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New Drug Combination Found To Improve Memory in Alzheimer’s Patient

... moderate to severe Alzheimer’s. Participants were already taking the drug donepezil when the study began. Donepezil works by preventing the breakdown of acetylcholine, a chemical messenger in the brain that is important for memory and other thinking skills.For the study, patients received either memantine o...

Reducing Number Of Cigarettes Not Enough

...ey. They say: “Although 1 billion people worldwide already smoke and more will start, individuals who stop smoking reduce their smoking-related cancer risks effectively. A balanced public health strategy is therefore needed that not only prevents young individuals from starting to smoke, but also helps adult...

Magnetic Stimulation Found Effective for Parkinson’

...ains more sensitive to the medication he or she is already taking,” says specialists at the National Institute of Health. Researchers however say their results have been short-lived. This therapy has been tested and used in people with depression for more than a decade and Doctors say the study with Parkin...

PET Scans Found To Reveal Hidden Cancers

...re cancerous tumors unrelated to the primary tumor already under study. Researchers say 92 percent of the patients with these secondary cancers reported no symptoms. Researchers say the unexpected abnormalities they followed up on were significant. Typically, these cancers were not symptomatic and were unrel...

Blood Marker Found To Predict Colon Cancer

An inflammation marker in the blood that is already known to predict heart disease may also indicate an increased risk // of colon cancer, according to a new Johns Hopkins study. C-reactive protein, or CRP, is produced primarily in the liver. Higher levels of CRP have been linked to higher risks of s...

Cholesterol-lowering drug Found To greatly Reduce the risk of stroke and heart attack

...dditional benefits of statins in patients who were already on standard medications to treat heart failure. Researchers analyzed the medical records of 551 heart-failure patients and looked to see what medications each one was given. They then looked at mortality records.They found an overall 55 percent red...

Understanding Lung Cancer Metastasis

...n. Results showed about 18 percent of the patients already had evidence of brain cancer at the time they were diagnosed with lung cancer, although about a third were not having any symptoms related to the brain disease. By two years later, more than half of all the patients had developed brain metastases. ...

A Slight Increase In BP Can Mean big Risks

Women who have already had a heart attack or stroke, even slightly raised blood pressure levels can give a higher risk of having another cardiac event .// The finding holds true even in the case of women who have only slightly elevated blood pressure to begin with say rese...

A Simple Exercise Can Uncover Undiagnosed Asthma

...14 percent had been diagnosed with asthma and were already taking mediation to control their symptoms . About 40 percent of the participants showed a 15-percent or greater drop in FEV after they finished running. A large number of youth and high school athletes were found to have undiagnosed asthma....

The Effectiveness Of The Breast Cancer Drug By Pfizer

...t on it, rather than blocking estrogen after it is already produced. Pfizer markets exemestane under the brand name Aromasin. Researchers say ,"These (studies) are pieces of the puzzle, and the puzzle is becoming clearer now."...

Lack of Exercise Found To Lead To Obesity In Kids

...were either at risk of becoming overweight or were already considered overweight. They also documented how often the children watched television. Results of the study show a lack of vigorous physical activity is the main contributor to obesity for adolescents between 11 and 15 years old. Researchers found c...

Viagra Also Found To Be Effective For Treatment of Lung Diseases

...rope have pulmonary hypertension, three drugs have already been approved for the condition and several others are on the way. Researchers say the patient population might grow because doctors, who often miss the condition, are looking more carefully now that treatments are available. Though far from cures f...

The Importance Of Folic Acid Supplements

... bifida to their offspring.// Researchers say they already know one form of the gene responsible for processing folate in the body is linked to neural tube defects. They speculated another form of the gene might also be associated with the birth defects. Researchers studied about 400 people with neural tube...

Early Screening Required for Glaucoma

...ately, glaucoma often goes undetected until it has already caused visual disability or even blindness. The risk of developing glaucoma increases as people get older. Researchers say people with a first-degree relative with glaucoma are up to eight-times more likely to get glaucoma than those in the general...

Fruits found To Be Good For Eyes

...ins slowed the progression of the disease in those already diagnosed with it. Thus researchers looked at fruit and vegetable intake and vitamin-supplement use among about 77,500 women and 41,000 men taking part in larger health studies. All were at least 50 years old at the beginning of the studies and wer...

Possibility Of Regaining Speech After Tongue, Voice Box Removal

...opulation of head and neck cancer patients who had already had their tongues and voice boxes removed. After six months, researchers say all the patients who received a secondary TEP were satisfied with their speech intelligibility results. However, those who had received a primary TEP did not develop functi...

Treatment Options For Retinitis Pigmentosa Questioned

...ers investigated the effect of DHA on patients not already taking vitamin A prior to the study. It was found that patients not taking vitamin A before the study who were part of the vitamin-A-plus-DHA group had a slower decline in vision loss than those in the control group. These effects lasted over the fir...

Fixing the way to a Man’s Heart

...trol on their health. However, for those who are already suffering with the disease and have chest pain, researchers are studying adult stem cells as a way to help. Cells from a patient's own bone marrow is taken and inject into the heart to form new blood vessels. Cardiologist Douglas W. Losordo, M.D., ...

Stopping The Progression Of Parkinson's Disease

...f facial rigidity // and a shuffling walk. A drug already being used to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease may also be able to stop its progression say researchers . The drug, pramipexole (Mirapex), is found to completely halt the neurotoxic effects of a chemical that causes symptoms similar to Park...

Hope For Patient With Alzheimer’s Diseas

... moderate to severe Alzheimer’s. Participants were already taking the drug donepezil when the study began. Donepezil works by preventing the breakdown of acetylcholine, a chemical messenger in the brain that is important for memory and other thinking skills.For the study, patients received either memantine o...

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