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Snoring could be a warning

...omen with the highest degree of airway obstruction during sleep also had the highest blood pressures. The Australian researchers found that they could prevent both the snoring and the high blood pressure by giving women breathing masks attached to a machine that kept their airways open while they were asl...

Cement injections linked to osteoporosis

...into the affected area - a procedure formerly done during surgery. Two weeks later//, many patients reported substantial improvements - less pain, better sleep and more mobility. A few patients did experience relapses of pain, while three developed a pulmonary embolism - a blockage in the lung area - cause...

Deep Sleep Doesn't Increase Memory

... increase memory. // REM sleep is a deep sleep during which an individual's eyes dart rapidly under closed eyelids and the body is almost completely paralyzed except for the heart, diaphragm, eye muscles and internal organs. Humans on average get about two hours of REM sleep per eight hours of sleep, u...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

... measurement, represents the pressure in the heart during contraction. The second number, the diastolic value, represents the pressure when the heart is at rest between beats. // In the study, the team of researchers monitored blood pressure levels of 6,859 men and women. They then compared heart disease ...

FDA approves new device to treat women's bleeding disorder

...crape off part of the endometrium, much as they do during abortion, or can use one of a handful of outpatient FDA-approved devices that destroy the endometrium by freezing or heating it. The Food and Drug Administration approved Novacept Inc.'s NovaSure system as an outpatient electronic treatment for wom...

Smoking Delays Pregnancy

...best means of harm reduction. The risks of smoking during pregnancy are well documented, including higher infant mortality, the increased risk of the baby developing serious respiratory infection, and lower birth weights. Many women may not know that quitting improves their chances of becoming pregnant and ...

Infertility in relation with virus

...appears to take place when a child is in the womb, during childhood, or young adulthood.// In the German experiments, 67 men with semen abnormalities were tested for traces of AAV. These were found in 28 of them - compared to only one out of 22 in the group of men with normal semen. The researchers also a...

Dampness related to asthma

... studied said they had suffered four or more colds during the last year and 16% said they had a constant runny nose. The study also found that just under 43% of the students who lived in damp homes had suffered pneumonia, bronchitis, sinusitis or tonsillitis over the last year. Report author Maritta Kilpe...

More about HIV

...ious. The virus is very active in the lymph tissue during this stage.Stage III: Symptomatic HIV Infection. D...tin and Growth Hormone, both of which are released during stress reactions, can promote retroviral production because of their effect on virus-producing cells...

An effective way to treat angina

... experience episodes of chest pain on exertion or during stress because the blood supply to their heart can...ood vessel growth factors have their levels raised during EECP. Eleven individuals with angina, average age 60, took part and reported reduced chest pain alon...

Photographs as a parameter

...wo and a half times more likely to suffer a stroke during the study. This finding held true even when the team controlled for risk factors that might affect both the eyes and risk of stroke, like diabetes, age, smoking and high blood pressure. Ann Elsner from eye institute Boston says the study shows the v...

Breast cancer evidence

...t in America found that women who regularly worked during the nights for up to three years were 45% more likely to develop breast cancer than those who did not work at night. And the risk increased to 65% for those who regularly worked nightshifts for more than three years. The results of the study, carri...

Deprived sleep leads to ageing

...f the study. The investigators took measurements during the day of glucose tolerance, cortisol concentrations (a hormone that helps to regulate blood sugar concentrations), heart rate, sleepiness, and the impact on the production of various hormones. Following the period of sleep deprivation, the research...

First Artificial Heart patient has Major setback

...estinal bleeding again last week. Similar bleeding during the first two months after the heart implant kept ...ly were able to give Tools anti-coagulant medicine during the last month, and that could have had the unintended effect of freeing the already-formed clot, pr...

Morning sickness maybe pronounced

...ale child. Though there were more births of boys during the period studied, there was a higher chance of m...peremesis gravidarum - serious nausea and vomiting during the first three months of pregnancy.// The female to male ratio of hospital admissions was 56:44, ...

FDA approves surgical gel

...rgel is the first liquid one. It is only for use during open gynecologic operations -- not the increasingly common "keyhole" surgeries where doctors operate through a small incision, the FDA warned. Nor is it for women with abdominal or pelvic infection, or who have cancer or are pregnant. The manufacture...

'Disprin Plus' is now 'Disprin Paracetamol'

...t Rs 1 crore, will suffer loss of sale for a month during the transition period to the tune of Rs 1.5 - 2 crore. Disprin 'Paracetamol' will be in the market by mid-December , he said. The company has also decided not to give any brand push to Disprin Cold and Flu for similar reasons, Mr. Baura said. Parac...

Erythromycin and infants’ intestinal disorde

...udied babies. They found that if given erthromycin during the first two weeks of life, babies were 10.5 times more likely to develop pyloric stenosis than babies who were not given the antibiotic. The newborns were given erthromycin by mouth in a 10-to-14 day course, usually because of maternal chlamydia a...

How do patients benefit of clinical trials

...g only English at home, and having a nurse present during the consent discussion. It was also useful to have received the National Cancer Institute simplified consent form. Some doctors were also unaware that it is future patients who benefit more from a clinical trial. This misunderstanding could be comm...

Hormones Linked To Migraines

...graines. Levels of prolactin, a hormone that rises during pregnancy to stimulate milk production, were lower among those with migraines, the report indicates. Peak levels of prolactin were low in 53% of patients compared with 22% of those without headaches. This hormone is partially regulated by a brain che...

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