Tag: "aspect" at medical news

Stress reduces your immunity- startling but true!!!!!

... agreed that stress is bad for our health but this aspect of stress decreasing our immune status is sure to cause a lot of concern. With the advent of HIV/AIDS and other immune-disorder related conditions claming many victims every day, the new buzzword is immunity and how we can live healthy without comp...

Acupuncture for conception

...s like poor sperm count. To add on the emotional aspect of trying to conceive can cause stress, making it more difficult to conceive. For whatever reason, some medical experts say, acupuncture is able to deal with some of the problems relating to an inability to conceive. In some cases, they say, it's a m...

Role of Diet in Oral Cancer

.... The objective was to determine if any particular aspect of the Greek diet could explain the low incidence of mouth cancer in the population. Researchers recruited more than 80 patients with newly diagnosed mouth cancer and an equal number of control subjects matched for age and gender, among other factor...

Fish rich diet lowers leptin

...n when sufficient food is consumed. This "satiety" aspect of leptin also works in normal weight humans, but as people gain weight the leptin message is muted, Somers felt that in obese people there are higher leptin levels because more leptin is needed to send the message when a person is 'full'. The new f...

Effective therapy for Huntington's disease

...reatment of liver disease. But the neuroprotective aspect of bile acids is a surprising application....

Lumbar bone mineral density affected by daily physical activity

...of physical activity were analysed. The mechanical aspect covered the sum of all ground reaction forces in physical exercise (MECHPA). The metabolic aspect involved a weighted metabolic score for intensity, frequency and duration of physical exercise (METP...

Admission to Russian varsities is looking up

... which offer a medical degree in English . Another aspect that should be noted is that all foreign students will have to undergo one year preparatory course in Russian language....

Father of CPR dies at 79

...tion Research. Safar's work with CPR was just one aspect of his goal of creating a system of care from accident scene to operating room. Most recently, Safar was studying if cooling the body just a few degrees can prevent brain damage in people who survive cardiac arrest but are left unconscious. "This is...

Leech Therapy for Osteoarthritis

...stent efficacy of leech therapy, the more exciting aspect of this work is the potential for the discovery of a novel analgesic agent that could be safely administered without the need for a leech bite," he writes....

Pollution Free Hydrogen based fuel for Energy

...s a test fleet of hydrogen buses. An interesting aspect discussed was about the concern about hydrogen's explosiveness, Jacobson said "another property of hydrogen - its lightness--may lessen this danger". He gave an example of two cars "one conventional, one hydrogen-powered that were hit from behind. T...

Condoms May not be safe Enough

...full protection against STDs. More worrying is the aspect that youngster today do not practice proper condom use and these studies may further result in their dumping the use of condoms. This growing confusion is likely to be a matter of debate in the coming months and new guidelines may need to be formulat...

Use Of Sunscreen In Childhood And Prevents Future Skin Cancer

... disease. Therefore the study concentrated on this aspect and prior to the study each child was examined by a physician. The number of moles at least 2 mm or larger were counted on specific sites. The experimental group was randomly divided into two groups one of which was made the control i.e. their par...

Transplanted heart made more acceptable by daclizumab

...ith none in the placebo group. When the negative aspect of daclizumab use is examined, researchers would not be willing to trade even a small increase in the risk of death from infection for a reduction in the risk of histologic rejection. ...

Over Six Million HIV Infected People In South Africa- Finds A Survey

...e a detailed statement later. An encouraging aspect of the survey was the continued decline in syphilis prevalence, which has fallen from 11 percent in 1998 to 1.6 percent last year. (New Extract: IANS) Further Information on AIDS from Medindia AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Synd...

Monkeys offer genetic clues to adult blindness

...s and, as a result, doctors know little about this aspect of the disease, Dawson said. Unlike most other animals, a rhesus monkey's eyes have the same complex structure as a human eye, making them a model study subject. They're so similar, he said, that he sometimes slipped images of rhesus monkey eyes int...

Slowing Down The Progression Of Alzheimer’s Disease

... take care of themselves and require help in every aspect of their everyday living. Based on findings of a recent study researchers say that a mixture of peptides derived from colostrum could help slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease by reducing the build-up of beta amyloid, a toxic protein that acc...

Use parathyroid hormone to fight brittle bone disease

...ulating calcium levels in the body. The new aspect of the hormone guarding against fractures has opened up the prospect of the hormone being used to treat osteoporosis or brittle bone disease as it is also known as.// The study, which was spread out over two years, had two groups – “one contr...

Fight against Fungus - A new ray of hope

...s that it needs to be injected intravenously. This aspect makes it difficult to use the drug outside a hospital set-up. The drug, which has not yet been approved for use in candidiasis patients, due to its high cost will be reserved for the sickest kinds of patients who are in the hospital and for one reas...

Encephalitis Claims 131 lives in Uttar Pradesh

...ssue of deaths, we will look into the immunisation aspect later," said Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Jaiveer Singh. "We have already taken punitive action against doctors and pharmacists who failed to rise to the occasion in handling the disease." Source:IANS...

Complications In Kidney Failure Patients Linked To Heparin

...Clinic Proceedings // is a preliminary look at one aspect affecting the health of patients who undergo hemodialysis. In the study, they found patients who had a higher level of adverse outcomes also had elevated levels of heparin antibodies in their blood. The authors believe this is the first study examini...

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