Contrary to the moans of many dieters, being hungry may make you happy. Or, at least, it can be a serious motivator whose evolutionary intent was to help you find dinner instead of becoming dinner. When our bodies notice we need more calories, levels of a hormone called ghrelin increase. Ghrelin is known to spur [...]
virtually every medical discipline, there are unanswered questions pertaining to women’s health and well-being. Closing the gender gap in medical research may require more than simply including women in research studies, says Teresa Woodruff, executive director of the Institute for Women’s Health Research, recently launched by Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine.
Teresa Woodruff
Since the early [...]
Heavy marijuana use can boost blood levels of a particular protein, perhaps raising a person’s risk of a heart attack or stroke, US government researchers said.
Dr Jean Lud Cadet of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health, said the findings point to another example of long-term harm from marijuana. [...]
Researchers found that among 341 3-year-olds, those whose mothers ate more than two servings of fish per week during pregnancy generally performed better on tests of verbal, visual and motor development.
On the other hand, tests scores were lower among preschoolers whose mothers had relatively high mercury levels in their blood during pregnancy.
And mothers who regularly [...]
Numerous experts are questioning the scientific premises and the overall strategy of the nearly $500 million in AIDS vaccine research funded annually by the U.S. government.
The recently closed studies, STEP and Phambili, used the same vaccine%26#8212;made from a common respiratory virus called adenovirus type 5 that had been crippled and then loaded with fragments [...]
But she said the FDA wants a broad and systematic review. She wrote, “We also noted that quality of life issues related to LASIK had not been evaluated consistently, and there were few reports of well-designed studies.” Frustration and sorrow can follow any unsuccessful [...]
They said as many as half of all patients with sickle cell disease could be helped by hydroxyurea, but no more than 3 per cent to 5 per cent are likely using the drug.
A shortage of doctors specializing in sickle cell disease, along with a batch of rumours about the drugs safety, worsens the problem, [...]
In a study of nearly 29,000 US women age 45 or older, researchers found that those who had the most low-fat dairy in their diets were slightly less likely to develop high blood pressure over 10 years.
They found a similar blood pressure benefit when they looked at the womens intake of calcium and vitamin D [...]
The Bill %26 Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $1 million to Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute to study ways to prevent premature births and stillbirths worldwide.
The money is paying for research by the newly established Office for Prevention of Prematurity and Stillbirth at Children’s, which is partnering with researchers and investigators from around the world [...]
WASHINGTON — The government abruptly halted aggressive treatment in a major study of diabetes and heart disease after a surprising number of deaths among patients who pushed their blood sugar to super-lows — findings that call into question a growing movement in diabetes care.
Wednesday’s move doesn’t affect health guidelines for most Type 2 diabetics, but [...]
