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Cirrhosis on the rise

...rrhosis of the liver now kills 1,600 women a year, compared to 1,200 seven years ago - more than cervical cancer. While some of this increase can be blamed on the side-effects of long-term infection with hepatitis B and C, Professor Donaldson says that the most "convincing explanation" is alcohol. He says: ...

Cure for sleepless nights

...rapy noted an improvement in their sleep patterns, compared with 46.5% of those on temazepam. The behavioural therapy involved weekly therapy sessions lasting 90 minutes.Patients were told, for example, to stop using their bed for activities such as eating or reading and simply to use it for sleeping. They ...

Radiofrequency catheter ablation safe for infants

...blation is a real alternative." The research team compared 137 babies aged two weeks to 18 months, who underw...ts in the study, 36% had congenital heart defects, compared with 11% of the older patients and 33% underwent RFCA for life-threatening heart rhythms, against 7....

Choose the correct hypertensive drug

... a new blood pressure drug comes out, it should be compared in a 'head to head' trial with conventional therapy - usually a low-dose diuretic. Henceforth doctors should be looking not just at how well a drug lowers blood pressure but also at its effectiveness at preventing stroke, heart attack and heart failu...

Coffee enhances memory

...ning hours, memory is at its best in older adults compared to late afternoon.// For researchers at the University of Arizona have found that coffee can find out memory performance throughout the day. They had about 60-70 participants aged over 64 do a verbal learning test in the morning and and again in t...

Higher Risk of Asthma in children with autoimmune disease

...at 25% of children with celiac disease had asthma, compared with about 3% of children without celiac disease. While 10% of children with rheumatoid arthritis also had asthma, only 3% of children without rheumatoid arthritis did. Asthma was also more common among children with type 1 diabetes than among those ...

Hypothyroidism can affect babies

...James Ludwik, studied children aged six to ten and compared those born to 124 women with a normal thyroid gland with children born to 62 women with an underactive gland. Some 22% of the children whose mothers had an underactive thyroid had IQs of 80 or lower. The researchers say: "Hypothyroidism in pregnant...

Low cholestrol,low behaviour

...lves.// A team from St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, compared 75 patients admitted to the hospital with self-attained injuries, including drug overdoses, with psychiatric patients and patients not suffering from any mental health problems. The patients were rated on their level of depression, impulsivity and ...

Protein and fat improve memory

...ohydrate, fat and protein drinks of equal calories compared to a placebo with no food energy, regardless of the drinks’ effects on blood glucose levels. The positive results occurred in verbal recall tests administered 15 minutes after the participants - 11 males and 11 females, aged 61 to 79 - consumed each...

Vaginosis increases risk of miscarriage

... those with the infection subsequently miscarried, compared to only 18% of women who were free of infection. Dr Janet Wilson, a consultant physician specialising in genito-urinary medicine, said it was possible that the infection caused endometritis, an inflammation of the uterus. She said: "This could sprea...

Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

...f prenatal exposure on offspring. The researchers compared the vision of 43 children between 3 and 6 years old whose mothers were frequently exposed on the job to organic solvents with 29 children whose mothers were not exposed. . The researchers found a significantly higher number of children with color bli...

Dyslexia due to cerebellum abnormality

...rch, which was led by Professor Roderick Nicolson, compared the brain activity of eight normal and eight dyslexic adults using a scanning technique called positron emission tomography (PET). patients were monitored as they performed a pre-learned sequence of right hand finger movements, and as they learned a ...

New technique to diagnose heart disease

...tient, it's good because it takes only 15 minutes, compared to several hours for conventional methods. And it does not require an injection of material to make the X-ray visible....

Get, set, go...

...t training had amassed an extra 2% of bone mineral compared with the stretchers. The National osteoporosis center emphasized that many children need to be more physically active and one of the ways of tackling the huge problem of osteoporosis is to encourage youngsters to increase peak bone mass by taking ...

Link Between Infection And Heart Disease

...at least 6 infections died during the study period compared to just 7% of those with 3 or less infections. "We showed a significant association between the number of infections to which someone has been exposed and the extent of hardening of the arteries in the heart, neck, and legs," says study leader Han...

Excess vitamin A increases fracture risk

...ely to have a hip fracture linked to osteoporosis, compared to those with the lowest intake. The added risk came from an intake greater than 3000 micrograms per day. This suggests that women who already eat a balanced, vitamin-rich diet should think twice before taking a supplement. Certainly they should chec...

Breast screening among diabetic women

...ving mammograms to screen for early breast cancer, compared to 70 per cent of the controls. The reasons why rates of mammography are lower among women with diabetes is unknown. The researchers wonder whether managing diabetes takes up so much time and attention that there is little room for other aspects of h...

New Dietary Approach To Manage Kidney Stones

...nts of calcium had recurrent stones after 5 years, compared with 38% of men on a low-calcium diet. The results point to a new dietary approach to manage kidney stones, according to Dr. Loris Borghi from the University of Parma in Italy and colleagues. Reducing calcium intake has not been shown to reduce the ...

Beverage protect against bladder cancer

...ose who drank fewer than two cups of coffee a week compared with regular coffee drinkers. Smokers who drank coffee were three times as likely to develop bladder cancer as non-smoking coffee drinkers. But smokers who didn't drink coffee were seven times as likely to develop the disease as non-smokers. The au...

Immunisation to prevent cot deaths

...8% of cot death victims had received the vaccines, compared with 95% of the surviving children. Report author Peter Fleming said "Our data suggest that immunisation does not contribute to the risk of sudden infant death syndrome and may protect againstit." Although some traditional advice was to lay a baby ...

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