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Cure for common cold

...half or more of the billion colds caught in the US each year. The drug lodges into a pocket in the virus’ coat, interfering with the germ’s ability to infect cells and make copies of itself. Other cold remedies merely suppress symptoms, like drying runny noses or coughs. In clinical trials, Picovir shorte...

A sexy cure for cold

...letely. Those who had one or two sexual encounters each week had a 30% rise in levels....

Exercise is necessary in daily life

...ack to the old ways - even just for a little while each day. Walk, don't take the elevator, and push a lawn mower, rather than riding it. There are many more opportunities to get more active by 'turning back the clock'. Just one or two hundred calories extra exercise a day can make a real difference to ...

Obese women likey for Cesarean

...eagues studied more than 3000 women and calculated each woman's body mass index (BMI), a measurement of body fat calculated using a formula that is based on height and weight, and related it to her chances of having a Cesarean section. Women requiring the surgery were an average weight of 191 pounds and ...

How brain works

...rotransmitter filled membrane balloons released by each neuron.So the strength of memory depends on how well the UNC-13 protein helps to gather up the neurotransmitter filled balloons and release them from one cell to another, he stated. Jorgensen said the research was aimed at understanding how the b...

Pulses and grains protect the heart

...valent of two to three slices of whole-grain bread each day were 30% to 40% less likely to have an ischemi...n who ate the equivalent of less than half a slice each day.Out of a group of 34,000 adults, those who ate the most whole grains had a 23% lower risk of dyi...

Breast cancer risk doubles by high sex hormone levels

...n these women were not a preclinical finding. In each of the nine cohorts included in the analysis, women who donated blood were followed for an average of 2 to 10years. During that time 763 women developed breast cancer. Hormones in their blood were compared with the hormones of 1,567 women who were th...

Right side of the brain helps in awareness

...n and colleagues worked with five patients who had each half of their brain anaesthetised briefly as part of preoperative testing for brain surgery to treat epilepsy. Each patient was shown and asked to remember a morphed computer image blending the patient's own face with the face of a famous person. Af...

Plavix Gets FDA Okay for New Indication

...llion Americans experience acute coronary syndrome each year.// Plavix was first approved in 1997 for patients with a recent heart attack, stroke or peripheral artery disease. It is marketed worldwide by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Synthelabo. Plavix reduces the "stickiness" of platelets, a type of ...

Blood transfusion linked to lung ailment

...nd about 4.5 million patients receive transfusions each year. Testing for the antibodies in donated blood is difficult and not part of routine screening of the nation's blood supply. The condition - transfusion-related acute lung injury, or TRALI - is believed to be caused in most cases by an immune-syst...

The hazards of using disinfectant hand gel

...ing doctors and nurses to wash their hands between each patient is thought to be a major advance in reducing hospital infections.// Soap and water is used in US, while in Europe, an alcohol-based rub is more common. Both have drawbacks soap and water is time consuming, the rubs are drying to the skin. T...

A hormone may decrease Menopause Symptoms

...on, either active or placebo, was applied daily to each woman's thigh and calf. Side effects of Estrasorb were similar to placebo and consistent with estrogens as a class, with the most common being endometrial disorder, breast pain, vaginal hemorrhage and infection, the Columbia, Maryland-based company...

Drug Firm Offers to Donate Smallpox Vaccine

...gather enough doses of smallpox vaccine to protect each person in the USA if needed. The highly contagious and often fatal illness was wiped from the planet more than 2 decades ago, but experts fear it could resurface in a biowarfare attack. The U.S. Health and Human Service Secretary Tommy Thompson said...

Computer Program can assist to detect Heart Attack

...e mistakenly discharged from emergency departments each year. Several studies have shown that the network can detect heart attack in patients with chest pain, but Baxt and his colleagues set out to see how well the technology worked when some of the information it uses to make a diagnosis was missing. T...

Healthy snacks improve nutrition of kids

...d calcium to meet the total daily requirements for each of those nutrients. Prior to the study, the children had not been getting adequate amounts of either of those nutrients in their diets. Sullivan's team obtained their findings from a study of 50 Nebraska sixth graders. The researchers provided the s...

Detecting Colorectal Cancer

...es. Colorectal cancer causes about 300,000 deaths each year worldwide. The protein, mini chromosome maintenance protein 2 (MCM2), was found in 35 of 40 patients known to have colorectal cancer during a recent study. There was no protein found in the samples from 20 healthy individuals. Lead study author...

Birth weight may be influenced by genes

...jelly-like substance that surrounds the nucleus in each cell--was responsible for about 11% of the variability in birth weight among the study animals. According to a report, this is the first time that researchers have been able to demonstrate a link between cytoplasmic DNA and birth weight. The results ...

Defebrillators in use

...uarter of a million people die from cardiac arrest each year in the United States. Many lives could be saved if prompt action is taken to restart the heart,// using an automated electrical defibrillator (AED), a device which delivers an electric shock to the heart muscle. There are moves to put more AED's...

Increase in renal problems

...al failure leading to about 7,000 deaths in the UK each year....

Role of Diet in Oral Cancer

...g to a new research there has been a finding that, each year there are about 10,000 new cases of mouth can...her factors. They assessed dietary information for each of the study participants using an extensive food frequency questionnaire. Participants indicated th...

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