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Intermittent Exercising The Best Way To Burn Fat

Most people consider long, continuous workouts to be beneficial. However, a new study sh...30 percent. On the other hand, when they performed continuous exercises, their triglyceride levels were only reduced by 15 percent. Researchers say exercising be...

Combination Therapy Found To Improves Stroke Recovery

...set. 63 patients were randomly assigned to receive continuous ultrasound therapy (2-MHz transcranial Doppler ult...the placebo group. Thus researchers conclude that continuous transcranial Doppler ultrasonography can enhance the effects of t-PA in acute ischemic stroke....

Preventing Osteoporosis

...ents in their bone density. Thus researchers say continuous treatment of 10 milligrams of alendronate appears to be the best treatment for postmenopausal women and the key is staying on the drug because once you go off of it the benefits start to diminish....

Treatment For Sleep Apnea Found To Lower Blood Glucose Levels

...ls before and after a sleep apnea treatment called continuous positive airway pressure therapy, or CPAP. CPAP, the most common treatment for sleep apnea, involves wearing a mask that supplies a steady stream of air through the nose during sleep. This airflow keeps the nasal passages open to prevent airway colla...

WHO report asks for improved healthcare for mother and child

...e medical community across the globe to practice a continuous method of care extended to the women from pregnancy to childbirth and continued with the child till he’s about 5 yrs of age. ...

Does disparity exists between women and men victims of stroke?

...sts then it is important to use interventions like continuous education etc to clear the disparate scenario....

Hay fever may be cured by self-hypnosis

...bout two to five sessions on an average along with continuous anti allergic treatment. 66 patients had completed one session and 52 people had taken two sessions. The results showed that patients who had learned self-hypnosis had significant improvements in the first year afterwards. In the second year the pe...

Vaccine to cure smoking

...have shown that the vaccine had been able to cause continuous abstinence from nicotine till six months, without any urge to use chewing gums or nicotine patches. If successful in all the continuing third phase of the trial, then the vaccine will go a long way in decreasing the risks of cancer and other disease...

Extracts of grapefruit heals stomach ulcers

...ad a 50% reduction of gastric acid secretion and a continuous decrease in the gastric ulcers in about a week of treatment. The treatment also increased the amount of blood flow to the site of the gastric ulcers. Researchers are of the opinion that the combined effect of grapefruit seed extracts, COX-1 and COX-2...

Elderly people with chronic pain can use narcotics safely

... will be asking for them to increase the dosage on continuous usage. The new study says that for elderly patients such behavior may not arise. In the study done by American scientists to assess the need for narcotics in younger adults versus the elderly, researchers have suggested that narcotics may be prescri...

Smokers may differ in their cravings for smoking

..., or smelling of tobacco can also set the stage of continuous smoking for smokers who are not able to quit. In the new research scientists have found that those who can abstain from smoking for long hours, even after viewing smoking related visuals, showed more stable brain responses than the other smokers who ...

Women who had stopped HRT get back their symptoms

... even after using the hormones for as long as five continuous years. The researchers for the study had recommended that women, who are willing to try out HRT for getting some relief from their menopausal symptoms, may go for estrogen alone in case she had a hysterectomy, or estrogen along with progesterone in ...

New contact lens materials

...per-oxygen transmissible contact lenses for 30-day continuous wear.// The results of the Southeastern study are published in American Academy of Ophthalmology. Dr. H. Dwight Cavanag, senior author of the study and vice chairman of ophthalmology and associate dean for clinical services at Southeastern, said st...

Valporic Acid Blocks Latent HIV Replication

...t in the latent phase in the cells. Which leads to continuous HAART treatment to affected patients, as the virus may emerge from cells as soon as HAART treatment is stopped. Researchers have found that by co-administration of Valporic acid with HAART leads to better treatment in AIDS patients. Valporic acid, wh...

Patients In Hospital ICUs At Risk From Medical Errors

...patient safety.” The researchers conducted direct continuous observations in the MICU and CCU during nine 3-week periods, distributed throughout 12 months from July 2002 through June 2003. This was supplemented by confidential incident reporting, a computerized adverse drug event detection monitor and chart re...

Remifemin, An Indian Herb For Hormone Replacement Therapy

... says. The drug Remifemin is accepted only after continuous validation on animal and clinical trials by the researchers, has most of the natural herbal remedies are not scientifically tested or proved of effectiveness. Rhonda Benke says the herbal remedy given her peace of mind after she found lumps in her ...

Brain Plays Vital Role In Maintaining Bone Density

...one tissue is involved in an "exchange" process of continuous bone loss and generation. In adult humans and other mammals, this process is balanced; that is, the amount of bone tissue that is generated is equal to that which is lost, thus preserving bone density. With age, this balance is disrupted, and the a...

Biocon to colloborate for development of Oral peptide drugs for heart diseases.

...nning later that year. “Administration of hBNP by continuous infusion was approved by the FDA in August 200 for the treatment of acute congestive heart failure in the hospital care setting. The intent of an oral hBNP would be to have a product available for chronic use, rather than only for acute use for a num...

Combination Therapy To Avoid Prostate Cancer Recurrence

...regions after initial local treatment and requires continuous follow up with hormone therapy. The resistance to hormone therapy is also the cause of cancer recurrence in the same region or other sites. The incidence of occurrence can be detected by observing rise in PSA values. This study was done to find out t...

Proper Validation of Generic Drugs Could Save Millions of AIDS Patients

...r to the FDA or WHO and the monitoring should be a continuous process so that he quality of the drug produced should be monitored to find if there is fluctuation over time without vigilant testing. By this way if the generic drug produced is maintained in a standard to that of branded drugs, the amount of inves...

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