1819 Articles with the topic: General Medical News
Heavy Drinkers Face Significantly Increased Cancer Risk
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Heavy drinkers of beer and spirits face a much higher risk of developing cancer than the population at large, says a group of Montreal epidemiologists and cancer researchers. Their findings show that people in the highest consumption category increased their risk of developing oesophageal cancer sevenfold, colon cancer by 80% and even lung cancer by 50%. 
Diets Bad For The Teeth Are Also Bad For The Body
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Dental disease may be a wake-up call that your diet is harming your body.
New Device Could Benefit Treatment Of Hand Injuries
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A team of Rice University bioengineering students who invented a device to measure intrinsic hand muscle strength has won two honors* for their patent-pending creation, PRIME. The device could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of hand injuries and neurological disorders, specifically carpal tunnel syndrome.
Chinese Herbs May Relieve Endometriosis Symptoms, Review Finds
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Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) may relieve symptoms in the treatment of endometriosis. A systematic review by Cochrane Researchers found some evidence that women had comparable benefits following laparoscopic surgery and suffered fewer adverse effects if they were given Chinese herbs compared with conventional drug treatments.
Exercise Helps Patients With Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Study Shows
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Counseling patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) on how to increase physical activity leads to health benefits that are independent of changes in weight. These findings are in a new study in the July issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD).
A knockout vaccine for rabies?
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Single injection cures infected mice — and it can protect those who haven't yet caught the disease.
Discovery May Explain Low Fertility Rates In Humans
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands: For the first time, scientists have shown that chromosomal abnormalities are present in more than 90% of IVF embryos, even those produced by young, fertile couples
Study could help target new pancreatitis treatments
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Pancreatitis is often a fatal condition, in which the pancreas digests itself and surrounding tissue. Scientists have previously found that alcohol can trigger the condition by combining with fatty acids in the pancreas, which leads to an excessive release of stored calcium ions. Once calcium ions enter cell fluid in the pancreas it activates digestive enzymes and damages the cells.
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A neuropsychologist talks about the challenges of studying the addicted brain.
Platypus Helps Illuminate Ovarian Cancer
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Researchers from the Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide believe our oldest mammalian relative may help us to better understand ovarian cancer
Student’s Design Helps Piece Together Parts Of The Alzheimer’s Puzzle
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A Kingston University design student has turned his coursework into a budding business venture, launching a jigsaw puzzle ideal for people living with dementia.
Scripps research scientists observe human neurodegenerative disorder in fruit flies
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A team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, Katholeike Universiteit Leuven, and the University of Antwerp, Belgium, among other institutions, has created a genetically modified fruit fly that mimics key features of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a common neurodegenerative disorder that strikes about one out of every 2,500 people in the United States.
Smoking Linked To Brain Damage
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New research which suggests a direct link between smoking and brain damage will be published in the July issue of the Journal of Neurochemistry. Researchers, led by Debapriya Ghosh and Dr Anirban Basu from the Indian National Brain Research Center (NBRC), have found that a compound in tobacco provokes white blood cells in the central nervous system to attack healthy cells, leading to severe neurological damage
Statins May Not Protect Against Pneumonia
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Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs don't lower the risk of pneumonia in the elderly, according to a study that appears to dash hopes for this use of the drugs.
A New Campaign to Fight Diseases of the Wealthy
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Steadily, the line between diseases of the rich (heart disease, diabetes, lung cancer) and those of the poor (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria) has blurred. As citizens of developing nations get fatter and take up tobacco-smoking — habits of the developed world — they are also under increasing threat from the same chronic noncommunicable diseases (CNCD) that ail the wealthy.
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