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Link between Constipation and Parkinson's Disease

...chers are now studying health data from 6,790 male residents of the island of Oahu, Hawaii, aged 51 to 75 at the beginning of the study in the 1960's. Out fo which, 96 men eventually developed Parkinson's disease. Men who reported constipation were nearly three times as likely to develop Parkinson's disease ov...

Physicians Consider Self-Prescribing Ethical

...earlier study had indicated that about half of all residents prescribe for themselves. // According to the survey, the most commonly prescribed drugs were antibiotics, followed by antidepressants and cardiovascular disease medications. About 75% of the urban physicians considered self-prescription ethical c...

Dampness related to asthma

...es not only increased the risk of asthma, but left residents with a greater chance of repeated colds and skin allergies. People living in damp houses were found to need more antibiotics than others and were more likely to suffer from pneumonia, bronchitis or tonsillitis. The study published in the journal All...

Undertaking the obesity epidemic

...ng the right scheme. Researchers phoned 1000 local residents and found that 60 per cent of men and 50 per cent of women said they were overweight or even obese.// Most of these were trying to lose weight or at least not gain any more. But only a third of those trying to lose weight and one fourth of those k...

Vitamin E is healthy for all

...alth benefits of nuts. The first followed over 600 residents in Texas, and finds that those with the highest vitamin E //intake had a 40 per cent lower risk of dementia compared to those with the lowest intakes. In the second study, over 3,000 people in the Netherlands were followed for six years and, again,...

Quitting the smoking habit

...management sessions in which the internal medicine residents reviewed the reasons for prescribing the antidepre...ple were complying with the treatment. Psychiatric residents conducted group sessions covering education on smoking cessation and helped participants develop a p...

Marriage does not have much impact on life satisfaction

...ot.// Researchers studied a group of 12,000 German residents some native Germans others immigrants. They found that getting married, as an event, does increase people's happiness. However the level of life satisfaction tends to settle down to what it was long before marriage. The same is true for other life ev...

Are Indians aware of SARS ?

... have been demanding that they leave the area. The residents insists that these people are carriers of the disease and should not be allowed to stay there. This raises the question, Are people completely aware of symptoms ? or Is the awareness on SARS been rightly spread ?...

Alzheimer’s Continues to Ris

...States population. It was a biracial group and all residents were over 65 years. The study authors say, in 2000, there were 4.5 million people in the United States with AD. The majority, 53 percent, was between ages 75 and 84 years. By 2050, researchers believe the number will increase three-fold to 13.2 milli...

Some pets found to be SARS carriers

...h the virus in a Hong Kong apartment complex where residents contracted SARS last year. Cats and ferrets are the first pets included on an exotic list of animals scientists think may be able to harbor the virus. However, the virus seems to be so versatile that it could have jumped to humans from a variety of...

The Logic Behind The Spread Of SARS

...re Acute Respiratory Syndrome in China. They found residents on middle and upper floors of the building in whic...nts lived were at a significantly higher risk than residents on lower floors. This finding is consistent with the rising of contaminated warm air in the air shaf...

Milk Found To Lower Colorectal-Cancer Risk By 12 %

...ated in the study. Based on the analysis, New York residents had the lowest milk intake. The Netherlands and Sweden also had low milk intake, but yogurt consumption was highest in these countries. In the United States, more than 50 percent of participants at various sites did not consume yogurt. However, yogur...

Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

...easured results over the next two years by testing residents for evidence of the bacteria. Results showed the treatment was overwhelmingly effective. By the two year follow-up, prevalence of trachoma in the community decreased to less than 1 percent. Thus researchers say their results are extremely encouragin...

Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

...easured results over the next two years by testing residents for evidence of the bacteria. Results showed the treatment was overwhelmingly effective. By the two year follow-up, prevalence of trachoma in the community decreased to less than 1 percent. Thus researchers say their results are extremely encouragin...

Asbestos Exposure Associated With An Increased Risk For Autoimmune Disease

...s and multiple sclerosis. Researchers examined 50 residents from Libby, which is known to be polluted by asbestos. They found these residents were more likely to have a class of autoantibodies known as antinuclear antibodies compared to the c...

Handwashing prevents diarrhea and acute lower respiratory infections

...ouseholds regularly once a week and encouraged the residents to handwash after defaecation, before preparing food, before eating, and before feeding infants and to bathe once a day with soap and water.They also showed slide shows, videotapes, and pamphlets explaining about the health problems resulting from co...

Monkeys offer genetic clues to adult blindness

... rhesus monkey eyes into presentations for medical residents to see if anyone noticed the difference. (IANS)...

Air Pollution Linked To Heart Disease And Heart Attacks

... that leads to cholesterol-clogged arteries. Among residents of the Los Angeles Basin, those living in areas with the highest average level of fine particulates in the air had thicker carotid arteries (a sign of more atherosclerosis) than those living in less polluted areas. The Harvard Heart Letter recommend...

Handheld ECG: stethoscope of the future

...uke researchers recruited Duke second-year medical residents and cardiology fellows who had no prior experience with echocardiography and gave them three hours of point-of-care echo (POCE) training.They were then asked to perform POCE exams on patinets who hadjust undergone or were about to undergo a standard ...

Junior Doctors Working Long Hours May Perform Poorly

... motor vehicle crashes and near-miss crashes among residents are 3 and 2.5 times those of nonresident drivers, ...ost-call neurobehavioral performance of 34 medical residents (18 women, 16 men) after their rotations to examine the effect of extended work hours. The residents...

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