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Patients With Alzheimer’s Need To Be Checked For Visual Clarit

...in the medical homes most have lost their glasses, broken them or have glasses that have not been updated to their new eye sight power. Some of them are too impaired to even ask for a replacement or report their decreasing ability to see things clearly. The researchers are of the opinion that the loss of v...

Need for anti-fungal treatment for asthma

...s//. Researchers of University of Manchester have broken new grounds in asthma treatment by using the drug itraconazole for patients suffering from allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, which is a form of asthma. People suffering from sever asthmatic attacks are often treated with steroids or drugs th...

Androgen Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Found To Increase The Risk Of Fractures

...eated with androgen-deprivation therapy suffered a broken bone within five years of diagnosis, compared to about 13 percent of men who did not receive the treatment. Androgen-deprivation therapy has traditionally been given to men with locally advanced cancers and the therapy has been shown to reduce morta...

Easing Fears Among Asthmatics

...res between the two groups showed similar rates of broken bones for asthmatics on the inhaled drugs and kids without asthma. The finding held true even for children who had been on the drugs for a long period. A small increased risk of fracture was seen, however, for long-time users of inhaled steroids who ...

How Safe Are Your Cosmetics ?

...they occur in people in which the barrier has been broken so that the skin is no longer completely intact. Lotions and creams, foundations, moisturizers, sunscreens, shampoos, salon hair care products and nail care products are most likely to cause allergic reactions. Contact dermatitis, which is an aller...

New Research Has Found Another Use For Botox

...oice disorder that makes the voice sound strained, broken or breathy. The shots relax the muscles in the vocal cords, just as they do to the muscles in the face of those who use Botox for cosmetic purposes. Nearly all of the 36 patients with spasmodic dysphonia showed dramatic and reproducible improvement ...

New Treatment For Hip Joints

...obby Castor plays on his school’s golf team. But a broken hip in grade school led to a condition called avascular necrosis. Decreased blood flow caused his hip joint to die. Since the hips drive a golf swing, it hurt Castor’s game. “I was just limping around the course and just kind of being in a constant s...

Pain of Denial Compared to Physical Pain

...team, chances are you've experienced the pain of a broken heart or being turned down for a date. //Whatever the social snub, researchers say the pain of denial is not just in our heads. According to researchers, the brain seems to respond to the pain of hurt feelings in the same way as physical pain. To st...

False beliefs could cost cancer patients their lives

...26 patients they surveyed held this belief. When broken down by race, 61 percent of the black and 29 percent of the white patients at five centers said they believed exposing a tumor to air would cause it to spread. Most of the patients were male and tended to be elderly, and the poorer and less educated ...

Teens break bones 'due to lack of milk'

A rise in broken bones among adolescents has alarmed researchers who say a decline in milk drinking may be to blame.// Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, examined data from 1969 to 1971 and compared it with information recorded between 1999 and ...

Nitrous Oxide for Kids

...housands of children go to the emergency room with broken bones. The painful procedure to set those bones be... a fraction of the pain. There’s no question that broken bones are one of the more painful emergencies that we treat, say pediatric emergency specialists. Ac...

Good carb, bad carb? Experts debate.

...es that are burned or stored. The faster carbs are broken down by the digestive system, the quicker blood sugar goes up and the higher their GI. The GI of at least 1,000 different foods has been measured, in the process knocking down many common-sense dietary beliefs. For instance, some complex carbohydrat...

Skip Breakfast, Get Fat

...ng breakfast and tipping the scales? "You have not broken the fast soon enough to only need a moderate amount of calories," says Gail Frank, a professor of nutrition at California State University at Long Beach and a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. "You are starving. How does the normal p...

Y chromosome uses trick to repair its own genes

... eliminate genetic defects in the usual way,// and broken genes tend to erode away over the long haul. But there are reasons to be optimistic about the chromosome's future, and the new work adds one more. "Y chromosomes really have a big trick up their sleeves," said David Page, a Howard Hughes Medical I...

Diabetics Need to Guard Against Nail Fungus

... and thickness of the nail. The nail may be easily broken and the toenail may thicken and cause pressure, especially when shoes are worn. People with nail fungus may have trouble walking or wearing shoes. The infection can spread to other nails and other people. Now that the warm weather is here, people wi...

Reducing the risk for type 2 diabetes

...s have problems converting food to energy. Food is broken down into a sugar called glucose, which is carried by the blood to cells throughout the body. Cells use the hormone insulin, made in the pancreas, to help them process blood glucose into energy. People with diabetes can prevent or delay complications...

Do you love nuts? Then here's some good news for you!

...e myth that eating nuts makes one fat has now been broken by a study that suggests that mono and polyunsaturated fats are good while simple carbohydrates are bad. Nuts contain monounsaturated fat that helps lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, the good kind. Monounsaturated fat does not raise triglyce...

Flesh-eating virus

...ease', because it commonly enters the body through broken skin. More than 35 heroin users in the UK and Irel...disease commonly begins in an established wound or broken skin before penetrating the tissues beneath the skin, causing blisters to form. Flu-like symptoms an...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...row new bone - just as it would if you'd naturally broken your leg. Several years ago, a New York physician adapted that technique, called distraction osteogenesis, to fix malformed jaws. If it worked on single bones, Poll reasoned, why not for children's entire faces. First, Polley operates to cut all the...

A new recovery for heart attacks

...er normal circumstances HIF is constantly made and broken down. However researchers have found that under low-oxygen levels, HIF loses a hydroxyl (oxygen and hydrogen) group from a proline amino acid on this domain. This changes the shape of the protein and makes it less likely to be degraded. The other do...

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