Regular exercise in adolescence and young adulthood may help cut a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer before menopause, according to a US study published.
The women who were the most physically active were 23 percent less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than the women who got the least exercise, the researchers wrote in the [...]
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. [...]
Blocking a single brain enzyme helped short-circuit a key hunger signal in mice and made them eat less, lose weight and have better blood sugar control, US researchers have said.
While much more research lies ahead, they said the finding may lead to new treatments for obesity and diabetes in humans.
“We believe we have identified an [...]
In comparing the brains of these people to others who had all the memory-robbing symptoms of Alzheimers, the researchers said on Tuesday they found those who avoided dementia consistently had a larger part of the brain called the hippocampus.
It is a structure vital to memory formation located in the brains temporal lobe. Everyone has two [...]
The researchers disagree about whether this damage shows that Parkinsons disease is a long-term, ongoing process that continues to attack the brain into old age, or the result of the transplants themselves.
But they agree that their studies, published in the journal Nature Medicine, demonstrate the benefits of the sometimes controversial brain cell transplants.
I think these [...]
The University of Michigan researchers estimated that based on their findings, published on Wednesday, the lives of 200 of the roughly 370 fetuses killed yearly in US vehicle crashes would be spared if all pregnant women wore seat belts.
Seat belts absolutely protect the fetus - and not wearing a belt is a big problem, Dr [...]
Premature birth and low birth weight have been recognized in earlier studies as risk factors for a number of developmental problems, including autism and other illnesses.
But the study of 91 children, who were born around between 7 and 14 weeks prematurely and weighed 3.3 pounds (1.5 kg) or less at birth, was the first to [...]
They said mice given a high dose of chemotherapy after fasting thrived while half of a group of well-fed mice died, they reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The researchers stressed that people should not try this on their own yet but said the findings might lead to a way to use [...]
The finding extends the total number of genes linked to the disease to 16 and provides clues to how the biological mechanisms that control blood sugar levels go awry when people get type 2 diabetes, the researchers said.
None of the genes we have found was previously on the radar screen of diabetes researchers, said Mark [...]
By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG, China (Reuters): Clarissa Poon was one of an estimated 50 million people who contracted mosquito-borne dengue fever last year. She spent an agonising week on a drip in a Bangkok hospital as she battled the potentially deadly disease. %26quot;There was not a single moment when I wasn’t aching everywhere, [...]
