Hormones

Corticosteroid therapy significantly reduces treatment failure in patients hospitalised with severe community acquired pneumonia who have high inflammatory response, a study has found.  

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Drinking sugar-sweetened beverages can suppress the hormone cortisol and stress responses in the brain, but diet beverages sweetened with aspartame do not have the same effect, according to a...  

1. Early menopausal hormone therapy shows no effect on atherosclerosis progressionEarly initiation of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) improves some markers of...  

A new study measured rises in levels of oxytocin - the 'love hormone' responsible for maternal bonding - in both dogs and owners when they gaze into each others eyes.  

The ability of hormones to regulate the genes responsible for external sex organ growth and development evolved nearly 400 million years ago in our aquatic ancestors, University of Florida...  

Inexpensive tests could help prevent cardiovascular problems and early deathHighlights High parathyroid hormone levels and subsequent bone loss are...  

A review of two clinical trials that are a part of the Women's Health Initiative delves further into the association between hormone therapy and the risk of breast cancer.  

Researchers have identified a peptide and hormone that when administered to a specific area of the brain may reduce the desire for food.  

University of Georgia entomologists have unlocked one of the hormonal mechanisms that allow mosquitoes to produce eggs.  

Pre-birth exposure to high levels of the male sex hormone testosterone has already been shown to confer evolutionary advantages for men: strength of sex drive, sperm count, cardiovascular...  

The Women's Health Initiative Studies, a large prospective study of lung cancer, found no strong associations between lung cancer risk and a wide range of reproductive history variables and only...  

Research has discovered a role for prolactin, the hormone that stimulates milk production in nursing mothers, in the bond between parents.  

An experimental drug rapidly shrinks most tumors in a mouse model of human breast cancer, researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  

Using melatonin could provide more and better quality sleep compared to using an eye mask and earplugs in a simulated noisy and illuminated environment, according to research published in open...  

Currently under consideration as a heart failure treatment, new research shows that the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra may work very differently in women than in men.  

A Blood Pressure Hormone Implicated in PsychosisIn an effort to find a marker that predicts psychosis, postdoctoral researcher Lindsay Hayes, Ph.D.  

Hormones may not protect women from heart disease or stroke after menopause, but when combined with cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, they may help protect women from these killers, shows a...  

Among prescriptions filled for menopausal hormone therapy (HT) in the U.S., almost half now are custom-compounded 'bioidentical' hormones, according to analysis of a recent survey of nearly 500...