Archive for January, 2009

Gluten sensitive enteropathy (GSE) is an autoimmune enteropathy due to food gluten intolerance in genetically predisposed people. Buy cialis pills While GSE was thought to be a rare disease in the past and was believed to be essentially a disease of Europeans, recent screening studies showed that GSE is one of the most frequent genetically based diseases occured worldwide. Iron deficiency Read the rest of this entry »

A report published in the November 10 issue of Archives of
Internal Medicine finds that people who sleep less than 7.5
hours per day may have a higher future risk of heart disease. Kazuo
Eguchi, M.D., Ph.D. (Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan) and
colleagues also find an increased risk of heart disease among people
who have little sleep combined with overnight elevated blood pressure.
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Up to 150,000 people suffering from severe asthma in the UK could benefit from taking antifungal medication already available from pharmacists, new research has found. University of Manchester scientists found that pills used to treat everyday fungal infections greatly improved symptoms of asthma in those patients that had an allergic reaction to one or Read the rest of this entry »

Acne and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) patients are the condition groups most likely to watch streaming or downloaded television programs on the Internet, according to pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company Manhattan Research’s just released Cybercitizen® Health v8.0 consumer study and strategic advisory service. The study also found that consumer media preferences overall Read the rest of this entry »

Are genes destiny? Alternatively, are we simply the products of our environment? There is a growing sense that neither of these two possibilities fully captures the essence of the risk for psychiatric disorders. New light is being shed on the complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors as the result of growth in the field of epigenetics. While genetics is the study of how variation in gene sequence or "genotype" influences Read the rest of this entry »