Washington, Mar 4 : The next time you raise your glass for a toast, remember this line: two or more alcoholic drinks a day could raise risk of developing pancreatic cancer.

According to a new study, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, drinking is linked to the risk of pancreatic cancer.

The research pools data collected prospectively from 14 research studies, which included 862,664 individuals (319,716 men and 542,948 women). Data collected prospectively means information about dietary and environmental exposures were collected prior to diagnosis with pancreatic cancer.

Researchers identified 2,187 individuals diagnosed with pancreatic cancer during the study.

Washington, Mar 4: Schizophrenia could be caused by faulty signaling in the brain, claim scientists, who found that 49 genes work differently in the brains of patients with the condition.

Many of these genes are involved in controlling cell-to-cell signalling in the brain, the Molecular Psychiatry study said.

The study, which was carried out by researchers at Imperial College London and GlaxoSmithKline, supports the theory that abnormalities in the way in which cells ''talk'' to each other are involved in the disease.

They can detect the virus only if it has been in the blood for 2 weeks

Beware! The blood you just bought from the bank could be infected with the dreaded Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

Blood banks in Rajasthan do not have the facilities to detect the presence of HIV that has just entered the donor’s blood. The banks can detect the virus only after it has been in the blood for more than two weeks.

Washington, Mar 4 : Women who are fat have alterations in their ovaries which might be responsible for an egg''s inability to make an embryo, says a new study.

The study will be published in Endocrine Society''s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

Fat women who try to become pregnant experience longer times to conception, even if they are young and have a regular menstrual cycle. This study sought to determine if there are alterations in an egg''s environment in obese women which contribute to poorer reproductive outcomes.

Washington, Mar 4 : The more obese a man, the worse his sex life, concludes a new study, which claims that fatness could be biologically associated with diminished sexual quality of life.

According to the study, which will be published in The Endocrine Society''s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), hormonal changes and poor sex life among obese men are related to the degree of obesity, and both are improved after gastric bypass surgery.

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