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Life anticipation differences identified

...e, six years less than white people. And those who did not complete //high school are at a similar disadvantage compared to high school graduates. Now, for the first time, a study has identified the major health factors underpinning these differences. Researchers at the University of California, Los An...

Misinterpretation living wills

...them breathe, if they had a terminal illness. Some did not want these procedures at all. But some of the doctors questioned said they would not do CPR or insert a tube into any patient who had made a living will - whether they wanted it or not. However, two of the physician group said they would do this ...

Short stature -a problem

... boosts brain chemicals and neurotransmitters that did not work as well as they would have if hormone secretion had been normal." Behaviour problems in short children improved quickly with six months of hormone replacement therapy, Dr Beens said, but that could not be due to growth alone as height increa...

Exercise with music aids with lung disorders

...music to listen to as they walked, while the other did not listen to music. Over the eight week period, the music group walked further – 20 miles compared to 12 miles - which, in terms of lung function, is significant. They could walk further in the six minute walk test, and they were also less disable...

Acupuncture for cystitis in women

...bolism or irritability of the bladder. These women did less well on acupuncture. The study suggests that acupuncture may work well for certain women with cystitis, so long as the characteristics of their problem are well diagnosed - by either conventional medicine or TCM....

Change in weight not a risk in healthy men

... from heart disease. Those with fluctuating weight did have an increased risk, but this could mainly be a...ht and gaining it again - perhaps more than once - did not cause heart disease. So worries about regaining weight should not stop people adopting healthy e...

Cholesterol lowering drugs aid people after heart transplant

...vastatin group was 85.4 per cent and for those who did not go on simvastatin straight away the rate was 60.5 per cent. The researchers think the difference is due to the effect of statins on the arteries - reducing the thickening that tends to occur after a heart transplant....

Protein in eye fights diseases

...as injected into the mice, the T cells changed and did not attack the body. "This technique was extremely effective in the mouse model, and we believe that it has great potential to work in other autoimmune diseases by changing the immune response responsible for multiple sclerosis or for the onset of t...

Home care aids in lung disease

... less time in hospital. What is more, the patients did not even require their full entitlement of care - most managed on just two nurse visits rather than the five permitted....

Dealing with personality disorders

...ing decrease in rapid mood shifts, but the placebo did not. It was also found that the drug did not have any impact on impulsivity and aggression. This authors say, may be due to gender-specific d...

Prolonged survival not assured by psychological therapies for cancer patients

...ing according to the results. The study, however, did not attempt to look at how such treatments might affect the quality of life of the cancer patient in a positive way....

Need for Blood Transfusions reduced

...ministered group. Study also indicated that rHuEPO did not improve survival or clinical outcomes....

Gardeners, Beware of your back!

...take up gardening after watching TV and since they did not have a proper plan and adequate knowledge on how to lift weights properly or what types of exercises are required before taking up gardening, they usually land up with back problems. While many believed that lying down and resting was the best wa...

New AIDS vaccine may be in the offing

...d quickly die in normal conditions, were alive and did not get sick - at least for the 34-week study period, when they were given the vaccine treatment. Most vaccines make the immune system do one of two things: make antibodies or make germ-killing cells while the DC vaccine elicited both kinds of immun...

Wine drinkers may have reasons to cheer

...wever, researchers add that drinking wine everyday did not have any protective effect. It was also found ...ests however, that the study is limited because it did not take into account eating and dietary habits of wine drinkers, which, he says, is better than tha...

More compelling reasons to lower blood pressure

...lood pressure helped younger people more than they did for the elderly and that it's benefits weren't limited to people who brought their blood pressure down from unhealthy levels. The researchers saw a protective effect of lower blood pressure until it hit about 115/75 mmHg, a low but fairly common read...

Women with diabetes could benefit from HRT

...some women who already had diabetes and others who did not or had "impaired fasting glucose" - a condition with some similar traits to diabetes but not severe enough to be called diabetes. The women were given either estrogen and progestin HRT, or a dummy pill, and followed up for four years. It was fou...

Diabetics & Foot infections

...good foot care’ practices while those patients who did not follow advice showed poor improvement. Recovery took as long as 95 days and a higher percentage of patients reported new infections and required surgery. The study, which was a part of a larger initiative for a Diabetic Foot Clinic at the hospi...

A new and surprising insight on AIDS

... to AIDS", while those with a vitamin A deficiency did get AIDS. Dr. MH Gotink of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), who addressed the gathering after Dr. Giraldo, while agreeing about the importance of vitamin intake and sharing Dr. Giraldo's views on the importance of breast feeding, howeve...

Effect of alcohol drinking on breast cancer

... day, a woman's risk goes to 30%. Smoking however, did not make the risk worse. The researchers who also studied the life time risk of women, who drink, by age 80 found that while a non-drinker's chances were one in 11, a heavy drinker had about a one in seven chance of developing breast cancer by age 80...

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