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Self control makes stress response easy

According to pshycologists, believing that one can control a stressful situation makes it easier on your heart and circulation.// Exposure to a stressful situation is potentially damaging to health because it increases blood pressure and resistance to blood flow. Over time, these respon...

The Effectiveness Of Screening Tests Questioned

...and suggests health officials who tout these exams believing they can’t hurt are failing to take these adverse effects into account. Thus researchers conclude saying , “Giving information to people considering screening ... when the only honest information is complete uncertainly is useless. Encouraging peop...

Blood test for diagnosis of heart attacks

...ican Cardiac Association.People who visit hospital believing they have had a heart attack often have to undergo many tests only to find they have indigestion, the researchers say. The first-line tests currently in use only allow an accurate diagnosis in 4% of cases, they claim. They say that if doctors used ...

Patient Choice Cesarean Section on The Rise

...tinues in the medical community, with some doctors believing that patients should have the ability to choose a C-section if they prefer. Other doctors believe that patients can never fully understand the risks involved, and should never choose major surgery when it is not necessary. The rise of 36.6 percent ...

Drug Herceptin To Be Recommended To All Breast Cancer Patients

...is occurring over the usage of Herceptin with some believing that Herceptin treatment is only useful during late stage breast cancer treatment, but campaigners and critics say that the drug is useful for also early stage breast cancer patients. Primary care trusts (PCTs) is currently to fund Herceptin treatmen...

UK Plastic surgeons cash in as cosmetic operations soar

...nerable, often young, people are being fooled into believing their only chance at happiness is by changing themselves into what the media, fashion and sex industry tells them beauty is. A generation of young girls have no other role models other than surgically enhanced glamour models such as Jordan. It's ver...

UCI Closed Its Liver Transplant Program

...surgeon, but misled regulators and the public into believing that it did have one. Apart from this the other services that were found to be lacking included the kidney and bone marrow transplant programs. Drake said that he is in the process of recruiting a top administrator to oversee both the hospital an...

Spam Mails about Lipstick Causing Cancer to Be Ignored

...r Sophos asked the people to check the fact before believing in this data. He said that these chain letters are a big waste of time. The letter says that higher the lead content, greater is the chance of causing Cancer. It also talks about a simple test to detect the content of the lipstick. Sophos i...

Alcohol-illusion: Alcohol and Energy Drinks Combo, Maintains Sobriety?

...il, people hold on to energy drinks after alcohol, believing that it avoids the sleepiness caused by alcoholic beverages and pep them up to dance all night. To understand better, she conducted a study, involving 26 healthy young men, about 23 years old. In a lab, the men drank Red Bull, vodka, or Red Bull mix...

The Multi-Faceted Chemical Benzene

...ts. They were flocking to buy Coca-Cola and Pepsi, believing that the sugar in the fizzy drinks kills pests. Farmers say scientists advised them to mix pesticides with a sugary syrup to control pests, and they found the mixture cheaper and more effective than pure chemicals. N. Hamunayya, who has become a cele...

Fat People Claim That They Would Give Their Limb Or Life Rather Than Being Fat

...ey have internalized negative stereotypes, such as believing they are lazy,’ said Schwartz. ‘Based on research about the importance of believing in your ability to succeed at a difficult task, we predict that internalizing weight bias contribute...

WHO Calls For More Regulation On Tobacco Products

...es and packaging that might mislead consumers into believing that they are less dangerous than conventional cigarettes, WHO said. Smokeless tobacco products, such as snus and snuff, previously popular in a limited number of countries, were being marketed heavily elsewhere to specific target groups, the agency...

Attitudes About Aging Different from Reality

...ciences in Medicine "Overall, people got it wrong, believing that most people become less happy as they age, when in fact this study and others have shown that people tend to become happier over time. Not only do younger people believe that older people are less happy, but older people believe they and others ...

Chronic Facial Pain Tackled By Cortex Stimulation

...reat a consistent or intermittent pain rather than believing on the older traditional drugs or physical therapy. Electrodes, when placed over the skull help in relieving pain by acting on the cortex region, which serves facial nerves. This takes place by sending electric impulses to the motor cortex region...

Research into Blindness Cure Goes Digital

...ye, we hope we will be able to fool the brain into believing the retina, which converts light into signals that are sent to the brain, is still in working order." Mathieson also added, "Advances in microelectronics have allowed us to develop a retinal prosthesis - a small device to be implanted on the retina...

Research Documents Children’s Exposure to Pesticide

...Some mothers allowed their children in the fields, believing that as long as they didn’t touch the crops, they weren’t at risk of exposure. “Their perceptions and behavior differ from scientific understanding of how to limit exposure and result in behaviors that may increase children’s risk of exposure and h...

Humid Air is Little Help for Croup's Barking Cough

... past were due to the calming effect of the parent believing that they were doing something, the child taking deeper breaths, the child getting over the spasmodic element of the croup, and then just getting better,” said Dennis Scolnik, an emergency room pediatrician at The Hospital for Sick Children/Toronto i...

Drivers in Casts, a Threat to Others

... in plaster casts are willing to drive in spite of believing that it increases their risk of crashing, according to recent research.// While there is still no law against driving with a plaster cast neither in Australia nor in New Zealand, the driver does risk being charged with dangerous driving if they ha...

Alternative therapy – an alternative to HRT

...natives to HRT to help control menopausal symptoms believing them to be safer and 'more natural'. But in many cases appropriate research into their safety has not been done. I'm a strong supporter of an integrated approach using lifestyle, alternatives and HRT but it must be evidence-based to confirm both effi...

Mounting Pressure of Dengue in Delhi Hospitals

...any patients come in with low blood platelet count believing they suffer from dengue, when they actually do not,” said Dr Vivek Nangia, one of the in charge at the dengue ward. He claims that there is confusion among patients as platelet count can be low during other viral diseases like malaria.The ESI hospita...

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