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Increased Warning over heart drugs

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of statin prescriptions in recent years, as is to be publicized at the conference organised by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh//. According to Dr Paul Padfield it was easier to offer a prescription than to persu...

Kids' Food: Saltier than the Deep Blue Sea

...ldren’s consumption of salt by half brings about a dramatic reduction in their blood pressure which would help to protect them from the risk of heart disease and stroke later in life. The report states that popular children’s food like Sainsbury's Salt and Vinegar Potato Twirls contain more than twice as muc...

Medical School Blog Gives Students “Dose of Reality

...lephone, but the shows do capture some of the more dramatic moments, the ones that make you happy to be involved in medicie.” Source-Newswise SRM...

Eradication of Lung Cancer in 20 years

..." He said that lung cancer cases would soon see a dramatic reduction to just a few hundred a year rather than 4,500 currently. Launching his annual report into the state of the nation's health Dr Burns said, "Imagining Scotland with no lung cancer is not trivial speculation. In the 1960s, one in 100 men di...

Deep-Brain Stimulation for Dystonia patients

...'A 51 percent reduction in the movement score is a dramatic result when it comes to treatment of dystonia. To have such a degree of improvement is exceptional to other therapeutics.' GYT...

Holiday Gluttony Can Spell Disaster for Undiagnosed Diabetics

...test. Symptoms include excessive thirst or hunger, dramatic weight loss, fatigue, frequent urination or blurry vision. The holidays also are a perfect time to start getting healthy, she said, offering these tips: Set consistent meal times. Avoid fast food. At parties, cut food portions in half or d...

Innovative Movies Show Real-Time Immune-Cell Activity within Tumors

... once the tumor cells had been destroyed, we saw a dramatic change in the behavior of the activated T cells. They began to migrate actively, searching for any other tumor cells that might remain in the area.” In contrast, in the mice that did not receive the vaccination, the T cells were much sparser and, i...

Longer Anthracycline Therapy Reduces Heart Failure in Adult Cancer Patients

...chemotherapy. “It’s alarming that we’ve found such dramatic heart damage and blood vessel risk in some survivors who are just 10 or 15 years from treatment,” he said. Souce-Newswise...

Millions with Arthritis May Benefit from Bone Loss Drug

... Bingham emphasizes that X-rays failed to show any dramatic visible changes in the structure of the joints with risedronate compared to a placebo: however, the numbers of patients exhibiting significant progression of the disease were few in all treatment groups. A great challenge now is identifying the risk ...

New Hope For Dystonia Treatment Through Deep Brain Stimulation

...m early studies that a certain type dystonia has a dramatic response to surgery. What was not clear, prior to this study, was whether patients with other types of dystonia would also respond in a similar fashion,' says Dr. Kathryn Holloway, head researcher. 'This study shows that many forms of dystonia did re...

Sleep well for a trimmer body

...eflects a basic life change that can have a fairly dramatic impact, reported the Health on the net foundation. Whatever the reasons, sleeping seven hours or more each night could help prevent women from gaining that extra pound, say authors of the study. The researchers based their findings on data from t...

Flu Vaccine Shortage In Britain Causes Anxiety

...ical magazine Pulse and published today, reveals a dramatic drop in the number of vaccinations. Some primary care trusts were found not to have reported any data on immunisation rates for October because numbers were so low. Elderly people over 65 and people with heart disease and diabetes are considered to...

An Eye on Increase in Testicular Cancer

Pinpointing reasons behind the dramatic increase in testicular cancer, now the most common malignant cancer among 15-to-35-year-old Caucasian men, is the focus of a// five-year, $5.5 million National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant to Yale Public Health researcher Tongzhang Zheng. Testicu...

Review Urges Restricted Use Of Devices To Keep Heart Patients Alive

...o undergo heart transplant surgery. "It's a very dramatic change. That's why these people do as well as anybody on the transplant list. They are so stable, they are exercising daily," Miller said. Source-Eurekalert SRI...

WHO Alerts Governments to Step Up Action to Curb AIDS

...e last six years whereas Papua New Guinea has seen dramatic increase since 2003. Vietnam has over 2,60,000 people infected with the virus. In Asia, over 44% of the patients have contracted HIV whilst injecting drugs. Unprotected paid sex and unprotected sex between men are also seen as potential causes for th...

Link Between Huntington’s and Abnormal Cholesterol Levels in Brain Establishe

...’s protein interacts with another protein to cause dramatic accumulation of cholesterol in the brain. “Cholesterol is essential for promoting the connection network among brain cells and in maintaining their membrane integrity. Both the level of cholesterol and its delivery to the proper locations in the c...

Large Variations in Cost Has No Effect on Length of Stay or Mortality

...es and specialized clinical care all contribute to dramatic health care expenditures. Reducing the costs of healthcare in general and intensive care in particular, is a priority for physicians, hospital administrators and policy makers.” “Perhaps the greatest lesson of the Garland study is that cost control...

Juvenile Diabetes may Be Caused by Mad Cow Protein

...s of glucose in the blood of the rats, there was a dramatic change in the pattern of the proteins. Machinery of the cell is composed of different proteins internally. Though it effects the regulation of blood glucose, the function of prion protein is not completely understood. A Cell biologist, Scott expl...

Revolutionary Pill Promises Relief for Hay Fever Sufferers

...hundreds of miserable hay fever suffers have given dramatic results, bettering even usual treatments of anti-histamines and steroid nasal sprays. As says Professor Stephen Durham, of Imperial College London, who is investigating the long-term benefits of the drug, “One in four people suffers from hay fever...

Survival of Mice With Human Breast Cancer Extended by Monoclonal Antibodies

...ic tumor burden significantly, reflected by both a dramatic decline in the overall incidence of spontaneous metastasis to the lung -- 88 percent to 47 percent -- and fewer macroscopic metastatic lesions." The research group currently is determining if JAA-F11 could increase the effectiveness of existing can...

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