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New viewpoint on Hypertension

...rrelated this information with which patients died during the following year. High pulse pressure - rather than high blood pressure itself - turned out to be a risk factor for increased mortality in this group of patients. This finding could affect the way doctors manage high blood pressure focussing not ...

Blood test can predict pre-eclampsia

...udy of more than 5,000 women who had various tests during pregnancy. They found 56 who had pre-eclampsia, and compared their tests to 90 women who did not. The pre-eclampsia patients had unusually low levels of a protein called SHBG or sex hormone binding globulin in early pregnancy. The protei...

Anxiety likely to affect the foetus

Research suggests that anxiety during pregnancy can increase a mother's risk of having a hyperactive child. A study indicated that women who were very anxious// in the last three months of pregnancy had children with more behavioural problems. Lead researcher Professor Vivette Glover, ...

Vitamins enhances recuperation of organ transplant patients

...tion was emanted among patients given the vitamins during a year-long study. Dr James Fang, who led the research, called for further tests to see if the benefits were permanent and if lung, kidney and liver transplant patients could also be helped. Arterosclerosis causes arteries to harden because of a bu...

Interference helps Heart Patients

...was about $1,000 less than for usual-care patients during the study. According to researcher Barbara Riegel of San Diego State University, this savings is more than double the estimated $440 cost per patient for the six-month case-management intervention, and the co-authors said. Riegel said differences in...

Drug to treat lung cancer shows promise

...wths in the lungs of longtime smokers by about 30% during 7 months of use. The drug, made by the French company Solvay Pharma, is not available in the US. It is sold in Canada, Europe, China and other countries as Sialor or Sulfarlem and has been on the market for 30 years. The drug appears to work by incr...

Pharmaceutical companies are targeting patients

...nd medical journal ads - decreased from 91% to 84% during the same period. They analyzed data on media advertising and sales of individual drugs, examining trends since 1996, the year before the Food and Drug Administration issued rules for television ads on prescription drugs. Critics argue that drug ads ...

Panel suggests selling allergy drugs OTC

..., because doing so at that time extends the period during which makers of generic drugs are prohibited from selling lower-priced versions of the drug. Claritin's patent is due to expire in 2002, but the company is waging a multi-million-dollar campaign to get it extended. Aventis Pharmaceuticals, which ma...

Acute Measles Supresses HIV Replication

...immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is briefly suppressed during acute measles. A study of HIV-infected children found that HIV levels in the blood// were significantly lower while having measles compared to HIV-infected children who did not have measles. "We were surprised by these findings, because we expected...

Hepatitis E virus made impotent

...an antigen-antibody reaction, that can be detected during tests.They also added that the formation on the viral genome could also be used to create drugs for the disease....

FDA Approves New surgery Treatment for Farsightedness

...evation of pressure within the eye that is induced during LASIK. The procedure is normally conducted with topical anesthesia. Afterwards, patients normally experience some eye irritation, which resolves within 24 to 48 hours. Most of the patients have been followed for 2 years, and they have expressed ove...

Pregnancy weight linked to breast cancer

...tudy found that women who gained 40 pounds or more during pregnancy raise their post-menopausal risk of deve... of the hormone estrogen, which are already raised during pregnancy, are amplified in fat tissue....

Sleepwalking has genetic roots

...ir muscles are not paralysed (as they usually are) during dreaming. It may be that treating some of the accompanying disorders, such as REM disorder or sleep apnoea, may help alleviate adult sleepwalking....

Tamoxifen does not adversely affect the brain

...-inositol, which has been found at elevated levels during brain injury, in the brains of 80 women. Sixteen of the women were breast cancer patients who had received tamoxifen therapy for at least two years beforehand, 27 were healthy women who had received preventative oestrogen-based hormone replacement th...

A hormone may decrease Menopause Symptoms

...ion reduced by 80% the total number of hot flashes during the course of the 16-week trial. The study also found that about half the patients reported no hot flashes over a seven-day period after 12 weeks of treatment, compared with less than 10% of patients in the placebo group. The trial results were pre...

Chemotherapy Pill Has Fewer Side Effects Than IV

...s common in patients taking the pill, particularly during the first few months of treatment. Patients in the capecitabine group were also less likely to be hospitalized due to side effects....

How to determine allergies?

... are always due to allergy. If you start to sneeze during the spring months, you may well assume it's a pollen allergy starting up.If all the allergy tests shows negative, the only solution or diagnosis might be pollen allergy.// Doctors at the Mayo Clinic remind us there's such a condition as non-allergic...

Liver key to extending life

...research, the liver was not thought to change much during ageing, except for shrinking in size," he said. However Professor Le Couteur and colleague Allan McLean of the National Ageing Research Institute in Melbourne have discovered that as the liver ages, its blood vessels also change. The blood vessels i...

Light therapy decreases depression during pregnancy

...might also work on women suffering from depression during pregnancy. The author noted that around 10% of pregnant women meet the criteria for major depression. However, doctors are often reluctant to prescribe antidepressant medications to pregnant women for fear of their effect on the fetus. Previous res...

Elevated Ozone Levels Hurt Sperm Count

...ples donated by 30 men from Northern California during the same time period. The donors' average age was about 20, and most were college students. The researchers also analyzed data on air quality in both regions. The greater the increase in ground level ozone--popularly known as smog--the greater the d...

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