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One in Three Heart Attack Patients Have No Chest Pains

... And for women, diabetics and others who belong to groups likely to have atypical heart attack symptoms, more than half may never have such pains. The report examined symptoms in more than 400,000 people who were treated for heart attacks in U.S. hospitals from 1994 to 1998. It found that patients who had n...

Homeopathic preparation better than placebo in perennial allergic

...o group (mean difference 19.8 L/min). While both groups reported an improvement in symptoms, when the researchers combined the results from this trial with those of three previous trials (n = 253), there was a mean symptom reduction on visual analogue scores of 28% (10.9 mm) for homoeopathy compared with ...

International community warns India on HIV situation

...d to this is the shocking fact that some high-risk groups in the country have a prevalence rate of over 50%. Dr. Skolnik of the World Bank says that India should treat the situation as a national emergency and nothing short of that shall work. He added that all over the world the main cause of the HIV disas...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...g hapless patients. These researchers studied two groups of patients. One was the immunotherapy group who received the injections the other group was the placebo group which received placebo injection whenever the other group received the vaccine. When compared after the two-year period the difference was ...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

... hapless patients. These researchers studied two groups of patients. One was the immunotherapy group who received the injections the other group was the placebo group which received placebo injection whenever the other group received the vaccine. When compared after the two-year period the difference was ...

Morning after pill effective up to five days after having unprotected sex

...at there was hardly any difference between the two groups thereby proving that taking the morning after pill up to 5 days after having unprotected sex was indeed a wise thing to do....

India to benefit from pharma companies' move

...second successful revolution. Several independent groups in Britain are now rising to support what is developing into a legal revolution against drug apartheid. Street power is giving way to Internet power to make opposition known. Close to a million signed an Internet petition in support of the South Afri...

Half of world's children are passive smokers - damning disclosure from WHO

...mpaigns to attack legitimate studies, set up front groups to push smokers rights, sued health authorities in court, and done everything in their power to delay and defeat meaningful action on second-hand smoke". Another startling and worrying statistic is that figures predict that nearly 20% of the women i...

Acupuncture superseeds massage therapy for short term relief of pain

...re were no significant differences among the study groups which employed acupuncture or massage therapy. Hence they concluded that acupuncture to be effective for short term gains and not for long. Irnich told that massage and acupuncture both have local effects but acupuncture seems to have also general e...

One...just one cigarette can spoil the heart function.

...idence of heart disease.They were divided into two groups with one group left with smoking and the other with nicotine gums for 15 minutes.Doppler echocardiogram was done before and after the process , and was found that , in the cigarette group, there were differences in several measures of heart blood flo...

Say "no" to x-rays

...pear to worsen the outcome. The study tracked two groups of patients - 421 in all - who had had lower back pain for over six weeks. One group was given radiography, the other was not. Researchers found that after three months, patients who had initially received the radiography did not receive any clinica...

Reversing heart failure

... The researchers looked at heart tissue from two groups of transplant patients - one group had received LVAD support, the other had not. In the first group, the heart muscle had a stronger contracting mechanism than in the second - suggesting that the LVAD was actually reversing the heart failure. More st...

Human gene number increases

...of the genes in human tissues confirming that both groups predicted real genes. If the rest of the mooted genes are genuine, an estimate of 42,000 or more is closer to the mark. According to the researchers, gene-prediction algorithms are at fault, rather than the underlying sequence itself. Cooke says tha...

Chemists prepare for face-off with manufacturers

...everal pharmaceutical companies and large business groups decided to get into retailing, by opening their own outlet or chain of outlets, which was seen by the RDCA members as a threat to their existence. According to Mr. Shah, Cadila Healthcare, Cipla and Ranbaxy from among the pharmaceutical companies h...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

... one of three smoking cessation groups. One of the groups received standard smoking cessation therapy, where...men in the weight control and the standard therapy groups gained on average 11.9 pounds and 16.9 pounds, respectively. Dr. Perkins says these results indica...

