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Miscarriage during pregnancy and heart disease linked

...the link is explained by the fact that these women already had heart disease at the time of their miscarriages. He added that family history studies have shown that there are genes which predispose toward heart disease and there are also other acquired factors which can predispose toward heart disease. The i...

Green tea beneficial in preventing osteoarthritis

...ylactic to prevent disease. Though it may not cure already damaged joints, drinking green tea over a long per...uman volunteers. However, Sheffield University has already taken out a patent for the use of EGCG in treating osteoarthritis. Dr. Buttle concluded that while r...

Elevated homocysteine levels linked to congestive heart failure risk

... of homocysteine, an amino acid whose build-up has already been linked with increased risk of heart disease and dementia, increases the risk of developing congestive heart failure in women. The study involved 2,491 adults, average age 72 years, who were studied during 1979 to 1982 and 1986 to 1990 and were f...

New genital gel could empower women against the AIDS epidemic

...rraguard, a microbicide extracted from seaweeds is already into phase III clinical trials in Southern Africa. Carraguard gums up the surface of virus and vaginal cells to create a physical barrier against infection. Other products being tested, such as Buffergel, instead increase acidity to oust the virus. H...

Ranbaxy trying to make inroads in herbal drugs market

...r corporate// website. The company's products have already shown remarkable progress in the US market where the sales has increased from $15 million in 1998 to $296 million in 2002 and, the figures are pegged at $400 million for this year. The worldwide sales for the herbal drugs this year is expected to be ...

Older women's heart health depends on location of fat

...he arms, legs, buttocks, and hips. Central fat has already been shown to be a health risk. Researchers found that obese women had suprisingly less atherosclerosis than expected while women with high central fat and low peripheral fat had the most atherosclerosis, as well as high blood sugar and high cholest...

New hope for patients with Parkinson's disease

... taking into consideration that these patientswere already receiving optimal medical treatment when the device was implanted....

Risk of hemorrhagic stroke increased in smoking individuals

...caused by bleeding into the brain. Researchers had already identified a link between ischemic stroke - caused by a clot in a blood vessel serving the brain - and smoking. The new study that covered 22,022 male US physicians followed for nearly 18 years has shown that compared to those who// had never smoked,...

SARS make Air India cut flights

... are not members of the pilots body. Air India has already reduced the total number of flights from Bombay (Mumbai) to Hong Kong to two per week.// It earlier cancelled one flight and two more are to be suspended from 11 April. Air India says it had to cancel flights due to a sharp decline in the number of...

Avoid travel to Toronto - WHO

...ovince in China were also added to its list, which already has Hong Kong and Guangdong Province as the hot spots for severe acute respiratory syndrome. //This formed a challenge to officials optimism that the disease could be stopped. But now, with the disease spreading nearly every day and a sixteenth Toron...

Antiseizure Drug in help for Alcoholics

... well be the right drug for alcoholics. Topiramate already is an approved by the Food and Drug Administration as an anti-seizure drug....

Boys demand more than girls, even before birth

... weight. These data suggest that in utero boys are already more demanding than girls....

First global SARS meet opens

...eported any new cases on Monday. While the WHO has already removed its travel advisory against Hong Kong, an official from the U.N. agency says the territory could be removed from its list of SARS-infected areas as early as next week. Countries hardest-hit by SARS plan to present papers at the conference de...

A Drink a Day may Keep Diabetes Away

... two years through 1999. For this study, women who already had diabetes or other medical conditions at the start of the study were excluded. About 930 of the nearly 110,000 women in the study developed diabetes during the follow up. Compared with women who never drank, women who consumed light to moderate a...

Restricted Activity Predicts Disability

... decline and restricted activity in those who were already considered at high risk for functional decline at the beginning of the study. The investigators write, "For older persons who are not otherwise at high risk for ADL disability, restricted activity is an important predictor of functional decline and ...

Eat Like a Greek for Good Health

... percent lower. The scientists had excluded anyone already diagnosed with a serious medical condition. The study was not able to show that any one food or ingredient had a marked impact on reducing heart disease or cancer, but researchers pointed to the balance of healthy foods: the monounsaturated fat of o...

Skin Cancer “Reflection” Detectin

... it first forms on the surface of the skin. It had already gotten into my lymph system,” he says.// Now, technology called photonics may help doctors detect skin cancer much sooner. Optical scientists says it works similarly to ultrasound. "When you do ultrasound, you're measuring the time of the sound as y...

Y chromosome uses trick to repair its own genes

...nstitute investigator. The gene-fixing trick was already known to happen occasionally in human DNA, but the surprise is that the Y chromosome has elevated it to standard operating procedure, said researchers. The work by scientists at the Whitehead and the Washington University School of Medicine in St. ...

In Chronic Diseases - Poor compliance of Patients with drug treatment

...ets. On the contrary, adherence to those medicines already prescribed will result in a significant decrease i...This will ensure betterresource utilisation in the already stretched health systems and will improve the lives of people with chronic diseases. <br...

ICMR along with other International Research organisation with drug development for Neglected Diseases

...ners are primarily from the public sector and have already been working tirelessly in the field of public hea... us who can research and produce them." DNDi has already initiated a successful worldwide call for research proposals and many scientists around the world ar...

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