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Practicing Spirituality may Help Smokers to Quit

...hers reveals many smokers are receptive to and may benefit from their own spiritual resources, when attempting to quit. The study, believed to be the first to look at the potential use of spiritual resources for quitting in adult smokers, recently was published in Nicotine & Tobacco Research. For decades...

Drug Risks Must Be Balanced Against Benefits, Researchers

...cceptability of a risk without also looking at the benefit of associated activities, because risks are inevitable in all areas of life," study author Joshua Cohen said. "We wanted to see if we could compare risks associated with medication use with other risks that people might be more familiar with." To t...

Research Reveals Way to Speed Up Treatment of Deadly Malignant Hyperthermia

...iscoveries of best practices such as this one will benefit patients for decades to come."...

Aspirin can Prevent Bowel Cancer, Says UK Study

...sk of stomach problems, but the team said it could benefit those at high-risk of cancer. Cancer campaigners welcomed the study - published in the Lancet - which examined data from previous research covering more than 7,500 people. Each year, around 35,000 men and women in the UK are diagnosed with bowel...

Quick, Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy

...o most patients who undergo prostatectomy stand to benefit from the procedure," says co-author Dr. Alexis Te, director of the Brady Prostate Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and associate professor of urology at Weill Cornell Medical College. "The technique entails no extra cost and very little...

One Pill may Be Better Than Two for Treating Patients With High Blood Pressure

... and additional risk factors for heart disease may benefit more from taking one tablet rather than two , if their current treatment combines the lipid-lowering medication atorvastatin with the blood pressure-lowering medication amlodipine, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's 8th Scientif...

Making Change: The Cost of Being Transgender

...r children in wealthier families often receive the benefit of their parents' education and access to information. Children attending smaller schools in wealthier districts are more likely to have adults advocating for them than those in poor areas where funding is spread thin, said Daley. Transgender peo...

Spinal Manipulation Beneficial for Neck Pain

...urrent evidence did not support a similar level of benefit from massage therapy. Neck pain is a very common complaint approximately 15 percent of women and 10 percent of men are estimated to have chronic neck pain at any one time. According to a report issued by the National Board of Chiropractic Examiner...

Alzheimer's Drug may Help to Restore Speech in Stroke Patients

...archers wanted to find out whether Donepezil might benefit people with aphasia, a condition characterised by an inability to pronounce or comprehend speech, of which stroke is the most common cause. They conducted experiments on 26 people with the condition, the preliminary results of which showed that par...

Mammogram Rates On The Decline In America

...ying as women in this group are the most likely to benefit from receiving mammograms. Says Robert Smith, the American Cancer Society's director of cancer screening: A decline in mammography utilization is going to result in a higher rate of cancers diagnosed at an advanced stage. And that will mean more ...

Innovative Procedure Helps Men Minimize Incontinence After Prostatectomy

...o most patients who undergo prostatectomy stand to benefit from the procedure," says co-author Dr. Alexis Te, director of the Brady Prostate Center at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell and associate professor of urology at Weill Cornell Medical College. "The technique entails no extra cost and very little...

Boiling Makes Broccoli to Loses Its Anticancer Properties

...onclusion cut out boiling if you want the maximum benefit from these veggies. "If you want to get the maximum benefit from your five portions-a-day vegetable consumption, if you are cooking your vegetables boiling is o...

Researchers Identify Immune Dysfunction in Melanoma Patients

... in that pathway. That means patients who wouldn't benefit from the treatment could avoid suffering through interferon's flu-like side effects....

Patients Affected by Parkinsons may Be Benefited from Treadmill Exercise

...kinsons disease and similar movement disorders may benefit from treadmill exercises. Dr. Michael Jakowec, Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine, studied the effects of treadmill exercise between animal models with and without a loss of certain cells that are similar to what Park...

Spare Just Ten Minutes A Day For A Healthier Heart

...d daily exercise dose, a substantial and immediate benefit in cardiovascular health can be attained. The r... if you can't get 150 minutes a week, you stand to benefit even if you get half that." Co-author I-Min Lee was quoted: "These findings suggest that differen...

Car Airbags Most Suited To Medium-Built Individuals

...of people are at risk of injury rather than have a benefit from them." "That's pretty well established in kids and there have been some small case reports to suggest that maybe small stature adults are also at risk but it's never really been demonstrated conclusively," Newgards adds. Yet, Newgard says, ...

Now Fingerprints can Be Used to Detect Drugs and Diseases Instead of Blood Samples

...e ridge pattern. Medical diagnostics could also benefit in the form of simple and quick mass screening with no danger of sample mix-ups. Another application could be drug screening without taking blood samplesfrom suspicious drivers, for example. The report is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie....

Angioplasty Reduces Long-term Cardiac Risk in Heart Patients With 'silent' Ischemia

...oup, despite fewer drugs. 'We found a persistent benefit of PCI compared with optimized drug therapy,' the authors report. 'This benefit became apparent only after two years of observation, with survival curves continuously diverging up ...

WHO Launches Yellow Fever Initiative for West Africa

...e best values in health care, providing tremendous benefit at very low cost. A child can be immunised for only $30. It is a near-perfect intervention, preventing disease before it is allowed to take root, protecting children when they are most vulnerable and providing them with a healthy start in life. The...

Pregnancy Becomes Safe for Some Women Who Take Low-dose of Aspirin Daily

...tralia and colleagues now think that aspirin might benefit only a small subset of women, such as those who suffered pre-eclampsia during previous pregnancies. Pre-eclampsia is characterized by an increase in blood pressure and excessive amounts of protein in the mother's urine, and can prove fatal to moth...

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