Health News

Forward-facing buggies may cause psychological damage to babies
A new study suggests that babies may face lasting psychological damage if they are pushed in buggies facing away from their parents. ANI

17month-olds brain repaired with superglue in U.S.
Doctors in New York have prevented a 17 months British toddler from succumbing to an extremely rare medical condition called aneurysm, by repairing her damaged brain with superglue. ANI

Bad cholesterol inhibits breakdown of fat in cells
A study at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet has revealed that the so-called bad cholesterol (LDL) inhibits the breakdown of fat in cells of peripheral deposits. ANI

Health News for September 30, 2007

ituitary hormone prolactin may play part in breast cancer: Study
Scientists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson in Philadelphia have found that prolactin, a pituitary hormone which stimulates breast development and milk production, initiates a new signaling pathway that may regulate the growth and survival of breast cancer cells. ANI

Genomic profiling of lung tumor might help in effective treatment
A new study has revealed that by determining the genetic profile of a particular lung tumor doctors may be able to decide which chemotherapy treatment to try first. ANI

UK records steep rise in lifestyle diseases in 5yrs
British experts have revealed that there has been a steep rise in the number of people suffering from diseases caused by notorious lifestyles like poor diet, lack of exercise, and increase in alcohol consumption in the past five years. ANI

Mere heath information may worsen obese kids weight status
While it has long been assumed that obese children can be encouraged to get back to shape if they are provided with a little bit of health information, scientists have now found that mere sharing of information may in fact worsen kids weight status. ANI

Working during adolescence linked to increased risk of smoking
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have found that working during adolescence raised the risk of a childs taking to smoking at an earlier age. The researchers focused their study on 14 to 18-year-old adolescents, and found that the subjects who worked more than 10 hours per week also started smoking at an earlier age than their peers. ANI

Occupational exposures may raise death risk from autoimmune disease
Occupational exposures in farming and industry-such as asbestos, solvents, benzene, pesticides and other substances-may increase a persons likelihood of dying from systemic autoimmune diseases, say researchers. ANI

New discovery may hold hope for inflammatory eye disease treatment
Researchers have discovered that uveitis, an inflammatory eye disease may be treated with a compound that blocks the action of aldose reductase, an enzyme essential to the production of inflammatory signaling molecules. ANI

Excess weight may be cause of high BP in 50pc of overweight adults
Italian researchers have found that as many as 50 percent of overweight men and women with high blood pressure may have hypertension as a result of being overweight, and not obese. ANI