MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'glands'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:28:49 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5028212&cid=t_110587_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhow-you-can-avoid-heat-rash-during-the-hot-summer-months%2F2011.07.15 I just flew back from Atlanta for the 4th of July weekend, and, boy, are my sweat glands killing me. Atlanta has a way of making your sweat glands work overtime, and overworked sweat glands can lead to dreaded heat rash. Heat rash is a common, annoying problem in summertime that develops when sweat glands are blocked, thereby preventing sweat from escaping and irritating your skin. Hot skin trapped under clothing is often affected, leading to red itchy or prickly bumps (hence it’s other name, prickly heat). Humid heat is worse than dry heat, and anything that blocks the sweat ducts such as lying on your back at night, wearing tight fitting clothing or even applying thick sunscreen is a sure way to bring the rash out. Prickly heat is commonly seen in babies who aren’t able to tell us w... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5028212 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:00:24 +0100 5028212 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3526971&cid=t_110587_160_f&fid=36189&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.skinmdblog.com%2F28%2Fskin-pores-and-pore-size%2F Pores are tiny openings on the skin that are found in close association with the hair follicle.  It’s where the secretions of the oil glands come out from. Pore size is determined by a number of factors.  Primarily, it is genetically determined so if you already have enlarged pores there’s really little you can do to make them smaller. Pore size is also related to sebaceous gland activity so if you have oily skin chances are your pores may appear larger than those of your friends with dry skin.  Sun damage and skin aging may also lead to enlarged pores so it’s always important to slather that sunblock on before going out under the sun. Although there is little you can do to actually alter the size of your pores there are some things you could do to make them appear finer.  Find o... Skin MD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3526971 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:20:01 +0100 3526971 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3145939&cid=t_110587_87_f&fid=34872&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blisstree.com%2Fhealthbolt%2Fg-spot-revisited-real-or-mythical%2F Is it real or isn’t it? The G-spot is back in the news and we still don’t really know if it exists. But, what is the G-spot? In the 1950s, a German doctor, Ernst Grafenberg, found that he could stimulate female patients by stimulating a small, very sensitive spot inside the vagina, near the urethra. He wrote a medical article about it, but not much was made of it because women didn’t seem to be able to replicate this feeling. In 1982, a book called The G Spot: And Other Discoveries About Human Sexuality brought the G-spot back into the spotlight and made the term popular. There were articles everywhere about how a woman should be able to find her G-spot, but many women failed to find it. Medical studies have been done to see if this G-spot was real or mythical. One study ... Healthbolt blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3145939 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:45:44 +0100 3145939 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2851837&cid=t_110587_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F09%2F30%2F10-ways-to-lower-anxiety-and-find-empowerment%2F 1. Knowledge is power. The more you know about how your brain works the better. So here’s a little neuro-psychology lesson. What you need to know is that the most primitive part of our brains, the inner bit in the middle, is the limbic system, also called the reptilian brain because it’s the oldest most primitive part. Within that is the amygdala. For our purposes it’s enough to know that scientists believe that everything we need to keep ourselves, and therefore our species, alive originates here, including fear in its rawest form. Our frontal lobes are in the newest part of the brain, the neo-cortex. Our ability to judge, to filter out right from wrong, to determine appropriate from inappropriate behavior, real vs. unreal, reasonable vs. unreasonable resides here. It&#8... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2851837 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:38:54 +0100 2851837 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2160434&cid=t_110587_131_f&fid=34989&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FGeneticsHealth%2F%7E3%2FkI1uestkEx0%2F It is awfully heartbreaking when the doctor can’t tell if you gave birth to a boy or a girl. Sex organs develop early in the fetus such that the baby’s sex can be determined as early as 19-20 weeks in the womb. Unfortunately, the sex organs of about 1 in 15,000 births could be difficult to determine prenatally or at birth. In such babies, a defective gene is the likely culprit. Congenital adrenal hyperplasia, or CAH refers to autosomal recessive diseases where the adrenal glands fail to produce sufficient amounts of hormones known as cortisol. Mutations are found in genes for one or more enzymes producing the hormone cortisol, resulting in irregular production of sex steroids. The most common type of CAH produces ambiguous genitalia in genetically female (XX) fetuses. In these femal... Genetics and Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2160434 Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:24:14 +0100 2160434 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=543560&cid=t_110587_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F14%2Fstress-helps-cancer-resist-treatment%2F Filed under: Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Research, Stress Reduction, Daily newsWay to go Wake Forest University scientists -- for adding to the body of evidence connecting stress to illness and for reporting before anyone else that the stress hormone epinephrine causes changes in prostate and breast cancer cells that may make them resistant to death.Emotional stress contributes not only to the development of cancer, says lead researcher George Kulik, D.V.M., Ph.D, but it also reduces the effectiveness of cancer treatments.Previous research shows levels of epinephrine, produced by the adrenal glands, are sharply increased during stressful situations and can stay elevated during long-term stress and depression.During this study, published in the on-line Journal of Biological Chemistry, K... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=543560 Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 543560 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=528057&cid=t_110587_87_f&fid=34865&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecancerblog.com%2F2007%2F04%2F07%2Fchemo-plus-tamoxifen-a-go-ovary-suppression-a-no%2F Filed under: Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Research, Daily newsResults of two studies, sponsored by the Adjuvant Breast Cancer (ABC) Trials Collaborative Group, conclude that adding chemotherapy to the estrogen-blocking drug tamoxifen improves survival for those with early-stage breast cancer. The same studies reveal preventing the secretion of estrogen from the ovaries does not offer much benefit for most women.Researchers studied 1991 patients, ages 28 to 81. All had received five years worth of treatment with tamoxifen therapy with or without standard chemotherapy. Some premenopausal women were also treated with ovarian removal (ablation) or suppression, a technique used to stop the glands from secreting hormones.While early results, appearing in the Journal of the National Cancer Instit... The Cancer Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=528057 Sat, 07 Apr 2007 04:00:00 +0100 528057