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Low Cholesterol Linked to Severe Depression and Violent Behavior in Men

...unt Sinai School of Medicine in New York told that after researchers began testing the first drugs designed to lower elevated cholesterol levels, she found that a lot of people taking the drugs were dying of causes unrelated to cardiovascular system. Another researcher added that, "A lot of them seemed to...

Antibiotics Dangerous for Diarrhoea in Children Caused by E.Coli

...c syndrome, which occurs most commonly in children after a gastrointestinal infection, begins with vomiting and bloody diarrhea and can ultimately result in kidney failure. Based on this new study, physicians should avoid giving antibiotics to children with E. coli infections, principal author of the study...

Antibiotics Helps Autism

...tic vancomycin. Interestingly the study was done after the autistic son of a researcher was treated with antibiotics for an ear problem and showed improvement of his symptoms. Researchers at present are not sure why the therapy works, they hypothesize that it may be that the symptoms of autism are caused...

Thyroid hormone treatment hastens recovery after cardiac surgery

Thyroid hormone treatment after surgery requiring heart bypass speeds recovery in ...ther saline solution or tri-iodothyronine each day after surgery until dopamine treatment was stopped or after 12 days, whichever came first. The treated chi...

Homeopathic preparation better than placebo in perennial allergic

... allergen or placebo. In the third and fourth week after the start of treatment, the group compared changes in nasal inspiratory peak flow and visual symptom analogue scale scores to baseline measurements. The homoeopathy group had a significant objective improvement in nasal airflow compared with theplace...

El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

About 11 months after the start of an El Ni?o event in the equatorial Pacific, hospitals thousands of miles away in Bangladesh can expect a surge of cholera cases, according to the first mathematical model to link climatic cycles with subsequent cholera outbreaks. Detai...

Long-Term Survival can be Predicted by a Simple Lung Test

...Buffalo Health Study from 1960 to 1962. Last year, after Twenty-nine, researchers gathered data to determine whether or not participants were still living and if not, they examined medical records to determine the cause of death. During the follow-up period, nearly 55 percent of the men and more than 43 pe...

Indian Prime Minister has successful Knee Replacement Surgery

...y room. He is not on any sedative. I talked to him after the operation.'' Dr. Ranawat was assisted by two surgeons....

More Accurate "PROSTATE CANCER" Test can save Unnecessary Biopsies

...years and is the second commonest cancer among men after lung cancer. Usually it goes undetected till it is advanced and beyond cure. However a lot of awareness has been created about this condition and now men over the age of 40 years can be screened regularly to detect the cancer. One of the most promis...

Inhaled Steroids Safe & Effective for Children with Asthma

...nch less than that of the other children. However, after the first year and throughout the remaining 4 years of the study, the children grew at the identical rate as the other children. "The NHLBI's 1991 "Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma," with their emphasis on inflammation, rather t...

White Cells Count Can Predict Heart Attack Death Risk

...igh normal range" have a much higher risk of death after a heart attack than patients with lower white blood cell counts. But patients with elevated white blood cell counts who had previously undergone bypass surgery or coronary angioplasty to open clogged vessels such a risk of death was cut by half. "A...

International community warns India on HIV situation

...st number of HIV infected individuals in the world after South Africa. Added 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 ...

Spirulina may be the next immune boost on the block

...ng ELISA analysis. The immunologists concluded after an exhaustive study that spirulina is a strong pro...a matter of time before it becomes the most sought after drug in our pharmacies. Are people queuing up already?...

Glivec - New Hope For CMC Patients

...d up to 30% patients have no traces of the disease after being treated with Glivec. Glivec comes as an alternative to painful bone marrow transplants and - interferon, a more toxic injectable treatment....

Ebola Virus - 'Outbreak' Claims More Lives In Uganda.

...ccine tests on monkeys. Most victims die of shock after days of high fever, chest pains, vomiting and extensive internal bleeding. Doctors can do little except provide supportive rehydration therapy...

What happens when Medications go wrong?

...ompensation to those unfortunate victims. But then after a week no one bothered to remember the gory incident!!!!!!!! Later an “ X- FILE” was made on it and beamed across the world. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Many such stories and even more gross stories are being pushed under the carpets! But w...

Debate Rages over firing of HIV infected health care workers

...t an employee has been fired from an establishment after testing positive for HIV. But rarely do these matters become a major controversy when many sit up and take notice. Especially in the health care industry people don’t bat an eyelid when someone is fired because of ones HIV serostatus. Many nurses and...

Fight Heart disease and Pain with Meditation

...he study was conducted on 60 African-Americans and after a seven-month period the results were extensively researched and studied and to the surprise of even the critics the findings were significant. However experts add that they advice meditation only as a supplement and not as a substitute to the existi...

Mortality increased in Sporting enthusiasts!

...tality due to stoke and MI [Myocardial Infarction] after a major game. As compared to the number of death 5 days before and after the event, the number of deaths among men on the day of the event was documented as being higher by ...

Roller coasters – cause “Chronic Headache?

...e invading all our amusement parks may not be safe after all! A kind of posttraumatic migraine might be induced on account the seemingly safe rides. In a specific incident that was studied by researchers, following one such ride a young lady presented with throbbing headache, blurred vision and nausea, im...

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