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Amphetamines Help Recovery of Stroke Patients

...function. This study was done on patients who had suffered from ischemic stroke, or a stroke due to loss of blood and oxygen to the brain. Amphetamines were given to 30 stroke patients who lost their ability to speak. Dr.D.Hal Unwin told that while they don't know for sure until the results are finalized, "...

Drug May Make Breathing Easier for Millions

... bronchitis. In tests involving 500 people who had suffered from COPD for more than a decade, the drug appeared to be safer and better at improving breathing and at reducing infections and hospital visits than the best current treatment, researchers said. They were addressing scientists at the World Congress ...

Mortality increased in Sporting enthusiasts!

...g a news article about how some ardent cricket fan suffered a Heart attack and died following a high strung cricket match between India and Pakistan! A recent report by a Dutch research team under Dr. Diederick E. Grobbee has revealed that there is an increased mortality due to stoke and MI [Myocardial Infarc...

Vaccine for Alzheimer’s diseas

...els don’t seem to show the same neural destruction suffered by human patients. But it is certainly encouraging and one can hope that some kind of human application willfollow....

Doctors operate upon patients in candlelight- latest from the quake scene

...20000 people so far and at least 50000 people have suffered serious injuries of the brain, spinal cord and other grave injuries. While most of the fractures and other injuries were treated at the site some serious life threatening injuries had to be treated by shifting the patients out of Gujarat to tertiar...

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

... earlier study of ECG data on 600 patients who had suffered a heart attaack, and the predicted risk was compared with the fate of these patients. According to physicians the results are very promising and effective....

Early detection of heart attack

... the patient to determine whether they have indeed suffered a heart attack.// These tests normally take a minimum of 24 hours and require hospital admission. At the Manchester Royal Infirmary in England, doctors have now found a way of streamlining the process. Using a new test, they have got the assessmen...

Chaste plant a boon

...he study followed 178 women diagnosed with PMS who suffered symptoms such as unstable mood, anger, anxiety, tiredness, sleep disorders and bloating. They took one 20mg tablet a day throughout three monthly cycles, and the treatment was especially effective for irritability, mood alteration, anger, headache an...

Heart Attacks during Menstruation!

...ied a phenomenon where angina is more likely to be suffered in the week during or immediately after the period. The research shows light to understanding the key role that female sex hormones play in a wide range of functions. Research has already shown that the time of the month can profoundly affect the sy...

Meditation relieves stress

.... This went on for eight weeks. The patients, who suffered from conditions like asthma, panic disorder, depression, chronic pain, gastrointestinal problems, and high blood pressure, reported dramatic improvements.// They were better able to cope with stress, felt relaxed and increased mental clarity. The pro...

'Prozac miracle' could end in disaster

...me hooked. When they tried to stop taking it, they suffered violent and disturbing symptoms, including jolting pains in the head, vertigo, loss of coordination, abdominal discomfort, flu symptoms, agitation and confusion. The lawsuit alleges that the manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, has deliberately failed to...

Lemon tea combats cancer

...e researchers studied 470 people, half of whom had suffered a particular type of skin cancer, and querried them about their tea-drinking habits.// They found that those who developed skin cancer drank significantly less hot tea.Lemon peel in the tea was found to have more than a 70% reduced risk for skin sq...

New therapy better at increasing bone density

...tly reduced the number of falls that elderly women suffered over three years by about 30 percent and also tended to reduce the chance of fractures. Combination therapy may offer benefits that aren't achieved with single-medication therapy. It may be best for women who still lose bone on a single drug, or wh...

Sleep, snoring....stroke

... who reported experiencing day time drowsiness 14% suffered a stroke compared to 4% of those who remained alert during the day, even after classic risk factors which could lead to stroke were ruled out.The Stroke Association said they had found the study "fascinating" and called for more research....

Surgery a safety in senility

...y looked at patients with an average age of 80 who suffered from chronic angina. Doctors either gave them medication, or referred them for an angioplasty - a treatment where a fine tube with a small inflatable balloon attached is inserted and the balloon inflated to widen the artery.Results indicated that t...

Smoking can depreciate intellegence

...he 415 people who could be retested, one in 14 had suffered significant intellectual decline. The researchers found that smokers were up to five times more likely to have evidence of significant intellectual decline than either non-smokers or former smokers. This was after taking account of factors known to...

Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

...rns over at least 40 percent of their bodies. None suffered from pneumonia or needed much mechanical help to breathe. Dr. David Herndon, who led the study, said more research is needed to show how much the preserved body mass strengthens patients and boosts recovery. But he believes the drug could safely s...

Diabetes on the rise

...es Research Centre in Chennai showed that many had suffered eye, nerve or other tissue damage by the time diagnosis was made. More than a third of patients had high blood pressure, while 11.4% had developed coronary heart disease. Despite this impending threat, the World Health Organisation recently listed t...

Short stature -a problem

...eatment. Scientists initially found the children suffered a significant level of emotional and psychological problems including anxiety, depression and attention deficit. Despite achieving lower grades at school, the children had near average IQs, and neither IQ nor achievement test scores changed with trea...

Stem cell transplantation of eye

...xcitement about stem cells, in all 33 patients who suffered from conditions such as chemical burns, allergic reactions to drug and auto-immune diseases causing damage to the part of the eye called limbus, were successfully treated through this method in the last few months. // Stem cells are found in limbus...

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