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Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

...rnbach officially retired in 1973, but worked most days until recently. He mentored young scientists, corresponded and consulted with others, and worked on his biography, due out this fall under the title, "Good Chemistry: The Life and Times of Valium Inventor Leo Sternbach."Sternbach's credits include 24...

Common Plant Triggers Asthma

...lant, the emergency admission happened about three days after the high levels were recorded and two days later than high levels of the Plantago plant were recorded. Study authors say this type of time lag ...

Alcohol and Sun Don’t Mi

...injury. Of the 38 respondents five men missed nine days of work and one woman missed eight days because of sunburn within the year before the study....

An hour of exercise a week cuts hypertension

...f an hour and an hour of moderate exercise on most days of the week to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity.Researchers from Japan, tested 207 men and women who had high blood pressure but were otherwise healthy. None exercised regularly. They divided them into five groups who g...

Better Diet Even Late in Life May Prolong It

... fed diet. Those switched on day 14 lived about 38 days and those switched on day 22 lived about 42 days. Had these flies stayed on the restricted diet, they would have been expected to live about 50 days. "Current behavior and conditions appear to determine mortality," says James Vaupel, director of the...

Teen dies after complications from abortion pill

... using RU-486, taking two more pills at home three days later. After experiencing bleeding and cramps so ... second medication called misoprostol, taken three days later, induces labor so the embryo can be expelled. In 5 to 8 percent of cases, surgery is required ...

Stem cells grown into sperm cells

...m cells within one day, a process that takes three days in the embryo. Growing stem cells into other tissues has been hailed as a source of major potential therapies in the future. However, the process is controversial because many stem cells are harvested from discarded embryos....

World's oldest turns 116 in Japan

...throughout Japan for her habit of sleeping for two days and then staying awake for two days. Hongo, whose husband died when she was 77, reportedly slept through an early birthday party held for her last month by 140 relatives and friends. She has seven children -- three of whom have died -- 27 grandchil...

ICU Survival can be improved by Antibiotic use

...y to be on mechanical ventilation for at least two days or in the ICU for at least three days, provided they are being treated in an ICU with a low incidence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. ...

Some pets found to be SARS carriers

...cats and ferrets began to show their infection two days later in excretions from the throat, and researche...errets became lethargic, and one of them died four days after it was inoculated. Scientists also placed two healthy cats and two healthy ferrets with the ...

Leech Therapy for Osteoarthritis

...reatment with a standard topical medication for 28 days or a single treatment involving the application of... topical medication. While pain scores after seven days were similar for the two groups, the leech group continued to report better function, less stiffness...

Reducing Pain from Knee Surgery

...efore the surgery, 50 milligrams each day for five days after surgery, and 25 milligrams of the drug for another eight days. The remaining patients received a placebo at the same times. Results show patients receiving the NSAID rofecoxib had significantly less pain, consumed fewer painkillers, and had si...

Exercise Affects Alertness

...oups. The first group exercised on treadmills five days a week for 20 weeks. The second group did not exercise at all. The third group exercised for 20 weeks and then became sedentary. Researchers measured the volume of small blood vessels in the brains of all three groups. Researchers also found that an...

Reducing Pain From Knee Surgery

...efore the surgery, 50 milligrams each day for five days after surgery, and 25 milligrams of the drug for another eight days. The remaining patients received a placebo at the same times. Results show patients receiving the NSAID rofecoxib had significantly less pain, consumed fewer painkillers, and had si...

House heads for Medicare drug vote

... Bill Frist, have tweaked the compromise in recent days in an effort to build support among dissatisfied Senate Democrats and House Republicans who threaten prospects for passage in either chamber. Frist predicted the Senate may vote on the proposal Monday.As initially drafted, the compromise came in at...

Senate assures ban on smoking

...nd the Senate followed suit last night after three days of debate, voting 29 to 10. Minor differences between the two bills will have to be worked out, but last night's action ensures that the ban will become the law of the Commonwealth starting July 5, 2004, with violators facing fines as high as $300."I...

Finding relief from Excruciating Headaches a challenge

...ng tension headaches //that are present 15 or more days each month. Some might think it sounds like just...eft her bedridden caused her to miss more than 100 days of her senior year of high school -- with her worst migraine lasting nearly a month.Medication and a...

Preventive Therapies Found to be More Effective in Managing Migraines

...ications as taking pain relievers for more than 15 days a month. Experts say more than 50 percent of patients who suffer from migraines are candidates for preventive treatment, but only about 5 percent actually use any. A recent study of patients who switched from acute treatments to a combination of pr...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...r either conception or contraceptive purposes. The days predicted as fertile by each of the monitoring systems were compared to the fertile time revealed by ultrasound scans, the detection of the surge of luteinizing hormone -- a hormone that controls the length and sequence of the menstrual cycle -- and ...

New Vaccine for SARS Coming Soon

...s year. The monkeys were given a second vaccine 28 days later, and researchers used two monkeys to serve as control subjects. Results of the study show six weeks after being vaccinated, T-cells and antibodies against the SARS virus were detected in all of the immunized animals but not in the control anim...

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