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Caffeine reduces infant blood flow

...owever, there is a growing concern over caffeine's effects on a baby's circulatory system.// Researchers in Texas analyzed the effects of caffeine on cardiac output, specifically studying the effects on arteries in the brain and intest...

What makes young girls smoke

...ages 8 and 9 for 8 years. Researchers compared the effects of certain risk factors on becoming a daily smoker in black and white girls, and examined 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-da...

Social anxiety has hope from a new drug

...promising, because there were also few of the side effects often associated with antidepressants....

Hormone Therapy applicable for Prostate Cancer

...uthwestern Medical Center at Dallas, said the side effects go beyond sexual dysfunction. "It's systemic castration," Koeneman told UPI. Hormone suppression also cab cause breast enlargement, a drop in muscle mass and an increase in body fat, he said. Prostate cancer patients on this particular therapy also a...

Functional foods reduce cholesterol

... a plant-derived ingredient that has many positive effects on the body. Researchers from Iowa State University studied if phytosterol-supplemented ground beef would also help lower cholesterol levels in young men. Rresearchers made thirty-four male college students participat in the four-week study. The men...

Outcome of common medications

...th by 20 percent. However, many patients fear side effects such as depression, fatigue and sexual dysfunction...bama report patients and doctors consider the side effects to be numerous, but in the past the research didn't support those beliefs. In a new study, the resea...

Vitamin E helps the mind

...E. They did not, however, find the same protective effects with vitamin C or carotene. The authors of this study thereby conclude that this would probably indicate that increasing vitamin E intake in the population to at least the recommended levels of 18 to 22 IU/d would have important public health implica...

Novel research on liver cancer

...liver or surrounding cells. When they compared the effects of this treatment to a commonly used technique called chemoembolization, which delivers chemo to the tumor and blocks off the artery, they found encouraging results. The researchers observe that with 3-bromopyruvate in the rabbits, healthy liver see...

Niacin Safe for Diabetics

...form is designed to circumvent the bothersome side effects of regular niacin, such as flushing of the skin. More than 50 percent of the patients in the study were able to complete the trial. Four dropped out because of poor blood sugar control, and another four quit due to flushing....

Hormone restrains appetite in man

...eceiving it consumed one third fewer calories. The effects lasted for 12 hours after the injection. However, regulation of appetite is a complex business involving many other hormones. It's not clear that treatment with PYY3-36 alone would be a solution to obesity. Further research is still on....

Effect of drug on Renal Cancer

...-term use may lead to neuropathy.They examined the effects of escalating thalidomide doses in kidney cancer p...as reached. The most common, but reversible, side effects were constipation, drowsiness and fatigue. Peripheral neuropathy, a neurological disorder, was seen ...

Support for patients with Leg Pain

...rom the University of Verona in Italy assessed the effects of the antioxidative treatment glutathione on patients with PAD. They conducted a study with 40 patients who were seen in one year. The patients were randomly treated with either intravenous glutathione twice a day or saline solution twice a day for ...

New Vitamin K Recommendations

... micrograms for women was set. Because no adverse effects have been reported for vitamin K, no upper limit was set by the committee. There are several reports that low vitamin K may be related to osteoporosis, but the committee concluded the evidence was not strong enough to establish this. This nutrient ...

Almonds Improve Cholesterol

...ot add them, to their diet; otherwise the positive effects could be negated because of the additional calories....

Diet and Lung Function

... have inadequate intake of magnesium. The adverse effects were seen primarily in the group in the lowest 20 percent of mineral intake. While low intake was bad, excess intakewill not improve lung function....

Antibiotics help heart patients

... allow us to draw conclusions about the beneficial effects in all patients. Further studies are needed to investigate the reasons for the long-term effects of a short course of antibiotic treatment."...

New drug for hypertension

... hypertension, it is commonly associated with side effects like headache, dizziness, flusing and abdominal pain, they said.But clinical study of S-Amlodipine has shown that none of the patients in the treatment group reported any such side effects, they said adding, NCL has already filed Indian and foreign p...

Viagra for heart and lung patients

...in the results of the study, it is unclear how the effects of sildenafil in healthy young men with acute hypo...xia and pulmonary hypertension would relate to the effects of sildenafil in patients with chronic pulmonary hypertension who would probably be much older and h...

Ideal therapy for warts

...show some positive effects. However, they say side effects associated with dinitrochlorobenzene, such as irritation and blistering, make it an unlikely replacement for salicylic acid. Simple topical treatments containing salicylic acid seem to be both effective and safe....

A smoke free place to be initiated

...moking)is linked to a wide range of adverse health effects - from exacerbation of asthma to eye irritation and even lung cancer. In California smoking is now banned in the workplace and in public places. Researchers at the University of California have studied a group of 200 people with asthma, to see how th...

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