controlling 1 5

Tag: "controlling" at medical news

Lithium Increases Gray Matter in Bipolar Brains

...igher in areas that are critical for attention and controlling emotions. The neurobiological underpinnings of ...erstood. Nor is it understood how lithium works in controlling these severe mood swings, even though it has been the standard treatment for some 50 years. These ne...

Diabetes May Bring You A Step Closer To Alzheimer’s Diseas

...estic mild cognitive impairment specifically after controlling for other factors that may affect risk, including age, ethnic group, years of education and heart and blood vessel disease. "The risk of mild cognitive impairment attributable to diabetes was 8.8 percent for the whole sample, 8.4 percent for Afric...

Race Takes Back Seat to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure

...ll racial groups, except for African Americans, at controlling hypertension. “A lot of public health attention...s, says removing barriers for African Americans to controlling their diabetes and hypertension could be critical to reducing new cases of heart failure. Across all...

Unique Models Help Teach Nanoscience to the Blind

...y professor Bob Hamers to demonstrate a method for controlling the growth of nanomaterials, the original NanoBucky is so tiny that approximately 9,000 of him can fit on the head of the pin. Though Greenberg and Farhoud's plaster 3-D models are several inches long and tens of thousands of times larger, they aim t...

Hot Flashes in Women Linked to High Blood Pressure

... pressure remained statistically significant after controlling for conventional hypertension risk factors, race/ethnicity, age and body mass index (BMI). Hot flashes are typically experienced as a feeling of intense heat with sweating and rapid heartbeat, and usually last from two to 30 minutes on each occasio...

Who Gets Heart Failure? Race Takes Back Seat to Diabetes and High Blood Pressure

...ll racial groups, except for African Americans, at controlling hypertension. 'A lot of public health attention...s, says removing barriers for African Americans to controlling their diabetes and hypertension could be critical to reducing new cases of heart failure. Across all...

ADHD Problem in Children – a Risk Factor for Alcohol Problems in Later Lif

...drop in their grades at school, or difficulty with controlling the amount of alcohol that they drank." Drinking problems began around age 15, said Molina. "The 15-to-17-year olds with childhood ADHD reported being drunk an average of 14 times in the previous year, versus only 1.8 times for 15-to-17-year olds i...

Improved Platelet Life Span Increases Better Patient Care

...n in other cells, but the central role it plays in controlling the life span of the highly specialised platelet has not been previously appreciated. With this new knowledge, we are in a much stronger position to devise better therapies for the management of platelet-related diseases." Dr Kile added, "For fifty...

Child Diabetes Soars

... reduced exposure to something that was previously controlling our immune responses. We now need to work to identify what these changes might be." Going by the trend, diagnostic evaluation for diabetes may need to begin in childhood itself. SAV...

Study Identifies Risk Factors for Spread of Respiratory Infections in Hospitals

... Hong Kong. These findings have implications for controlling other respiratory disease threats, including pandemic influenza, according to senior author Joseph Sung, MD, PhD, of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “The lesson we learned during the SARS epidemic,” he said, “was that the hospital can be a breed...

Due to Cost, Heart Attack Patients Often Avoid Follow-up Care and Medication

...a strong predictor of adverse outcomes, even after controlling for other risk factors. Krumholz will present the paper at a JAMA media briefing at the National Press Club at 10 a.m. on March 13. “Patients with financial barriers had a higher prevalence of angina, worse quality of life, and poorer overall physi...

Vitamin C Could Help in Curbing Cancer

... found that vitamin C is absolutely fundamental in controlling many cell activities, cell death and the growth of...e in all healthy cells and had a major function in controlling cell activity throughout the body. She said it was not a cure for cancer, but the research showed ...

World Kidney Day – Caring for the Kidney

...tection and prevention . Lifestyle modifications, controlling hypertension and diabetes, along with regular screening for the disease can help to curtail the incidence of the ever-expanding kidney disorders. Some of the recommended preventive measures are: ? Control hypertension, blood glucose, lipids ...

Bring on the ‘Santa Clauses

...ecrease in suicides as B.M.I increased, even after controlling for variables including smoking, dietary factors, physical activity, marital status and alcohol use. There were 131 suicides during the time of the study. From the study, heavier men were found to be 42 percent times less likely to commit suicid...

WHO On Measures To Combat Spurious Medicines

...rict enforcement can bring in a positive change in controlling this trade. This meeting is reported to be the first of its kind which highlighted the need to control the movement of fake drugs. JYT...

WHO Calls for Greater Efforts to Fight TB

... concern," he said. "We cannot control one without controlling the other. So, we must rapidly scale up TB-HIV collaborative activities through formally established mechanisms and plans." Health representatives from eight countries, as well as TB are present for the conference, which ends Wednesday. Source-IAN...

Stem Cells Hold Promise for Treating Neurodegenerative Diseases

...in tissue destroys the brain cells instrumental in controlling and coordinating body movement and results in inexorable deterioration of the brain and spinal cord. Children suffering with Sandhoff rarely see their sixth birthday. Sandhoff mice are similarly affected. Tay-Sachs is predominant to Ashkenazi Jewish ...

Assam Reports HIV Suicides, Treatment a Distant Dream

...or ART management. Otherwise the entire efforts at controlling the epidemic would be futile," S.I. Ahmed, head of the AIDS Prevention Society, a leading community healthcare group in Assam, said. "Not being able to access treatment is a matter of serious concern." Source-IANS...

Four-way Dengue Vaccine a 'success', Say Scientists

...ce of having the vaccine" he said. He added that controlling dengue viruses was becoming a "formidable task for every country, not only for developing countries" because of rapidly expanding urbanisation and international travel. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Study Finds Many Older Women Also Victims of Partner Violence

...eats were severe. Additionally, women who reported controlling behavior had experienced this abuse for an average of 10 years. In spite of the breadth and depth of violence in this group of women, only 3 percent said they had been asked by a health care provider about physical or sexual violence by an intimate...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10