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Sensitive cough suffered by females

...ers, and citric acid. The women needed far less of each 'cough challenge' - as the substances were called - to induce coughing. The difference between the genders was independent of cigarette smoking and the kind of cough being treated at the clinic. The study suggests that women have a more sensitive cou...

National Lung Study in the process

... has remained unchanged. Nearly 120,000 people die each year from lung cancer. This is more than breast, prostate, colon and pancreas cancer combined. Researchers hope this study will prove effective in saving more lives. Study participants will be randomly assigned to have either a chest X-ray or a spir...

Vegetable and fruit intake depends on shopping

...d five portions of fresh fruit and vegetables. For each additional supermarket, black participants increased their consumption by 30 per cent. For white participants, the figure was 10 per cent. It looks as if the convenience of supermarkets has a bigger impact on black Americans' diet than on whites. I...

Specialist care convalesces intensive care survival

... per cent. It means that the potential lives saved each year by employing such experts could be 162,000. Patients in hospitals where there are intensivists have both reduced ICU and hospital deaths and a reduced length of stay in the ICU. But at present, only one hospital in ten employs these critical car...

Gastrointestinal conditions affect sleep

...mination and providing a detailed medical history, each study participant spent a night in a sleep lab. Researcher Geoffrey S. Raymer, M.D., says they found a significant relationship between GERD and excessive daytime sleepiness and insomnia. He added, "We also found a connection between peptic ulcer di...

Keep fit with salads

...dd flavour, texture and visual pleasure to a salad each of which can be changed simply by varying the kinds of herbs used. Fresh herbs (rather than dried ones) are preferable, since their flavours are milder. Some of the herbs used in salads are coriander leaves (dhania patta), tulsi leaves (basil), curry...

Sun burns treated with creams

... their faces once a day. Researchers then assessed each for various measures related to skin health. About 25 subjects in the tazarotene group dropped out due to skin irritation, compared to one in the placebo group. Blood levels of the medication, however, remained in the acceptable range. After the ini...

Renal problem increased

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

Spurt in hospital admissions following football shoot-outs

...h a penalty shoot out - a tense situation where in each team takes a shot at the goal and the one who misses first loses the game. England lost the game - and the researchers recorded a 27 per cent rise in heart attack admissions on that day and the following three days. Examinations of the admisssions ar...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

...rent change, or mutation, in the gene was found in each of the 17 families,all changes altered the instructions to make the connexin 43 protein. However, the exact effect of the changes on the protein are yet to be studied. Scientists suggest that problems with connexin genes (and the proteins made from ...

Energy intake directly related to portion size

...e subjects on hunger and satisfaction levels after each meal found that portion size influences the development of hunger and being satisfied. The researchers added that when offered bigger portions, subjects ate a larger amount before they reached satisfaction. The study thus concluded that the energy i...

Effect of alcohol drinking on breast cancer

... women's risk for breast cancer went up by 7% with each drink, no matter what the baseline risk (such as age, family history, HRT) was. The researchers however concluded that alcohol drinking, in moderation, had beneficial effects on the heart....

Do you heed to healthy eating advice?

...5 and 64 ate five portions of fruit and vegetables each day, only one in five of those aged between 16 and 24 and just one in eight children between the age of five and 15. One of the most disturbing findings of the study was that despite the fact that three out of four women and almost half of men said ...

Caffeine is not the only culprit in coffee!

... who were heavy coffee drinkers (at least six cups each day) with no history of heart or gastrointestinal ...unteers were given about 4 cups of filtered coffee each day; an equivalent amount of caffeine (870 milligrams) in capsules or a sugar pill in a cycle of thr...

Thalidomide may stage a comeback

...row, which affects about 20,000 patients in Europe each year. Earlier, Dr. Claus Newman, a specialist in birth defects stated that thalidomide is a unique drug with powerful effects potentially for harm and good and its wider licensing will require extraordinary measures....

Research on Celiac Disease in children

...er month. They were given 1 gram (gm) of oats for each kilogram (kg) of body weight per day, up to a maximum of 50 gm/day. The clinic followed up by telephone at 1, 3, 6, and 9 months and with blood testing and biopsy at one year. None of the children displayed any symptoms during the year. After one ...

Immune function could benefit from exercise

.... Each exercise was done for a total of 60 minutes each week. The levels of secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA), a biological marker of immune function found in saliva, which is often used by researchers to determine the role of stress on immune function, was tested before training and at 4 and 12 months af...

Novel Anti-Neutrophilic Effect produced by Salmeterol in mild asthma patients

...f myeloperoxidase and soluble E-selectin in serum, each of which reflect neutrophil involvement, was found to be significantly reduced in subjects who were given salmeterol compared to those who were given the placebo. Salmeterol, compared with fluticasone propionate, reduced neutrophil number and human n...

Progression of Glaucoma could be controlled with early detection

...n both eyes or old age. Researchers concluded that each millimeter of mercury that was lowered was associated with a 10 percent decrease in the disease progression. This proved that early treatment of glaucoma can reduce the risk of the disease progressing....

Smokers more prone to depression

...on Drug Abuse(collected from different respondents each year from 1994 to 1996) was conducted. A total// of 13,827 young people aged from 12 to 17 years participated. The researchers measured variations in depression among current and former smokers as compared with depression in non-smokers, using ordina...

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