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Cost-effective antibiotics for sinusitis treatment

... Piccirillo and his team examined data from 29,102 adults with a diagnosis of acute sinusitis receiving initial antibiotic treatment. The antibiotic treatment received was divided into first-line therapy and second-line therapy. First-line antibiotics include amoxycillin, trimethoprim/sulphamethoxazole or e...

Diabetes on the rise

...rm of tablets or injections. In the US, one in ten adults is thought to suffer from diabetes....

Bronchitis in the young

...rchers found that the disease affects up to 12% of adults under the age of 40. Young smokers were particularly at risk, and men were more affected than women. Chronic bronchitis often gives rise to bouts of heavy bacterial infection, and can eventually lead to very serious problems with the respiratory syst...

New therapy for pimples

...er of spots by three-quarters.As many as one in 18 adults have persistent pimples, which can prove stubbornly resistant to both creams and antibiotics. Some acne does clear up significantly when exposed to UV light. The new treatment, tested by doctors at Hammersmith Hospital in London, uses light, but r...

Legume Consumption Can Cut Heart Disease Risk

...rica, where heart disease is the leading killer of adults and one of the leading causes of premature and permanent disability, according to Dr. Lydia A. Bazzano from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Legumes are rich in soluble fiber, which has been shown to help lower total cholesterol and LDL ...

Simvastatin Plus Niacin May Lower Heart Risks

...ns by up to 90% in some patients. The study of 160 adults with clogged heart arteries and low HDL (good) cholesterol showed that 3 years of the combo treatment improved HDL levels, caused artery blockages to recede and significantly lowered heart complications compared with an inactive placebo. // Both lo...

Eating More Often May Help Lower Cholesterol

.... The Researchers found that middle-aged and older adults who ate frequently throughout the day had lower "bad" LDL cholesterol levels compared with those who tended to down one or two large meals per day. This was despite the fact that the frequent eaters, on average, had a higher calorie and fat intake. ...

Overweight children Don't Necessarily Become overweight adults

...n who are overweight will grow up to be overweight adults isn't especially accurate. Many studies have found...eople who were thinnest as children and fattest as adults tended to have the highest adult risk of disease. The study looked at the health records of 1,142 ...

TV drug commercials prompt prescriptions

...ds have a considerable effect -- nearly a third of adults have talked to their doctor about a drug they saw advertised. About 44 percent of those adults then received a prescription for the drug they saw advertised. After watching a commercial for an as...

Dangers of Low Calcium Intake

.... The number of fractures among children and young adults has increased, probably due to lower intakes of calcium. Pediatricians are also seeing the emergence of rickets, a bone disease that results from low levels of vitamin D. As these children get older, this calcium crisis will become more serious as ...

Cure for sleepless nights

...e National Institute of Mental Health, examined 78 adults with an average age of 65 who suffered from chronic and primary insomnia.Some were given the sedative temazepam, others behavioural therapy, some a combination of the two and the rest a placebo. They received the treatment for eight weeks and were fo...

Coffee enhances memory

...the morning hours, memory is at its best in older adults compared to late afternoon.// For researchers at the University of Arizona have found that coffee can find out memory performance throughout the day. They had about 60-70 participants aged over 64 do a verbal learning test in the morning and and a...

Baby Talk Better Than Adult Speech

...ous study, Patricia Kuhl and colleagues found that adults do, in fact, talk differently to infants than they... using a computer-based program to "listen" to how adults pronounce vowel sounds when talking to infants vs. adults. They discovered that baby talk sounds are...

Dyslexia due to cerebellum abnormality

... brain activity of eight normal and eight dyslexic adults using a scanning technique called positron emission tomography (PET). patients were monitored as they performed a pre-learned sequence of right hand finger movements, and as they learned a new sequence of finger movements, also with their right hand....

More People Seeking Treatment for Depression

... in the United States, affects more than 9 million adults in a given year.Despite advances in treatment options and educational efforts,// depression has been described as underdiagnosed and poorly treated in the US. In fact, a recent study stressed that as many as 8 million Americans with serious mental il...

The way you talk matters a lot

...d artery. He said around 20% of strokes in young adults were caused by dissections. Dr Zuber said: "This case shows us that everyday activities with a prolonged distortion of the neck, such as holding the phone between your ear and shoulder, can have unpredictable consequences for some people....

Less sleep increases mortality rates

...eased mortality rates. A study of over one million adults conducted over a six year time period// shows that the old advice that you need eight hours sleep a night might need modifying. Looking at the length of time people sleep and its relationship to life expectancy, researchers at the University of Texas...

Tobacco chewing leads to dental caries

...aries and tobacco use data from more than// 13,000 adults aged 19 and over. The researchers illustrated between the two types of spit tobacco, also called smokeless tobacco, and other types of tobacco such as cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Spit tobacco comes in two forms, chew and snuff. Chewing tobacco is...

Prescription Drug Use Varies Widely Between States

...Overall, children exhibited greater variation than adults for most therapy classes. Whether greater variation is warranted for children or whether it reflects greater uncertainty by physicians in the treatment of childhood ailments is an important area for further research....

Awakening call for fall prevention

... to assist in the selection of walking aids. Older adults are more likely to need joint replacement after a fracture than younger people. And surgery on a broken bone might even require the insertion of plates or screws. The best way to avoid all these complications is to do your utmost to prevent a fall fr...

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