Dr. Gojka Roglic, of the World Health Organization reports that revised computations of de aths due to diabetes triples the original number, bringing the figure to 2.9 million for the year 2000; thereby, establishing this illness as a leading cause of de ath worldwide.
Dr. Nicolas G. Bazan of the Louisiana State University in New Orleans, and associates at LSU and Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, studied how docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid, affects the human brain.
Doctors have long used frozen pieces of ovary tissue to reconstruct ovaries damaged by chemotherapy or other ovarian failure, allowing affected women to conceive and have children.
More than one-third of New Hampshire women eligible for mammography have either never had the breast cancer screening test or have not been tested in more than two years, a new study shows.
Hispanic adults in the United States are more likely than whites or blacks to have cataract-related vision problems due to language and financial barriers, researchers report.
Women who follow a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet may lose more weight and body fat, particularly when they engage in regular exercise, than those whose diets are low in protein and high in carbohydrates, a team of Illinois researchers reports.
Bipolar symptoms appear to be more prevalent among people with epilepsy than among those with other chronic medical conditions, new research indicates.
Elderly women with breast cancer whose surgeons refer them to cancer specialists are twice as likely to be prescribed tamoxifen, a treatment recommended for preventing recurrence of the disease, a new study shows.
German cancer surgeons have, for the first time, successfully removed a tumour with the aid of new 3-D computer modelling software which the designers say will make these operations safer and more accurate.
A team of researchers at Imperial College London have developed inflatable stockings to give relief to elderly people with mobility problems. The scientists say the stockings could provide an alternative to physiotherapy in treating patients with artery diseases.