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Aspirin and Warfarin Are Equally Effective for Stroke Prevention

...ong clinicians that warfarin may be a better blood thinner than aspirin to prevent almost all forms of stroke, but that it has greater side effects, increased risk of hemorrhage, and higher costs....

Breakthrough in eye treatment

... Instead, CK uses radio frequency energy. A probe, thinner than a strand of hair, applies radio waves at points around the cornea. The radio energy shrinks the tissue, increasing the curve of the cornea and correcting far-sightedness. “The whole procedure is done in the edge of the window, not in the center...

Geriatric heart patients benefit from extra weight

...er patients, outcomes were worse for significantly thinner patients, in terms of wound infections and other complications and also in terms of mortality. The study also indicated that the benefits were more significant in the oldest old. The study assumes significance as it shows how less the medical commun...

Vision loss could result due to MSG

...n. The results indicated that these rats developed thinner retinas after being fed with a high-MSG diet. Also the response of these rats to light was impaired compared to those rats which were fed with a lesser dose of MSG. This study is the first to have shown that eating food containing MSG could lead to ...

Skip Breakfast, Get Fat

...o eat four or more meals a day are actually on the thinner side.// "We tend to eat because of external cues instead of internal cues -- we eat until the plate's clean. If the plate has a lot less food on it, perhaps you'll be eating less," Researchers launched their study because experts don't fully underst...

Alcohol Consumption Questioned

...kers. While moderate drinking was associated with thinner bones, researchers say there was no clear link between chemical markers in bone turnover and alcohol intake. Therefore, they say alcohol may actually be beneficial to bone health. Researchers also point out that drinking this amount would not likely ...

Body Weight Found To Influence PSA Levels

...y obese men with the disease fare worse than their thinner counterparts the reason being that low PSA levels mean they are diagnosed at a later stage and when the condition is more difficult to treat. Thus researchers suggest that doctors take this factor into account when deciding if a PSA level deserves f...

Raw Food Eating Leads To Low Bone Density

...show that people who prefer such a diet may become thinner and yet may not have much problems of health related to vegan diet. On the whole it may be a healthier option to eat raw vegetarian food, if you can maintain the protein intake through enough portions of legumes and soya and pulses....

New Blood Thinner Pill - First Potential Alternative to Warfarin in 50 years

...veloped as a rat poison, was first used as a blood thinner in the 1950s. It is still the only oral blood thinner available to protect against clots that can block blood vessels. It is widely prescribed after //str...

"An Armour against pleasure, and a cobweb against infection" – Has the condom withstood the test of time

...had the advantage of ageing less quickly and being thinner and odourless. The condoms started selling in millions and became more popular. In 1957- Durex introduced the first lubricated condom was launched in the UK by Durex.(5) 1960s – Decline in usage of Condoms with arrival of the Pill and coils. 19...

Feeling good is good enough for a man

...body image. But when it came to the women, feeling thinner and stronger was only part of the story. The women who had the greatest improvements in body image were those who saw actual increases in the amount of weight they could lift at the gym." The study followed men and women, between the ages of 18 an...

Slimmer not happy compared to Obese people

... that fatter people have less problems compared to thinner people that lead to suicide. The study results found that an increase in BMI, reduced the risk of committing suicide, which may be due to development of insulin resistance which increases the hormone seratonin in overweigh persons which reduces the...

Study links obesity to kidney failure

...failure. The obese are nearly twice as likely as thinner folk to develop kidney disease // and the risk for the morbidly obese is seven-fold higher, says a US study. The link could be because obesity is linked to hypertension and diabetes, which could eventually lead to end-stage renal failure, said au...

Thinner Women Are More Healthy

...r more are at greater risk of heart disease //than thinner women, according to the study. Of more than 6,000 women without known heart disease whose waistlines were measured on Women's Heart Day, February 18, 2005, the study found that 90% had at least one major risk factor for heart disease, and one-thir...

Blood Thinners Linked To Osteoporotic Fractures

...cture." Warfarin also called Coumadin?, is a blood thinner that is given in patients suffering from atrial fibrillation or irregular contractions of the upper chambers of the heart. The problem is that it reacts adversely with vitamin K. In the current study, which had an equal proportion of men and women, i...

Warfarin the Not So Popular Drug for Stroke

Warfarin the blood thinner is not widely prescribed by the physicians to those in the category of high risk of stroke// and patients with abnormal heart rhythm. They are less commonly given to racial minorities. But the risk rates among them are the highest. In case of elders ...

Cortex Of Youth With Superior IQ Matures Fast

... 7-year-olds tended to start out with a relatively thinner cortex that thickened rapidly, peaking by age 11 or 12 before thinning. In their peers with average IQ, an initially thicker cortex peaked by age 8, with gradual thinning thereafter. Those in the high range showed an intermediate trajectory (see belo...

Milking the ship of the desert for 'white gold'

...h has a subtle difference in taste and is somewhat thinner in texture than cow's milk, is easily digested by people who suffer from "lactose intolerance" and lack the enzyme necessary to break down the sugar in cow's milk. It is non-allergenic because it lacks the two types of protein responsible for aller...

Milking the ship of the desert for 'white gold'

...h has a subtle difference in taste and is somewhat thinner in texture than cow's milk, is easily digested by people who suffer from 'lactose intolerance' and lack the enzyme necessary to break down the sugar in cow's milk. It is non-allergenic because it lacks the two types of protein responsible for aller...

Shapelier Knee Replacements for Women

...ences typical of a woman's knee: a narrower shape; thinner shape, and the need for more natural motion for th...ain and decrease optimal function. This implant is thinner in shape in the front so the knee replacement more appropriately matches the natural female anatomy....

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