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Hundreds dying in northeast from AIDS

...gs worth about Rs.1,200-1,600 a month and the cost doubles if someone has to go for second line therapies depending on the nature of their immune system. India accounts for about 5.2 million HIV-positive people, second only to South Africa. The northeast has been declared as one of the country's high-risk ...

Arthritis drugs safer than previously declared

...aims that the use of drug Humira and Remicade only doubles the chances of carcinoma and may work against other auto immune diseases such as skin conditions such as psoriasis, ulcerative colitis. Almost all the researchers, and the U.S. FDA feel in unison that it is the right of every to know about the ri...

Women at Greater Risk of Inheriting Lung Cancer

...Having a close family member who's had lung cancer doubles your own risk for the disease - even if you don't smoke," said one of the researchers. The findings of this study support more than 40 years of previous studies suggesting that lung cancer risk can be inherited. The new study suggests that family...

National Survey Shows Patients are Unaware of Serious Heart Risks of Triglycerides

...es. The risk of developing coronary artery disease doubles when triglyceride levels are above 200 mg/dL. If your triglycerides are above 200 mg/dL and your “good” (HDL) cholesterol is below 40 mg/dL, you are at 4 times the risk. Of particular note is the finding that even those patients most at risk are un...

Sight loss risk doubles in overweight people

... developing Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) doubles when damage is caused to the body due to obesity. In the UK, AMD is the major cause of sight loss.The risk of developing diabetes increases 10 times in obese people.60% of these diabetic cases suffer from sight problems like cataract. John Legg, di...

Celebrex- pros and cons

... possibility of growth of colon polyps to half, it doubles the risk of serious heart troubles.// This was revealed by two significant studies published in the Aug. 31 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The opinions of Bruce M. Psaty, M.D., Ph.D., and John D. Potter, M.B., Ph.D., of the Universit...

Tobacco in all forms harmful for heart

...20 years after quitting. Chewing tobacco more than doubles heart attack risk. One to seven hours of second hand smoke exposure per week increases heart attack risk by 24 percent, said the study. Further, over 21 hours a week of second hand smoke exposure ups heart attack risk by 62 percent. The study conc...

Sleep Apnea Doubles Stroke Risk In Elderly

... researchers have reported that severe sleep apnea doubles the risk of stroke in elderly people, who otherwise have no known risk factors for stroke.// Sleep apnea is a disorder wherein the breathing stops or gets very shallow while sleeping and enough air cannot flow into your lungs through your mouth and...

Age and Socioeconomic Factors Are Strongest Determinants of Sunburn

...d by research proving that as few as five sunburns doubles a person's risk of developing skin// cancer, Ameri...r during their lifetime, and five or more sunburns doubles a person’s risk of developing skin cancer. (Source: Newswis)...

Living alone is a deterrent to good health

... whose study has revealed that living alone almost doubles the risk of heart disease. The living alone and ill health link was discovered after a study of 138,000 adults in the 30-69 age bracket. Their lives were studied in detail along with their health charts, and assessments were made considering other...

Smoking Increases Osteoporosis Risk

...ers--typically, a 10% loss of bone mineral density doubles the risk of fracture. Their results explain why previous findings have been equivocal. In this case the researchers used a sophisticated computer assisted X-ray machine (CAT scanner) to get three-dimensional images of bone. These 3D images showed ...

High Doses Of Common Pain killers Can Double The Chances Of Heart attack

...buprofen, which is available without prescription, doubles the risk of a heart attack if taken in high doses for a long time//. But the British Medical Journal study also explains that there was no danger for occasional users, and its risks were moderate when compared to the benefits for patients who depend ...

Diabetes Fast Turning Into A Epidemic In Australia

...eople a day, are developing diabetes. This in turn doubles their chances of dying during the next five years. The Federal Health Minister, Tony Abbott, who is set to release the study findings today, feels that the disease affects nearly 100,000 people every year and could cost the country billions of dolla...

Where Mother's Skin Turns Into Food For Offspring

...to mother's milk in mammals. The female's skin doubles in thickness during this period, the researchers found. You've got several layers of skin, and the outer layer is what they eat,...

Exercise keeps ‘Alzheimer’s Awa’

...the Cajal Institute in Madrid, found that exercise doubles the presence of the protein megalin which not only ejects a potentially destructive protein called amyloid-beta, from the brain, but also binds to insulin-like growth factor, a beneficial molecule, and transports it to the brain. While the amyloid-...

More Lizards, Including Pets, Found Venomous

...ller than those of snakes. The study effectively doubles the number of potentially venomous reptile species to 4,600 from 2,300. Snake toxins are widely used in medicines to treat epilepsy, haemophilia, high blood pressure and thrombosis. It is speculated that the lizard venom may prove even more useful. F...

Tamiflu Shortage Can Be Better Handled By Combining It With Probenecid

...hen he noticed that giving Tamiflu with probenecid doubles the number of hours its active ingredient is in the blood. Probenecid is used for the treatment of Gout and works by preventing the drugs from being removed from the body by the process of excretion. In other words it increases the bioavailability o...

Frequent use of antibiotics raises the risk of carrying resistant infections

...r use of antibiotics in the past two months almost doubles the effect of being resistant on the bacteria. The study was aimed to understand if the GPs prescribing antibiotics can lead to the patients developing resistant bacteria, or not. Reference: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy...

Catching Alzheimer’s Disease Earl

...year 2050. After age 60, the incidence of dementia doubles every five years. Therefore, detecting and treating memory loss early could delay or avoid the onset of Alzheimer’s. The researchers say dementia is the fourth-leading cause of death. According to the study, the P300 latency test should be used as a...

Women on HRT should avoid alcohol

...eloping breast cancer - estimated to be about 4% - doubles to about 8% with the concurrent use of HRT and more than one alcoholic beverage per day, also acknowledged that light to moderate alcohol intake appears to reduce the risk of heart disease. Now, women and their doctors are the ones to decide if a dai...

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