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Treating Obesity Vital for Public Health, Physicians Say

Physicians who once treated mainly elderly patients for health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke are seeing increasingly// younger patients who have the same ailments. A review in the December issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings focuses on the increasing prevalence of metabol...

Young and Obese People Heading for Heart Trouble

...re earlier considered illnesses that affected only elderly people. These days the number of young people affected// with these ailments is increasing alarmingly. A recent review published in the December edition of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings highlights that the incidence of metabolic syndrome is increasing ...

Seniors More At Risk from Large Scale Weight-loss Surgery

...Cardiac complications affected about 15 percent of elderly patients. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly one-third of adult Americans – more than 60 million people – are obese. Nearly 5 percent of adults are classified as extremely obese. The American Society for Bariatric ...

Ham And Turkeys Recalled From Honeybaked Food Company Due To Listeria Scare

...ite of infection. The disease is usually common in elderly people and children with weaker immune systems such as cancer patients and HIV carriers and pregnant women - it is said that the bacterium can be fatal to the unborn child. US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has warned public confirming the high-...

Ailing Indian doctor in Britain to return to Kolkata

...n. Later, he was appointed senior house officer in elderly care at Sunderland Royal Hospital in February 2003. His case was taken up by The Sunderland Echo, a local newspaper, which highlighted his difficulties regarding his inability to return back to India due to paucity of funds. He could not apply fo...

Flu Vaccine Shortage In Britain Causes Anxiety

...age in the availability of the vaccine millions of elderly and vulnerable patients are still waiting for a jab. The Department of Health had ordered for 15.2 million doses of the vaccine but only nine million have been delivered so far. Researchers warn that those who do not get vaccinated by mid-November ar...

Nestlé clinches an esteemed brain research pac

...This means that by adding energy to the brain, the elderly and people suffering from Alzheimer's can better deal with the decrease of cognitive performance." Recent studies corroborate the deleterious effects of poor diet on brain function. This could be offset, if we clearly know what foods will benefit th...

Poor awareness of lymphomas

... Only one-tenth knew that this disease affects the elderly people more.and most of them believed it was a disease that affected children .The fact is that 90% of cases are adults. However, the public were more aware about leukemia since 50% knew somebody suffering from leukemia were as only 25% knew some...

Dartmouth researchers zero-in on a gene that heightens muscle performance

...hat is aging. Deteriorating muscles often make the elderly much more prone to fall, leading to hip and other fractures. According to Witters, there is tremendous interest in the geriatric field to find ways to improve muscle performance. "We now wonder if it's possible to achieve elements of muscular fitn...

Exercise Intolerance In Heart Failure Patients Is Explored By Researchers

...tolic heart failure is the more common form in the elderly and is expected to increase as the population ages. With both types of heart failure, patients' bodies aren't getting enough oxygenated blood, which reduces their ability to perform everyday activities. But even when heart function is treated and i...

Hope for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease

...rchers, said the new study would generate hope for elderly Australians. 'Australia is particularly struck down by this because we've got a very ageing demography.' Alzheimer's is turning to an epidemic because people are more successfully reaching old age,' he said. Using a new model of PET scan, doctors...

Pharmacy Care Program Can Increase Medication Adherence in Elderly

...P) Research and Education Foundation, followed 200 elderly patients aged 65 or older who were taking at least...n in a pharmacy care program dramatically improves elderly patients’ ability to correctly continue their medication regimens: Before participation in the pharm...

Rare Neurological Disorder Linked to Flu shot

... of not being vaccinated. And for some such as the elderly and young children influenza can prove to be fatal...ns die from complications of the flu, most of them elderly and young children. Yaffe said, "We know that the vaccine can prevent 80 to 90 per cent of deaths ...

Majority Of The Flu Vaccine Supply Received

...country.According to the state officials, infants, elderly people, pregnant women and people with chronic medical problems specifically need to be vaccinated. 'It's important to note that flu season in New England doesn't usually begin until December and doesn't usually peak until February,' state Public H...

Severity of heart failure in elderly can be measured with a seven-point system

... gaining credibility in assisting the treatment of elderly patients who have suffered heart failure. //Resear...acemakers for those at low risk of death. However, elderly patients with a high risk may want to avoid stressful and unnecessary medical intervention and may b...

Human Strain Of Bird Flu Virus, Just A Matter Of Time?

... the human immune system. It is not only only the elderly and weakest members of society who could die from influenza. Even people in the prime of life - the 20 to 40 age range could be struck by the infection. An imaginery account of what could happen will be screened on BBC Two's Horizon program , descr...

Equal Opportunities For HIV-Positive Women Urged

...hink tank. The report also focuses on the need of elderly caregivers of the orphans, in particular the elderly women, who not only need psychological and economic support, but also access to medical care so that...

Forlorn souls rev up at dawn with Hormone boost

...ave revealed. Researchers followed up about 156 elderly individuals between the age group of 54 and 71 on a daily basis asking them to record in a diary how they felt at the end of the day in consequence to events of a day. Salivary swabs of the volunteers were collected thrice a day to measure levels of ...

Patient Safety Not Addressed by NHS

... they have noted a lack of dignity and respect for elderly people in these hospitals This problem is not only widespread in just the NHS but in private hospitals as well. The report stated that at least one in 10 NHS trusts could not confirm they were meeting minimum standards on safety. One in 10 indepen...

Cognitive decline in the elderly people often goes undiagnosed

... change occurs in the cognitive ability of several elderly patients who are hospitalized with a severe disease. // This alteration often goes undiagnosed, untreated and underreported and ends up with a negative effect on the patient’s ability to make decisions about his or her medical treatment. Symptoms l...

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