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Tag: "danger" at medical news

When Celebrities Die

...action is a good idea. If you feel you are in real danger of harming yourself, go to a hospital emergency room." That should be good news for those emotionally fragile people. But are they listening?...

All the more bad

...will reveal further evidence that cigarettes are a danger that sends our hearts' health up in smoke." Diabetes and old age are also associated with lower levels of paraoxonase. The research is published in the American Cardiac Association journal Circulation....

Is Smallpox Threat Real ?

...e transmitted from person to person and not just a danger by a direct contact". "There are other possibilities that stores (of smallpox) may exist outside of those locations," Fauci said. "So the threat of the use of smallpox as a bioterrorist weapon is real." Symptoms of smallpox typically appear about ...

Get, set, go...

...y. Children who do not take enough exercise are in danger of suffering broken bones in later life,// says the study. Many fail to strengthen up their skeleton during a vital two-year window before puberty, which is critical to building healthy bones. In girls this tends to be between 10 and 12 and in boys ...

A new study surpasses Gene Therapy Hurdle

...onse to developing cancer vaccines to reducing the danger of rejecting transplanted organs. Blood stem cells form the core of the blood system.// They can give rise to any of the various types of cells in the blood, including immune cells. In principle, genetic modification of stem cells could be used to ...

AAI Pharma Files Lawsuit Against Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

...hat expired in August 2001. Dr Reddy's is not in danger of losing its exclusivity. Since DRL has already won the case against the patent holder, EIi Lilly, earlier this year, this lawsuit should be fairly easier to go through. This is the second time that DRL has suffered a setback in the past three weeks...

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

... suddenly stops - cardiac arrest - there's a great danger that the brain will be starved of oxygen. //Even if the person survives, they run the risk of permanent brain damage. It's been suggested that perhaps cooling the body can reduce the brain's demand for oxygen and this may protect it after a cardiac a...

Smokers children likely to develop caries

...ic wake-up call to parents who still don't see the danger in smoking around their children," said pediatrician Andrew Aligne, M.D., 3,873 children participated in the survey. The children in the study had dental examinations and a blood test measuring their levels of cotinine, a quantitative marker of t...

Scan correlates susceptible heart plaque

...as of plaque in coronary arteries that may signify danger of heart attack in the future. Fatty deposits, known as plaque, set the scene for heart disease. The build up of plaque - atherosclerosis - begins many years before any symptoms occur.// The plaque narrows the arteries, and may eventually crack, inst...

Hazards of anger in heart patients

...put it in a nutshell, anger is one letter short of danger and with appropriate life style modification people would be able to tune their living to a perfect harmony with nature....

Prostate cancer and Vitamins

... doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital shows the danger of taking too many vitamins. This was a 56 year old man about to have treatment for localized prostate cancer. He had been taking over 2,057 times the recommended daily dose of the B vitamin niacin. The treatment, which involves implanting radioact...

Myth of 'female impotence' created to boost sales

...sales of these companies. Doctors caution that the danger in creating such a myth is that it is likely to encourage doctors to prescribe drugs to change sexual function when attention should be paid to other aspects of a woman's life such as stress, tiredness or threatening behaviour from their partners. ...

Women who quit smoking during pregnancy tend to relapse

... who have quit during pregnancy to help reduce the danger to infants and older children from second-hand smoke....

SARS necessitates medical masks

...world trade center tragedy and during the anthrax danger this mask was used. SARS or severe acute respiratory syndrome, the new viral disease N95 is the safest mask to use to protect against infection.. Hoarding of masks due to fear of shortage during this SARS crisis is being reported. In some places...

Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle

...ty to other types. According to researchers, this danger was first identified after the development in the 1960s of a vaccine to the common respiratory syncytial virus "that made the natural disease worse." After vaccination with a harmless, inactivated form of the virus, children who were subsequently inf...

World SARS-free within weeks

...ed on June 15. "This is the period of the greatest danger as was shown in Canada, which exited the list of affected countries and then had another peak. The word now is vigilence."?? However there is a risk the disease could once again be transmitted to human populations from animals in southern China in N...

Delaying Parkinson’s Diseas

...it of NSAIDs, however it is not yet known what the danger level would be for gastrointestinal bleeding and kidney faiure....

Eye testing can reveal the condition of your heart

...e eyes. The study also says that Women are more in danger of damage to small blood vessels, a condition called microvascular changes, from high blood pressure and diabetes. Link: http://www.health.harvard.edu/hhp/article/content.do?name=H0305a...

Athletes Warned Of Exercise-Associated Hyponatremia

... are training for marathon running events may be a danger from exercise-associated //hyponatremia (EAH) that can develop from low levels of sodium in the body. The risk to the condition is heightened when the athletes drink excess amounts of fluids during exercises. Awareness of EAH is increasing, but athl...

Children's Waistlines A Predictor Of Future Heart Disease

...a simple method of identifying whether they are in danger of heart// disease and diabetes at a later age.Among adults, fat around the waist is a warning sign of heart and artery disease. Some studies suggest that it is a better indicator of risk than body mass index, a measurement combining weight and heigh...

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