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Fight against E.coli

... teaspoon of cinnamon killed 99.5% of the bacteria after three days at room temperature. When the same amou...s symptoms such as diarrhoea. It usually clears up after a few days, but complications that may arise include inflammation of the bowel, and anaemia. In some...

Pregnancy should not be confined

... international airlines prohibit women from flying after 35 weeks of pregnancy. In the absence of medical or obstetric complications, air travel is safe up to 36 weeks. Women who are at risk for preterm delivery, those who have poorly controlled diabetes, and those with placental abnormalities, however, ...

FDA issues warning for Droperidol

...er often used to treat the nausea many people feel after undergoing anesthesia. Droperidol has long carrie...charging of the heart between beats within minutes after a dose is administered. If the heart doesn't recover, it can go into a potentially fatal irregular b...

A boon to epileptics

...ffered an average of more than 12 fits a week but, after the magnetic treatment, nearly all suffered fewer ...lf. However, the effects of the treatment wore off after six to eight weeks, and two patients suffered "petit mal", or partial seizures directly after treatm...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

...eat the infection if given in the days immediately after exposure....

Miraculous Salads

...e disease that affects one in three women, usually after the menopause. Reported researchers at the University of Bern in Switzerland who conducted experiments on rats.// They said that 1g of onion a day can help prevent the process that causes the condition - resorption, where calcium seeps from the bo...

New treatment for depression

... to at least two medications. The study found that after eight weeks of VNS treatment symptoms were reduced in 40% to 50% of patients and symptoms had completely vanished in one in five patients. Mark George, of the University of South Carolina,the chief researcher said,"What really made us sit up and ta...

Protein and fat improve memory

..., however, people performed better on memory tests after consuming carbohydrate, fat and protein drinks of ...red in verbal recall tests administered 15 minutes after the participants - 11 males and 11 females, aged 61 to 79 - consumed each type of drink.‘Other memor...

Asthmatics at increased risk of lung cancer

...t. Their health was monitored from the second year after asthma diagnosis until the last day of the three-decade study. At the study’s conclusion, the researchers found that lung cancer affected asthmatics more frequently than the general population. They also found that the risk of developing lung cance...

Depression linked to mortality

...third leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease and cancer. About 600,000 Americans have a stroke every year, and 167,000 die from it. Men who suffer from depression and anxiety are more than three times as likely// to die from a stroke as other men. But depressed and anxious men are...

Cooked vegetables give more iron

...on content in the vegetable is the same before and after cooking; heating simply causes the iron stored in ...st iron, people should consume the vegetables soon after they have been cooked. Lee found that cooking tomatoes with other vegetables enhances the nutritiona...

Body can reshape heart damage

...vered that the body can actively reshape the heart after injury.// The research explodes the long-standing ... a damaged heart much as it does other organs came after Dr. Federico Quaini and his colleagues examined tissue from eight men who had received heart transpl...

Depression increases heart attacks

...chers monitored heart rhythm changes in 712 people after they were discharged from the hospital following a...sed. People with poor HRV are more likely to die after a heart attack, and according to the researchers, experiencing a major depression can quadruple a pe...

Artificial lenses- Boon to cataract patients

...would be inserted into the lens capsule fo the eye after the cloudy lens has been removed.“It would be almo...hool of Medicine in Atlanta. But cells left behind after surgery can proliferate and cause the lens capsule to stiffen, he says. For variable focus lenses, t...

Get, set, go...

...hildren have the greatest increase in bone mineral after the growth spurt just before puberty. Children who do not take enough exercise are in danger of suffering broken bones in later life,// says the study. Many fail to strengthen up their skeleton during a vital two-year window before puberty, which is...

The way you talk matters a lot

...d shoulder so he could keep his hands free. Soon after that he experienced a temporary blindness in his left eye, together with a ringing in his left ear and a difficulty in speaking. An angiogram of the patient's brain showed he had ruptured the carotid artery, a vital blood vessel supplying the brain, ...

New Dietary Approach To Manage Kidney Stones

...ned normal amounts of calcium had recurrent stones after 5 years, compared with 38% of men on a low-calcium diet. The results point to a new dietary approach to manage kidney stones, according to Dr. Loris Borghi from the University of Parma in Italy and colleagues. Reducing calcium intake has not been sh...

Burden of lung disease

...o deal only in one disorder, chest physicians look after everything from lung cancer to chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder(COPD), asthma, pneumonia, cystic fibrosis and sleep apnoea. There are some 30 or 40 respiratory conditions. As a result, lung disease, on the whole, has not been high enough up t...

Magnesium sulfate offers no help in migraine treatment

...o at 15-minute intervals. The infusion was stopped after a maximum of three doses or when pain relief was obtained. Examination of visual analogue pain scores demonstrated that those in the placebo group showed greater pain reduction than those in the magnesium group.// Commenting on this unexpected findi...

Appropriate treatment for breast cancer

.... Women who have// had breast cancer do well years after treatment, although those who have chemotherapy an...k is that women who received adjuvant chemotherapy after surgery, or tamoxifen, reported sexual discomfort and vaginal dryness. It calls into question whethe...

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