Washington, May 19 (ANI): Older people who are thinner or are losing pounds quickly are at an increased risk of developing dementia, especially if they started out overweight or obese, according to a new study.
The research is published in the May 19, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Washington, May 19 (ANI): A new study on rats has shed light on why cancer patients are more prone to depression.
Washington, May 19 (ANI): Scientists have come up with a theory that attributes the historic migrations of the Polynesians from the Cook islands to New Zealand, Easter Island and Hawaii in the 11th to 15th centuries, to fish poisoning.
Washington, May 19 (ANI): Researchers from Durham University and University of Maryland have developed a new test that will help detect prostate cancer within three minutes.
Washington, May 19 (ANI): Scientists are concerned that the popular cancer drug, rituximab, may increase a person’s chances of acquiring an often fatal viral brain infection, known as progressive multifocal leukoencephalitis (PML), which attacks the brain’s white matter.
London, May 18 (IANS) Exposure to microscopic particles through air pollution can affect some of our genes, modifying the development and the outcome of cancers and other diseases.
“Recently, changes in gene programming due to a chemical transformation called methylation have been found in the blood and tissues of lung cancer patients,” said Andrea Baccarelli, assistant professor of applied biotechnology, University of Milan.
New York, May 18 (ANI): Cancer-stricken Farrah Fawcett’s jailed son Redmond O’Neal has been permitted to say his final goodbyes to his dying mother.
London, May 18 (ANI): Jade Goody’s tragic end has made many people think about their own deaths, says a poll.
The online poll of 1,018 adults in Britain commissioned for the public think-tank Theos found nearly half of women and a third of men admitting that the publicity surrounding Goody’s death from cancer earlier this year made people think about the end of their own lives.
The findings also showed that half the population fears the process of dying.
The survey, carried out last month, also found that 20 per cent people fear both the way they will die and death itself with 30 per cent saying they fear the way they will die but not death itself.
The study also showed that 42 per cent of people aged 65 and over said their religious faith helps them to deal with the death of a loved one and prepare for their own death compared with only 23 per cent of 18-24 year olds.
“This research offers a useful insight into public attitudes regarding a highly personal and emotive subject,†the Telegraph quoted Theos director Paul Woolley as saying.
Washington, May 18 (ANI): American scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, in Portland, Oregon, have revealed that they have tested an automated calling service designed to encourage asthma patients to fill or refill their prescriptions for inhaled corticosteroids (ICS).
London, May 18 (ANI): Alzheimer’s disease may be kept at bay by continuing to work later in life, say scientists.
Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London came up with proposition after analysing data from 1,320 dementia patients, including 382 men.
The researchers found that continuing to work even in old age […]