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Jumping genes eliminate sections of DNA

...pe of hemophilia -- a condition in which the blood does not clot after a cut -- and several other diseases. In addition, L1 elements also can carry junk DNA elements known as Alu, which account for another 10 percent of the genome. Alu elements may play a role in several diseases and are known to have pl...

Antibiotics help heart patients

...rt disease. However, they write, "Our study design does not allow us to draw conclusions about the beneficial effects in all patients. Further studies are needed to investigate the reasons for the long-term effects of a short course of antibiotic treatment."...

Stretching does not rule out soreness after exercise

...review shows that pre and post exercise stretching does little to reduce muscle soreness and injury. If yo...rcise. The researchers concluded that stretching does not, after all, prevent injury or soreness. Further research is needed to determine what would be mo...

Unborn babies respond to light

...is shone on to a pregnant woman's stomach the baby does actually register the light....

Skipped heartbeats should not be ignored

...some advice on arrhythmias. A sustained arrhythmia does not arise in a healthy person - unless they have had an electric shock or use illicit drugs. Heart disease and heart deformities, on the other hand, can lead to sustained arrhythmia, and these can even be fatal. They may lead to shortness of breath, ...

Useful device makes spinal surgery safer

...has been accepted that assures that spinal surgery does not affect movements in the arms and legs.// Operating on tumours and other problems in the spine is risky, because the surgeon might separate some of the nerves that are needed to allow movement in the limbs. Researchers at the State University of N...

Hazards of anger in heart patients

...arts.Most of us get angry for trivial things which does not concern us.But this one moment of anger is sufficient enough to cause life threatning cardiac arrest in patients with heart disease by provoking an abnormal heart rhythm. A device called " ICD-Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator" which is imp...

Magnesium no benefit of survival after heart attack

... giving intravenous magnesium after a heart attack does not improve survival after all. It has been assumed by some doctors that there could be benefit to patients// if they are given magnesium by infusion after a heart attack. The improvement in survival is thought to be especially significant for those ...

Alternative to blood Transfusions

...harm recipients after a blood transfusion. It also does not have to be kept fresh through refrigeration as stored blood does, and it can last up to three years. Most amazing of all, say researchers, is HBOC-201 can be used by all blood types. Dr. Jahr says, "It's not a matter of being more effective than...

Stretching the muscles doesn't make them more resilient

...ting the squash court might be a waste of time. It does little to reduce injuries or muscle soreness, say researchers. Warning up and cooling down by stretching was thought to reduce the risk// of unused muscles going into painful spasm. The spasm theory turned out to be wrong, but the stretching habit st...

Allergies: A major health problem

...eaction to a normally harmless substance, one that does not bother other people. In other words allergies are in sharp contrast with the killer disease AIDS, Allergy symptoms appear on account of too much immunity while in AIDS there will be too little immunity to prevent the disease. The substance that ...

Lifetime risk of heart failure increases

... in five. This suggests that previous heart attack does raise the risk of heart failure. Similar trends were also found for those who have high blood pressure - which roughly doubles the risk of heart failure for both men and women. The study strongly suggests that reducing high blood pressure and heart...

Air pollution combined with greater medical needs

...t care. The researchers caution that their study does not mean that air pollution causes respiratory disease. But it does propose that pollution reduction would have the benefit of reducing healthcare costs....

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer reappearance

...he preliminary results show that radiation therapy does provide an additional benefit: radiation therapy reduced the risk of local recurrence even when administered to patients who underwent total mesorectal excision....

Emphysema surgery - unfavourable

Lung reduction surgery for emphysema does not help the sickest patients, according to the latest report.In emphysema, the air sacs of the lungs - the alveoli - are progressively destroyed,// leaving the patient so short of breath that they cannot do everyday activities like climbing stairs o...

Cure for Bacterial Meningitis

... meningitis. Furthermore, researchers say the drug does not increase the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding....

Specialist surgeon not imperative in melanoma

... it is observed that the background of the surgeon does not affect the outcome in melanoma. Researchers at the University of Glasgow have surveyed 4,139 melanoma patients who had their tumour removed between 1979 and 1999.// They found the outcomes to be similar, whether the operating surgeon had a backgr...

Hormones do not guard against heart failure

... groups. Researchers therefore concluded that HRT does not reduce the overall risk of future cardiac problems in women who have suffered a heart attack....

Geriatric heart patients benefit from extra weight

...specially old patients in the group, increased BMI does not increase the risk of complications from cardiovascular surgery. The study included cardiovascular procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafting, aortic valve repair, and others. While among the general population obesity leads to detriment ...

A new and surprising insight on AIDS

... said that orthodox medicine is not a religion and does not believe but has concluded that there is a link between the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and the onset of AIDS and ultimately, death. He also added that a part of the scientific debate is based on the fact that different researchers could reach d...

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