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Heart Surgery Is Getting Safer for the Old

...ey would recommend the surgery for others in their age group. The researchers also found significant impr...y that took place a decade ago on patients in this age group. In addition, the researchers found that the risk of major complications was nearly cut in h...

Medications linked to xerostomia and caries

...s tended to be those who were young, usually under age 5. “A pulmonologist told me that would be consist...hildren who had asthma when they were younger than age 5 will outgrow it.” ...

Ethnic discrepancy in ovarian cancer

...women with ovarian cancer. They find that the mean age at diagnosis was 62 years for African Americans, and 60 for Caucasians. In the African women, the cancer was more likely to be advanced by the stage of diagnosis, and they were less likely to undergo surgery. So it is perhaps unsurprising that the ...

Training with weights helps building resistance

...nta University, men and women well past retirement age have much to gain from resistance training. Weight work increases your mobility and improves reaction time - both of which will help you avoid falls and injuries. The workouts will make you look and feel better. You can use the same routine as youn...

Ultrasound helps stroke treatment

...id. The pilot study enrolled 40 patients, average age 65. Thirty-seven percent had complete clearance of clots, called recanalization, within two hours of treatment initiation and "70 percent had a partial clearance of clots," Alexandrov said in an interview with United Press International. He cautione...

Lactobacillus Supplements shorten the duration of diarrhoea

...rrhoea in children, most of whom were younger than age 4 and were hospitalized. The Lactobacillus was generally given as a supplement, either in capsule form or mixed into a rehydration drink. The researchers found that supplemental Lactobacillus shortened the duration of diarrhoea by two thirds of a da...

Meningitis C vaccine a cost-effective success

...he meningitis C campaign in young people up to the age of 19. Before the immunisation programme’s intro...ucing the incidence of the disease in the targeted age groups in a cost-effective anner....

Children's snoring may indicate a serious problem

...rt of a routine examination of patients older than age 1, the pediatricians' group urges doctors to ask whether the child snores. If the answer is yes, doctors should refer the patient for more tests since chronic snoring is often a symptom of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome. Tonsils and/or adenoids ...

Further support for use of statins in Alzheimer’s disease

...ted as controls. The researchers took into account age and other factors that put people at risk and still found that the statins offered a mighty shield against the Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers speculate that statins may reduce the brain's production of beta-amyloid, a protein thought to cause Alz...

Relationship bertween birth weight and IQ

...bia University have examined over 2500 children at age seven to study the relationship between birth weig...and intelligence.They found that on average, IQ at age seven is directly related to birth weight, while factors such as the mother's age, race, education a...

Young women prone to heart attack

...r decrease in age."The interaction between sex and age has an important effect on long-term mortality rate after myocardial infarction (heart attack)", the authors said. Cardiovascular disease kills more women than all cancers. The early warning signs of heart attack can vary greatly, experts say. While...

Breast cancer risk doubles by high sex hormone levels

...with the hormones of 1,567 women who were the same age when blood was donated as the women who developed breast cancer. The results are highly statistically significant and were not altered when the researchers adjusted for established risk factors for breast cancer....

FDA Approves New surgery Treatment for Farsightedness

... which could be exacerbated by LASIK. The average age of patients who undergo LASIK is in the early 40s, while for conductive keratoplasty, the average age for patients has been 58. LASIK is approved for higher degrees of farsightedness and astigmatism, wh...

Down syndrome life anticipation doubles

...n the US.// The researchers found that the average age at death for the 10,800 reported to have Down syndrome increased from 25 years in 1980 to 50 years in 1995. The researchers review that de-institutionalization and keeping children with their families, along with better treatments for common causes...

Vitamin D 'reduces heart risk'

...f heart disease. Researchers found that women over age 65 who took the supplements had nearly one-third less risk of dying from heart disease. Low levels of certain forms of vitamin D have been associated with increased risk of heart attacks.// But the positive impact of taking vitamin D supplements has...

Elevated Ozone Levels Hurt Sperm Count

...a during the same time period. The donors' average age was about 20, and most were college students. The researchers also analyzed data on air quality in both regions. The greater the increase in ground level ozone--popularly known as smog--the greater the drop in sperm counts, the investigators found. ...

Acoustic neuroma in older patients to be treated

According to a research, patient's age has to be taken into consideration before deciding...hers, from Santa Clara, USA, studied the effect of age on outcome in surgery for acoustic neuroma. They concluded that acoustic neuroma patients over 60 sh...

High Altitude ‘Speeds up ageing process

...ch, women who live at high altitudes are likely to age faster. Scientists drew their conclusions after fi... looked at a control group of 160 women of similar age and ethnic origin who lived at just 150 m above sea level. //They found concentrations of the hormon...

Pancreatic Cancer may be linked to Diabetes

...stigators found 1,050 new diabetes cases in people age 40 and older. Of those, 21 developed pancreatic ca...uitively," but the study added a critical time and age element. She noted the mean time from diagnosis of diabetes to diagnosis of pancreatic cancer was on...

Healing a painful neck

...opulation. The condition strikes most often around age 55, and women experience it more often than men. Although doctors can sometimes pinpoint the cause of the pain, most of the time there is no clear diagnosis. Many physicians try to treat the condition with pain relievers but may also refer patients t...

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