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Diabetes on the rise

... more vulnerable to its complications such as high blood pressure leading to coronary heart disease. Part...s was made. More than a third of patients had high blood pressure, while 11.4% had developed coronary heart disease. Despite this impending threat, the Worl...

Resurface your skin

...series of light pulses can remove redness, dilated blood vessels, age spots and lines. As the targetted cells absorb laser light they are broken apart and absorbed by the body. This promotes production of new collagen - the protein that gives skin its youthful elasticity. The treatment takes just 15 minu...

Iron is a two sided sword

...vital for the binding and release of oxygen by red blood cells and iron deficiency is a relatively common health problem especially in younger women and older people with a poor diet. That is why many breakfast cereals are now fortified with iron, to make sure everyone gets enough of this important minera...

For healthy lungs

...archers found that high levels of vitamin E in the blood were associated with the lowest risk of lung cancer. They stressed, however, that it was not proven that taking a vitamin E supplement could lower the risk. The study involved 29,000 Finnish male smokers - those with the highest levels of alpha-toc...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...ered. They believe the effect is caused by reduced blood flow through the arteries that feed the uterus. Do...r stressed had "significantly abnormal patterns of blood flow through the uterine arteries". The findings, published in the British Medical Journal, suggest ...

Photographs for Diagnosis

...d by brain cell death due to bleeding from damaged blood vessels. Over 500,000 people suffer strokes every ...o identify people with changes to their network of blood vessels - their vascular system - that make them more likely to suffer a stroke.// Previous resear...

Snoring could be a warning

...nant may be at risk of developing dangerously high blood pressure that could threaten their lives when they...ffer from pre-eclampsia, a condition in which high blood pressure can lead to injury or even death in the mother and the foetus. Women can try to reduce thei...

Vitamins reduce pre-eclampsia

...over 40 years old or has diabetes or existing high blood pressure. If left untreated, it can cause internal... radicals which can damage the body and cause high blood pressure. Professor Lucilla Poston, who co-ordinated the study, said: "We hope it may lead to an e...

Detection of Cancer

A simple blood test which may allow the early detection of all fo...drigues Pat, leader of the research team, said the blood test is based on a specific molecule which appears to be missing when cancers begin to develop."The ...

Benefit of colonoscopy

...ended that screening - either with a faecal occult blood test (FOBT), sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy - should start at age 50 and earlier in those with a family history of colon cancer. // But it has not been clear at what age the screening should stop. Researchers at the Texas Clinic Foundation have analys...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

People with blood pressure levels that tend to be slightly elevated ...rs. The systolic value i.e., the first number in a blood pressure measurement, represents the pressure in the heart during contraction. The second number, th...

Levels Of Blood Proteins May Help Heart Disease Care

Levels of blood proteins may help decide the course of treatment f...hen fatty deposits narrow the arteries that supply blood to the heart, and can lead to chest pain and heart attack. In the first study, researchers identi...

New Drug PP188 Helps Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects red blood cells. People with sickle cell disease have red blood cells that contain an abnormal type of hemoglo...

Quit coffee and help your heart

...uit drinking caffeinated filtered coffee cut their blood levels of cholesterol and the protein homocysteine...coffee.// In the study, the researchers evaluated blood samples from 222 non-smoking coffee drinkers between the ages of 25 and 70. The otherwise healthy vo...

More about HIV

...S symptoms for an average of ten years. HIV in the blood may drop to undetectable levels but people remain infectious. The virus is very active in the lymph tissue during this stage.Stage III: Symptomatic HIV Infection. During this critical stage, the immune system deteriorates, HIV mutates quickly and bec...

Aspirin and Warfarin Are Equally Effective for Stroke Prevention

...ects. Both drugs slow clotting of the blood, and blood clots are involved in the final stages of the most...to blockage of the vessels that supply oxygen-rich blood to the brain.// Aspirin affects the blood platelets, while warfarin inhibits circulating clotting pr...

Gene Treatment for Heart Disease

...ork. The treatment -- which triggers growth of new blood vessels in hearts with severe hardening of the art... procedures that open blocked arteries and improve blood flow to the heart. But the success of these treatments has created another problem. This latest ...

Cyclosporin A Treats Leukemia Complications

...sporin A. Anemia is a decrease in red cells in the blood and thrombocytopenia is when the number of platele...of the patients with anemia had an increase in red blood cells in their blood. Most of the patients responded to the drug within three weeks of treatment. ...

An effective way to treat angina

...ough thigh and leg cuffs trigger the growth of new blood vessels. People who have angina, experience episo...hest pain on exertion or during stress because the blood supply to their heart cannot cope with the oxygen demand being made on it. They can be treated by an...

Acne may protect against infections

...P. acnes stimulates activity among a type of white blood cell called a Th-1lymphocyte which plays a central response in fighting infection.// These cells specialise in fighting bacteria and viruses. However, they can also be mobilised to attack some types of tumour cell. Dr Anne Eady, of the Skin Researc...

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