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The Use Of Antibiotics Questioned

...800 children and adults, ages 3 to 69, researchers determined that the use of throat cultures to distinguish sore throats from strep throat cases is a desirable procedure. Especially, when this treatment reduces the overall and unnecessary use of antibiotics to treat sore throats. Researchers say throat cultu...

Genes Found To Help Leukemia Treatment

...nts who need aggressive therapy. Researchers have determined the minimal numbers of genes needed to identify important gene clusters linked to leukemia. In addition, they identified a unique cluster with a distinctive gene-expression that includes cases of leukemia with a poor treatment outcome. Researchers s...

Elderly Women With Depression More Prone to Heart Disease

...nical depression will lower CVD risk remains to be determined in clinical trials....

Identifying Those At Risk For Diabetes

...Looking at the different risk factors, researchers determined which approach was a better predictor of type 2 diabetes. Researchers say the impaired glucose tolerance and the NCEP definition had higher sensitivity than the modified WHO definition. The study also found combining the impaired glucose tolerance te...

Depression Found To Be A Major Cause for Death in Elderly

...th program. At the start of the study, researchers determined the presence of depression and then did so again at 18 months. At the beginning, 29 percent of the people had depression. Among those individuals, 26 percent died during the follow-up period compared with 17 percent of those with some lesser signs of...

Gleevec for Lung Disease

...g my kids that I might not be around." Michael is determined to stay around, so he enrolled in a study at Tulane University Health Sciences Center with Pulmonologist Joseph Lasky, M.D.. "The idea of the use of Gleevec is to stop the disease from getting worse once the patient has been diagnosed," Dr. Lasky te...

The Benefits of Vitamin- B Supplements

...gain at their six-month check up. Researchers then determined if the level of vitamin B12 played a role in the patients’ outcomes. Researchers report the patients who responded fully to treatment had higher concentrations of vitamin B12 in their blood at the start and end of the study when compared to those wh...

Depression A Cause for Death in Elderly

...th program. At the start of the study, researchers determined the presence of depression and then did so again at 18 months. At the beginning, 29 percent of the people had depression. Among those individuals, 26 percent died during the follow-up period compared with 17 percent of those with some lesser signs of...

Vitamin- B 12 Supplements Found To Be Effective In Combating Depression

...gain at their six-month check up. Researchers then determined if the level of vitamin B12 played a role in the patients’ outcomes. Researchers report the patients who responded fully to treatment had higher concentrations of vitamin B12 in their blood at the start and end of the study when compared to those wh...

Identifying Those At Risk For Diabetes

...Looking at the different risk factors, researchers determined which approach was a better predictor of type 2 diabetes. Researchers say the impaired glucose tolerance and the NCEP definition had higher sensitivity than the modified WHO definition. The study also found combining the impaired glucose tolerance te...

Exposure To Night Light may Increase The Risk Of Leukemia

...ut children at risk for leukemia. Researchers have determined that light at night is found to disrupt the circadian rhythm and suppress the production of melatonin. As an antioxidant, in many studies melatonin has been shown to protect DNA from oxidative damage. Once damaged, DNA may mutate and carcinogenesis ...

A Sedentary Childhood Could Lead To Chronic Fatigue Latter In Life

... level. After examining the data, the researchers determined that being female, being in a high social class during childhood, and having a long-standing medical condition in childhood were all factors that increased a person’s risk of developing chronic fatigue. However unlike previous studies, this study fou...

Vitamin- B 12 Good For Depression

...gain at their six-month check up. Researchers then determined if the level of vitamin B12 played a role in the patients’ outcomes. Researchers report the patients who responded fully to treatment had higher concentrations of vitamin B12 in their blood at the start and end of the study when compared to those wh...

Breathing Cancer Causing Compounds During Pregnancy Found To Affect Offspring

...search to determine the exact timing of chemically determined air mediated cancer initiations....

A New Evaluation Tool That Could Predict Death Risk in Heart Patients

...acute heart failure was about 4 percent. The model determined mortality risk levels starting from low risk at about 2 percent up to nearly 22 percent for patients at the highest mortality risk. Researchers evaluated 39 possible factors as survival indicators upon hospital admission. It was observed that the be...

Testing Of Saliva May Predict Dental Caries

... tooth. Each individual sugar chain components are determined by genes and cannot be changed. By finding out more about these sugar chains it is possible to predict proneness of an individual to dental caries. Earlier such a test is done in life, the greater will be the effect of the precautions adopted to pr...

Hope For Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

...nded to therapy, and the other was resistant. They determined the TLR9-induced protection occurs when proteins called type 1 IFN-alpha and IFN-beta were activated. Thus researchers say based on their findings type 1 IFN-alpha and IFN-beta has a very important protective and potential therapeutic role ....

Overweight mothers overfeed obese children

...ity Chamber (EMTAC). Maternal body composition was determined by air displacement plethysmorgraphy while for that of infants was done by skin-fold thickness. The results of the study showed that children born to obese mothers take more energy intake as carbohydrates than other normal infants. This was mostly ...

PUFA reduces risk of cataract

... diet. Incident cases of cataract extraction were determined by a biennial questionnaire.The study showed that women who took a high intake of long-chain omega-3 fatty acid had a 12% lower risk of cataract extraction compared with those who took lowfat intake. Another dimension brought out by the study was the...

Scientists Unveil Mechanism Behind Resistance to Severe Malaria

...laria. In a series of experiments, the researchers determined how hemoglobin type C impairs the ability of malaria parasites to cause disease symptoms. “This research gives us a new insight into malaria, a major global killer that preys especially on young children and claims a life every 30 seconds,” notes An...

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