Friday, April 27, 2012

G-Spot Found?

The declared G-spot is a tiny bunch-of-grapes-like analysis aural a bluish sac active abysmal aural the advanced bank of the vagina, says Adam Ostrzenski, MD, PhD, of St. Petersburg, Fla. "As an arrect body, this analysis is causing acclivity of the [front of the] vaginal bank at the alpha of the animal excitement," Ostrzenski tells WebMD. G-Spot? Maybe Not But Ostrzenski's award is based on a distinct dissection, performed on a afresh asleep 83-year-old...

Berries May Slow Anamnesis Loss

The abstraction included added than 16,000 women who are demography allotment in the Nurses' Bloom Study. Researchers accept been befitting tabs on the women's diets back 1980. Between 1995 and 2001, advisers additionally abstinent the brainy action of women who were over 70 and had not had a stroke. Mental activity was abstinent during three blast interviews that were spaced about two years apart. In the interviews, advisers asked the women to...

Cholesterol Levels in the U.S. on the Decline

Slightly added than 13% of U.S. adults had aerial cholesterol in 2009-2010 -- a 27% bead from the 18% with aerial cholesterol a decade earlier, the CDC says. High cholesterol -- levels of 240 milligrams per deciliter of claret or college -- is a above accident agency for affection attacks. The CDC advisers didn't appraise affidavit for the decline. But experts who advised the allegation for WebMD acclaim the added use of cholesterol-lowering statin...

Mad Cow in U.S. Raises Aliment Assurance Questions

The USDA says the apprehension of the California cow and its abatement from the aliment alternation shows that our aliment assurance affairs is working. But critics say we've aloof been lucky. Since 2006, the USDA has been testing alone 40,000 beasts a year for mad cow ache (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE). But anniversary year we annihilation 35 actor cattle. That bureau 99.9% of beasts are not tested. According to a 2006 USDA estimate,...

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Stopping Claret Thinners Raises Achievement Accident for Patients With Irregular Heartbeat

When patients with atrial fibrillation stop demography anti-clotting drugs, their achievement accident goes up quickly, new assay finds. That accident increases about the aforementioned whether they are demography warfarin or a newer, added big-ticket drug, Xarelto (rivaroxaban). Atrial fibrillation is an aberrant affection accent in which the high accommodation of the affection convulsion or agitate instead of application correctly, adopting the...

Heroin Addicts Accept Higher Affliction Sensitivity, Even During Treatment

Heroin addicts generally accept an added acuteness to pain, and this acuteness does not abate over the advance of analysis with methadone or added opioids, new analysis finds. Researchers from the University of California-Los Angeles approved to actuate how added acuteness to affliction (also alleged hyperalgesia) ability change as a heroin aficionado moves from biologic corruption to stabilization and eventually to aliment on a pain-treatment opioid...

Experimental Biologic Eases Autistic Behaviors in Mice

experimental biologic bargain two signature characteristics of autism — repetitive behavior and aberrant amusing interactions — in class mice, new analysis finds. The drug, GRN-529, targets glutamate, a above neurotransmitter begin throughout the academician that’s complex with activating neurons, or academician cells. Advisers accept the admixture works through a specific glutamate receptor (mGluR5) and decreases glutamate activity. Researchers...