Gastrointestinal ills more common in diabetics

...e had any of 16 gastrointestinal symptoms and five groups of symptoms. Three symptoms--fecal incontinence, nausea and difficulty swallowing--were much more common in diabetics. But glycemic control was related to the likelihood of gastrointestinal problems, Bytzer and colleagues found. Participants who re...

The patient's voice

... a website that everyone can access. The first two groups are patients with high blood pressure and prostate cancer, respectively, and these will be followed by experiences of cancer of the breast, bowel and cervix. The site will also have lots of other useful and up-to-date information, as well as links ...

Micro-camera provides new breast imaging technique

...t breast cancer by improved screening of high-risk groups of women. Further developments currently underway may allow the collection of cells from abnormal areas using the endoscope, avoiding the need for biopsy altogether. Although general anaesthetic has been used so far, it is also likely that the proc...

Borderline blood pressure- possible health risk

...ed nearly men and women, dividing them into three groups on the basis of blood pressure: borderline and optimal, as defined above, and an in-between group defined as normal where blood pressure lay between 130 and 120 (top figure) and 70 and 80 (bottom figure). Over the 12 years following initial blood pre...

Safe for people with asthma

...er got a placebo injection. After 15 days, the two groups swapped over, and hence everyone got both injections, in a different pattern.// Every day for two weeks after each injection, the patients were monitored for peak expiratory flow, asthma symptoms and time off school or work, all as a measure of ast...

Simvastatin Plus Niacin May Lower Heart Risks

...rtery blockages, while on average all of the other groups showed worsening artery narrowing. Patients on the combination plus antioxidants had more artery narrowing after 3 years and their HDL increases were not as strong compared with patients on simvastatin-niacin alone. Their risk of cardiac complicati...

Support therapy helps breast cancer patients

...ly medical treatmen. However, women in the therapy groups did report less pain and emotional distress -- especially if the levels were high to start with. // Dr. David Spiegel of Stanford University, who led the study, said improvements in both treatment and social acceptance of cancer may explain the dif...

TV drug commercials prompt prescriptions

...inus 2.6 percentage points. Some consumer groups have complained that the ads encourage viewers to believe they know what drugs are best for them -- pressuring their doctors unnecessarily. Drug ads may drive up health care costs and drug company profits, but the drugs people get may also make them ...

Step Aerobics Increases good cholesterol

...ing a stepping bench. After 6 weeks, both aerobics groups showed significantly greater dips in their total c... saw an appreciable rise in their HDL. None of the groups showed body weight changes. According to Kins the results indicate that step aerobics training is a...

Less sodium,less pressure

...t. This combination worked best for all population groups in the study. Study participants on this regime experienced an average drop of 8.9 points in systolic pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) and 4.5 points in diastolic pressure (the lower number). Dr. Eva Obarzanek, a nutritionist wi...

Progestin protects against ovarian cancer

...ore than 3,200 women who took part in a study. The groups included women who took no pills; those who took pills high in both estrogen and progestin; women who took pills high in one or the other of the hormones, and women who took pills with low levels of both hormones. The research showed that pills wit...

Risk for Pregnant Women

...d to tap water to kill microbes. The environmental groups said chlorine also reacts with organic matter, inc...ation. Kalinowski felt that in the meantime, the groups suggested that pregnant women reduce exposure to CBPs by using carbon filters. "Pregnant women also ...

Diet plays a role in kidney stones

...en had a low calcium diet (12 mmol a day) and both groups were followed up for five years. After this time, 10 of the men on the normal calcium diet had suffered recurrences compared to 23 on the low calcium diet. Analysis of the urine showed that levels of calcium dropped in both groups. But excretion of...

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

...y factors in breast cancer--such as those in which groups of women with and without breast cancer are compared--have often failed to find fat intake a risk factor. Other research, he noted, is looking into dietary factors other than fat, such as the possible protective effect of the B vitamin folic acid, a...

