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Reducing Depression In Seniors

...niors who received the home-based program reported fewer depressive symptoms than those who did not receive the intervention. The program consisted of visits and phone calls from a therapist as well as treatment that encouraged the seniors to increase their physical activity and become more social. After o...

Relief From Migraines

...s taking // the energy supplement coenzyme Q10 had fewer monthly incidents of migraine. Coenzyme is the "en...ent taking placebo. Coenzyme Q10 patients also had fewer days with nausea. Researchers say they found that the only side effect appeared to be an allergic s...

New Drug For Parkinson’s Disease With Less Side Effect

...ase. // The new drug rasagiline is found to cause fewer side effects than many Parkinson’s drugs, including less sleepiness, nausea and fewer hallucinations. Treatment of Parkinson’s symptoms allow patients to better carry out everyday tasks ...

Gonorrhea Found To Increase Cancer Risk

...to develop prostate cancer than those with five or fewer sexual partners. Men with gonorrhea were also more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer. Sixty-five percent of men with prostate cancer reported having gonorrhea, compared to only 53 percent of men without prostate cancer. Researchers conclud...

How Good Are Vitamins For You ?

...t and mouse liver cells. Thus, the liver destroyed fewer of the bad lipoproteins. Though direct tests on people to explore liver function are difficult, observational studies show a diet rich in polyunsaturated fats increases blood levels of lipid peroxides and decreases levels of VLDL, or very low densit...

Staying Awake With Coffee

...uilding up their caffeine levels, the subjects had fewer accidental sleep incidents and were able to perform better on cognitive tests. However, those on caffeine did report feeling more tired than the placebo group thus proving that caffeine should not be a substitute for sleep when trying to rejuvenate ...

Education Levels Found To Predict Stress

... groups, as measured by level of education, report fewer stressful days than those with // higher socioeconomic status, but their stress is more severe and has a larger impact on their health. While those with more education have more days of stress, they are not as affected by it. For the study, more tha...

Yoga Might Be Helpful For Cancer Patients

... factors. Results show those in the yoga group had fewer sleep disturbances and better sleep quality. Patients also slept longer and needed fewer medications to help them sleep. Researchers say these findings are encouraging and suggest the need...

The Usage Of Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Questioned

...lized group of NSAIDs called COX-2 inhibitors have fewer GI problems, but have been associated with heart complications. Researchers looked more closely at the risks of COX-2 inhibitors compared to others NSAIDs. The research included medical records on more than 130,000 older people. Investigators looked...

Milk Found To Lower Colorectal-Cancer Risk By 12 %

...illigrams a day or more could result in 15-percent fewer cases of colorectal cancer in women and 10-percent fewer cases in men, according to researchers. More than 500,000 individuals from five different countrie...

Parents Should Look For Signs Of Children Becoming Overweight

...p. Overweight children, on average, got 30 minutes fewer of sleep than normal-weight children, which may be because they are less active during the day....

Depression Found To Be A Major Cause for Death in Elderly

...er in those depressive symptoms than in those with fewer symptoms.” Women were affected more than men. Depressed men were not at increased risk of mortality compared with men with some symptoms of depression. One of the strengths of this study is that it involves people living in the community and not in ...

Abstinence From Alcohol With The Help Of An Injection

...ce. However, they say the patients on the drug had fewer drinking days during treatment and a higher abstinence rate during treatment. This being one of the first studies of its kind researchers feel that further studies are warranted to look at this drug and compare it to the use of the oral version of t...

Lifestyle Linked To Depression

...ticipants who exercised and did not smoke reported fewer days of depression. Researchers say their findings...ted having a higher household income also reported fewer episodes of depression. Thus researchers say although most people who report depressive symptoms se...

Cardiac – Rehabilitation Programs Beneficial for Heart Patient

... heart attack. Men, younger people, and those with fewer additional medical problems were more likely than women, older people, and those with more additional medical problems to participate in cardiac rehab. Even after adjusting for other factors, women, for example, were 55-percent less likely to partici...

Depression A Cause for Death in Elderly

...er in those depressive symptoms than in those with fewer symptoms.” Women were affected more than men. Depressed men were not at increased risk of mortality compared with men with some symptoms of depression. One of the strengths of this study is that it involves people living in the community and not in ...

Preventing cavities in children

...more soda between ages 2 and 5. Children who drank fewer 100 percent juice products at age 5 were also less... adequate intake of vitamin C were associated with fewer tooth surfaces having caries experience.” Researchers say their findings support the need for guide...

Simple Steps To Help Fight Asthma

...n who participated in the intervention program had fewer asthma symptoms than those who did not. Children i...rm benefits in the form of better quality of life, fewer emergency room visits, and lower health care costs....

Effective Management Of Heart Patients

...sense of well-being and better mood. They also had fewer symptoms of chest pain and breathlessness. Thus researchers say “There seems to be a need for interventions that go beyond the simple transfer of information and reminders. Education should be followed by empowerment and monitoring, with iteration o...

Steroid Treatment after head injury may be fatal

...ver, the 95% confidence interval ranged between 6% fewer to 2% more deaths. CRASH was supposed to enrol 20,000 patients with Glasgow coma score of 14 or lower within 8 hours of head injury. However after studying 10,008 patients in 239 hospitals from 49 countries the trail found 21% mortality rate within ...

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