A study by collaborative research team at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University revealed recently that children BMI (Body Mass Index) is a better indicator of poor classroom attendance than these traditional factors or any others. The conclusion of the study is overweight children are at greater risk of school absenteeism than their normal-weight peers.
Previous studies […]

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Scientists at the Los Angeles  University of California have devised an easier approach to find excess glucose in the body.
The researchers say their finding is much less time consuming method than traditional diagnostics ways currently in use, which require a sufferer to either fast overnight before giving a blood sample, or drink a specific amount of glucose and then wait […]

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Research team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have associated abnormal fat metabolism to high risk of heart disease in diabetics.
Researchers had found that an important lipid having the unusual physical properties that are crucial for mitochondria - the operation of the energy-producing cell structures. This lipid, called cardiolipin, is decreased during diabetes causing mitochondria malfunction such as rising the […]

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Recently, a research team used an animal model to investigate potential association between testosterone supplements and renal and cardiovascular disease.
The findings suggest that testosterone supplementation of aging male SHR causes renal injury and thereby exacerbates hypertension. The results also conclude that removal of endogenous androgens later in life (eight months) prevents the development of hypertensive renal damage without altering existing hypertension […]

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A new study in Danmark has concluded that acute sleep deprivation in men leads to more amount of urine, making men’s night time ‘bathroom breaks’ more recurrent.Apart from this main effect on urine productions, the Danish team found that during night time, acute sleep deprivation can affect other areas as well. Their list of other effects includes a reduced fall in blood pressure, […]

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New research report published in the Journal of Urology clams that radiation and hormone therapy for prostate cancer can lead in shrinking of  penis.
BBC News informed that a Turkish scientific team analyzed 47 patients with prostate cancer who received the treatments over eighteen months. They found that the average stretched length of their penises declined from 14,2 to […]

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The impotence is commonly associated to diseases like the drugs dependency, high blood pressure, diabetes, excess of cholesterol, but it is rarely strenghten that this condition may be caused also by consumption of tobacco and of its derivates. Many researches and studies donfirmed that the cigarette smoke can be involved in the process of sexual impotence of the men between the 30 and the […]

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Researchers of University of East Anglia say that rosiglitazone and pioglitazone, two drugs commonly prescribed to treat Type 2 diabetes, double the risk of heart failure.
The online edition of BBC News reported.that scientific team monitored data of over 78,000 patients and concluded that one in every 50 people taking the drugs over a 26-month period would need […]

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Aggressive prostate tumours are a big problem because  they are more likely to spread to other organs. A recent study published in the Journal of the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) found that they were less common in those who ate cauliflower or broccoli at least one day in the week. The explanation of this fact is simple, the two vegetables […]

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