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Impact on Lung function based on exposure

...etween ages 19 and 32, then followed them up until age 40. All of the participants provided information r...rette smoking. Results showed smoking at an early age was related to a faster decline in FEV 1. Having family members who smoked led to early development ...

Study on obesity and heart failure

...ants were women and the rest were men. The average age was 52 years old. The individuals were followed for up to 14 years. Researchers looked at who had heart failure, what their other risk factors were, and their body mass index. Even after adjusting for other risk factors, researchers found a 5 percen...

Demand for universal flu vaccination

...ould be saved each year, if only everyone over the age of 60 had a flu jab. According to vaccine experts, Dr. Gregory Poland fe that universal vaccination in three regions// over two flu seasons reduced mortality from the disease by 40 to 50 per cent. Clearly vaccination can be a life-saver, yet take-up ...

Better skin with lasers

...es with lasers help remove lines and wrinkled from age and sun damaged skin. Exposure to sun when you're ...l in later years in terms of wrinkles,// lines and age spots on the skin. But, says Dr Arielle Kauvar, a dermatologist at New York University, non-ablative...

Breastfed babies grow rapidly

... between the two groups by the time they reach the age of one year. The findings contradict research that suggests infants who are fed only breast-milk for the first year of life gain less weight than babies given at least some formula. These studies have ignored other factors that might influence a bab...

Rectal Cancer treated with radiation

...rvival rate was 60 percent and, for patients under age 75, it was nearly 70 percent. Rectal function was maintained in 90 percent of the patients and no severe toxicity was observed. Jean-Pierre Gerard, M.D., from the Centre Antoine-Lacassagne, says, "Surgery remains, without doubt, the main treatment of...

Heart test may detect death risk

...examined data on more than 5,000 patients, average age 60, who had successful catheterization procedures and did not have heart attacks or require emergency surgery. About 15 percent of the patients had CK-MB levels above normal after their procedures. Patients whose CK-MB levels were higher than five ...

Vitamin E supports Female Hearts

...ollowed a group of about 350 women with an average age of 50 who had no evidence of heart disease at the beginning of the study. None of the women were taking vitamin supplements containing the antioxidants A, C, or E. Women completed food frequency questionnaires and also had their blood tested for vit...

Physical activity less among black girls

...as greater in black girls than white girls. By the age of 16 or 17, 50 percent of black girls and 25 percent of white girls reported no habitual leisure-time activity. Researchers found reasons for the lack of activity included a higher body mass index, pregnancy and smoking. Another risk factor associat...

Voice has to be looked after with care

Most of the population above age 50 might have some form of voice problem which can be supported by following a few simple rules. There is a lot of natural variation in how the human voice sounds. //But once your voice prevents you from communicating properly you may have a problem....

Stroke risk might be linked to antibody

...Young Women study. The samples were from 650 women age 12 to 40. One hundred twenty of the women had suffered a stroke and 300 of the women had not. Using several laboratory tests, researchers found women with aPL antibodies were 1.65 times more likely to have a stroke. These results were obtained even ...

National Lung Study in the process

...wing criteria: >Be a current or former smoker age 55 to 74 >Have never had lung cancer and have not had any cancer within the last five years >Must not be currently enrolled in any other cancer screening or prevention trial >Have not had a CT scan of the chest or lungs within the p...

Advanced STD programs required

... in some way, had to include heterosexual men over age 15, and it had to be methodologically sound. After analyzing the 30 studies, a number of conclusions were reached. For one, they determined that few studies are conducted on men alone and few target the general population. Instead, most studies tend...

Early therapy aids eyesight

...of glaucoma affects nearly 1.0 million people over age 45. While doctors find treating eye pressure may help slow the disease, they do not believe elevated eye pressure necessarily is the cause of the disease. Further research will be done to continue to understand the cause....

Smoking risk precedes colon cancer

... with average risk have colonoscopy screening from age 55. On the basis of this new study, the researchers wonder if smokers should start screening earlier....

Shunt for Alzheimer's Disease

... receive the shunt. The two groups were similar in age and severity of dementia. Researchers found the shunted patients experienced stability in their cognitive function while the group without the shunts had a "fairly robust" decline in cognitive function over the 12-month study. Researchers caution th...

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

...en in Toronto tested the drug in 14 children under age 20 with various types of malignant brain tumors, including primary tumors and tumors caused by cancer that had spread to the brain. All of the children had exhausted conventional. Together the children received a total of 40 doses of the medication....

Surgery a safety in senility

...n a Swiss study looked at patients with an average age of 80 who suffered from chronic angina.// Doctors either gave them medication, or referred them for an angioplasty - a treatment where a fine tube with a small inflatable balloon attached is inserted and the balloon inflated to widen the artery.Res...

Drug for pediatric brain cancer

...en in Toronto tested the drug in 14 children under age 20 with various types of malignant brain tumors, including primary tumors and tumors caused by cancer that had spread to the brain. All of the children had exhausted conventional. Together the children received a total of 40 doses of the medication....

Smoking may be influenced by Parents

... students who smoke tried their first cigarette by age 10....

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