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Vitamin C maintains healthy lungs

...ervings of fruit and 3 to 5 servings of vegetables each day. The study did not show any effect of magnesium, vitamin E or vitamin A on the decline of lung function over time. An important area of future research, the authors point out, will be to see how soon in life the benefits of vitamin C and other n...

What makes young girls smoke

...mined the impact of risk factors independently for each group. Participants were divided into five categories depending on the number of days each smoked over a 30-day period. Researchers used annual, in-depth interviews to determine factors earl...

Functional foods reduce cholesterol

... LDL cholesterol levels. One group ate ground beef each day that contained phytosterols while a second group ate non-supplemented ground beef. Researchers recorded their cholesterol levels at the beginning and at the end of the four-week period. The study finds phytosterol-supplemented ground beef lowers...

Breastfeeding may decrease Breast Cancer Risk

... do point out "...Even if women were to breastfeed each of their children for an additional six months, th...is could prevent about 5 percent of breast cancers each year."...

Suicide risk high in 12-17 Age Group

...for teenagers 14-15 and 16-17 was 13.7 percent for each age group. The study also found that youngsters who had used alcohol or illicit drugs during the year were much more likely to have had suicidal thoughts....

Nurses save more lives

...id hundreds of patients - possibly thousands - die each year from lack of advanced nursing care. The average vacancy rate for RN jobs is 13 percent, according to a report commissioned by the American Hospital Association. And many expect the shortage to grow with the aging of the nursing work force and t...

Risk Factors for vision problems in Diabetes

...m, newly diagnosed diabetes, or known diabetes. In each of the participants, researchers also measured factors such as blood pressure levels, body mass index, cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Results show the prevalence of retinopathy was 9 percent in participants with normal glucose metabolism, 11 p...

Study on obesity and heart failure

... heart failure for men and 7 percent for women for each 1-point increase in body mass index. (Body mass index is the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters.) When compared to participants with a normal body mass index, obese individuals had a doubling effect of the risk of hea...

Demand for universal flu vaccination

Numerous lives could be saved each year, if only everyone over the age of 60 had a flu jab. According to vaccine experts, Dr. Gregory Poland fe that universal vaccination in three regions// over two flu seasons reduced mortality from the disease by 40 to 50 per cent. Clearly vaccinati...

Drinking adequate amounts of water

...hat you should consume one millilitre of water for each calorie of food you take in. That leads to a figure of about two and a half quarts a day (64 to 80 ounces which is roughly 8 by 8, as stated above). Dr Heinz Valtin of Dartmouth Medical School, feels that lot of this water in food, points out think a...

Watch your weight when pregnant

...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 ...

Animal Fat increases risk Of stomach cancer

.... Total fat intake and intake of saturated fat each doubled the risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma, the investigators found. Saturated fat also raised the risk of gastric cardia, which affects the upper part of the stomach, and another type of cancer of the esophagus--esophageal squamous cell carcinoma...

Gel assists head and neck cancer

...mous cell carcinoma affects about 20,000 Americans each year.// Given intravenously, the drug cisplatin has been shown to be an effective therapy for head and neck cancers, but because it affects the entire body when given through an IV, it can lead to serious side effects. Researchers studied 120 patient...

No connection between epidurals and backache

...ut 120,000 women in England use epidural analgesia each year. During the procedure, a needle injects a pain reliever into a space next to the spinal cord in the lower back....

Carbon monoxide passes down

...lved in a number of accidental deaths and suicides each year. //The main sources of carbon monoxide are vehicle emissions and malfunctioning domestic heating equipment. In 1980, the Clean Air Act was passed in the US to reduce carbon monoxide. The use of catalytic converters in cars helps bring down the c...

Leeches help in tissue transfer

...vageable." An average of 200 leeches were used on each patient over an average of 6.6 days. Most patients...e care unit for less than 15 days. Researchers say each leech sucked out between 5ml and 15ml of blood from the tissue. The bite marks then continued to ble...

Almonds Improve Cholesterol

... the study who had high cholesterol. Participants each went on three different diets. For one month, participants ate a full dose of almonds, which represented just under one quarter of their total daily caloric intake or two handfuls. For the next month, participants included half the amount, or one han...

Function of genes in heart failure

...how efficiently the heart refills with blood after each heartbeat. They found family relationships explained as much as half of the variability in diastolic function. Dalane W. Kitzman, M.D., from Wake Forest, says, that our research suggest that when one is born, their diastolic function may already be ...

Errors in medication

...ted and non accredited facilities in Georgia . In each of the facilities, medication delivery and administration was assessed during a one- to four-day period on high volume nursing units. The investigators found nearly 25 percent of the doses were in error. The most common errors were: wrong time of del...

Benign eye tumors being treated

...vision loss or a detached retina. In these cases, each of the patients was suffering from a tumor in one eye, and all suffered loss of vision and a detached retina. In the first case, a 60 year old man attempted reatment after experiencing decreased visual acuity in his right eye for two weeks. In the se...

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