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Researchers find potential new target for hypertension treatment

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Huijing Xia, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Eric Lazartigues, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, is the lead author on a paper reporting that a recently ...





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System that regulates blood pressure is amiss in some healthy, young blacks

System that regulates blood pressure is amiss in some healthy, young blacks

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 08, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

When stress increases blood pressure, a natural mechanism designed to bring it down by excreting more salt in the urine doesn't work well in about one-third of healthy, black adolescents, researchers report.


The narrow line between love and jealousy

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study carried out at the University of Haifa has found that the hormone oxytocin, the "love hormone", which affects behaviors such as trust, empathy and generosity, also affects opposite behaviors, such as jealousy ...


Scientists uncover new key to the puzzle of hormone therapy and breast cancer

Scientists uncover new key to the puzzle of hormone therapy and breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The use of postmenopausal hormone therapy has decreased over time in the United States, which researchers suggest may play a key role in the declining rate of atypical ductal hyperplasia, a known risk factor ...


New information about how fat increases blood pressure could help identify those at risk

New information about how fat increases blood pressure could help identify those at risk

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created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Some of the first information about how fat causes hypertension have been identified by researchers who say the findings should one day help identify which obese people - and maybe some thin ones too - are ...


Overweight male teens with normal blood pressures showing signs of heart damage

Overweight male teens with normal blood pressures showing signs of heart damage

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created Jun 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Even while their blood pressures are still normal, overweight male teens may have elevated levels of a hormone known to increase pressures as well as early signs of heart damage, researchers say.


Accelerated bone growth may be an indicator of hypertension in children

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children whose bones are "older" than their chronological age may be at an increased risk of hypertension, according to a study reported today in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. As a result, the in ...


Prostate cancer hormone drugs risky for some men

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A new study links hormone therapy for prostate cancer with a higher risk of death in older men who've had serious heart problems.


Short-term hormone therapy and intermediate dose radiation increases survivial for early stage prostate cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Short-term hormone therapy given prior to and during intermediate dose radiation treatment for men with early stage prostate cancer increases their chance of living longer, compared to those who receive the same radiation ...


Hormone mix could cut breast cancer risk and treat symptoms of menopause

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The right combination of estrogen and a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), which blocks the effects of estrogen in breast tissue, could relieve menopause symptoms and cut breast cancer risk, Yale researchers report ...


Study shows hormone replacement therapy decreases mortality in younger postmenopausal woman

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to treat menopausal estrogen deficiency has been in widespread use for over 60 years. Several observational studies over the years showed that HRT use by younger postmenopausal women was ...



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