Obesity a global problem

...dustrialised countries, as well as certain Western groups undergoing rapid socioeconomic changes. Researcher Marquisa La Velle, of the University of Rhode Island, has studied changing health patterns in South Africa and Australia. She says the findings show obesity has become a global problem....

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

...trols. But there was no difference between the two groups in the complication rate seven days following the arrest. The study shows that hypothermia may indeed be an effective treatment for cardiac arrest....

Obesity increases health costs

...atient and outpatient health services by different groups of people. Tobacco may have a higher death toll, largely because lung cancer can kill more quickly than some common obesity-linked diseases, but obesity was worse when it came to long-term health problems. Being obese increases health care costs 36%...

Chew to improve memory

...nse that occurs in anticipation of a meal. Three groups of 31 volunteers took part in the study and were d... to undergoing the 25-minute test, the two chewing groups spent three minutes working their real or imaginary gum around their mouths. The tests comprised que...

A new recovery for heart attacks

... These drugs would prevent the binding of hydroxyl groups to the HIF protein and in turn boost the amount of the protein around to improve oxygen delivery. The researchers have patented the asparagine-hydroxyl part of the HIF protein as a possible target for drugs, and will now look for other oxygen-contro...

Gel pares inflammatory activity throughout body

...ain three months later. Following treatment, the groups that received the gel showed not only lower levels of oral bacteria but also a decrease in the amounts of C-reactive protein and fibrinogen in the blood stream, according to the study results. These two markers of inflammatory activity are associated...

Meningitis C vaccine a cost-effective success

...g the incidence of the disease in the targeted age groups in a cost-effective anner....

Interference helps Heart Patients

...rences in drug treatment given to patients in both groups were not significant and likely would not explain the results. Moreover, the researchers said the low-tech program was more effective at lowering re-hospitalization rates than reductions attributed in other studies to drug treatment. Riegel said the...

FDA fish warning criticized

...es about mercury and fish. Some women in the focus groups said they ate a can of tuna daily while pregnant. Of the five most popular seafoods - shrimp, trout, salmon and catfish are the others - only tuna has worrisome mercury levels. A tuna industry spokesman denied that the industry influenced the FDA's ...

Chewing gum found to increase brainpower

...ain. The experiments involved 60 people split into groups of non-chewers, real chewers and "sham" chewers. ... to undergoing the 20-minute test, the two chewing groups spent 3 minutes working their real or imaginary gum around their mouths. Scholey said the tests incl...

The advantages of berries

...ompounds in the berries can mop up free radicals - groups of atoms produced within the cell which otherwise may trigger the growth of a tumour. Black raspberries do contain an extraordinarily wide range of beneficial compounds - compared to other berries and fruits. They are full of anthocyanins, which give...

Exercise for patients with cancer

...ne mineral density. The researchers studied three groups of women with breast cancer: One group received standard care, one group participated in aerobic activity, while a third participated in resistance training. They were separated into pre- and post menopausal status. The aerobic exercise consisted of ...

Body mass index guide needs revision

... - previous research has shown that certain ethnic groups are more vulnerable to the health risks of weight gain....

Fish rich diet lowers leptin

...dwelling tribe members eat a vegetarian diet. Both groups consume about 2100 calories a day....

No connection between breast cancer and pill

...story of the disease. Analysis of Pill use in both groups showed that use of oral contraceptives did not increase the risk of breast cancer. This was true even for women with a family history of the disease, and those who'd begun the Pill at an early age. In fact, women who have taken oral contraceptives at...

Gene researchers make Malaria-resistant mosquito

...laria parasite to mice than normal mosquitoes. Two groups of mosquitoes they studied were unable to transmit the parasite and one group had a 50% reduction in transmission. The research "promises to eventually have important applications," but further study is needed, Jacobs-Lorena said. For example, altho...

