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Blood Pressure Drugs maintain muscle strength

...not only be used as first-line treatment for older adults with hypertension but could also be used to slow physical decline in elderly people. Although the study was limited to women, research had also shown positive results for men....

Influenza drug delayed

...ping symptoms to be effective. Tamiflu pills for adults and older children were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October 1999 and are available. The liquid formula for children 1 or older was approved in December 2000, but was not available until January 2001. Flu season usually occurs...

Toxin connected to 'Flesh-eating' Pneumonia in Kids

...PVL-positive cases occurred in children, teens and adults in their 20s, none of whom had serious underlying disorders. The pneumonia itself was different as well. The young patients were more likely to have high fever and cough up blood, the investigators found. Most cases started with a flu-like illness t...

Gel pares inflammatory activity throughout body

...found. The investigators divided a sample of 100 adults with chronic periodontal disease into four groups, two of which had an antibiotic-infused gel applied to their periodontal pockets while the other two received standard treatment without the gel. Treatment was administered at the beginning of the stu...

Hyperactivity Drug Can Be Added to Food

...and colleagues conclude. In the study, 26 healthy adults without ADHD fasted for 10 hours and then swallowed a Metadate CD capsule or took the medication, containing 20 milligrams of the drug, sprinkled over 1 tablespoon of applesauce. After 6 days of taking no medication, the study volunteers switched tre...

Sleepwalking has genetic roots

...mune system than those who do not. Sleepwalking in adults is quite different from childhood sleepwalking.// It's more likely to lead to injury or violent behaviour, and those affected often have other health problems, like sleep apnoea. A study of 60 adult sleepwalkers in Bern, Switzerland, shows an interes...

Sharing injection equipment spreads Hepatitis C

...ion drug users from 1995 to 1998. All of the young adults in the study provided blood samples and those who did not already have HCV were retested 6 months and 1 year later. About one quarter of the drug users were already infected with HCV at the beginning of the study, the authors report. During the stu...

Computer Program can assist to detect Heart Attack

... program is missing. In a study of more than 1,000 adults who went to the emergency department for chest pai.... The researchers applied the technology to 1,400 adults who arrived at the emergency department complaining of chest pain. On average, 5% of the information...

Assessment for hearing aid implants in the process

...them. Hearing loss affects around a quarter of all adults aged over 60 in the United States. Traditionally t...ing bones. Researchers in the US have surveyed 100 adults fitted with one of the implants. They find that 70 per cent reported improvement in the quality of l...

Treatment of antibiotics ineffectual in bronchitis

...ave any benefit.// They arbitrarily allocated 150 adults with acute bronchitis to either azithromycin or low-dose vitamin C. All patients got cough syrup (liquid dextromorphan) and an albuterol inhaler. There was no difference in quality-of-life scores between the two groups. Nine out of ten patients had r...

Healthy snacks improve nutrition of kids

...e may be afraid to try new foods, she said, but if adults can introduce children to healthy alternatives to junk food, "then they'd be more accepting of them, and more likely to eat them in the future....

Decrease of 'Hunger Hormone' after Obesity Surgery

...chers at the Puget Sound Health Care System, obese adults who undergo 'stomach stapling' have much lower lev...fore and after a 5-month weight loss program, in 6 adults who had lost weight after gastric bypass surgery, and in 10 normal-weight adults. Patients had unde...

Enzyme stimulates growth of adult stem cells

... would be difficult to administer MMP9 directly to adults who wanted to produce more of their own stem cells, but researchers may soon be able to administer the growth factors that, in turn, activate the enzyme to do its job. Adult stem cells may some advantages over those derived from embryos, Rafii point...

A high carbohydrate diet good for health

...es by Individuals (CSFII) 1994-1996 studied 10,000 adults over age 20, dividing them into four levels of carbohydrate intake. These include the very-low-carbohydrate group (less than 30 percent), low-carbohydrate group (30-45 percent), moderate-carbohydrate group (45-55 percent), and a high-carbohydrate gro...

Vitamin C maintains healthy lungs

... of Nottingham found in a study of more than 2,200 adults that high levels of vitamin C and magnesium both corresponded with healthier lungs based on a measure of lung function called forced expiratory volume 1, or FEV1. Nine years later, when the researchers were able to follow up with a little more than h...

Hypertension drugs could lower Disability

... not only be used as first-line treatment of older adults with hypertension, but could also be used to slow physical decline in elderly people," Onder said. "However, pharmaceutical companies are not very interested in ACE-inhibitors right now." ACE inhibitors have been on the market for more than 10 years...

Marriage does good for Diabetics

...edical University in Syracuse// surveyed nearly 70 adults with diabetes who had been married for an average of 21 years. Patients, who were all on insulin, were surveyed again two years after the initial survey. The patients' reports regarding their marital adjustment and familiarity at the beginning of t...

Risk Factors for vision problems in Diabetes

... it the leading cause of new cases of blindness in adults 22 to 70 years old. Researchers from the Texas studied more than 600 individuals who were part of the Hoorn Study, a population-based study consisting of more than 1,260 people between ages 52 and 70 years. The prevalence of retinopathy was measured...

The issue of urinary incontinence

...despread use. But doctors were slow to accept that adults could or should wear nappies -instead, they resorted to indwelling catheters, which compounded the problem because they raise the risk of urinary tract infection (and it is infected urine that smells most). A well-designed incontinence pad should dea...

Osteoarthritis and Estrogen are connected

...Osteoarthritis affects 20 percent to 30 percent of adults over 40 years old. Experts estimate up to 70 percent of women 60 years or older suffer from osteoarthritis. They conducted a study to see if estrogen plays a role in the development of osteoarthritis in postmenopausal women. More than 1,500 postmeno...

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