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High iron levels may cause Cardiovascular Disease in women

...ack women and, especially, Mexican-American women, according to the study. The strongest association was found for Mexican-American women whose higher iron levels were linked with higher levels of body mass index, total cholesterol, triacylglycerol, glucose and diastolic blood pressure.The researchers suggeste...

Progression of Glaucoma could be controlled with early detection

Glaucoma, according to doctors, is a disease of the eye, which has no early warning signs and many affected patients are unaware they have the disease until it has advanced. And once someone has lost his or her vision from glaucoma, it cannot be regained. Researchers in...

Adult COPD or asthma could be effectively treated with Xopenex

...zer therapy and less adjuvant respiratory therapy, according to the study. Xopenex is being marketed as a nebulizer at dosage strengths of 0.31 mg and 0.63 mg for pediatric patients and as 0.63 mg and 1.25 mg for patients 12 years of age and older. Xopenex brand levalbuterol HCl inhalation solution is indicat...

Children! Protecting them from medical mistakes

The rate for potential medical problems, according to earlier studies, is three times higher for children than for adults. The rates for babies in hospitals are even higher. However, a new effort by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) may...

Sun is bad - More or less does not matter!

... higher their risk of developing// melanoma. Also, according to the study that was published in the Journal Cancer, melanoma may even be genetic. This was concluded by the researchers after they discovered that a parent's mole count may help predict the number of moles that their child will develop. One thou...

Miscarriage during pregnancy and heart disease linked

...rd heart disease. The interpretation of the study, according to the researchers, is that these same factors may... The study however, need not alarm women, because, according to experts, the study though done on a large number of patients, is only superficial as many potenti...

Treatment over a longer period for blood clotting

...blem are reduced if the patient stays on warfarin, according to previous studies, it// also puts the patient at an increased risk for a major hemorrhage. Researchers have now conducted a study to find out whether keeping patients on a low-dose of warfarin would be beneficial or too much of a risk. The study i...

Cosmetic plastic surgery for a youthful healthy look

...ng and healthy is now much easier than earlier and according to James Wells, M.D., president, American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), many people, both men and women are seeing plastic surgeons as early as their 20s, contrary to the past, when patients would wait until they were 50 to visit a plastic surg...

Risk of early neonatal death high in infants born in the night

...e of labour and delivery) and early neonatal death according to the hour, day and month of delivery was estimated. They found that approximately 1 in 650 infants born during the day died during the first week of life as compared to 1 in 570 infants born during the night. This indicated that infants born during...

FDA approves Watson Pharmaceuticals' Oxytrol patch

...ontinence, urinary urgency, and urinary frequency, according to the drug's maker. Oral forms of oxybutynin has been around for around 25 years but it has not been popular with patients due to side effects like// dry mouth and constipation. The patch delivers about 3.9mg of oxybutynin per day through a transder...

More signs to an approaching migraine attack

... for a time after the attack subsided.The finding, according to the researchers, suggests that there are certainchanges in the brain that occurs two or three days beforehand, which gives riseto these symptoms. This indicated that there more to migraine attacks than justthe headaches. The researchers concluded ...

Anxiety following heart attacks not adequately managed

...these treatmentswas found to be very rare.Anxiety, according to the researchers is common and inevitable after following aheart attack and if left untreated it may impair patients' recovery. Theresearchers have now developed an easy-to-administer tool that will assesspatient's level of anxiety and help doctors...

Severe Acute respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

...al and threatens to become an epidemic. At present according to WHO 1485 cases have been identified worldwide with more than 50 reported deaths mostly in Asia. More dramatically the Italian doctor who discovered this illness recently succumbed to the disease in Thailand.// Dr.Carlo Urbani (46) a an expert on c...

Babies Should Get Vitamin D Supplement

...ula each day they should also receive supplements, according to the AAP. Vitamin D supplements are also recommended in children and teens who do not drink at least 500 milliliters each day of milk fortified with vitamin D. Sunlight is a major source of vitamin D and early humans likely had skin that was bette...

Hypertension lowered by Bedtime Dosing

...tients were then sub-divided into different groups according to their evening blood pressure. The researchers assessed the evening/morning ratio to assess the duration of action of the two drugs. The researchers found that evening dosing with guanabenz and clonidine lowered morning blood pressure significant...

SARS impact could be devastating

...onesians, 841,000 Filipinos and 31,000 Vietnamese, according to the most recent United Nations data. Many of the countries and territories they head for, including Singapore and Hong Kong, are among the hardest hit by SARS, which has killed more than 260 people worldwide and infected some 4,600 since it emerg...

Marriage does not have much impact on life satisfaction

...ct of marriage seems to be more complex than this, according to a long-running population study in Germany. Researchers in Germany have found that marital status has no impact on that general life satisfaction. on contrary to what was believed life satisfaction tends to stay constant over the years irrespectiv...

Are Indians aware of SARS ?

... they are only between 60 and 65 per cent accurate according to a senior scientist at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases. As social isolation faced by a family in Pune, whose four members were confirmed// to be suffering from SARS continues, it has raised panic among local community. In Gurdaspur,...

A drug in vogue to deccelerate the course of Alzheimer's

...ration. Its concentration can increase or decrease according to the level of Alzheimer's disease. Available treatments for Alzheimer's that have proven effective at treating mild to moderate stages of the disease are aimed at a different chemical system in the brain, the cholinergic system. Memantine has been...

Swimming in Chlorinated Pools Raises Asthma Risk

... surge of childhood asthma in developed countries, according to Alfred Bernard of the toxicology unit at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels. // Disinfectants contain compounds that generated potentially harmful gases when they come into contact with urine or sweat from swimmers. The by-product tric...

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