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How do patients benefit of clinical trials

... cancer trial was all about was linked to having a college education, speaking only English at home, and having a nurse present during the consent discussion. It was also useful to have received the National Cancer Institute simplified consent form. Some doctors were also unaware that it is future patients...

Eat more vegetables and fruits

...cent during this time. Older people, white people, college graduates, those taking regular exercise, and non-smokers were more likely to be eating lots of produce. The percentage of obese people eating their five portions declined from 15 per cent to 12 per cent during the five year period - underlining the ...

Step Aerobics Increases good cholesterol

...Basket University in France, followed 40 sedentary college women over 6 weeks. Fifteen took step aerobics and 12 took traditional aerobic dance, 3 days a week for 40 minutes each day. The rest of the women remained sedentary.Aerobic dance involves continuous movement designed to get the heart rate up. Step a...

Elevated Ozone Levels Hurt Sperm Count

...he donors' average age was about 20, and most were college students. The researchers also analyzed data on air quality in both regions. The greater the increase in ground level ozone--popularly known as smog--the greater the drop in sperm counts, the investigators found. Ozone occurs in two layers in the at...

Tennis gives protection against heart disease lifelong

...have been following a group of medical students at college during 1950 and 1960. //They asked them about participation in tennis, golf, football, baseball and basketball. Those who reported the greatest skill in tennis were the most likely of all to still be physically active in mid-life. The tennis group ...

Functional foods reduce cholesterol

... in young men. Rresearchers made thirty-four male college students participat in the four-week study. The men all had increases total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels. One group ate ground beef each day that contained phytosterols while a second group ate non-supplemented ground beef. Researchers reco...

Nurses save more lives

...sed practical nurses, and nursing aides. RNs have college degrees in nursing and are often allowed to develop nursing plans and coordinate care by therapists and other specialists. Licensed practical nurses (LPN) generally have a year of formal training but no degree. Nursing aides often have minimal traini...

Link between athleticism and neurological disease

...n slim and 1.70 times higher in those who had been college athletes. It's not clear what causes this association. It could be that physical activity increases exposure to neurological toxins in the environment, or speeds up their transport to the brain, or absorption into brain cells. Further research will...

Smoking impairs protective reflex in throat

Researchers at the Medical college of Wisconsin have recently shown that smoking leads to damage of the protective reflexes in the throat area. A one-way valve keeps stomach acid from flowing back into the hroat and smoking causes damage to the// pharyngoglottal closure reflex, which ...

Stress make acne worse

...was true."// The researchers therefore studied 22 college students whose acne severity and stress levels were evaluated during examination and non-examination periods. The results are published in the Archives of Dermatology. Both acne severity and stress levels went up during examination periods. Moreover,...

Reviving the Immune System

... Not only is he alive, he's getting ready to start college in the fall. This procedure is not just for lymphoma. Studies are also being done in patients with leukemia, myeloma, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, other solid cancers and HIV....

Finding relief from Excruciating Headaches a challenge

...oung people such as Rachel Gohmann, an 18-year-old college freshman from St. Cloud, Minnesota, know how serio...leasure out of life at a time when high school and college students should be enjoying their lives," says Dr. Michael Cutrer, a neurologist who specializes in ...

Education Levels Found To Predict Stress

...re ranked on the degree of severity. Adults with a college degree reported stress 44 percent of the days, those with a high school degree and/or some college schooling reported stress on 38 percent of the days, and high-school dropouts experienced stressors ...

New Cost Effective Approach To Promote Sun Protection

...ng encourage safe sun behavior in a small group of college students . Researchers showed a sample of 146 college student volunteers an ultraviolet facial photograph revealing hidden sun damage along with a videota...

Emergence Of New Gene Scanning Technology In Disease Research

...thampton in collaboration with Bristol, University college London, British Heart foundation and Department of Health identified a mutant gene causing high, moderate cholesterol levels among 10,000 middle aged individuals. Through this technique one can identify rare genetic mutation in a population and iden...

Hearing Problems Of Middle Age Are Affecting The Younger Generation

...d tinnitus. "People, especially young adults on a college campus, have something in their ears almost all the time as they walk from class, visit the library, work in the computer lab, drive in their cars and rest in their apartments," Novak says. "Their ears have very little quiet time to recover from nois...

"Defeat AIDS Pledge" by Andhra CM

...eases (STD) clinics. Hundreds of people including college and school students, NGOs, activists, government employees took the pledge simultaneously at 12 noon, at Kotla Vijaybhaskar Reddy indoor stadium and at all schools, colleges and government offices. They pledged to seek total awareness, abstain from ...

Grant of $7 million for Orissa Medical College from Japan

...nced a grant of $7 million for upgrading a medical college in Orissa.// "The grant assistance would enable the Sardar Vallavbhai Patel Postgraduate Institute of Paediatrics (in Cuttack) to improve its medical facilities and effectively contribute towards dispensation of healthcare to a wider population," s...

Adding Credit To The Health Care Industry In India

...h laboratory at the Tirunelveli government medical college hospital. This would be the country's first teaching hospital that uses technology// developed by an Indian. Srini Nageshwar, the man behind the achievement has felt the need for low-cost equipment and speedy health diagnosis. His dream is to see e...

Orissa To Get New Medical Colleges Soon

It is uncertain if a second medical college will ever come up in the Western Orissa region, bu...xed at Rs 200 crore. One would be a hundred-seated college while the other would have strength of 150 and private management would control both. The Council ha...

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