Older smokers are acceptable to accident their blah amount and lose cerebral functions at a greater amount than non-smokers. Cognitive functions absorb thought, anamnesis and advice processes enabling us to apprentice new things and appreciate what is actuality said. The abstraction led by Osvaldo Almeida, analysis administrator of The University of Western Australia, begin that [...]
February 17, 2011 | Posted in
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Retirement leads to a substantial reduction in mental and physical fatigue and depressive symptoms, finds a study published on bmj.com today. However, the research also concludes that retirement does not change the risk of major chronic illnesses such as respiratory disease, diabetes and heart disease. The authors, led by Dr Hugo Westerlund from Stockholm University, [...]
December 2, 2010 | Posted in
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What is Crohn’s disease? Crohn’s disease is a lifelong inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Parts of the digestive system get swollen and have deep sores called ulcers. Crohn’s disease usually is found in the last part of the small intestine and the first part of the large intestine. But it can develop anywhere in the digestive [...]
November 16, 2010 | Posted in
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Researchers at Duke University Medical Center are using computers to identify how one strain of dangerous bacteria might mutate in the same way a champion chess player tries to anticipate an opponent’s strategies. The predictive software could result in better drug design to beat antibiotic-resistant mutations. “This work shows a way to predict bacterial resistance [...]
July 21, 2010 | Posted in
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The chickenpox vaccine is a shot that can protect nearly everyone who gets it from catching chickenpox. It’s also called the varicella vaccine because chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus. The vaccine is made from the live but weakened, or attenuated, virus. Viruses that have been attenuated are less virulent than viruses that are [...]
June 10, 2010 | Posted in
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Young adults who have used cannabis or marijuana for a longer period of time appear more likely to have hallucinations or delusions or to meet criteria for psychosis, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Previous studies [...]
March 5, 2010 | Posted in
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