Washington, Jan 1 (IANS) Erectile dysfunction (ED) is more common among older men with restless leg syndrome (RLS) than in those without it.
Results show that ED was 16 percent more likely in men with RLS symptoms that occur five to 14 times per month and 78 percent more likely in men whose RLS symptoms occur [...]
Washington, Jan 1 (ANI): A new study has linked restless leg syndrome with erectile dysfunction in older men.
Published in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal Sleep, the study shows that erectile dysfunction was more common in older men with restless leg syndrome (RLS) than in those without RLS, and the magnitude of this association [...]
Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Obese teenage women are two times more likely to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) as adults than female teens who are not fat, says a new study.
The study has been published in the November 10, 2009, print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
The research involved 238,371women [...]
Washington, Nov 4 (ANI): Blood vessels in prostate cancer could act as predictor of how it would behave, say researchers at The Ohio State University and the Harvard School of Public Health.
The study of 572 men with localized prostate cancer indicates that aggressive or lethal prostate cancers tend to have blood vessels that are small, [...]
Washington, Oct 13 (ANI): Parkinson’s patients, who have higher levels of urate, a chemical that at very high level is associated with gout, have slow progression of the neuro-degenerative disease, a new study has found.
Although it is not known if the high levels actually somehow protect patients or simply serve as a marker of protection, [...]
Washington, October 3 (ANI): A new survey carried out by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) has revealed that just 40 per cent of adults are “absolutely certain” that they will get the H1N1 vaccine for themselves, and 51 per cent of parents are “absolutely certain” that they will get the vaccine [...]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Kanuru Sujatha Rao, who was heading the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), took charge as the new health secretary Thursday.
A 1974 batch officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) from Andhra Pradesh cadre, she succeeded Naresh Dayal, who retired Thursday.
Rao was secretary of the AIDS control department in the health [...]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (ANI): Kanuru Sujatha Rao, a 1974 batch officer of Indian Administrative Service from Andhra Pradesh Cadre, has assumed charge of Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, from today.
Sujatha Rao succeeds Naresh Dayal, who superannuated yesterday.
Rao brings rich administrative experience from the health sector to her present assignment. [...]
New Delhi, Oct 1 (ANI): Kanuru Sujatha Rao, a 1974 batch officer of Indian Administrative Service from Andhra Pradesh Cadre, has assumed charge of Secretary, Health and Family Welfare, from today.
Sujatha Rao succeeds Naresh Dayal, who superannuated yesterday.
Rao brings rich administrative experience from the health sector to her present assignment.
She was Secretary, [...]
Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): Men with high levels of lead in bones are six times more likely to die from heart disease, according to a new study.
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and the University of Michigan School of Public Health found that bone lead was associated with a higher risk of [...]
Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): A strong association between the common sexually transmitted infection, Trichomonas vaginalis, and risk of advanced and lethal prostate cancer in men has been found by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The study appears online on September 9, 2009, on the Journal of the National [...]
Washington, August 15 (ANI): Scientists from Brown University and other institutions have moved a step closer to realising quicker and more precise disease diagnoses, and more targeted treatments of many chronic ailments, by taking the first step towards mapping [...]
