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Is Diabetes the Leading Cause of Kidney Failure in India

... disease (ESRD)each year. People with ESRD require regular dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive. Almost 25% of patients suffering from diabetes will get kidney problems. Scientists know that high levels of blood sugar and hypertension (high blood pressure) increase the risk of people with diabetes d...

Virus Level could Predict Cervical Cancer Risk

...w levels of the virus could be safely monitored by regular repeat testing, rather than being referred directly to a gynecologist,'...

Cinnamon May Help Diabetics

.... While it is too soon to recommend the spice as a regular treatment for type 2 diabetes, patients can try adding 1/4-1 teaspoon of cinnamon to their food. The worst that will happen is it won't do any good and the best is that it will help dramatically. Clinical trials using a cinnamon extract on humans are...

Startling Expose – Physicians Often Have No Regular Source Of Health Car

...ealed that more than a third of physicians have no regular source of healthcare Dr. Cary P Gross of Yale Univ...en, Connecticut says, ‘ these physicians without a regular source of health care are less likely than others to receive important preventive services such as f...

Not all tooth pain may have dental origins!!

...l the dentists opined that good dental hygiene and regular dental check up can prevent major problems and with timely treatment, major dental defects can be treated satisfactorily....

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

..."Vaccinating the domestic animals against FMD on a regular basis is the bestmeans of preventing the spread of the disease," says Dr S M Lal, the jointdirector of the Bangalore-based Indian Veterinary Research Institute (underICAR), which is the only government-aided institution that has been has beenmaking F...

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

...treatment involves a combination of counseling and regular use of Zyban", he said. The product, with a reported success rate of 30 per cent, has a couple of side-effects, mainly dry mouth and insomnia. "While dry mouth can be avoided by increasing fluid intake, insomnia can be reduced by taking the drug sli...

Regular exercise prevents hip fractures

...colleagues, when people undergo the aging process, regular physical activity should become an essential part of everyone's life, in order to control the alarming increase in hip fractures. In the study, they found that 55% of the people engaged in moderate physical activity for two to four hours per day....

Moderate Use of Analgesics - Not Associated With Kidney Dysfunction

...disease. Some earlier studies have suggested that regular use of popular pain killers such as aspirin, acetaminophen, and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs(NSAIDs) may increase the risk of chronic kidney problems in healthy patients. Researches at Women's hospital in Boston analyzed the use of the...

Prevention is better than cure

...system - seeing friends, relatives and others on a regular basis....

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

...e 2 diabetes can sharply reduce the odds through a regular regimen of diet and exercise, according to data from the nation's first major clinical trial to compare the preventive effects of diet and exercise versus medication.// Study participants who used metformin without diet and exercise also reduced the...

Dental exam reveals stroke risk

...isk be detected?// One way may be through having regular and thorough dental exams. A warning sign of stroke risk is atheroma - fatty deposits in the carotid arteries serving the brain. This can be picked up through a dental x-ray. Researchers in California have assessed dental x-rays and medical records o...

Estrogen lowers cancer risk

...acement therapy. Regular screening after age 50, regular exercise and maintaining a healthy weight are considered the best ways to reduce the chances of developing colorectal cancer, the author said....

Mammography aided by computer

...e check on mammograms.Women are encouraged to have regular mammogram tests to check for early breast cancer, the decision on diagnosis should be accurate. Researchers at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Centre are now using computer-aided detection (CAD) to help analyse lesions that a first exam cannot di...

Wake-up call for peripheral artery disease

... walking. While the disease makes walking painful, regular exercise does actually increase the ability to walk with ease. Positive effects are seen within three months. // Unfortunately, say physicians at Johns Hopkins University in the US, too few patients with PAD are diagnosed and, even if they are, p...

Uncovering a gene for oesophagal cancer

... to cancer of the oesophagus. They are helped with regular screening where the oesophagus is examined by a miniature camera and tissue biopsies taken to reveal any potentially cancerous change. Meanwhile, the search for the gene has been narrowed down to one small area of chromosome 17. Once it's identified,...

Have sex and stay young

.... Dr Weeks warns it is loving intercourse with a regular partner, and not promiscuous sexual activity, which gives the most benefit. "Casual sex would bring a lot of the detrimental things to staying youthful such as anxiety and the absence of security. Both those things are associated with a loss of youth...

Snoring could be a warning

... on their back." Dr Walling said women should have regular ante-natal checks on their blood pressure, weight, fluid retention and urine so that any symptoms of pre-eclampsia were picked up as soon as possible....

Exercises reduce risks of cancers

Taking regular exercise is likely to decrease the chances of get...tor General of the Cancer Research Campaign, said: regular physical activity doesn't have to mean running a marathon each week. "A brisk walk for half an hour,...

Irregular Periods Linked to Diabetes

...duced markedly by lifestyle measures, most notably regular exercise and weight control. // Menstrual cycles 40 days or longer or irregular cycles appear to be markers for some sort of underlying metabolic abnormality. "Over an eight-year follow-up, the risk was twice as high, even after we adjusted for bod...

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