Cigarette smoking greatly increases the risk of fatal and nonfatal heart attacks in both men and women. It also increases the risk of a second heart attack among survivors. Women who smoke and use oral contraceptives have an even greater risk than smoking alone.
Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have discovered the critical sequence of events by which insulin stimulates the entry of glucose into fat cells. The study, appearing in the May 9 Journal of Cell Biology, was conducted by researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
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Mr. A.K. S., an employee of the Railways suddenly lost sight of his right eye. I saw the case after 18 months. In these months best of Allopathic treatment was done without any improvement. He lost his job also.
Headache specialist Seymour Diamond, with Mary A. Franklin, offers advice and encouragement in Conquering Your Migraine: The Essential Guide to Understanding and Treating Migraines for All Sufferers and Their Families. Collaborators on Coping with Your Headaches and colleagues at the Diamond Headache Clinic, they here examine the most debilitating form.
In the 1990s reported autism cases among American children began spiking, from about 1 in 10,000 in 1987 to a shocking 1 in 166 today. This trend coincided with the addition of several new shots to the nation’s already crowded vaccination schedule, grouped together and given soon after birth or in the early months of infancy. Most of these shots contained a little-known preservative called thimerosal, which includes a quantity of the toxin mercury.
Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. said its experimental obesity drug was effective in helping patients lose weight in a short-term, mid-stage clinical trial, sending its shares up more than 22 percent.
Very early treatment of babies infected with HIV — before age 3 months — is associated with better outcomes than when treatment is delayed, investigators report in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
Pancreatic cancer patients who are given a combination of chemotherapy drugs survive longer than those prescribed a single treatment, Italian researchers said.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first DNA based blood test to help detect cystic fibrosis. The Tag-It Cystic Fibrosis Kit directly analyzes human DNA to find genetic variations indicative of the disease. The test will be used to help diagnose cystic fibrosis in children and to identify adults who are carriers of the gene variations.