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Older People May Not Need Multivitamins To Prevent Infections

...tion or overall quality of life. These results are consistent with several other studies on this issue. Regular use of commonly available multivitamin and multi-mineral supplements is unlikely to reduce the number of self-reported infections or associated use of health services for people living at home, say t...

New Healthy Weight Program Makes Healthy Eating More Interesting

...tions to get over the rough spots. Learn about how consistent daily activity, not just traditional exercise, can contribute to your healthy weight, said the researchers for the study. Source: Newswise Links: http://www.medindia.net/ dietandnutrition/ nutrition.asp http://www.medindia.net/patients /p...

Sympathy and brain function

...researchers looked at imitation, they discovered a consistent pattern of increased brain activity involving the superior temporal gyrus, as well as differential activity in the two hemispheres within the inferior parietal cortex when imitation was involved. The left inferior parietal cortex showed increased act...

Cured Alcoholics Can Be Cured Of Smoking Also

...nvestigators hoped to show that maintaining a more consistent level of serum cotinine through customized nicotine replacement therapy would enable more smokers to quit for good, and results from this initial study are positive in this group of smokers. Investigators individualized the nicotine patch dose based...

Arthiritis: Brightly-coloured fruit and vegetables offer protection

...ing inflammatory joint diseases. The findings are consistent with the previously published data supporting that both low intakes of fruit and vegetables and high levels of red meat consumption are high risk factors for developing IP....

Morality More Effective Than Legality In Preventing Drug Abuse

...s get their sense of morality from them. This is consistent with the opinions of most of the teenagers who feel that illegality does not affect their decision regarding drug abuse....

"An Armour against pleasure, and a cobweb against infection" – Has the condom withstood the test of time

...ly to have gonorrhea. The tendency to assume that consistent condom users are using condoms correctly seriously underestimates their risk of transmitting or contracting STDs or becoming pregnant unintentionally. Thus it's not enough to tell people to use condoms - they also need to learn how to use them correc...

The Effects Of Alternative Medicine Questioned

...insomnia, and prostate problems.Rresults were also consistent with a broad range of clinical studies of treatments for all of the above conditions except allergies and respiratory ailments. However it was seen that some well-known, heavily promoted herbal treatments such as echinacea, St. John's wort, saw palm...

Mad Cow Disease Has Roots Traceable To Man

...characteristics have sufficient similarities to be consistent with their hypothesis. The researchers conclude that further investigations are needed into the sources of animal by-products used in animal feed manufacture, and into the transmissibility of human TSEs to cattle. Within as well as between countries...

Brain Patterns In Amusia May Be Related To Other Disorders

...mal brain activity in the right half of the brain, consistent with earlier findings by the researchers. It may be possible to compensate for amusia by training pitch discrimination abilities. Amusic adults show a normal range of intelligence and have no other brain deficits. They get little payoff from pitch t...

Patient Negligence - Significant Problem In The Early Detection Of Breast Cancer

...campaigns to increase screening use have not shown consistent improvements. In New Hampshire studies assessing use demonstrate that overall use by women 50 years old and older range from 65-82 percent and depend on age. However, these studies rely on self-reporting surveys prone to poor patient recall or sing...

Prevent Multiple Sclerosis From Oral Contraceptives

...cy, compared with those with no pregnancy. This is consistent with studies on the effect of pregnancy in patients with MS and the immunological changes associated with pregnancy. Recent OC use and, possibly, current pregnancy are associated with a lower risk of developing MS, said the authors. On the contrary,...

PUFA Good For Heart: Gets The Scientific Seal

...ublic Health, states, "The experience of Poland is consistent with epidemiological and clinical evidence indicating that mortality due to coronary heart disease can be reduced by partly replacing dietary saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats while maintaining a low intake of trans fatty acids." Further addin...

Scientists Concerned Over Increasing Malfunction Of Heart Devices

...d the increase is significant and contrasts with a consistent decline in the rate at which pacemakers have to be removed. The higher percentage of failures may be a result of design changes that made the devices smaller - they are now the size of a stopwatch - while their computer memory was increased and thei...

Physical activity to ease gastrointestinal discomfort in obese people

... according to a new study. The above findings are consistent with the previously established findings that a high body mass index (BMI) and lack of physical activity is associated with an increase in GI symptoms such as stomach pain, diarrhea, constipation and irritable bowel syndrome. Obesity is a chronic d...

Ruling: HIV victim exempted from disclosing condition to partner

...ding HIV during anal or vaginal intercourse is the consistent and proper use of condoms. Relying on HIV-positive people to tell you, and assuming that unprotected intercourse is safe if HIV is not mentioned, is a much riskier strategy, especially as majority of people with HIV in don't know they have it, and ...

Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy can be used for treating all types of Infectious Mononucleosis

...consultations. Dr. Scott Thompson said, “Despite consistent and uniform acceptance in the medical literature that SCT in the setting of IM [infectious mononucleosis] should be reserved for patients with impending airway obstruction, corticosteroids continue to be used on a much broader scale at this tertiary ...

Early Retirement Age Found To Double Death Rate

...social engagement and involvement. The results are consistent with the positive effects of work on the physical and mental health of an individual. In addition to the income, work also provides self-esteem and social interaction. Perhaps, it would be necessary to provide either part time or full-time employme...

Researchers Identify Sipa 1 Gene, Responsible For Cancer Metastasis

...SIPA 1 modulates the adhesive properties of cells, consistent with its effect on RAP 1, which is known to affect cell-cell interactions. A series of experiment has shown that RNA Inhibiton of Sipa1 decreased the numbers of pulmonary metastases from a highly metastatic mammary tumor cell line. Conversely, ov...

Predictors Of Wound Infection In Ventral Hernia Repair

... problem. Wound infection has been identified as a consistent risk factor for recurrence after VHR. A recent study, which appears in the November issue of The American Journal of Surgery was designed with the aim to identify predictors of postoperative wound infection in subjects undergoing VHR in a retrosp...

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