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Drug For Breast Cancer Found To Reduce Risk of Heart Disease

... heart stress, such as angina. Tamoxifen is a drug commonly taken by women previously diagnosed with breast cancer. The drug has been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence by as much as 50 percent. Researchers conducted a study to evaluate whether tamoxifen reduces the risk of heart disease. F...

WHO Issues Caution Against Bird Flu Epidemic

...o be prepared for any outbreak of Avian Influenza, commonly called bird flu. Although the //disease mainly spreads from birds to other animal species, even to humans, WHO is skeptical that the strain of virus that causes bird flu may soon mutate itself to a form that may spread the disease human to human, and...

Blindness may be genetic by nature

... may lead to loss of sight. In search of what is commonly known as blindness due to age, scientists have come up with a gene that may cause macular degeneration in elderly people. This is a variety of gene that encodes a protein called complement factor H (CFH). as people grow old, there happens very small ...

Angioplasty death risk reduced by doubling drug dose

...rm to protect the body against bleeding. Patients commonly take the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) before angioplasty to prevent clotting. In this new study, patients received either the standard dose of 300 milligrams or received a dose of 600 milligrams before the procedure. Following angioplasty it was found...

Baking Soda Treatment for Life-Threatening Asthma

Baking soda as it is commonly known may be a treatment for life-threatening asthma (LTA) in children, according to a study // conducted in 17 children. These children were treated with intravenous administration of sodium bicarbonate to reduce the acidity of the blood which is a ...

Angioplasty death risk reduced by doubling drug dose

...rm to protect the body against bleeding. Patients commonly take the drug clopidogrel (Plavix) before angioplasty to prevent clotting. In this new study, patients received either the standard dose of 300 milligrams or received a dose of 600 milligrams before the procedure. Following angioplasty it was found...

Herbal remedies can have harmful interaction when taken with drugs for rheumatic arthritis

...aken herbal medication at some point of time. Some commonly taken alternative remedies were cod liver oil, glucosamine, chondroitin, and evening primrose oil. 28 of them had taken a form of medication that may interact adversely with the conventional medication taken simultaneously. Scientists have stressed ...

New ways developed to understand dyslexia

...ia is one type of specific learning disability. It commonly affects the children, who have difficulty in verbal skills, abstract reasoning, hand-eye coordination, concentration, perception, memory and social adjustment. Misinformation send by neurons are what causes the problems of perception in dyslexic ch...

New Diseases

...outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as mad cow disease) among cattle. vCJD has predominantly affected younger people who had presented with with prominent psychiatric or sensory symptoms at the time of clinical presentation and delayed onset of neurologic abnormalities, includi...

Risk of allergy more to children staying in day care centers

...re centers than anywhere else. Allergens that are commonly found indoor include bacteria, molds, mildew, viruses, animal dander and saliva, dust and dust mites, cockroaches and pollens. These may cause allergic reactions like allergic rhinitis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, asthma and various other diseases....

Obesity in the Middle age can increase risk of developing dementia

...is a progressivebrain dysfunction that occurs most commonly late inlife. Dementia leads to a gradually increasingrestriction of daily activities. The 27 year longitudinal study that was done by ahealthcare organization in California analyzedprospective data from a population of around 10276males and females....

Drug addiction can be genetical, says study

...ewarding the experience related to drugs which are commonly used for abuse, like cocaine etc. the gene increases the reward response to cocaine through its effect on dopamine pathways. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter connected with the pleasure sensations of the brain.The researchers who had drawn animal par...

Patients with osteoarthritis benefit by Acupuncture

...s with osteoarthritis of the knee.Acupuncture is a commonly used procedure to treat many types of patients with chronic pain. By random allocation, patients with chronic osteoarthritis of the knee were assigned into three groups. One group consisting of 150 were allocated to the acupuncture group, second g...

Weight Loss Relieves Osteoarthritis Pain

...breakdown and eventual loss of joint cartilage. It commonly affects the hands, feet and weight-bearing joints including the knee. A long-term research study conducted by Wake Forest University, North Carolina (USA) proclaims that subjects suffering from OA showed that an average weight reduction of 5 percen...

Drugs Banned worldwide still available in India

...using liver toxicity is still widely used in India commonly for pain relief and fever although it was approved for use in India in 1994 for painful inflammatory musculoskeletal disorders. Besides being available as a single ingredient, nimesulide is also available in more than 30 other drugs and as drops for ...

Irritable bowel syndrome associated with food intake, confirms blood test

...od test that certain food-specific IgG4 antibodies commonly found in beef, pork, lamb, soya bean, wheat etc. are more in patients suffering from the disease. The research results show that hypersensitivity to certain types of food may be playing an important part in the pathophysiology of irritable bowel sy...

Hypertension Drug of Choice for African Americans

...between the nebivolol and placebo groups. The most commonly reported adverse events were: headache (5.6% vs 4.1%, respectively); dizziness (3.6% vs 0%, respectively); arthralgia (3.6% vs 2.0%, respectively); diarrhea (3.2% vs 2.0%, respectively); fatigue (2.8% vs 0%, respectively); nasopharyngitis (2.4% vs 0%...

Teenagers Using Hormones And Dietary Supplements To Good Physique

...ely, to use supplements at least weekly. The most commonly used products were protein powders and shakes. Others used predominantly by boys, included creatine, amino acids, the amino-acid metabolite HMB, the hormone dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), growth hormone, and anabolic steroids. Anabolic steroids hav...

Condom Vending Machines Increasing Sexual Assaults On Women

...by installing ‘Anytime Condom” vending machines in commonly accessed public places. This included places like the bus stands, railway stations and public bathrooms especially in well educated states like Kerala. However, surprisingly this bold step by the government has to some extent backfired. The step ha...

Vitamin Supplements - Good, The Bad And The Ugly

...oea," said Collins. Vitamin A was one supplement commonly taken in excessive amounts, she said. The RDA for vitamin A is 700 micrograms. Doses over 1,000 micrograms had been associated with osteoporosis and bone fractures. A new European Union directive banning the sale of high-dose supplements is expec...

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