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New Treatment Could Enable Even Older Women to Conceive

...ve can be developed into a pill or an injection to extend the life of the eggs in the ovary. This could lead to a fertility revolution enabling women to wait longer to have a child, reported online edition of the Daily Mail. A woman's fertility peaks between 20 and 24 years of age. However, fertility rate...

Life After Death: Organ Donation

...e has been taken not to hassle the patients and to extend maximum help to them. Poetess, activist and Rajya Sabha member, Ms.Kanimozhi, through her inspiring speech demanded that the family members of the deceased should be made more ' answerable ', in case they failed to comply with the wishes of the ...

Boffins Find Link Between Common Sleep Disorder and Hypertension

...irmed with the new study. "Our results confirm and extend accumulating evidence that periodic leg movements of sleep (PLMs) seen in most RLS patients are associated with increased release of adrenaline," says Dr. Rye. "Of greatest import, these findings suggest that the clinical significance of PLMs exten...

Taiwan Researchers Claim Cancer Therapy Alternative

... cancer patients because such drugs could not only extend their survival time but also improve their life quality while battling with cancer," she said. The study's results have been published in an online early edition report of the US' PNAS (Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences). Yu said it may t...

Hormone Therapy An Alternative to Chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer

...y of Edinburgh have shown that hormone therapy can extend life in ovarian cancer patients, giving women a ne...of hormone therapy to our treatment strategy could extend and improve the lives of women with cancer. Ovarian cancer is the most commonly fatal of gynaecolo...

Vitamin Extends Life in Yeast, Dartmouth Medical School Researchers Find

...to benefit humans. Radical calorie reduction can extend life. Dieting or fasting mice live longer and lowering the glucose that yeast grow on extends their lifespan, according to Dr. Charles Brenner, associate professor of genetics and of biochemistry, who led the research. “If we could do this in human...

70-year-old, Three Sons Seek Mercy Death

...o be little hope for the family. "With nobody to extend a helping hand, death is probably a wise option," says 70-year-old Hakimuddin, a resident of Kamalpur village in Bhadrak district. His three sons, Raffiuddin, 35, Mayiuddin, 33, and Mustaffa, 30, are stated to be suffering from a rare genetic disea...

Gene Responsible for Ageing Process Discovered – and Calorie Restriction Could Hel

...rmacological targets for developing drugs that can extend the human lifespan without having to follow a rigorous and difficult diet. The first experiments in calorie-restricted diets go back to the 1930s. Laboratory rats and mice fed a severely calorie-restricted diet, but with normal levels of vitamins a...

Food Preparation may Play a Bigger Role in Chronic Disease

...ositive impact on overall health and may even help extend one’s lifespan, according to Dr. Vlassara. In other studies, the team has found that cutting AGE intake in half, but maintaining a diet comprised of the same calories and fat, increased the lifespan of animals when compared with animals fed their usu...

Many NYC Pharmacies Fail to Translate Prescription Labels for Patients Who Don't Understand English

...ngoing studies if these language requirements also extend to pharmacies. For this study, the investigators randomly selected 200 pharmacies from the 2,186 licensed pharmacies in New York City in 2006. Participating pharmacies included independent drugstores, chains, and outpatient hospital and clinic phar...

Cancer – Flushes Flesh and Fund

...arty insurance” The drugs being sold to patients extend life, offset recurrence and are less harmful for the system. A medical treatment that is absolutely necessary must be funded by the government, is the fervent appeal of activists. Till the government takes a stand on the issue, the cancer patients ar...

Exhaustive Study to Expand the Efficacy of Drug L-dopa for Parkinson's

... of a novel drug to treat Parkinson’s, which could extend the benefits of he existing drug, L-dopa. The study will also investigate the potential of the drug, E2007, and its contribution in extending the effectiveness of L-dopa. The prevailing treatment for Parkinson's disease aims to revive cellular comm...

Pfizer Awaits FDA Approval for New AIDS Drug, Maraviroc

...s. Animal studies also showed that maraviroc could extend the "QT interval," which may not be good for the heart. But Pfizer has reiterated that no considerable change in the QT interval was observed during the clinical trials. According to the FDA review committee, studies showed that the treatment was s...

Cognitive Problems Occur More Rapidly in Female Alcoholics Than in Males

... Both Flannery and Garbutt believe these results extend the concept of physiological "telescoping" to include cognitive "telescoping," meaning that women appear to experience both physiological and cognitive declines from alcohol use sooner and with less alcohol consumption than do men. "Women should ...

Anemia Eradication During Adolescence

...tus and anemia in pregnancy have consequences that extend over generations. Girls born underweight are at risk of producing small, premature infants themselves. Adolescent anemia is easy to diagnose and easy to treat. Yet it is rampant and not being identified. Majority is not even aware of Hb or iron resul...

Qigong Help Chronically Ill People to Cope With Anxiety and Discrimination

...tudy had already been established, we were able to extend it to monitor how people harnessed Qigong, which was used by many Hong Kong people during the crisis." The study looked at 98 people – mostly in their 40s to 50s - who had enrolled before the SARS outbreak and 70 who enrolled after the disease hit ...

Tai Chi - More Than Magic

...re's physical conditioning over time.” Benefits extend to other areas, as well. A widely read study this year from Emory University in Atlanta found that Tai Chi helped elderly practitioners reduce their risk for potentially lethal falls. Irwin's own work at UCLA found that Tai Chi reduced older people's...

Infant Mortality Rising in Deep South in US

...epartment of Health, said the state was working to extend prenatal care and was experimenting with new outreach programs. But, he added, "programs take money, and Mississippi is the poorest state in the nation." The state Health Department has cut back its system of clinics, in part because of budget shor...

Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs

...legislation would codify FDA and industry plans to extend drug and medical device maker fees for the next five years to help speed reviews and partly fund safety checks. "The bill establishes a new way to oversee drug safety that is flexible enough to be tailored to each new drug, yet strong enough to all...

India to Hike Free Treatments in Fight Against AIDS

...nd activist. Every year, the government wants to extend HIV/AIDS testing to at least 21 million, and expects to achieve this goal at least by 2011 and proposes to set up 5,000 new testing centres. It wants the private sector to contribute in another 21 million tests even as 150,000 pregnant women will b...

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