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New Drug PP188 Helps Sickle Cell Disease

... percent reduction in duration of painful episodes compared with those who received a placebo. Researchers note the drug showed more promise in children younger than 15 years old. In those under 15, the painful episodes were reduced from an average of 6.2 days to 5.3 days and symptoms were more often resolv...

Asthma linked to obesity

...ion people are currently being treated for asthma, compared to 3.4m in 1999. The researchers found the fattest children were 77% more likely to have asthma symptoms.They suggest increased weight might lead to inflammation in the respiratory tract, which could be the key factor in inducing asthma.// Appropri...

Infertility in relation with virus

...or traces of AAV. These were found in 28 of them - compared to only one out of 22 in the group of men with normal semen. The researchers also analysed samples taken from the testicles of 48 men taking part in fertility treatment because their semen contained no sperm. Ten of these contained traces of AAV. It ...

Older men 'father' schizophrenics

...mes more likely to father a child with the illness compared to men of 27 or under. And men aged between 45 and...ple// born in Jerusalem between 1966 and 1986, and compared them to data from the Israel Psychiatric Register, which is part of the Israeli Ministry of Health. ...

New light on Cardiology

...without coronary heart disease.// The HOPE study compared the effects of the ACE inhibitor in addition to st...ine and at the end of the 4.5 year-long study were compared for the presence, regression or development of LVH. Cardiovascular outcomes such as MI, stroke and h...

Borderline blood pressure- possible health risk

...creased risk of death from heart attack or stroke, compared to those with optimal - 120/80 or low blood pressure. An ongoing study reveals that borderline blood pressure also increases the risk of non-fatal cardiovascular events. The researchers, Boston University, studied nearly men and women, dividing t...

The alarm clock in you

...ased substantially in the last hour before waking, compared with when they did not know they were being woken at 6am.Writing in Nature magazine, the researchers concluded that the increase in hormones indicates that anticipation, which is widely thought to be a characteristic unique to conscious action, also ...

Re-blockage of heart arteries prevented by vitamins

...in group, only 15 per cent experienced restenosis, compared to 25 in the placebo group. It may be that the vitamins lower levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease and artery blockage. The researchers suggest that there is nothing to stop doctors putting their heart patients on this vitami...

Tai chi helps arthritis

...especially designed for use in arthritis, and were compared to 10 controls who did not do the exercises//. At the end of the study, the tai chi group reported significantly less pain, and fewer difficulties in activities of daily living. They also had improved abdominal strength and balance in comparison to t...

Research of Ritalin

...ned milk containing Ritalin, and their brains were compared to those of another group given just sweetened milk.According to Dr Walker, the dose used was comparable to the high end of the dose used to treat children with ADD and ADHD, after taking into account differences in metabolism between mice and humans...

Too much coffee is too bad

...th the tt genotype lost bone density over 3 years, compared with no change in bone desity in women in the low caffeine group.Though the number of women with the tt genotype was found to be relatively small (six in the low caffeine group and five in the high caffeine group), these findings identify caffeine as...

Hormones Linked To Migraines

...th migraines had a delay in peak melatonin levels, compared with none of the healthy volunteers, and those wit...ak levels of prolactin were low in 53% of patients compared with 22% of those without headaches. This hormone is partially regulated by a brain chemical called ...

Safe for people with asthma

...20 per cent had exacerbations after flu injection, compared to 25 per cent after the placebo. The researchers conclude the flu jab is safe for people with asthma after all, and they should take it to prevent exposing themselves to the health complications of flu....

Simvastatin Plus Niacin May Lower Heart Risks

...cede and significantly lowered heart complications compared with an inactive placebo. // Both lowering LDL, ...3 years and their HDL increases were not as strong compared with patients on simvastatin-niacin alone. Their risk of cardiac complications was lower, but not as...

Women more susceptible to brain damage from ecstasy

...an a year. Using sensitive imaging techniques they compared the density of serotonin receptors in different parts of the brain. The scientists found substantial decreases in density among heavy female users of the drug but not in the men. Women who had stopped using the drug had higher densities than the heav...

Ritalin May Lower Cocaine Abuse

...eared to have an aversion to cocaine in adulthood, compared with untreated rats....

Eating More Often May Help Lower Cholesterol

...out the day had lower "bad" LDL cholesterol levels compared with those who tended to down one or two large meals per day. This was despite the fact that the frequent eaters, on average, had a higher calorie and fat intake. The researchers looked at data on more than 14,600 men and women aged 45 to 75.// P...

No vaccination - diabetes link

...from a look at 768 diabetes-free children who were compared to 252 others who had juvenile diabetes. Those who had been vaccinated against hepatitis B, whooping cough, chickenpox and other diseases were no more likely to have developed diabetes than those who had not been given the vaccines. // Researchers ...

Night borns' risk

...ated to asphyxia in preterm infants born at night, compared to preterm infants born during the day. The Hong Kong study, based on data from the Swedish birth register, analysed more than two million births from 1973-95. The first risk period started from the end of the normal day shift and extended to the m...

Support therapy helps breast cancer patients

...an average of 37 months if they got group therapy, compared with 19 months if they did not....

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