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Importance of Fatty food In Hypercholestrolemia

...o track the arteries. While the blood vessels were unaffected by the low-fat meal, arteries in people who ate the high fat meal stiffened within three to six hours, losing 20 percent of their ability to accomodate the blood travelling through them. Though Nestel thinks the effect lasted only a few hours, he bel...

Eyedrops for amblyopia

...ndard treatment has been eye patches worn over the unaffected eye to stimulate better vision in the "lazy" eye. ...ropine drops, which temporarily blur vision in the unaffected eye. But parents have difficulty getting children to wear eye patches because of inconvenience. The ...

Physiotherapy helps amputation

...tionally, strengthening exercises are given to the unaffected limb, as this has to bear the weight of the body when patient tries to ambulate. The following exercises are taught to the patients. To mention a few: 1) Exercises for all the joints a upper limb and lower limb using sand bags, dumbbells of various...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

...he sequence of its building blocks in affected and unaffected members of the 17 families. The researchers reported that only people with the disorder had changes in connexin 43. The researchers also reported that though a different change, or mutation, in the gene was found in each of the 17 families,all change...

The Link Between Pregnancy and Restless Legs Syndrome

...r prevalence of insomnia, and snored more than the unaffected group. Symptoms after delivery rapidly improved, leading researchers to believe hormones, rather than iron deficiency, play a role in this form of RLS. Of the 606 women in the study, about 26 percent reported having RLS. Of these women, 101 reported...

The Link Between Pregnancy and Restless Legs Syndrome

...r prevalence of insomnia, and snored more than the unaffected group. Symptoms after delivery rapidly improved, leading researchers to believe hormones, rather than iron deficiency, play a role in this form of RLS. Of the 606 women in the study, about 26 percent reported having RLS. Of these women, 101 reported...

Specific Changes In A Particular Gene Found To Increase The Risk of Alzheimer’s Diseas

...ntly in individuals with Alzheimer’s than in their unaffected siblings. However researchers recommend additional genetic studies to characterize the potential effect of the gene on the risk of Alzheimer’s disese....

New protein found that could slow pancreatic cancer

...nction of retinoblastoma proteins that will remain unaffected in the face of attack from the Smad7 cells and thus will help in controlling the growth process of pancreatic cancer. Reference: Journal of Biological Chemistry, June 2005...

In Early Epilepsy Delay in medications Recommended

... once the seizures occur, their remittance is also unaffected by the previous treatment. The study comes in the wake of the long drawn controversy regarding early treatment being beneficial or not or the people suffering from epilepsy. The study was published in the current issue of The Lancet. Reference: ...

Delay medicine for early epilepsy, says scientists

... once the seizures occur, their remittance is also unaffected by the previous treatment. The study comes in the wake of the long drawn controversy regarding early treatment being beneficial or not or the people suffering from epilepsy. The study was published in the current issue of The Lancet....

Influenza Avian Flu strain has become more contagious and dangerous.

... the characters of these strain as these ducks are unaffected by the ducks but still can continue to circulate the virus. "These results suggest that the duck has become the Trojan horse of Asian H5N1 influenza viruses," reported a research team led by Robert G. Webster of St. Jude Children's Research Hospita...

Beef, Pork Ban Hit Bhutan Restaurateurs

...the infected cattle aside, besides inoculating the unaffected ones with ring vaccinations." Red meat is popular with most Bhutanese. With both beef and pork banned, restaurants are the worst hit with business dipping. "Chicken and fish are available, but then people prefer beef and pork. Business has been very...

Mizoram Prepares To Combat Bird Flu

...se to Chinese and Myanmar border. Keeping the area unaffected by the bird flu that originates from China is likely to be difficult unless the authorities are constantly monitoring the situation. The Mizoram Government has formulated a state-level Disease Emergency Committee under the chairmanship of the Chief...

Cervical Cancer Can Now Be Better Handled With Gene Silencing Therapy

...e of this approach is that the normal cells remain unaffected during manipulation, as the main target is the viral gene. The researchers hope to exploit this form of treatment to all forms of cervical cancer including the premalignant lesions picked up by the pap smear and especially for advanced cervical cance...

HIV Positive People Touching 60,000 In UK

... knowing. "There is no part of the UK that remains unaffected by HIV or sexually transmitted infections," said Barry Evans, an HIV expert at the agency. "Our report 'Mapping the Issues' coincides with the World Aids Day and allows us to take stock of the progress made in our efforts to prevent the spread of HI...

A strategic study: Soy diet makes heart disease to worsen in male mice

...mice carrying the mutation for HCM were relatively unaffected by the soy diet, according to the study. That led the Colorado research team to believe that heart deterioration in male mice was due at least in part to plant-based estrogens in the soy food diet.As concluding words by prof, "I don't think normal, h...

Vietnam administers Bird flu vaccination to all birds

..., ornamental birds, related products and eggs from unaffected countries....

Foot and Mouth Disease strikes again in China

...ring of all exposed animals and vaccination of all unaffected animals....

Bird Flu Appears In Nigeria

...the disease to Africa which has until now remained unaffected by the virus. The virus has till date infected only people who had come in contact with the birds, and it is yet to mutate into a form which can be transmitted from one human being to another. In Africa most rural people live in close proximity to...

Hereditary Non-BRCA Breast Cancer Can Trigger New Cancers

...s that the risk of a //new cancer occurring in the unaffected breast in unilateral breast cancer increases to a fair degree in women diagnosed with hereditary (non-BRCA) breast cancer. The study also says that the risk of developing the contra lateral breast cancer in women with hereditary (non-BRCA) breast ca...

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