Cardiovascular diseases like myocardial infarction are the leading causes of millions of disability and deaths globally. A person’s health condition is determined by environmental factors and through behavior such as diet, smoking, physical activity, and alcohol consumption. However, genetic variations also play an important role. That is the reason why a recent study has been […]
Sunday October 16 2011, 1:13 PM EDT | Posted in
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Each year, 140,000 women around the world die, 14,000 alone are from the United States, due to ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is lethal because it is only detected once the cancer cells are already spreading across other tissues in the body. Majority of ovarian cancer deaths are caused by a serious histological tumor type, rarely […]
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There are growing issues concerning health and forensic DNA databases reflecting and indicating structural disparity and inequality in biomedical study and research. The extent and coverage of genome information can be seen to be uneven by race and class, thus creating digital divide among data gathered for genomic studies. Samples tested for most DNA involved […]
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Experts have become increasingly worried as dozens of children born in the United States and Canada are fatherless due to the increasing popularity of sperm donors and sperm bank facilities. Currently, there are no laws either in the United States or in Canada where the number of children should be limited coming from a single […]
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Despite the decrease in the number of new detected cases for leprosy worldwide, new cases numbering over 250,000 are detected each year, and the eradication of leprosy remains elusive. Currently, there are medical options to prevent leprosy such as BCG vaccination and contact tracing of infants. There are also new future medical options including chemoprophylaxis. […]
Sunday October 09 2011, 12:01 PM EDT | Posted in
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A health panel from the U.S. government said Friday that prostate cancer routine screening does not make any difference in helping save lives among healthy men but instead triggers the necessity of more prostate tests and treatments. The draft recommendations of the Task Force will be made available for public scrutiny by Tuesday. The recommendation […]
Saturday October 08 2011, 11:52 AM EDT | Posted in
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A new study has been released linking certain cancers and fertility problems among women whose mothers had used DES, a synthetic estrogen, during their pregnancy before the drug was banned in 1971. The study has already been published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine .DES or diethylstilbestrol have been prescribed to pregnant women […]
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New York – A new research was published after conducting a study among kids with asthma. The study discredits the relationship between being properly treated in the hospital and having lesser chance to get confined again for the same illness in the future. The study also suggests that there is no difference among hospitals giving […]
Thursday October 06 2011, 7:24 AM EDT | Posted in
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Sibutramine, a medicine for anti-obesity, has been approved Tuesday in Brazil despite being banned in the United States and in Europe. An agency, National Health Surveillance (Anvisa), announced it would ban the selling of amphetamine based weight-loss medications in Brazil but would certainly allow the selling and use of sibutramine based anti-obesity medicines under heightened […]
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Organic foods producers and supporters petitioned Tuesday the U.S. government for the mandatory labeling of all genetically engineered foods produced in the market nowadays. The same group had encouraged all consumers to join their cause and try to go online. A total of 21 petitioners have pleaded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the […]
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