Researchers in Spain, which has the highest rate of cocaine use in the European Union, will test a vaccine next year that they hope will help addicts break free of their addiction to the drug, health officials said Thursday. The vaccine will be tested on 164 people at a dozen hospitals during the first half […]
Women who get pregnant after weight-loss surgery tend to be healthier and less likely to deliver a baby born with complications compared to obese women, researchers said on Tuesday. An obese woman who has weight-loss, or bariatric, surgery also may increase her chances of getting pregnant in the first place by normalizing her menstrual cycles […]
If breast cancer runs in the family, women can be at high risk even if they test free of the disease’s most common gene mutations, sobering new research shows. The genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are linked with particularly aggressive hereditary breast cancer, and an increased risk of ovarian cancer, too.When a breast cancer patient is […]
A recent study has showed that violence and gangs are linked together.
The study in San Francisco says a high percentage of the city’s homicides can be blamed on gangs and career criminals.
According to the study, 46 of those homicides last year were gang-related.
In evaluating the 98 homicides in San Francisco in 2007, researchers with the […]
Most prescription drug users would be unhappy if one of their medications was switched to another in the same class without their knowledge or their doctor’s approval, a new survey shows.The practice, known as therapeutic substitution, is usually done as a cost-saving measure.
“People may not know about it, but it’s happening, […]
Want to get rid of those extra pounds? Well, then all you need to do is simply write down your daily food intake, for it can double your weight loss, according to a new study.
The study, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, followed 1,700 overweight people over six months, and revealed that those who wrote down […]
The majority of women who experience low libido, poor arousal or face difficulties in orgasming, don’t seem upset by these problems.
These findings are based on one of the largest ever studies of its kind, which probed 32,000 women aged between 18 and 100 plus years across the US, regarding distress bearing on sex life, including […]
A 31-year-old woman has given birth to sextuplets in New York, media reports said Tuesday.The four boys and two girls, delivered 11 weeks prematurely by Caesarian section, weighed between 680 and 900 gm, the New York Daily News reported. Doctors have given them a good chance of surviving.
The six were born at a hospital in […]
Depressed pregnant women face twice the risk of premature delivery than their counterparts with no such symptoms, according to a new study.Besides the increased risk of premature delivery, the study found that the risk grows with the severity of the depressive symptoms, among pregnant women.
These findings also provide preliminary evidence that social and reproductive risk […]
Erectile dysfunction is linked with heart attacks but it is being ignored by general practitioners, a doctor with Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham has warned.
Dr Geoffrey Hackett reported regularly seeing patients referred with erectile dysfunction or ED after a heart attack, only to hear that they had developed erectile dysfunction two to three years before […]