Tweet Washington: Researchers are developing what may be the first oral contraceptive for men without any side effects as it does not contain steroids. Columbia University Medical Centre researchers found that low doses of the drug stopped sperm production with no apparent side effects. And crucial for a contraceptive, normal fertility was restored soon after [...]
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Tweet Washington: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), which causes difficulty in breathing, fever, chest pains and cough, is the leading cause of infectious death among the elderly. New research at The University of Texas Health Science Centre suggests why older people are vulnerable to CAP. They found that when it comes to aging and pneumonia, one bad [...]
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Tweet Washington: The US Food and Drug Administration approved Friday a new treatment for AIDS which, used with other antiretroviral medications, blocks the reproduction of the HIV virus that causes the disease. Developed by Johnson & Johnson, TMC278, also known as rilpivirine, is especially for patients who have never begun HIV treatment, the FDA said [...]
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Tweet Washington: A potential vaccine for non-human primates may eventually open the way for a vaccine against HIV, researchers say. A team led by Louis Picker, associate director of the Oregon Health and Science University’s Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI), produced a vaccine candidate that programmes the immune system of non-human primates to respond [...]
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Tweet Washington: Are clothiers turning young girls into sex objects? According to a new study, up to 30 percent of young girls’ clothing available online in the US is sexy or sexualizing. Sexualization occurred most frequently on items that emphasized a sexualized body part, such as shirts and dresses designed to create the look of [...]
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Tweet Washington : A specific form of Vitamin E can improve the most severe form of fatty liver disease in some children. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease among US children. It ranges in severity from steatosis (fat in the liver without injury) to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH (fat, [...]
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Tweet London : Tens of thousands of women should reconsider use of the so-called third generation contraceptive pill to reduce the risk of a potential blood clot. Women taking so-called third generation contraceptive pills, developed in the 1980s, are up to three times more likely to suffer a blood clot than those who use older [...]
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Tweet Washington: Getting the aged to analyse videos of chatting people would show up whether they are able to detect sarcasm and lies and so help diagnose degenerative diseases like dementia and Alzhemier’s early on. A team from the University of California in San Francisco mapped their brains using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which showed [...]
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Tweet London : Alcohol cheers some people while it pushes others into depression. This could predict who is likely to have a problem with drinks – those who get high on alcohol are far more likely to become addicted. Though often described as a depressant, alcohol contains a mixture of stimulant and sedative effects, with [...]
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Tweet London : Drinking more than a cup of coffee daily lowers stroke risk among women by 22 percent to 25 percent, compared to those who drink less. Low or no coffee consumption was associated with a higher risk of stroke in a study of 34,670 women, aged between 49 and 83 years, followed for [...]
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