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The Consequences Of Stopping Physical Activity

A new study shows in as little as two days of physical inactivity, the body's efficient use o...ed inactive. When the rats stopped running for two days after a period of running for three weeks, the amount of sugar taken into the muscle in response to ...

Drug Reviparin Found To Reduce Death Rate After Heart Attack

...rcent lowered risk. Benefits were still seen at 30 days with significant reductions in death rate and significantly lower numbers of additional heart attacks however no significant differences were observed for strokes. In conclusion researchers say Reviparin is considerably less expensive than other ant...

Aerobic Exercise Beneficial In Treating Depression

...n an aerobic exercise program either three or five days a week, a lower-intensity exercise program three or five days a week, or a program involving stretching exercises for 15 to 20 minute a day for three days a week....

Preventing Strokes With Aspirin

...spirin discontinuation occurred in the first eight days after aspirin was stopped. The remaining number of patients had ischemic strokes within the month. In conclusion researchers say though the risk of suffering a substantial stroke during a short period of aspirin discontinuation is probably not very ...

Cooling Can Reduce The Risk Of Brain Damage In Oxygen Deprived Newborns

...cade is triggered leading to brain damage hours or days afterwards. Thus researchers say treatment may be possible for babies who suffer oxygen deprivation at birth however they stress on the need for further study in order to get more information on the timing and methods of cooling, as well as which ba...

Sudden Stress Found To Mimic Heart Attack Symptoms

...n their hearts’ ability to pump blood within a few days and within two weeks, patients experience a full recovery. Thus researchers say their findings should help physicians distinguish between stress cardiomyopathy and heart attacks in order to be able to reassure patients they have not had permanent h...

Transfer Of Rabies Virus Possible From Organ Donor To Recipient

...l four recipients developed encephalitis within 30 days after transplant and died within 13 days of the symptoms. Mice too died after a week of being inoculated with the recipient’s samples. There ...

Fungal Infections Effectively Controlled By Light Therapy

...culated with the C. neoformans remained healthy 30 days later, while those infected with the normal fungus died after 30 days. Light therapy is currently used for certain medical conditions. The most common method is called bright-light therapy, where patients sit near a special light box.The genes requi...

Ebola-like virus is on the way to cause epidemic in Angola

... personal contacts. The symptoms will appear a few days after contracting the disease. With flu like symptoms the virus can affect the major organs like liver, kidneys, spleen and reproductive organs....

Terri Schiavo is no more, but the question of Mercy killing is unresolved…

... the right-to-die controversy.// She died today 13 days after her feeding tube was removed on the order of a state court judge. Terri Schiavo was 26 years when she collapsed in her home in 1990. She was suffering from potassium deficiency, due to extreme weight loss. Doctors said that she was in a persi...

Fortified iron in diets may increase the risk of cancer

...ciency in people, lot of dietary ingredients these days contain fortified iron in the ingredient. // A new study done by researchers of Medical University of South Carolina, US, had found that in a state of transferrin saturation of 60% or more, intake of food fortified with iron might increase the risk o...

Obesity may be from weight gained by the newborn

...lts, the period of weight gain from birth to eight days were found to be associated with the obesity of adulthood. Similar kind of association of weight gain in the first week of life and that of an adult was also made for the reference population. The researches had said that newborn weight gain in the ...

Promising cure for West Nile Virus

...oped by them can fight the virus if given within 5 days of them being infected. West Nile virus may have only flu like symptoms in some people while in others there may be serious manifestations like the central nervous system being affected and people falling into a coma or paralysis. The virus mainly a...

It is safe to take influenza vaccine during pregnancy

...dverse effects of the vaccine were noted within 42 days of vaccination. There were also no significant difference caused to the mode of delivery, including premature birth and caesarian delivery. Also the vaccine seems to have caused no significant effect on the health of the infants from birth to 6 month...

Early test to detect kidney failure

... serum creatinine, but it was only possible 1 to 3 days after the surgery. Concentrations of NGAL in urine and serum taken after two hours of the surgery represent early biomarkers for acute renal injury after cardiac surgery. This may be the earliest way to accurately diagnose acute renal failure after a...

Childhood asthma may be triggered by cockroach allergens

...significant increase in the frequency of number of days they suffered from coughs, wheezing spells with ti...chests, nights of interrupted sleep, missed school days and disrupted play activities. Cockroach allergens can come from several sources such as sewage, sa...

Going to GP may delay cancer diagnosis, says new study

...time for the diagnosis of prostate cancer is 148.5 days while that of breast cancer is 55.2days. The research cites reasons for bypassing GPs are if cancer is diagnosed when the patient have already been admitted in a hospital, or when they go for regular screenings. Delay of diagnosis seemed to be maxi...

Air pollution to affect diabetes patients’ cardiovascular risks

... from the// heightened air pollution levels. The days when air pollutions are at higher levels, there ha...tic patients. Research has pointed out that on the days the air contains more pollutant particles, the ability of the blood vessels to control blood flow ge...

Patients with long ICU stay may be at risk from dying

...ardiac surgery procedures and survived the next 30 days and compared them with the medical history of simi...wed that patients who spend on an average about 11 days post operation in the intensive care survived longer than the first year of surgery. However those p...

Eating food rich in calcium and vitamin D helps fight PMS

... symptoms that affect a lot of women a week or ten days before the menstruation. Some common symptoms of PMS are depression, feelings of aggression and mood swings. Often women who experience premenstrual syndrome feel their social interactions and relationships are getting affected because of their physi...

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