Posts tagged: getting
Getting pregnant while on a diet may lead to an obese baby: Study
Researchers found in a study on sheep that giving ewes less food at the time of conception caused DNA changes in the brains of their young. The University of Manchester scientists suspect the findings may hold true for humans as well and could explain why twins are more likely to ...
Why Getting Healthy Can Seem Worse Than Getting Sick
A new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology helps explain why the immune system often makes us worse while trying to make us well. The research offers a new perspective on a component of the immune system known as the acute-phase response, a series of systemic changes in blood ...
Why getting healthy can seem worse than getting sick
A new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology helps explain why the immune system often makes us worse while trying to make us well. The research offers a new perspective on a component of the immune system known as the acute-phase response, a ...
Why getting healthy can seem worse than getting sick
(University of Chicago Press Journals) A new article in the Quarterly Review of Biology helps explain why the immune system often makes us worse while trying to make us well.
Not Enough Young Women Getting Tested for Chlamydia: CDC
By Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- Far too few sexually active young women are getting tested for chlamydia, an oversight that could lead them down a perilous path to severe health consequences, including infertility, later in life. ...
Getting Healthcare Workers To Take Flu Jab – They Need To Believe They Work
A study published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, reveals that believing in the actual effectiveness of the seasonal flu jab is by far more effective in persuading healthcare professional to get vaccinated, as compared with potentially protecting patients from risking infection. In several developed nations, clinicians on the frontline ...
Getting People Newly Diagnosed With HIV Disease Into Care – Issue Of First Guidelines
Leading AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and other institutions around the world have issued new guidelines to promote entry into and retention in HIV care, as well as adherence to HIV treatment, drawn from the results of 325 studies conducted with tens of thousands of people infected with HIV, the ...
First guidelines issued for getting people newly diagnosed with HIV disease into care
(Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Leading AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and other institutions around the world have issued new guidelines to promote entry into and retention in HIV care, as well as adherence to HIV treatment, drawn from the results of 325 studies conducted with tens of thousands of people ...
Getting the measure of MRI
(Medical Xpress) -- A method for imaging the brain that has largely been confined to neuroscience labs may now find its place as a proper tool for medical diagnosis.
The leading cause of death for diabetics: Getting to the heart of problem
Millions of people suffer from type 2 diabetes. The leading cause of death in these patients is heart disease. Joseph Hill and colleagues, at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, have now identified, through their work in mice, a potential new therapeutic approach to reduce the prevalence of ...
Getting caffeine fix as easy as taking deep breath
(AP) -- Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say the novel product is not without its risks.