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One Pill may Be Better Than Two for Treating Patients With High Blood Pressure

...ailure or kidney failure. High blood pressure is defined as systolic pressure of 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic pressure of 90 mm Hg or higher. Systolic pressure is the force of blood in the arteries when the heart contracts to pump blood to the body. Diastolic pressure is the force in the arteries when ...

Spinal Manipulation Beneficial for Neck Pain

...h headaches. In this review, chronic neck pain was defined as being a minimum of 8 weeks duration. Researchers also found that mobilization therapy was beneficial in improving patients' pain levels, with many achieving full recovery after six to seven weeks of treatment; however, the current evidence did n...

Tomatoes are Not So Effective in Preventing Prostate Cancer

...ween increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer defined as disease that has spread beyond the prostate and beta-carotene, another antioxidant found in many vegetables and commonly used as a dietary supplement. This unexpected observation "may be due to chance, however beta carotene is already known to ...

High-risk Sexual Behavior Adolescents Attract Peers With Similar Attitudes

...s related to health. High-risk sexual behavior was defined by the number of partners with whom adolescents had intercourse without a condom, since having multiple sex partners without using condoms puts adolescents at risk for contracting HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. The researchers also cons...

Sling Surgery Better Than Burch for Treating Stress Incontinence in Women

...o other studies," according to the study. SISTEr defined two levels of treatment success. Stress-specific success required that women have no symptoms of leakage during physical activities, no leakage during a valsalva and cough stress-test, and no re-treatment for the problem. Overall success required tha...

Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle During Adulthood may Delay Old Age Disability

...f 30 or greater is considered obese. Overweight is defined as having a BMI between 25 and 30. Participants physical performance was assessed with a short battery of tests to measure walking speed, ability to rise from a chair, and balance. Walking endurance was measured with a timed 400-meter walk. Poor ph...

ECP may Be Effective in Treating Crohn's Disease

... symptomatic CD was present. Clinical response was defined as a CDAI decrease of 100 or greater from baseline and/or a CDAI of less than 150 at week 12. Patients received two treatments of ECP weekly from weeks 0-4 and two treatments every other week from weeks 6-12 with no infectious complications reported....

Remicade Responders Maintain Improvement

...erm Extension Patients with moderate to severe UC, defined as a baseline Mayo score ≥ 6 and ≤ 12, who were unresponsive to or intolerant to at least one standard therapy, including corticosteroids, immunosuppressants or 5ASAs, were enrolled in ACT 1 (n=364) or ACT 2 (n=364). The 728 patients were...

Pink Grapefruit Juice is Rich in Nutrients Than Other Juices

...ch juices nutrient density. Nutrient density was defined as either nutrients provided per calorie, or the ratio of the amount of a nutrient in foods to the energy provided by these same foods. Nutrients included proteins, fats, sugars, numerous vitamins and minerals and other components. According to R...

New Platform for Regulating Expression of Therapeutic Genes Unveiled

...gan to express itself as the cell turned into more defined tissues. This new platform now provides a means for scientists to achieve highly tailored gene expression patterns when delivering recombinant genetic material into cells. We had been looking for ways to regulate transgenes better, when it hit us, ...

Change in Course of Treatment: Exploring Better Ways

...nt. Having 3 or more CTC (per 7.5 mL of blood) was defined as "unfavorable" in an initial analysis. Patients with fewer than 3 CTC were considered favorable. Before initiation of the first treatment (baseline), 53 percent of patients had no detectable CTC. These patients had superior median survival times ...

AAAAI Offers Advice on Stinging Insect Allergies

...ion (anaphylaxis) without an obvious or previously defined trigger. Have had anaphylaxis attributed to food, drugs, or insect stings....

Obesity Pill Zimulti Increases Depression, Suicidal Thoughts

...houghts, the drug's benefits "clearly outweigh the defined risks that are manageable in clinical practice". Rimonabant works by blocking food craving signals in the brain. Sanofi, a French drug maker, developed the drug to target the brain receptors that trigger intense hunger after marijuana use....

Parkinsons Disease can Be Predicted by Metabolic Pathway

...int effects of a subset of DNA variations within a defined biological pathway (genomic pathways approach). This study serves as a blueprint for how we can study all complex disorders. By studying genomic pathways, we might be able to determine what causes people to be obese or to have hypertension, or to d...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...hers who took valproate had an IQ low enough to be defined as mentally retarded. This was against 12 percent for carbamazepine, 9 percent for lamotrigine, and 12 percent for phenytoin. The results are published in the journal Neurology. Children whose mothers took carbamazepine scored an average of 93 po...

Placental Problems in Women Linked With Caesarean Section

...y had a caesarean section. Placental praevia is defined as the implantation of the placenta over or near the internal opening of the cervix. Placenta abruption is the premature separation of the placenta from the uterus. Both result in bleeding during the pregnancy, which could spell danger for mother and...

Risk of Dementia Increased With Secondhand Smoke

...etime secondhand smoke exposure. High exposure was defined as more than 30 years of exposure to secondhand smoke. "We are still conducting analyses to control for other factors that may be influencing these results, but this finding potentially implicates lifetime exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke as a ...

Link Between Migraine Attacks in Teens and Suicidal Tendencies

...rs per days, lasting for more than three months is defined as chronic headache. The subjects were also screened for psychiatric disorders. The finding revealed that almost half of the people suffering chronic daily headaches suffered one or more psychiatric disorders. Nearly 21% suffered major depression a...

FDA Approves First Generic Versions of Ambien for Insomnia

... which may include sleep-driving. Sleep driving is defined as driving while not fully awake after ingestion of a sedative-hypnotic product, with no memory of the event. According to the online magazine Drug Topics, in 2006, Ambien was the 13th highest selling brand name drug. The sanofi-aventis (formerly...

The Origin of the Brain Lies in a Worm

...e to the different CNS structures. The regions are defined by the unique combination of regulatory genes expressed, which endow every type of neuron with a specific molecular fingerprint. Comparing the molecular fingerpint of Platynereis nerve cells with what is known about vertebrates revealed surprising si...

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