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Emotional callers hamper speedy ambulance dispatch

...gainst a high number of communication difficulties compared with landlines....

Complementary and Alternative medicine

... of those born between 1965 and 1979 had used CAM, compared to five out of ten of those born between 1945 and 1964. And only three out of 10 of those born pre-1945 had ever used CAM. But when people had tried a therapy, they tended to stay with it. Almost 50 per cent were still using the therapy 11 to 20 ye...

Heart disease correlation to periodontal disease

...ls with moderate or severe periodontal disease and compared their serum levels of C-reactive protein to 65 healthy controls. Subgingival plaque samples were taken to test for the periodontal pathogens Porphyromonas gingivalis, Prevotella intermedia, Campylobacter recta and Bacteroides forsythus.// The resea...

Physicians Consider Self-Prescribing Ethical

...an physicians considered self-prescription ethical compared with only 58% of rural physicians. About half of all physicians considered self-prescription healthy and about 80% did not consider self-prescription "necessary." Wroblewski speculated that the main reason physicians self-prescribe is that it is mo...

New Drug ALT-711 decreases blood vessel stiffness

... significantly reduced among those taking the drug compared to the placebo group....

Emphysema surgery - unbeneficial

...gher risk of death within 30 days of the operation compared to those who don't have surgery. Whether those who survive surgery will do better than those on medical management in the long term remains to be seen. In the meantime, it appears that surgery should not be regarded as a universal solution for emphys...

Role of fats and oils in vision care

...udy of 349 individuals aged 55 to 80 with AMD, and compared their diet to a control group with eye disease other than AMD. Those who consumed foods high in vegetable fat had a two fold greater risk of AMD than those whose intakes were low. Foods high in monounsaturated fats, such as olive oil, carried a 71 pe...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

...in had completely quit smoking (with no relapses), compared to 13 percent of the weight control group, and 9 percent of the standard therapy group. The women in the study did gain weight after quitting smoking. Those in the weight control group initially had the smallest weight gain, as expected, but as tim...

Relating heart protection and antihypertensive drugs

...patients. // As part of a meta-analysis the team compared blood pressure reducing drug treatments in 136,124 patients from 27 studies. When comparing the different drugs used in treatment they found that calcium-channel blockers and ACE inhibitors provided the same overall protection against cardiovascular ...

Diabetics and their babies

...ly to have babies with birth defects. The doctors compared these findings with figures from Sweden. They foun... risk of developing complications during pregnancy compared to women who do not have diabetes, studies have proven that these risks can be reduced by keeping bl...

Radiotherapy helps in colon cancer

...re-operatively, the incidence was reduced by half, compared to surgery alone. If given after surgery, the reduction was only a third. Pre-operative radiotherapy also reduced the death rate from cancer. The study suggests that radiotherapy is useful in improving the outcome in colon cancer, and timing is an im...

Depression disturbs heart rate

... with depression and their electrocardiograms were compared to those of 366 patients who were not depressed. Depression was clearly linked to lower heart rate variability (HRV), which is a strong predictor of death following a heart attack. HRV measures the nervous functioning - electrical wiring, if you li...

Breast Cancer Surgery Causes Psychological problems

... be depressed, paranoid or psychotic after surgery compared to women with early-stage breast cancer. But women older than 50 years of age were less likely to be depressed than younger women, the researchers found....

Poisonous Parkinson's molecule discovered

...brain. In autopsy studies of Parkinson's patients, compared to those of patients without the disease, they found high concentrations of a related molecule called ADTIQ. It was particularly localised in the substantia nigra, and so it may be an important clue as to how the cells here die - ADTIQ may be exertin...

Fluoride Found Effective in Osteoporosis

...formation. In their study, Rubin and associates compared fluoride, calcium, and vitamin D with calcium and ...improvements in various measures of bone formation compared with women not treated with fluoride, the researchers note, suggesting that fractures were prevented...

Contraceptives have dual effects

... on the results from 19 international studies that compared bowel cancer rates for women who had taken an oral...s within the last 10 years of the research period, compared to those who had stopped taking the Pill for longer. The Cancer Research Campaign's Director General...

Vitamins reduce pre-eclampsia

...g of vitamin C, and 400 IU of vitamin E a day, and compared with the other women, who received a placebo inste...re-eclampsia happened in 17% of the placebo group, compared with only 8% of those in the vitamin group. Overall, the levels of two chemicals which relate to p...

Health Officials Recommend Flu Vaccine

...n in years past: about 85 million doses this year, compared to 75 million in 2000, said Kristine Smith, a spokeswoman for the New York Health Department. This year's shortage is expected to be a temporary one caused by one manufacturer's decision to stop making the flu vaccine. Other manufacturers have steppe...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

... pressure levels of 6,859 men and women. They then compared heart disease related illness in people with high-normal blood pressure to people with high blood pressure. Overall, women with high-normal blood pressure had a 2.5 times greater risk of heart disease than did those with normal blood pressure, and me...

Smoking Delays Pregnancy

... Institute of Health Sciences at Oxford University compared the time taken to conceive by 569 women smokers, ex-smokers and never-smokers. Their findings show that on average women who continued to smoke while attempting to conceive took almost two months longer to conceive than non-smokers. // However, wom...

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