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Folate and famiy planning

...fected by a neural tube defect. Neural tube defect can cause a wide range of disabilities such as loss of...d paralysis of the legs. In some cases the effects can be more severe.Folate supplements can reduce this ill effect says, Judith. Folate is needed for hea...

Prevention is better than cure

... membranes of the eye via the tear duct.// People can catch cold from the coughs and sneezes of victims or from virus contaminated objects. Symptoms of a cold include one or more of the following: running or stuffy nose, sore throat, hoarseness, 'dry' cough, tiredness, headache, bouts of sneezing and fe...

GlaxoSmithKline - Changes Lamictal(R) Label Appearance and Packaging

...rors are often a result of miscommunication, which can include poor hand writing of the prescription and confusion between drugs with similar names.// It is important for patients with epilepsy not to have an interruption in treatment because it could lead to consequence such as status epilepticus. Con...

The big brain in suicides

...weighs about 1400g in men and 1300g in women, but can drop in weight with some diseases like Alzheimers, Schizophrenia, Parkinson’s and alcoholism.// Emad Salid from Liverpool University and George Tadros from the Northern Birmingham Mental Health Trust were the first to report on this unusual weight i...

Meditation relieves stress

...meditation programme called 'mindfulness training' can help people who describe themselves as 'stressed out'. This training programme involved two and a half hour classes once a week for eight weeks, and an eight hour retreat.// The 35 people who were assigned to this course learned four different med...

New treatment for Osteoporosis

...treatment is hormone replacement therapy. But this can increase the risk of cancer, especially in women....one by discovering that oestrogen and testosterone can trigger more than one kind of signal in cells. It was known that when oestrogen binds to receptors i...

Lose Weight With New Wonder Slimming FDA approved Prescription Drug

...e is a new wonder slimming FDA approved drug which can actually works. Not only that - it even lets you eat normally, all while you are slimming. This wonder slimming drug is XENICAL. Xenical allows about 30% of the fat eaten in a meal // to pass through the gut undigested. Your body cannot convert the...

Virus killer

A ribozyme, an enzyme that can be used to kill the deadly Hepatitis E virus has b...sed to generate an antigen-antibody reaction, that can be detected during tests.They also added that the formation on the viral genome could also be used t...

Thirty minutes of work up per day reduces the risk of Diabetes

...ople who are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes can sharply reduce the odds through a regular regimen of diet and exercise, according to data from the nation's first major clinical trial to compare the preventive effects of diet and exercise versus medication.// Study participants who used metformin ...

Maternal alcohol consumption linked to behavioral problems in children

...nical range. Alcohol consumption during pregnancy can cause fetal alcohol syndrome. Symptoms of the syndrome include physical defects as well as problems with intellectual functioning, such as lowered IQ, attention deficits, and behavioral and emotional problems. hence the researchers conclude that we...

How much can exercise improve health?

...re trying to establish whether people who exercise can improve their health or it would not make a difere..., following at least the minimal guidelines, which can help to burn 1,000 calories a week, reduces all-cause mortality by 20 to 30 percent. Afte...

Surgery made simple

...s to be done accurately as even a slight diversion can puncture the oesophagus, which is a part of the fo...ia and pneumonia say the Scientists.Such anomalies can cause contamination of the lungs by contents of the food pipe and may prove fatal. The Trache...

B Vitamin protects and lowers toxicity of Arthritis Drug

...uses the immune system to attack the joints, which can cause pain, inflammation and joint destruction. ...their drug-related liver damage .This complication can be prevented by taking folate supplements, researchers report. The investigators found that pa...

Helping stroke patients to recover balance

...chers in France say that the distorting spectacles can help stroke patients with posture problems to reco...here may suffer paralysis down their left side and can lean to the right.// Caroline Tilkete and her colleagues at the Lyon neurological laboratory of INSE...

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

...ic data with which patient's risk of cardiac death can be determined and analysed by the computer.The time interval between successive heartbeats is the first variable to be calculated.// When the programme has completed its analysis, it outputs atleast three characteristic values describing the heart ry...

Tea Tales

...ally// in the body and an increased amount of them can damage cells resulting in heart diseases, cancer, cholestrol and BP.Polyphenols can stop the damage that free radicals do to cells, neutralise enzymes essential for tumour growth and d...

New FDA Approved Drug NATRECOR For Heart Failure Patients

...ps blood flow from the weakened heart. But it also can cause seriously low blood pressure. Two years ago, the FDA rejected approval of Natrecor because it caused so many cases of hypotension rates of 8 percent to 14 percent, depending on the dose used. Hence studies were conducted in another study gro...

Young womens woes

...l cancers. The early warning signs of heart attack can vary greatly, experts say. While these include suc...st pain, gray colour and increased sweating, women can also experience general malaise, nausea, abdominal pain and excessive fatigue. It may also be, they...

Garlic a day keeps cancer away

...isk of bowel cancer, a single raw clove of garlic can do wonders say the researchers from Boston University. Garlic is best known for staying off heart disease and it also has powerful anti-cancer properties.A substance called diallyl disulfide in garlic is known to make the gut produce enzymes that cl...

Young women's woes

...l cancers. The early warning signs of heart attack can vary greatly, experts say. While these include suc...s as chest pain, gray colour and sweatiness, women can also experience general malaise, nausea, abdominal pain and excessive fatigue. It may also be, they...

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