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Sexual abuse affect health for a lifetime

...is an association between early sexual abuse and a reduced risk of hypertension. The effects are not only due to sexual abuse but also related to stress-related hormonal alterations. It was evaluated that counseling to an extent may improve the health of those who are sexually abused early and it needs furth...

Good sleep enhances task performance

...rpret because of side effects, such as fatigue and reduced alertness. A study conducted on sleep-deprived patients by circumventing these complications by allowing recovery sleep by Harvard Medical school researches. Subjects who were sleep deprived on the first day showed no improvement in task performanc...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...tive in improving the quality of life and has also reduced medication requirements in these patients. These a...weeks and later monthly for two years dramatically reduced the breathlessness and medication requirements of these long suffering hapless patients. These rese...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...tive in improving the quality of life and has also reduced medication requirements in these patients. These a...weeks and later monthly for two years dramatically reduced the breathlessness and medication requirements of these long suffering hapless patients. These res...

Water - The silent killer!!!

...f those deaths are among children "Diarrhea can be reduced by 26% when basic water, hygiene and sanitation are supplied," the report states. "Yet...40% of world's 6 billion people have no acceptable means of sanitation, and more than 1 billion people draw their water from unsafe sources," according to the WH...

New drug helps boost cancer treatment

... response to therapy -- that is, their tumors were reduced by more than 50 percent. Another 7 percent of patients were able to have their disease stabilized. Further studies of the drug are continuing in colorectal, head, neck, pancreatic and lung cancer. The monoclonal antibody was well tolerated by the pa...

Just spice it up!!!!! Anti bacterial effects of spices unraveled in the West

..., the researchers found that bacterial levels were reduced in the apple juice that had the added cinnamon in comparison to juice that did not have any cinnamon. Previously the same spice had been tested and proved to have anti E. coli properties. Though the research was restricted the beneficial effects of ...

Hypertensive Drug Improves Sexual Dysfunction in Hypertensive Men

...ly it is the disease process itself, probably from reduced vascular compliance. According to American Journal of Medical sciences, a study evaluated hypertensive men with erectile dysfunction and found that their overall sexual satisfaction rose from about 7.3% before losartan therapy to 58.5 % after losart...

Glaxo launches pills to help smokers quit in 7-12 weeks

...voided by increasing fluid intake, insomnia can be reduced by taking the drug slightly earlier in the day", said Dr. Chandrashekhar....

TIZANIDINE - New solution to chronic headache

... Ann Arbor found it in their study that tizanidine reduced severe headaches by 55%.Dr. Alvin Lake and his colleagues did a study on 92 patients, half of these patients selected randomly and were treated with tizanidine and found that the average intensity and the duration of the headaches improved by 51% in ...

Moderate Use of Analgesics - Not Associated With Kidney Dysfunction

...en had elevated creatinine levels and 1258 men had reduced creatinine clearance. They found no significant a...n killers and either elevated creatinine levels or reduced creatinine clearance. Thus, occasional or moderate use of pain relievers or NSAIDs is not associated...

Shock it to Heal!!

... foot ulcers as a result of poor circulation and a reduced ability to fight infection. The conventional way to treat such ulcers would be by cleaning and daily dressing with appropriate aseptic measures, keeping the wound moist and resting the affected limb. According to the recent study which involved 35 d...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...auce and ketchup, have long been associated with a reduced risk of various cancers, especially prostate cance...ally prove a cause-and-effect between lycopene and reduced cancer risk. In their study , the researchers followed 30 men with localized prostate cancer and a...

Thirty minutes of work up per day reduces the risk of Diabetes

...k people who exercised at least 30 minutes per day reduced their risk of diabetes by 58%, even without medica... who used metformin without diet and exercise also reduced their risk, by 31%. Professor of medicine at Harvard University and president of The Endocrine Socie...

How much can exercise improve health?

...duction in coronary mortality, but the benefits in reduced risk seem to flatten out with more activity. Dr. Elliott Danfort, a professor emeritus at the University of Vermont said, that the quality of the research still can be better.He feels that the researchers need to standardise meanings of t...

Say "no" to x-rays

...ndeed they reported// having more pain for longer, reduced functioning and overall bad heath status. The group not given radiography also reported being more satisfied with the care they received. The authors suggest radiography reinforces or encourages the patient’s belief that they are unwell and may lead...

A boost to quit smoking

...lined. Nine weeks into the study, the subjects had reduced their smoking by an average of 50%. This was accompanied by a 17% reduction in carbon monoxide. Even more dramatic improvements were seen when the subjects quit smoking altogether. Thus this is an encouraging news, because it shows that your health...

B Vitamin Supplementatoin Saves Money and Lives

...ease. It was found that grain fortification alone reduced the number of heart attacks and the other heart attack events to about 8% in women and 13 % in men. Tice also noticed that "the evidence for the beneficial effects of vitamin therapy to lower homocysteine is much stronger than that for other dietary...

Sponging Cattle betters spraying in eradicating Malaria

...in Pakistan. They found that while both approaches reduced the number of cases of malaria, sponging the cattle saved the cost to around one fifth. The study also found that in a village with a high rate of malaria, sponging was more effective against one kind of malaria, Plasmodia falciparum, than house spr...

Herbs for Rememberance

... disease. // The fundamental cause of dementia is reduced circulation in the brain due to thickened arteries. As a result, some brain cells die, taking some of the memory and concentration with them.The neurotransmitter chemicals dopamine and serotonin can also be affected. Smoking and other drugs can speed...

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