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Sensitive to bright light? You may have sensitive teeth also

...ple with sensitive teeth can find relief from this condition by using special toothpaste or by drinking tea. Tea contains tannic acid which clogs the material in the open dental tubes, making it hard for hot and cold temperatures to seep in and hit the pulp, which is what causes the pain....

Women with diabetes could benefit from HRT

...who did not or had "impaired fasting glucose" - a condition with some similar traits to diabetes but not severe enough to be called diabetes. The women were given either estrogen and progestin HRT, or a dummy pill, and followed up for four years. It was found that in the dummy pill group, there were 98 new di...

Diabetics & Foot infections

...hat there was considerable improvement in the foot condition among those patients who followed ‘good foot care’ practices while those patients who did not follow advice showed poor improvement. Recovery took as long as 95 days and a higher percentage of patients reported new infections and required surgery. ...

Lowering blood pressure beneficial for PAD patients

...rt attacks, is characterized by atherosclerosis, a condition in which blood vessels of the legs are narrowed by fatty deposits. PAD is a risk factor for heart attacks because the atherosclerosis// probably also occurs in the coronary arteries. Researchers at the University of Colorado studied a group of 955 ...

Atypical Lobular Hyperplasia increases risk of breast cancer

... they had detected a lump, found that women with a condition called atypical lobular hyperplasia went// on to d...nvasive breast cancer. Invasive breast cancer is a condition where cancer cells break through the duct and lobular wall and invade the surrounding fatty and conn...

Human wasting disease linked to a gene

Cachexia is a muscle wasting condition which is a serious problem in people with cancer, AIDS and a range of chronic diseases of the bowel, liver, lungs and heart. A recent study has found that the gene known as "twist", which was first found in fruit flies, where it is involved in muscle...

Osteoporosis and kidney stones gene marker identified

...because they cause too much calcium absorption - a condition known as absorptive hypercalciuria (AH). They also added that people with kidney stones had a greater risk// for osteoporosis because of deficiencies in the way the body handles calcium. For the study, researchers studied families with a history of k...

Untreated Scoliosis patients found to lead productive and active lives

...ductive lives, contrary to earlier belief that the condition increases mortality rates in general or from cardi...7 of those patients who were not treated for their condition to people without scoliosis who where similar in age and gender. They found that 22 patients out of ...

Risk of DVT for those spending long hours in front of computers

...to be happy about, because this term refers to the condition called Deep Vein Thrombosis(DVT), which could affe...o the lungs with possible fatal consequences. This condition is identical to what has been described as// the "economy class syndrome", that, in the past couple ...

Sleepwalking linked to a gene

...hildren and up to 3 per cent of adults. Though the condition is harmless, it may sometimes cause injuries to th... history of sleepwalking and 60 people without the condition to see if these genes also played a role in sleepwalking. Researchers found that those who had the ...

Baby with white blood!

...ound to have lipemic blood. Doctors said that this condition could be either due to// ‘familial lipase deficiency syndrome’ or ‘familial apolypoprotein C-2’. However, clinical tests conducted have shown that the reason was more likely to be that of a familial deficiency syndrome. Doctors concluded that the bab...

Scientists locate key hormone involved in appetite control

...ve undergone extreme weight loss due to illness, a condition known as cachexia, and in finding new drugs that would assist children who are developing at a slower than normal rate. On the other hand, drugs aimed at limiting production of the hormone might be developed to reduce appetite for those battling seve...

Type of inhaler used in asthma treatment crucial

...und that sufferers had far better control of their condition using inhalers they could activate by breathing in, compared with the traditional "press and breathe" devices more commonly prescribed by doctors. Professor David Price, who led the study, said that there are a wide variety of inhaler devices availa...

Treatment over a longer period for blood clotting

Venous thromboembolism is a condition which causes clotting in the veins. Typical therapy for venous thromboembolism includes a five- to 10-day course of heparin followed by three to 12 months of the oral drug warfarin. However, the problem with this treatment is that once the patient go...

Gene defect linked to dilated cardiomyopathy(DCM)

DCM is a condition which occurs when the heart becomes so enlarged th...t is no longer able to pump blood efficiently. The condition affects 35 in every 100,000 people. Researchers in the United States have suggested in a recent stud...

Gene linked to 'Missing Eye' condition in newborns

...es i.e. they are born with empty eye sockets. This condition occurs due to the foetus not developing eyes in th... first 28 days of pregnancy. Babies born with this condition are often fitted with prosthetic eyes to allow normal facial// development. Researchers from the Hu...

Ways to handle ugly toenails

...occurs in 1 in 2 persons above the age of 50. This condition is caused by a long standing fungal infection and it gives toenails a thick, yellow and crumbly appearance. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic advice consulting with a chiropodist who might recommend an anti-fungal drug. However, these drugs might cause some...

New treatment for interstitial cystitis

...titial cystitis is a chronic, painful inflammatory condition of the bladder wall. It typically affects young an...nt in a placebo group. Interstitial cystitis is a condition whose causes are not clearly known and hence treatments are aimed at relieving symptoms. In 1996, El...

Blindness can be stopped with drug for acne treatment

... disease which affects one in 10,000 people. This condition results from a defect in the ABCR gene, which is responsible for coding for a protein that removes all-trans-retinaldehyde, a vision byproduct, from retinal rods and cones. Rods and cones are supported by retinal-pigmented epithelium (RPE), a layer o...

Dads to blame for longer pregnancies

...ies that lastlonger than 42 weeks or 294 days. The condition of prolonged pregnancies affectsaround 5% of pregnant mothers. The researchers conducted a study of about 28,000women between 1980 and 1994. About 21,000 women in the group had a firstpregnancy that had lasted longer than 42 weeks and another 7,000 w...

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