A multi-national team of researchers has identified genetic markers that predict educational attainment by pooling data from more than 125,000 individuals in the United States, Australia, and 13 western European countries.
The study, which appears in the journal Science, was conducted by the...
New research from the US shows that regular consumption of coffee is linked to a reduced risk of a rare autoimmune liver disease called primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Study investigator Craig Lammert, a gastroenterologist and hepatologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is...
A new study finds that high potency statins are tied to higher risk of being hospitalized for acute kidney injury compared with less potent statins and that the risk persists for two years. Lead researcher Colin Dormuth, of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, and...
A new study from the US finds that use of aspirin is tied to a reduced risk for hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of primary liver cancer, and also to a reduced risk of death from chronic liver disease. Vikrant V. Sahasrabuddhe, from the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and...
Rituximab, a drug used to treat cancer and arthritis, may help patients with antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) who suffer from aPL-related clinical problems that do not respond to anticoagulation, such as cardiac disease and kidney disease, according to a new study by rheumatology researchers...
Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) - inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract - have puzzled the scientific community for decades. Ten years ago, researchers recognized that both genes and the environment contributed to these diseases but knew little about precisely how...
Having type 2 diabetes appears to give post-menopausal women a 27% higher risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Cancer this week. While the link may be indirectly associated with being overweight, a known risk factor for both diseases...
An analysis that reviews studies covering over two million people finds shift work is associated with a higher risk for vascular events, such as heart attack and ischaemic stroke. The study is the largest examination of shift work and vascular risk to date. The researchers, from Canada and...
More and more women are making the decision to be childfree--but that doesn't mean it's getting any easier to find a doctor who is supportive of or willing to perform an elective tubal ligation on a childfree woman under the age of 40, mostly because they're*afraid the patient will change her...
Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh finished in a dead heat for third place in the 100m dash at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., on Saturday. With the top three runners going to the Olympics, the tie has to be broken. Shockingly, U.S. Track and Field does not have tie-breaker procedures in place...
i seriously don't know what my problem is because i find that when i try to convey my thoughts, it's perfect in my mind but i can't push the thought out into a verbal sentence. <<< see?! i can type it out perfectly as well as think it but if you asked me to explain why i have difficulty...
The largest study of its kind finds that a history of frequent dental x-rays, particularly at a young age, is tied to an increased risk of developing meningioma, the most common type of primary brain tumor in the United States. Dr Elizabeth Claus, a neurosurgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
A new analysis of published and unpublished studies concludes that risk for ovarian cancer is associated with increasing height. It also finds that among women who have never used hormone therapy for the menopause, the risk for developing the disease is also tied to increasing body mass...
In dozens of experiments in mice and in human cancer cells, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists has closely tied production of a cancer-causing protein called TWIST to the development of estrogen resistance in women with breast cancer. Because estrogen fuels much breast cancer growth, such...
Can I get my tubes tied,cut,and burnt without having sex?
I don't ever want kids.I want to be sterile. I plan on doing it when I turn about 25.I don't want sex either.I know,it sounds a little drastic but this is what I want.Can I do this?Will a doctor do this for me?
Think Jay Gatsby is the only one with shirts to weep over? Tobey Maguire sports a seriously stylish period outfit for his role in Baz Luhrmann's take on The Great Gatsby, the classic...
After dropping charges against a suspected nurse on Friday, UK's Greater Manchester Police (GMP) revealed they plan to interview 500 more people in connection with suspicious deaths and up to 40 cases of patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Cheshire, being poisoned after saline...
A common gene mutation that causes sperm to lose its protective protein coat so it falls prey to the female immune system on its journey to the egg, may be the main reason for infertility in men worldwide, writes an international team of researchers in a paper published in the journal Science...
input DC(insolation) is? varying?
For my model, I am getting 500 VAC out of inverter but the grid line is at 208 volts. I am using current control scheme so the inverter is acting as current source but how do i manage to get a 208 volts out of inverter?