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Doctors advice early anemia tests

...when they were 8, 12 and 18 months old. These were compared to the hemoglobin levels with the children's development when they were 18 months old.Children with levels of hemoglobin less than 95 grams per liter of blood scored six points lower on motor skill tests than babies with higher levels. Hemoglobin lev...

Mystery behind Preeclampsia uncovered

... 21 women who were diagnosed with preeclampsia and compared the results with samples from 21 healthy pregnant women and 12 non-pregnant women. Their findings are published in the June 8th issue of Circulation Research: Journal of the American Heart Association. Normally, the body uses naturally produced nit...

Antibiotic induces liver damage in children with E.COLI infections.

... children who were given antibiotics developed HUS compared to just 8% of those who were not treated with antibiotics. On the basis of this study it should be made a practice to prescribe antibiotics only after the stool tests confirm that E.Coli is not the cause of the illness. According to the CDC, child...

TIZANIDINE - New solution to chronic headache

...f the headaches improved by 51% in the drug group, compared to 34% in patients receiving the placebo. 'Not only did the treatment with tizanidine reduce the amount of analgesic required by the patient, it seemed to work more efficiently on reducing the frequency of the most severe headaches', said Lake. Hen...

Acupuncture superseeds massage therapy for short term relief of pain

...gnificant improvement in pain reduction and motion compared to others. But after three months they found that there were no significant differences among the study groups which employed acupuncture or massage therapy. Hence they concluded that acupuncture to be effective for short term gains and not for long...

ZYBAN, The smoking cessation drug marked for its adverse reactions

... cards" during the period of January to April 2001 compared to that of last years. MCA spokeswoman explained that the main factor responsible for such an increase in the "yellow cards" is the smoking cessation aid Zyban. However, from January to April 2001 Zyban "accounted for 32% of all yellow cards" she add...

Obesity raises IVF miscarriage risk

...y looked at the progress of a variety of women and compared this with their body mass index(BMI)- their weight in kilos divided height in metres squared. Women with a BMI of between 30 and 35-obese but not grossly obese had a miscarriage rate after fertility treatment of 27%. Those with a BMI of over 35 misc...

WORM! WORM! all the way

...lacebo experienced a resurgence of their infection compared to only three of those who received the bacteria mixture. Shanahan predicted some day scientists would create organisms genetically engineered to produce vaccines and drugs to treat IBD and other diseases. Weinstock said even genetically engineered ...

Alcohol shrinks brain

...han 8% of individuals between 30 and 40 years old, compared with nearly 16% of those in their 40s and 38% of those in their 50s. About 61% of people in their 60s had shrunken frontal lobes. Older individuals were nearly three times more likely to show brain shrinkage in this region than individuals in their ...

Moderate Use of Analgesics - Not Associated With Kidney Dysfunction

...1,032 men with no history of kidney problems. They compared analgesic use to measured creatitine levels and creatitine clearance from blood samples provided by the men. A total of 450 men had elevated creatinine levels and 1258 men had reduced creatinine clearance. They found no significant associations betw...

Arthroscopy for Ankles

...es improved. Arthroscopy has a number of benefits compared with conventional surgery in treating damaged ankl...be done through a few small punctures in the skin, compared to having to make a 6-to-7 centimeter incision and possibly having to break a bone to get into a joi...

CDC reveals relationship between prepregnant weight and heart defects in infants

...l weight women. In their extensive research which compared 608 infants born with an isolated heart defect with 2,767 infants without heart defects between 1968 and 1980, they found that infants of underweight women were 26% less likely to have a heart defect than infants of average-weight women. Infants of o...

Prevention is better than cure

.... Children are six times more prone to colds as compared to adults, one reason being that they are in close.... Also, the resistance power of a child is low as compared to an adult. Cigarette smokers tend to have more severe colds than non-smokers and are more likely t...

A better way to measure cholesterol

... Men with high levels were twice as likely to die compared to those with low levels. For women, the relative risk was nearly two and a half times greater. They found out that non-HDL was a better predictor than elevated LDL in this study. The researchers suggest that non-HDL levels should be kept below 130 m...

B Vitamin protects and lowers toxicity of Arthritis Drug

...e placebo had stopped treatment with methotrexate, compared with 17% of patients taking folic acid and 12% of patients taking folinic acid. It was also found that patients taking the placebo had higher levels of liver enzymes than patients taking folate supplements, which indicate toxicity to the liver. ...

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

...ffered a heart attaack, and the predicted risk was compared with the fate of these patients. According to physicians the results are very promising and effective....

Big and Bright

... many children are born in the normal weight range compared to the low range, even small shifts in the distribution of birth weight within the normal range could affect the distribution of intelligence in the population as a whole. The findings might also help shed light on the connection between foetal gro...

Pregnancy Blues

...oms indicating probable depression// at this time, compared to 9.1 per cent eight weeks after birth, and 8.1 per cent after eight months. "Depression during pregnancy has been relatively neglected," wrote the researchers, who published their results in this week's British Medical Journal. More attention is ...

Young womens woes

... the female patients had // died within two years, compared with 19.6 per cent of the male patients. Age had ... dramatic impact, with the risk of death for women compared to men increasing 15.4 per cent for every 10 year decrease in age."The interaction between sex and a...

Young women's woes

...f the female patients had died// within two years, compared with 19.6 per cent of the male patients. Age had ... dramatic impact, with the risk of death for women compared to men increasing 15.4 per cent for every 10 year decrease in age."The interaction between sex and a...

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