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Children with TVs in their room sleep less

Medicine & Health / Health
September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

Middle school children who have a television or computer in their room sleep less during the school year, watch more TV, play more computer games and surf the net more than their peers who don't – reveals joint research conducted ...

Gene associated with pair-bonding in animals has similar effects in human males

Medicine & Health / Research
September 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 18 vote(s) | User comments: 5

Variation in the gene for one of the receptors for the hormone vasopressin appears to be associated with how human males bond with their partners, according to an international team of researchers.

Study: Bypass better than stents in long term

Medicine & Health / Research
September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 7 vote(s) | User comments: 2

(AP) -- For heart patients with clogged arteries, the choice between bypass surgery or an angioplasty may come down to one question: How many procedures would you like to have? In research presented Monday at the European ...

Study shows no connection between measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism

Medicine & Health / Research
September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 6

In a case-control study, the presence of measles virus RNA was no more likely in children with autism and GI disturbances than in children with only GI disturbances. Furthermore, GI symptom and autism onset were unrelated ...

Study: Teen suicide spike was no fluke

Medicine & Health / Other
September 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | User comments: 9

A troubling study in the September 3rd Journal of the American Medical Association raises new concerns about kids committing suicide in this country. After a one year spike in the number of suicides, doctors were hoping ...

Doctors say Vytorin-cancer link can't be ruled out

Medicine & Health / Cancer
September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

(AP) -- Results from three studies of the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin are not enough to prove or rule out a possible link to a higher risk of cancer, so the drug should be used with great caution until more is known, ...

Changes in urine could lead to BSE test for live animals

Medicine & Health / Other
September 05, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1

Researchers have demonstrated that protein levels in urine samples can indicate both the presence and progress of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) disease in cattle. Publishing their findings in BioMed Central's open ...

Sex hormones link to heart risk

Medicine & Health / Research
September 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s) | User comments: 2

Men are more prone to – and likely to die of - heart disease compared with women of a similar age – and sex hormones are to blame, according to a new University of Leicester led study.

European agency warns of possible Botox side effects: report

Medicine & Health / Medications
August 31, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s) | User comments: 2

Months after US authorities sounded the alarm, European officials are warning of dangerous possible side effects from the wrinkle-smoothing injection Botox, according to a German news report.

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