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Left handed have better episodic memory

...to make a person better at remembering events? The data from two recent experiments answer in the affirmative. This recent reasearch is reported in the jornal Neuropsychology. Stephen D. Christman and Ruth E. Propper of the University of Toledo in Ohio, studied memory as a function of family handedness. ...

Eating More Often May Help Lower Cholesterol

...orie and fat intake. The researchers looked at data on more than 14,600 men and women aged 45 to 75.// Participants were asked about their current eating habits and activity levels, and had their cholesterol levels, blood pressure and weight recorded. Frequent eaters did not, however, have higher leve...

Overweight children Don't Necessarily Become overweight adults

...til the age of 15 years. The researchers collected data on adult lifestyle, including height, weight, and self-reported illness through questionnaires. It's true that overweight teenagers were more likely to become fat adults, but most fat adults were not overweight as children. That's important to know f...

Night borns' risk

...rn during the day. The Hong Kong study, based on data from the Swedish birth register, analysed more than two million births from 1973-95. The first risk period started from the end of the normal day shift and extended to the midnight shift. The second one, around 9am, was immediately after day shift st...

Alcoholics are prone to disability

...ered problem drinkers. The researchers collected data at four time points over the six year period of the study.This began a few years ago and was concluded that drinking causes the disability. They also found that problem drinkers not disabled at the start of the study tended to become so over time....

Evidence supporting H.pylori eradication

...factors for peptic ulcer disease (PUD). The pooled data from 16 studies of 1,625 NSAID users showed that uncomplicated PUD was more than twice as likely in patients positive for H.pylori infection than in those negative for this bacterium. Furthermore, ulcer bleeding risk was increased 1.79-fold by H.pylo...

More People Seeking Treatment for Depression

...n as they did a decade ago. The study analyzed data from national surveys conducted in 1987 and 1997 to determine the trends Americans are following in depression treatment. According to the researchers, overall outpatient treatment for depression increased threefold in the 10-year period. However, sy...

Beverage protect against bladder cancer

...ancer, especially in smokers..Researchers analysed data from all new and already diagnosed cases of bladder cancer over a 1 year period from 10 general hospitals.// All patients and over 500 cases supplied details of their employment history, tobacco use, including exposure to environmental tobacco smoke,...

Immunisation to prevent cot deaths

...ng 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 on its front in its cot to relieve digestive problems such as colic, parents ar...

Smoking Linked To Low Infant Birth Weight

...creened for presence of the genes involved. "Our data demonstrate that a subgroup of pregnant women with certain genotypes appeared to be particularly susceptible to the adverse effect of cigarette smoke, suggesting an interaction between metabolic genes and cigarette smoking" said the report from Bosto...

Magnesium sulfate offers no help in migraine treatment

... that "because 95% of the patients were women, the data may not be generalizable to men."...

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

...is needed in interpreting his findings because the data sources are not of a high quality and rely on individual hospital reporting rates. He says the policy lessons to be drawn from the study are unclear and that it does not necessarily follow that concentrating resources in fewer centres will lead to lo...

Drugs control and industry departments to share a common e-platform

...He said that the portal has compiled comprehensive data from 180 departments and contains 350 forms that can be downloaded. The portal already contains around 2600 web pages. The portal is being developed in three phases namely, the information phase, the interactive phase and the payment phase. The comp...

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

...m Newport News, Virginia, looked at dietary supply data for a number of countries in North and South America, Asia and Europe. Such data reflects only the supply of food in a given country, and not the food intakes of different people. G...

Herbal treatment not to be sneezed at

...fatigue. Dr Schapowal states that the group has no data on whether butterbur works as an ongoing treatment, but treatment for allergy sufferers is often restricted to peak periods....

Tobacco chewing leads to dental caries

... researchers studied dental caries and tobacco use data from more than// 13,000 adults aged 19 and over. The researchers illustrated between the two types of spit tobacco, also called smokeless tobacco, and other types of tobacco such as cigarettes, pipes, and cigars. Spit tobacco comes in two forms, che...

Obesity increases health costs

...ting costs, Rand Corp. economist Roland Sturm used data from two national health surveys to estimate inpatient and outpatient health services by different groups of people. Tobacco may have a higher death toll, largely because lung cancer can kill more quickly than some common obesity-linked diseases, but...

Processed Meat, Diabetes connection Found

...ublished by the American Diabetes Association. The data in the research came from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, a project that began in 1986 by collecting dietary information from 40,000 men, aged 40 to 75, who were healthy, free of diabetes, heart disease or cancer. The men in the study were...

Tomato Sauce reduces Cancer Risk- Study

...tchup and other tomato-based condiments. When the data was adjusted for the effects of other life style factors, the researchers found that tomatoes, especially if they had been cooked, were beneficial against prostate cancer. ``Spaghetti sauce was the most popular'' and also seemed to give the most prot...

The earlier the treatment, the more the benefit

... in Jacksonville. Brott and colleagues combined data from 8 studies of clot-dissolving drugs involving 3,890 patients. They found that those treated within the first 90 minutes after the start of symptoms have almost three times the chance of a full recovery compared to people who are not treated. Howe...

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