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Cut your puff's

... the development of a heart attack.This is because each cigarette appears to have a startling - and almost immediate impact on the cardiovascular system.// In a study of heart attack patients, the researchers found that those who smoked a cigarette within six hours of developing symptoms had bigger blood...

Leukemia pill shows promise against stomach cancer

...ST, which affect as many as 5,000 people in the US each year. Studies have shown it to be as effective in treating chronic cases of GIST as it has been in treating chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Researchers reported 59 percent of patients with advanced-stage GIST went into remission and up to 75 pe...

Sun Pharma to launch chiral version of omeprazole soon

... other derivatives of the omeprazole molecule, one each in pantomeprazole and lansomepazole....

Vaccination to prevent strokes

... to a clinic for treatment following a stroke. For each stroke victim, two matched individuals with no history of stroke were enquired. The researchers found that those vaccinated over the past five years had a significantly reduced stroke risk. Dr.Eoin.Bredman said "There is a theory that infections c...

An aide to cold

... Allimax, an allicin-containing garlic supplement, each day, while rest of the volunteers were given a placebo. Over a 90-day period during the winter when most colds occur, just 32 colds were recorded among those taking the supplement, compared to 75 amongst those taking the placebo. The study also pr...

Kidney cancer on the rise

...ople a year. Research in UK says that 5,700 people each year are affected by kidney cancer and survival ra... accounts for an estimated 95,000 worldwide deaths each year, 3,000 of which are in the UK. According to Dr Nick James, a consultant at the Queen Elizabeth...

Staying mentally energitic prevents Alzheimer's

... cards and checkers. They were assigned points for each activity and its frequency. Over the next few years, on average, 100 people went on to develop Alzheimer's disease. Those with higher points on the mental activity scale seemed to have a lower risk of dementia. It's an encouraging result, for every...

Smoking during pregnancy increases risk of cleft palate

...he number of cigarettes that a mother-to-be smokes each day, even after factors like the mother's race, age and educational level are considered. The finding, based on the largest-ever examination of cleft lip and palate incidence nationwide, suggests that the deformity should be added to the list of pote...

Gleevec gets hopeful results

... cancer that affects about 4,500 people in the USA each year. A study supports Gleevec's image as a potential cure for this kind of cancer, which, although cases are rare, can be deadly. // A new study adds to the evidence suggesting that a heavily publicized drug treatment for a type of leukemia may all...

Heavy Drinking Raises Risk of Liver Cancer

...lian researchers, drinking high volumes of alcohol each day is associated with a greater risk of developing liver cancer. According to Dr.Francesco Donato,a professor of epidemiology and public health, at the University of Texas, the quantity of alcohol consumed is the most important determinant of the r...

Prototype Detector detects Anthrax Quickly

... computer program correlates the amount of mass of each ester emitted in the analyzed gases at particular times - a process called elution - with already categorized elution peaks indicative of anthrax or other diseases. ...

Blood test diagnoses heart failure in short time

...ens of millions of people go to the emergency room each year because of trouble breathing. Heart failure is one of the worst and most common causes but far from the only one. Until recently, there was no simple test for heart failure, and doctors often confuse it with other diseases. This study shows tha...

Cholesterol Drug Helps After Angioplasty

...s by up to 20 percent for about 1 million American each year. "This reduction in major heart events -- suc... Americans under angioplasty or similar procedures each year," Serruys said. "Although angioplasties are highly effective in the short-term, 2 out of every ...

Researchers trick Alzheimer's Enzyme

...e target enzyme -- acetylcholinesterase -- next to each other, not when they happen to bump into each other in solution.In other words, the disease-causing enzyme welds the bars of its own prison....

Heart Drug has grave side effects

...at sends about 1 million Americans to the hospital each year. Despite the poor results, it shows that such studies can and should be done on similar drugs. An accompanying editorial says the use of other drugs commonly used in worsening heart failure, dopamine and dobutamine, should be reconsidered given...

Effective And Economical Agent For Anthrax

... widespread agricultural use. Eighty paper strips, each containing as many as 100 million spores of the anthrax-like surrogate, were placed in walls, under carpets, inside computers and file cabinets, and in other hidden places that might harbor spores in an actual anthrax contamination. The tests killed ...

Chromosomes to predict oral cancer

...nly by 23, the number of chromosomes received from each parent. According to study results, of the 27 patients with these aneuploid lesions, 21 developed cancer....

Campaign aims to simplify OTC drug labels

...cans buy about five billion over-the-counter drugs each year to treat routine health problems. The number has increased as more and more drugs have made the switch from prescription to over-the-counter status. But many Americans, particularly senior citizens, misuse over-the-counter drugs because the lett...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...ion to her facial bones that her parents tightened each day with a screwdriver, slowly pulling out the sunken bones so they could grow into the right position. Two months later, Alyssa had a normal face. According to Polley, they are letting the body do its own bone-grafting, who pioneered the technique ...

Meningitis C vaccine a cost-effective success

...ely 1,190 children resulting in at least 88 deaths each year. The researchers say the annual cost to the health service of treating these cases was around ￡4.88 million. The team calculated that the campaign would prevent 9,980 cases of meningitis C and 666 deaths over the cohort’s lifetime, resulting in ...

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