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Gender has become a dominant factor in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) during the last decades. Already with a ratio of 3.2 to 1 MS is gradually changing into a disease predominantly among women. Since genetic factors can be ruled out as a cause of this gender related increase, scientific attention is on environmental factors that may increase MS risk in women exclusively.
UroToday.com - The molecular mechanisms underlying development of androgen-independent growth of prostate cancer are largely unknown, and no effective therapies for hormone-refractory prostate cancer exist at present.
Melatonin is typically taken half an hour before bedtime for the first 4 days after traveling. For ordinary insomnia, melatonin is usually taken about 30 minutes to 1 hour before bedtime.
LONDON: Are you alexithymic or anhedonic? You may profit from therapeutic interventions to stimulate your lacrimal apparatus. In other words, if you can't feel emotions or are unable to derive pleasure from good experiences, make yourself weep with medical help, scientists across the world advise.
It makes nine out of 10 people feel better, reduces stress, and may help to keep the body healthy. It's also free, available to almost everyone, and has no known side effects, other than wet tissues, red eyes and runny makeup. Crying may not be a blockbuster drug, but the latest research suggests it's highly effective at healing, and that it improves the mood of 88.8 per cent of weepers, with ...
While women are wired to cuddle after sex, men are wired to get up and go. So even the most satisfying tryst between the sheets can lead to post-orgasmic regret ... unless you demand your snuggle.
METABOLISM: Keeping food consumption under control, a new role for the protein PrP Tatsushi Onaka and colleagues, at Jichi Medical University, Japan, have provided new insight into the network of signals that emanate from the gut and the brainstem of rodents to regulate food intake.
This release contains summaries, links to PDFs and contact information for the following newsworthy papers to be published online, Nov. 3, 2008, in the JCI, including: "Keeping food consumption under control, a new role for the protein PrP"; "The protein FHL1 helps heart muscle cells respond to high pressure"; and "A new regulator of blood vessel formation: the protein AIP1."
Patients with schizoaffective disorder receiving paliperidone extended release tablets for six weeks showed a significant improvement in their symptoms, according to a new study presented today at the U.S.