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Two drugs Mays Be Better Than One For Prostate Enlargement

...y is a long-term treatment and could help many men avoid surgery.Specialists says a few men did experience side effects but none were dangerous, and they went away after the patient stopped taking the drugs. Recent studies also show one of the drugs, Proscar, also known as finasteride, can reduce the ris...

Cancer Drug Opens Arteries

...lax today, knowing he's doing everything he can to avoid a second open-heart surgery. Eight years ago, he had a quintuple bypass operation. . But earlier this year, Bailey had the same kind of chest pain. He says, "It was a grabbing, squeezing type of pain right in the middle of my chest." This time, d...

Lifestyle changes Can Delay the Onset Of Dementia

... of those who didn’t have a stroke. A good way to avoid the memory and reasoning problems characteristic of dementia might be to make lifestyle changes now aimed at avoiding stroke, say researchers who followed participants in a long-running study. Results suggest people who have a stroke are twice as lik...

Lifestyle changes Can Delay the Onset Of Dementia

... of those who didn’t have a stroke. A good way to avoid the memory and reasoning problems characteristic of dementia might be to make lifestyle changes now aimed at avoiding stroke, say researchers who followed participants in a long-running study. Results suggest people who have a stroke are twice as lik...

Lifestyle changes Can Delay the Onset Of Dementia

... of those who didn’t have a stroke. A good way to avoid the memory and reasoning problems characteristic of dementia might be to make lifestyle changes now aimed at avoiding stroke, say researchers who followed participants in a long-running study. Results suggest people who have a stroke are twice as lik...

Fish Found To Improve Fetal Growth

... and Drug Administration advises pregnant women to avoid larger fish like shark and swordfish because of their high levels of mercury. The FDA says women can safely eat up to 12 ounces of fish a week and still enjoy the healthy benefits of it. Some of the most commonly eaten fish that are low in mercury in...

How Safe Are Your Cosmetics ?

...ose allergic to particular chemicals, will need to avoid products that contain them, and should also be car...percent petrolatum as a moisturizer. People should avoid products with preservatives such as the formaldehyde releasers or methyldibromo glutaronitrile. And ...

Cancer Patients and Sleeplessness

...lls, helping them get dinner ready." She also says avoid naps and do only neutral activities two hours before bedtime. For many, this may mean no reading. It's mentally stimulating. Graci says, "If you can get a cancer patient, or any patient, to sleep better, they'll feel better. They'll respond to treat...

New Method Of Delivering Chemotherapy

...ble to deliver chemotherapy right to the tumor and avoid the toxicity to the rest of the body .Blood flow to the organ is disconnected from the rest of the body. Heated chemotherapy is delivered and bathes the organ for an hour. "It's a durable treatment and much more successful than chemotherapy that's gi...

Hope For Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

... earlier in the course of her disease and possibly avoid progression. Researchers conducted the study by comparing ALCAM activity in frozen samples of 120 tumors and in 32 samples of normal breast tissue. Women who had died of breast cancer had tumors with notably lower levels of ALCAM than those who did...

The Benefits Of Nuts

...en identified in several studies, some dieters may avoid nuts because of how many calories they contain. This study adds to previous research that shows frequently consuming nuts and peanut butter does not increase body mass index. Researchers say they found that women in this study who consumed more nuts ...

Intensive Treatment Found To Help Patients With Arthritis

...atients receiving more intense therapy are able to avoid joint replacement surgery, the need for institutional care, or disabilities that cause them to stop working....

Fish is Good for Your Heart

Recent study suggests that older patients can avoid the risk of stroke by eating broiled or baked fish. In the study, researchers found those who ate fish; one to four// times a week had 28% less risk of developing an irregular heartbeat(known as atrial fibrillation), than those who ate fish less t...

The Effects Of Smoking Misleading

...made more aware of the labeling practices so as to avoid the above effects...

Risky Drugs To Be Avoided In The Elderly

... more risky drugs. Although criteria for drugs to avoid in the elderly have been around for a long time, the amount of potentially inappropriate prescribing for older patients remains really high,say researchers . Researchers say half of the risky prescriptions were for anti-depressant and anti-anxiety dr...

The Efficacy Of Newer Stents Questioned

...cent vs. 16 percent. They were also more likely to avoid an episode of restenosis, or reblocking of the artery, six to 12 months later, a common problem for anyone undergoing balloon angioplasty. Thirty percent of the bare-metal stent patients experienced reblockage compared to just 9 percent of those who ...

Food Supplements Can Prevent Alzheimer’

...a-3 fatty acid known as DHA may be the best way to avoid Alzheimer’s disease // even if you carry a gene that makes you susceptible to the condition. For the study researchers first bred mice to carry the gene known to cause the brain lesions characteristic of the disease. Initially various environmental f...

Diabetics To Seek Mental Counseling To Cope With Stress

...er blood pressure (63 percent vs. 54 percent), and avoid cardiovascular activity (44 percent vs. 35 percent). Thus researchers stress on the need for mental health professionals to be involved in the care of diabetic persons since the management of diabetes is multi-faceted, complex, and demanding....

The Adverse Effects Of Asthma Medication

...scle might lead to the design of new agonists that avoid negative effects of beta2AR activation while enhancing events that lead to relaxation....

WHO acts to reduce the maternal death toll

...tions related to childbirth, and spells out how to avoid them by using effective and affordable methods which can be implemented in even the poorest settings. Beyond the numbers is the new focus for WHO regional and country offices and partners from more than 20 regional and international agencies, includi...

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