Tag: "worst" at medical news

Cinnamon May Help Diabetics

...ding 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 due to begin in 6 months....

The Cancer Rumour mill working over time

.... It's as severe as cocaine. Smoking is one of the worst causes of cancer, especially lung and other cancers of the head and neck”. With regards to cell phones and their role in causing cancer, research is still underway and nothing conclusive has been established so far. It is hoped that inspite of all ...

Fireworks can spell death for asthmatic children

...entences for the severely asthmatic people and the worst affected are children who literally choke to death during these ironically happy occasions. Almost all major hospitals across the country report an increase in number of cases coming into their emergency rooms with acute respiratory failure during ...

Gujarat quake-Rescue teams give up hope of finding more survivors

...at to help ease the pain of the victims of India’s worst quake ever. The prime minister of India, Atal Behari Vajpayee, has announced that a special tax proposal will be introduced to help the state of Gujarat tide over this calamity and the union home minister, Lal Krishna Advani went on record to say t...

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

.... Many fractures were fixed without x- rays. The worst quake in Indian history has claimed more than 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 s...

Diabetic testing gets easier

...trauma of going through the daily blood tests. The worst part according to many diabetics is the finger stick. There are unfortunate patients who use the stick up to six times a day for more than ten to twenty years or so. The main obstacle of these tests is the pain and discomfort associated with them. Bu...

TB coupled with AIDS soars in Africa

...one-third the world population!!!!! Africa is the worst hit continent. Nearly 25 million people are HIV positive and 2.5 million people died due to HIV related causes last year in Africa alone....

Fight arthritic pain with acupuncture

Arthritic pain is one of the worst types of chronic pain. Many people are immobilized and crippled because of this painful condition. But now there’s good news for the long-suffering arthritic patients. Acupuncture, which is one of the most popular forms of alternative medicine, is s...

Half of world's children are passive smokers - damning disclosure from WHO

...e by2020, if current trends continue.She saved the worst for the tobacco majors and said "big tobacco companies have paid for bogus scientific studies, unleashed well-funded campaigns to attack legitimate studies, set up front groups to push smokers rights, sued health authorities in court, and done everyt...

Emphasis to ban Drugs ads by Doctors

...he patient is at best incompletely informed and at worst deluded. Hence the proposed resolution asks the AMA to petition the FDA to ban "direct to consumer" drug ads, as this much curb the doctor-patient relationship. But the FDA's medical officer Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, who oversaw the proposal told that th...

Malaria strikes Munger tribals

People of Bihar were facing the worst forms of nightmare over the past 3 weeks , now the...os and usually presents with fever and rigors.the worst form of malaria is cerebral malaria,which if not treated can lead on to convulsions coma and death w...

Heart Attacks during Menstruation!

... during or immediately after a period-produced the worst exercise performance and the quickest time to angina pain: 290 seconds. This phase is when levels of the sex hormones oestrogen and progesterone are lowest. The best performance and slowest time to angina pain, of 418 seconds, occurred in mid-cycle, ...

Emphysema surgery - unbeneficial

...ver surgery. The sickest patients - those with the worst lung function- have a higher risk of death within 30 days of the operation compared to those who don't have surgery. Whether those who survive surgery will do better than those on medical management in the long term remains to be seen. In the meantim...

AIDS toll set to exceed Black Death

AIDS will surpass the Black Death as the world's worst pandemic if the 40 million people living with HIV ...V/AIDS is likely to surpass the Black Death as the worst pandemic ever. If we don't improve access to treatment in the next 10-15 years we could have as many...

Blood test diagnoses heart failure in short time

... of trouble breathing. Heart failure is one of the worst and most common causes but far from the only one. Until recently, there was no simple test for heart failure, and doctors often confuse it with other diseases. This study shows that a $22 test that measures a protein released by stressed heart muscl...

Researchers trick Alzheimer's Enzyme

...he so-called "click reaction" that creates its own worst enemy -- its most potent inhibitor. "Think of this as a Trojan Horse approach for battling disease, but this horse goes the Greeks one better," Sharpless, W.M. Keck professor of chemistry at Scripps, said in a prepared statement. Once the disease-c...

Air pollution combined with greater medical needs

Cities with the worst pollution in the US have more hospital admissions for respiratory conditions. There's increasing proof for a tie between environmental pollution and public health. Now doctors at the University of California report upon the effect// of air pollution ...

Emphysema surgery - unfavourable

...ver surgery. The sickest patients - those with the worst lung function- have a higher risk of death within 30 days of the operation compared to those who don't have surgery. Whether those who survive surgery will do better than those on medical management in the long term remains to be seen. In the meantim...

Exercise helps with leg cramps

...is situation, you would think walking would be the worst thing you could do. But researchers at Johns Hopkins University have concluded the opposite. They have looked at more than 120 studies and learned that persisting with exercise is well worthwhile for people with PAD. But pain on exercise is so common...

Guangdong health official says SARS can be prevented and treated

...hich helped patients rapidly recover. China is the worst affected nation in the global health crisis which has affected some 32 countries. Total cases in the country reached 1,268 with 53 deaths....

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