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According to Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine who analyzed more than 49,000 U.S. veterans aged 55 and older who developed Alzheimer’s and nearly 200,000 who had no form of dementia, those who were prescribed ibuprofen for more than five years were 40 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s compared with those who did [...]

According to Xinhua,Beijing as officials on Tuesday temporarily closed two kindergartens amid a spreading outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease and the number of children infected in the kindergartens has not been confirmed and the sick are being examined to find out what kind of virus triggered the outbreak.

British scientists universities of Exeter and Oxford said on Wednesday which appears in the Royal Society journal Biological Sciences,that Women on low-calorie diets or who skip breakfast at the time of conception are more likely to give birth to girls than boys.

Study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said that being born prematurely can cause health problems,such as “higher risk of death in childhood, were less likely to reproduce as adults, had slightly lower educational attainment.”

According to a new study led by Prof. Julianne Holt-Lunstad of the Brigham Young University abd published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine, found that happily men and women who were in happy marriages tended to have lower blood pressure compared to single people.

Food and Drug Administration’s center for drug evaluation and research, have identified a contaminant in batches of the blood thinner heparin associated with 19 deaths and is at the point in concluding that the US might be the latest victims of lethal Chinese drug counterfeiting.The unapproved ingredient altered to mimic the real thing in the [...]

A study, led by Professor Adnan Qureshi at the University of Minnesota, unveiled at the International Stroke Conference, said that cat owners appear to have a much lower risk of dying from a heart attack than their feline-spurning counterparts.According to the findings may be that having a cat may reduce stress and anxiety, and so [...]

According to a report released on Tuesday by the Alzheimer’s Association,there were 411,000 new cases of Alzheimer’s in 2000, and there will be 454,000 new cases a year by 2010.Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. Scientists have learned a great deal about Alzheimer’s [...]

According to a new scientific statement released Monday by the American Heart Association (AHA), cocaine use can sometimes be the hidden culprit when young or otherwise healthy patients complain to doctors of chest pain.The report noted that, on most occasions, chest pain related to cocaine use occured within three hours of using the drug.Dr. James [...]

The Hong Kong’s health have confirmed that the killing of chickens in poultry markets in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou was because of the bird flu.Dr. Yuen Kwok-yung, a Hong Kong University professor said according to Time, that this year have a little bit more seasonal flu, perhaps more widespread,but it is not more [...]

She’s only a few days old and already a baby girl in Northern India is being worshipped as a reincarnated god.
FOXNews.com – Baby Girl Born With Two Faces Worshipped as Reincarnated God – Health News | Current Health News | Medical News.

A recent US study Ohio State University and appears in the April issue of the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, found that aromatherapy oils had no physiological effect although they may improve mood for some people.Dr Janice Kiecolt-Glaser,Lead author of the study and professor of psychiatry and psychology at Ohio State University, said that hat the placebo effect [...]

According to a study published in the March issue of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, vitamin E can increase the risk of developing lung cancer.The researchers followed people aged between 50 and 76 for four years and looked at their average daily use of vitamin C and folic [...]

Report, published in the journal Nature Chemical Biology by The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) researchers said Sunday that the influenza viruses coat themselves in fatty material that hardens and protects them in colder temperatures,and when the protective covering melts when it enters the respiratory tract the virus is capable of entering [...]

The Dutch and US research, published in the British Medical Journal, found that acupuncture may increase the success rates of fertility treatment.Acupuncture has been used for centuries in China to regulate female fertility, and in recent years, scientists have been looking at whether it could boost IVF chances.
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British scientists,Newcastle University,have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope could lead to effective treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases within five years.
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