The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.
... Despite evidence that a group of experimental blood substitutes nearly tripled the risk of heart attacks and caused a 30% increase in deaths, the Food and Drug Administration continued to approve some ...
... research suggested that persistent exposure to organochlorine pesticides may increase the risk for some types of testicular cancer, but that observation had not been replicated in an independent data ...
Postmenopausal women taking hormone therapy appear to have an increased risk of stroke regardless of when they started treatment, according to a new report. Compared to women who had never used ...
... some of the more subtle differences so we can get beyond broad generalizations to a real understanding of the risk, and then design effective responses.”
Young men, ages 18-24, who have sex with men ...
... constipated so they don’t strain during bowel movements,” she says.
McLennan found that the risk of prolapse in women with a family history dramatically increases among those who delivered three or ...
... chromosome. The cells also had two gene markers indicating that the patients had a high risk of relapse.
All the patients had been treated through a clinical trial sponsored by the Cancer and ...
Timber workers have high dioxin levels in their blood and many are heavily exposed to PCP, resulting in an increased risk of respiratory disease, a study has found.
... brain.
A variation in the ApoE gene, a known risk factor for dementia, was also more common among those whose ... twice as likely to do so.
Stroke was not a risk factor for women, despite a similar rate ...
Hybrid cars are so quiet when operating only with their electric motors that they may pose a risk to the blind and some other pedestrians, research by a psychologist suggests. In some contexts, ...
... that life is getting increasingly hazardous, you may be interested in the new book, "Operational Risk Management," by Mark D. Abkowitz, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt ...
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When the inflammatory protein levels were included in the scientists’ statistical analysis, the heightened risk from obesity disappeared.
“What this tells us is that both obesity and the ...
The risks of developing Alzheimer's disease differ between the sexes, with stroke in men, and depression in women, critical factors, suggests research published ahead of print in the Journal of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Government regulators on Friday said encouraging wider use of a powerful painkiller made by Cephalon Inc. raises the risk of potentially fatal misuse of the drug....
... medications they need, and not having a regular source of health care – and that puts their health at risk.”
The first study shows that children whose parents lose or change jobs were twice as ...
