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Hydroxyurea Treatment For Children With Sickle Cell Disease

... age. Participants also experienced significantly fewer incidents of acute chest syndrome, a potentially life-threatening disorder associated with sickle cell disease. "This study demonstrates that hydroxyurea is an efficient and safe treatment option for young children with sickle cell anemia," said Jan...

More Women Are Opting For Painless Labor

...r of births per year (1,500 or more, 500-1,499 and fewer than 500). They found that only 6 to 10 percent of...992. Hospitals doing more deliveries generally had fewer mothers going without anesthesia in both years. As women have embraced techniques that can make the...

Smoking Increases The Risk Of Heart Disease By Three Times

...ed every day. As the light smokers had smoked for fewer years than the heavy smokers, the researchers analyzed the projected impact of smoking at this level for five years. This indicated that the risk of death from coronary artery disease would have been 7% higher, and the risk of lung cancer would have...

Shortage of funds for providing AIDS drug in Africa and India

...lion cases of HIV/AIDS, the drugs are available to fewer than 10% of those who need it. The WHO says a shortage of trained health workers, insufficient technical support and lack of reliable funds from donor countries are making it difficult to meet the ‘3 by 5’ goal set in 2003. Source: Nature Medicine....

Fundamentals are the key in loosing weight

...00 a week to lose a pound of fat. That is, eat 500 fewer calories a day - equivalent to a dessert - or burn 500 calories more a day, with an hour of swimming or riding on an exercise bike. Or, better, go for a combination of the two - less food, more exercise. This, say the experts, is probably the simples...

Fundamentals Are The Key In Loosing Weight

...00 a week to lose a pound of fat. That is, eat 500 fewer calories a day - equivalent to a dessert - or burn 500 calories more a day, with an hour of swimming or riding on an exercise bike. Or, better, go for a combination of the two - less food, more exercise. This, say the experts, is probably the simples...

Elderly Population’s Sedentary Lifestyle Is Dependant On Their Expectations From Lif

...ctive//. It is known through earlier studies that fewer than 40 percent of adults aged 65 and above have a regular exercise routine, which can extend their years of independent life. A new UCLA study found that seniors with the lowest expectations for aging —that is, for what one can do at an advanced ag...

Quality Awareness In Hospitals Can Reduce Mortality Rate Of Patients

...er of patients dying in that hospital. 26 percent fewer patients died in the first year after their heart attack when hospitals used quality-improvement // tactics to prevent crucial heart-care steps in much the same way a car company ensures that a car is made well before it leaves the factory. The ste...

Oral use of ZYVOX (Linezolid) is better to Intravenous Vancomycin use for Skin Infections

...atients who received oral ZYVOX used significantly fewer health care resources in the six areas studied, including physician office visits (4.1 vs. 8.4 visits per patient; p EXPERTS VIEW OF ZYVOX: “In short, patients were able to recover at home with less medical intervention than patients taking vanco...

New laser technology heals acne scars

...cant improvement of mild to severe acne scars with fewer side effects common with ablative procedures, such as facial resurfacing, dermabrasion and chemical peels. Until recently, ablative procedures were used to treat acne scars by removing the outer layers of skin (epidermis and top dermis) to promote...

Childhood Asthma Can Be Kept Under Control By Cost-Effective Home Based Interventions

...ldren who received the intervention had 19 percent fewer unscheduled clinic visits and a 13 percent reduction in the use of albuterol inhalers. Moreover, children in the intervention group experienced 38 more symptom-free days over the two-year course of the study than those in the control group. The res...

Physical activity may help relieve gastrointestinal symptoms in obese people

... and higher physical activity were associated with fewer GI symptoms. Although physiologic mechanisms still need to be explored, associations between GI symptoms and diet and exercise behaviors may have implications for the treatment of both obesity and GI symptoms....

Low Cholesterol Seems Safe

...with cholesterol levels of lower than 60 mg/dL had fewer heart attacks, strokes, cardiac death, chest pain or additional heart procedures compared with other groups. It's recommended that LDL cholesterol should be lower than 100mg/dL. Source: American College of Cardiology....

Abortion Does Not Increase Risk Of Depression In Women

...s. Women who went for abortion also tended to have fewer children already, consistent with the association between a large family and depression. While any distressing life event has the potential to affect an individual person's mental health, this study supports earlier research that abortion, as oppos...

FDA Approved Nerve-Stimulation Therapy Now Available In New York

...s it associated with better patient compliance and fewer side effects...

Aspirin reduces skin cancer Risk

.... Results showed that people who took aspirin have fewer incidences for skin cancer. People who took aspirin for more than five years twice a week had 63% lower risk of skin cancer and 90% reduction in skin cancer risk in people who took aspirin daily....

Now Employers Focus On Employees Mental health

...ployees with anxiety and depressive disorders work fewer hours, are more likely to end up on disability, and are less productive than their counterpart employees. Further, anxiety or depression can aggravate other medical conditions and most importantly creates a low morale among coworkers. Depression an...

Negative Effects Of Sedatives

...s, such as cognitive behaviour therapy. "Because fewer risks are associated with behavioural therapies, there may be a viable treatment alternative in a healthy elderly population," they said. This research will prove vital, not just because as many as half of all older people suffer from irregular pat...

Trauma Research has to be boosted

...essionals. Compared with diseases, there are far fewer clinical trials into trauma, they argue, and those in existence are small which means their findings do not contribute much to certain improvements. The first large scale clinical trials in trauma care carried out by the UK's Medical Research Counc...

Medical Breakthrough - Kidney Transplant Recipient Survives Without Drugs

...plant, his body could tolerate it better even with fewer drugs. The doctors used non-myeloablative stem cell transplantation (NMT), which involves using significantly lower doses of chemotherapy and radiation compared to standard bone marrow transplantation therapy. In the procedure, the pati...

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