Scientific markers of aging described

...ars, the monkeys for 12. The monkeys were in two groups - one following a normal diet, the other on calorie restriction. The latter tended to have a lower body temperature, lower blood insulin levels and higher levels of a hormone called dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS). Researchers feel that these...

Breastfed babies grow rapidly

...ht,// length or head circumference between the two groups by the time they reach the age of one year. The findings contradict research that suggests infants who are fed only breast-milk for the first year of life gain less weight than babies given at least some formula. These studies have ignored other fac...

No connection between epidurals and backache

... the timing of onset. Back pain was common in both groups but more women reported severe pain in the epidural group. Pain lasting more than one year, persistent pain, and recent pain were all more common among women who had not had an epidural. According to the National Institutes of Health, more than 55 p...

Benefits in fertility procedures

...ntation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for three distinct groups of women. PGD is a procedure that can be used along with in vitro fertilization. During the procedure, doctors look at the embryo and test it for a number of conditions prior to implanting the embryo. This helps eliminate the implantation of embryos ...

Comparing Breast surgery techniques

...ignificant differences in survival among the three groups of women who started off with their lymph nodes free of cancer. Nor were there differences in the groups who had positive nodes....

Air Pollution and Heart Attacks

... risk of a heart attack by 40 to 60 percent. The groups of people who are most vulnerable are those already at risk for heart disease. This would include elderly individuals and also people who have other risk factors for heart disease, including people who are overweight, smoke cigarettes, people who hav...

Self control makes stress response easy

...he frequency of noise bursts was the same for both groups - but the illusion of control seemed to be important. The researchers caution that it's not yet clear how to relate this small lab study to stress exposure in everyday life. But it's a clear demonstration that control - rather than helplessness - cou...

Function of genes in heart failure

...rsity and other universities studied more than 500 groups of siblings. They used ultrasound to measure the efficiency of participants' hearts, specifically diastolic function. Diastolic function measures how efficiently the heart refills with blood after each heartbeat. They found family relationships expla...

Advanced STD programs required

...tead, most studies tend to be targeted to specific groups and most are done in the United States, despite the most rapid spread of HIV being in other parts of the world including the former Soviet Union and Asia. Researchers say, "Interventions targeting North American populations, while important, will not...

Regular exercise linked to extended menstrual cycles

...kland, California and her colleagues looked at two groups of women who had participated in separate US studies. The nearly 550 women in both studies had provided information on their exercise habits and menstrual cycles. The researchers found that exercise, particularly vigorous activity, was associated w...

Shunt for Alzheimer's Disease

... and 9 patients did not receive the shunt. The two groups were similar in age and severity of dementia. Researchers found the shunted patients experienced stability in their cognitive function while the group without the shunts had a "fairly robust" decline in cognitive function over the 12-month study. Re...

Pain relieved by ionized bracelets

... the researchers divided the participants into two groups - one of which was given an ionized bracelet, whil...ir pain at intervals during the 25 day study. Both groups reported significant improvement in pain. There was no difference in pain relief between those weari...

Exercise with music aids with lung disorders

...c when walking for such patients. They studied two groups of twelve patients undergoing pulmonary rehabilitation for eight weeks. One group was given an audiocassette of country and western, pop, Motown and big band music to listen to as they walked, while the other did not listen to music. Over the eight...

Mountain biking connected to infertility

...performed on the bikers and non-bikers and the two groups were compared. Dr. Frauscher reported at today's meeting that bikers had a sperm count of 22 million/ml and 30 percent motility. Non-bikers showed a sperm count of 48 million/ml and a motility of 50 percent. According to him both are statistically si...

Reduced fertility in men who mountain bike

...a year. Analysis of semen of the two participating groups indicated a considerable reduction of sperm count and motility of the bikers. The sperm count and motility of bikers was 20 million/ml and 29 percent respectively. Analysts also fear that the continuous trauma to the testicles could cause vascular ...