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More Fat Leads to Less Coronary Artery Calcification

...mmatory processes implicated in the development of common sight-threatening retinal diseases. These study ...olesterol. Controlling for kidney disease, another common complication of diabetes, weakened the association in men but not in women.This is not a firm recomm...

US Hospitals Increasingly Colonized by Drug-resistant Germs

...ly. The antibiotic-resistant infections are more common in North America, because of overuse of antibiotic... and Prevention. Past studies have looked at how common the superbug is in specific patient groups, such as emergency-room patients with skin infections in ...

Two Year Probation for Cobra Owner Helder Claro

...year in jail after pleading guilty to mischief and common nuisance for letting his cobra escape. It was seen slithering through the walls of his semi-detached rental homeLast fall, the snake threat forced long-time elderly tenants to move from the rooming house adjoining Claro's rented home and cost two l...

Sioux Herb Confirmed as Shield Against Colds

...s a standard option for preventing or treating the common cold....

Meditation Increases Attention - A Brain Scan Report

...ion. This week, a new study shows exactly how one common type of meditation affects the brain. Using a scanner that reveals which parts of the brain are active at any given moment, the researchers found that meditation increased activity in the brain regions used for paying attention and making decisions...

Emergency Department Guidelines to Improve Quality Patient Care

...ge sheets for patients are on the site, as well as common medical forms and procedure guidelines. Guidelines can be very helpful for all physiciansfrom new residents to those with years of experience, says Wright. Anyone can overlook a step in treating a condition at the end of a long shift because theyr...

Revealing the Secrets of Gut Ecosystem

...effects. Some studies have shown that it is more common in the intestinal tracts of breast-fed infants, but Palmer and Browns work documented a paucity of those bacteria, although all were breast fed. The finding that most babies in the study did not acquire significant numbers of Bifidobacteria until s...

Eating Fish Oil can Save Eyesight: Study

...ere given doses of omega-3 fatty acids, present in common fish-oil supplements, while another group was fed ... In rich nations, the disease has also become more common with advances in medical care that have vastly improved the survival rates of highly premature infan...

Radio-frequency Ablation Offers Hope for People With Inoperable Kidney Tumours

...nosed with stage II renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer that begins in the cells that line the small tubes within the kidney. In comparison with the surgical removal of kidney tumours that results in hospital admissions of 7 to 10 days and postoperative recovery time of 6 to 8 wee...

Scientists Find Evidence of Human-like Altruism in Chimps

...eviously thought, reaching as far back as the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. The study, 'Spontaneous altruism by chimpanzees and young children' appears in this week's edition of the Public Library of Science (PLos)....

Computerized Doctors Order Reduce Prescription Errors

...ded amount. Drugs with similar names are another common source of error, such as the pain medication Celebrex and the antidepressant Celexa, or the tranquilizer Zyprexa and the antihistamine Zyrtec. These medication errors are very painful for doctors, as well as the patients. Nobody wants to make a mis...

Brain Tumor Drug in Frogs A New Report

...f the Northern Leopard frog. Ribonucleases are a common type of enzyme found in all organisms. They are responsible for tidying up free-floating strands of RNA cells by latching on to the molecule and cutting it into smaller sections. In areas of the cell where the RNA is needed for essential functions,...

Fine Particulate Matter from Traffic may Reduce Unborn Babies Birth Weight

...lly renowned French research institution, with the common objective of tracing the causes of environment-related health disorders. For the study, which has now been published online, data from the group study LISA were used, in which the influence of living conditions and behaviours on the development of ...

Tree Bark Substance may Hold New Lung-cancer Treatment

...tance could lead to a novel treatment for the most common type of lung cancer. The compound, called beta-lapachone, has shown promising anti-cancer properties and is presently being used in a clinical trial to inspect its efficiency against pancreatic cancer in humans. Until now, however, researchers didn...

Researchers Reverse Mental Retardation Symptoms in Mice

...inherited cause of mental retardation and the most common genetic cause of autism. The condition, tied to a mutated X chromosome gene called fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene, causes mild learning disabilities to severe autism. Researchers identified a key enzyme, a chemical reaction-inducing p...

Blunders in Epilepsy Care Cost Lives, and Money UK Report

...ame down to local level." Epilepsy is the most common serious neurological disease in England, affecting 382,000 people. According to the APPG, misdiagnosis rates stand at 20%-31% and cost around 134m a year. Epilepsy seizures occur when too many nerve cells send messages at once, producing what coul...

Girls Feet Severed in Amusement Park Accident

Accidents resulting from negligence are becoming common everywhere. Only last fortnight it was reported that a college-going girl fell from a height of 15 ft during a joyride and sustained grievous injuries in Chennai, capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. But for a tree branch which chec...

Replidyne Announces Positive Phase I Results for Topical Antibiotic REP8839

...hase II trials in children with impetigo, the most common bacterial skin infection, by the end of the year. "REP8839 is a promising development candidate and has the potential to be an important treatment option for physicians in the ongoing fight against drug-resistant infections including MRSA, a growin...

Experimental Drug Ketasyn(TM) (AC-1202) Treats Alzheimer's as Diabetes of the Brain

...r risk factor for late onset AD, which is the most common form of the disease. Interestingly, other treatments aimed at tackling the "type 3 diabetes" hypothesis have yielded similar results: AD patients lacking the APOE4 genotype have responded positively to an insulin-sensitizing drug, and to direct expos...

Nepalese Researchers Identify New Treatment for Drug-resistant Typhoid

...monella enterica serovar Paratyhpi A, the two most common bacteria to cause enteric fever, do not show resistance to Gatifloxacin, unlike for other fluoroquinolones. The findings of the study were published in journal PLoS ONE....

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