterone that's floating around freely in the bloodstream

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Yellow fever in Paraguayans

Sue Wu submitted, created time 9 months 2 days (www.reuters.com)

Thousands of Paraguayans blocked highways and banged on the doors of health centers on Tuesday, demanding vaccines after four people died in the first outbreak of yellow fever in 30 years in this South American nation.

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Letting the Genome out of the Bottle — Will We Get Our Wish?

davidd submitted, created time 10 months 1 week (content.nejm.org)

Genome analysis is being more affordable for us. As of November 2007, two companies have made available direct-to-consumer "personal genome services" (www.23andme.com) or "gene profiles" (www.decodeme.com) that rely on the same arrays of 500,000 to 1 million SNPs used in genomewide association studies. A third company (www.navigenics.com) has announced that it will offer similar services later this year.

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Drug firms accused of biasing doctors' training

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 11, 2007

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The American Chemical Society News Service Weekly Press Package with reports from 35 major peer-reviewed journals on chemistry, health, medicine, energy, environment, food, nanotechnology and other hot topics.

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Information Technology Comes to Medicine

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Judging from the excited rhetoric of some of its enthusiasts, health information technology (HIT) has the power to transport us to almost a dreamlike world of health care perfection in which the work of doctors and the care of patients proceed with barely imaginable quality and efficiency. For many physicians, however, especially those in solo or small practices, HIT conjures a very different image — that of a waiting room full to bursting, a crashed computer, and a frantic clinician on hold with IT support in Bangalore.

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Twin studies reveal genetic components leading to cardiac and kidney disease

alpha submitted, created time 1 year 7 months (www.biologynews.net)

"Daniel O’Connor, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine has studied about 265 twin pairs over the past few years, which has led him to some surprising discoveries.“

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I know what you're thinking...

drunkard submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.nature.com)

Just by looking at the pattern of firing in your brain, neuroscientists can tell whether you are thinking about moving your hand to the left or to the right. They can tell if you have seen something you didn't even know you saw, and, now it seems, they can tell which mathematical operation you secretly have in mind.

"We wanted to see how far we could go with reading peoples' thoughts from their brain activity," says John-Dylan Haynes, lead author of the a study just published in Current Biology.

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