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Don't Gamble With People's Health, Warn Experts

...For a start, how about the misery and isolation of elderly people and the hopelessness of young people who are unemployed long term? /L...

Autoimmune Diseases can Be Prevented by Green Tea

...cal college website. Approximately 30 percent of elderly Americans suffer from degrees of dry mouth. Only five percent of the elderly in China, where green tea is widely consumed, suffer from the problem, the researchers said. "Sin...

The Flu- More Than Just That

...en we would expect to see high mortality among the elderly and those suffering from heart problems or who have multiple coronary risk factors," he added. Flu viruses morph every year and several are usually circulating in any given season, making the risk of flu high for most people. Says Madjid: "Betwe...

New Research Shows That Flu is a Trigger of Heart Attacks

... we would expect to see high mortality amongst the elderly and those suffering from heart problems or who have multiple coronary risk factors," he said. "Between 10 and 20% of people catch flu every year, and I have estimated that we can prevent up to 90,000 coronary deaths a year in the USA if every high ri...

Study Shows Hope for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's

...’s office. This makes it an ideal method to screen elderly individuals for the earliest indication of this common scourge of late life.” The researchers employed signal processing and automated neural network analysis of event related potentials (ERPs) of the EEG signals, monitoring how the patients’ brain...

US Confronted by a Major Healthcare Crisis, Say Critics

... For years, health activists, organizations of the elderly and labor unions have tried to convince Congress t...ernment does provide subsidized healthcare for the elderly and some of the poor and disabled. But the procedures involved are quite complicated. Talking abou...

Elderly Population on Rise in India, China

A "large majority" of elderly people will soon be living in the developing world...velopment has projected that by 2050 the number of elderly people - defined as aged 60 or more - would exceed the number of children for the first time in hist...

Make Treatment of Parkinsons More Affordable, Doctors Plead

...siting many of these homes. Worse, caretakers of elderly assume tremors, slowness and forgetfulness is all ...pectancy among Indians has increased the number of elderly and the number of individuals with age-related diseases, such as the Parkinson’s. India could be g...

Restless Legs Syndrome Poses Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

...ess Legs Syndrome (RLS). The risk increases in the elderly patients. For the study, conducted at the University of Montreal’s Sacré-Coeur Hospital, ten people with untreated RLS spent the night in a sleep laboratory, where researchers monitored periodic leg movements and blood pressure changes. RLS is a ne...

Controlling C Difficile in the Community Could Cut Infection Rates in Hospitals

...ue rising because the population is ageing and the elderly are the most at risk, warns Dr John Starr. One factor that may be driving infection rates is the community reservoir, he says. He suggests one way to control C difficile would be to screen people before they are admitted electively to hospital to...

Tai Chi may Be Useful to Prevent Shingles in Older Adults

... Tai Chi, may be helpful in preventing shingles in elderly adults. The traditional Chinese exercise has been found not only to increase// the immunity to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) but also boost the immune response to varicella vaccine as well. This National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study is th...

Obese Heart Patients At Greater Risk

...ars. "This may be because doctors might consider elderly patients who are obese to be poorcandidates for surgery," says Dr Yap. "Younger obese patients are in comparison more likely to be referred for surgery as they areseen as having lower surgical risks and may have more to gain from the survival advan...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Affect Risk of Depression, Inflammation

... Research, focused on a group of 43 middle-aged to elderly men and women, nearly half of which were the caregiver spouses of people with Alzheimer's or other dementias. By including caregivers who typically report greater stress and more depression than similar ad ults who are not caregiving, the researchers...

RF Ablation a Safe Alternative Option for Treating Lung Cancer

...lation is a treatment option for their sickest and elderly patients,” Dr. Dupuy said. The study also showed that RF ablation helped control the progression of patients’ tumors. Tumors three centimeters or smaller took an average of 45 months to grow following treatment; tumors larger than three centimeters...

Flesh-eating Bugs Surface in Singapore

... The warning came in the wake of the death of an elderly man who was bitten by a crab when he was cleaning it before cooking. The 83-year-old Tan Boon Hock fell ill in Singapore 12 hours after he was infected with Vibrio, a type of waterborne flesh-eating bacteria. He died two days later. The head of t...

Low-dose Aspirin Beats High-dose After Cardiac Surgery

...ing use of these drugs. "Long-term prognosis in elderly patients with MI has improved considerably over time, and this study supports evidence that this can be attributed to the increasing use of cardiovascular medicines after discharge from MI," said Soko Setoguchi, of Brigham and Women's Hospital and le...

Interactive Digital Television to Monitor Health

...and treatment of and support for both patients and elderly people, from the comfort and convenience of their ...dent manner. It is also of great interest to those elderly persons who require a minimum of control and monitoring of their state of health on a daily basis. T...

Drug Helps Prevent Hip Fractures in Parkinson Disease

...ding to a study. The two-year study involved 242 elderly men with Parkinson disease in Tokyo, Japan. Half o...s to reduce bone loss and prevent hip fractures in elderly women with Parkinson disease. Side effects of risedronate included inflammation of the esophagus ...

Polypill for Heart Ailments Being Tested in India

...xercise and smoking — and the increasing number of elderly people. The DRL is hoping to open up yet another vista. Even those who have not suffered an attack or a stroke could take the polypill if they think that they are liable to fall victim to cardio-vascular diseases. Clinical trials to establish t...

Zinc in Body Could Affect Eyes: Study

...ration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness among elderly people in the developed world, reported the online edition of BBC News. AMD is a form of macular disease, which affects the eye's retina and causes loss of central vision. It often affects older people. The study, published in Experimental Eye Re...

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