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Increase in tobacco deaths

... the future. Doctors at the University of Beijing find that tobacco was the cause of 33% of all male deaths and 5% of female deaths in the 30 to 65 age group. When male smokers only are considered, tobacco causes half of the deaths in this group.// These risk are more than twice as large as has yet bee...

New Modality in Migraine Management

...y to the comfort level of use. May this be a good find to wind up the miseries for those migraine sufferers....

Herbs for Rememberance

...emature memory loss is not uncommon. Many people find prolonged stress and too much work causing lack of concentration, memory loss and even personality changes. Dramatic alterations in memory and neurotransmitters are found in senile dementia, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. // The fundam...

Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer

...Study, which covers nearly 120,000 women.// They find that people who are obese have a 72 per cent higher risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those who are of normal weight or slightly underweight.This may be because excess weight is linked to blood glucose and insulin abnormalities, and the pancreas ...

Emotional trigger to smoke

...at 'emotional' smokers, and hostile personalities, find it harder to quit than easy-going people. Researchers believe that anger and stress-management would be useful components of smoking cessation programmes....

Gene clue to antibiotics

...er - and only with the advent of penicillin did we find a way of applying this to our own health. Researchers at the Sanger Centre - genome headquarters - have recently announced the solving of the Streptomyces genome - the biggest and complex, bacterial genome solved to date. The Streptomyces genome ha...

Wishes of unspoken patients

...ests feel less satisfied with their physicians and find less improvement in their symptoms. A doctor need ...osphere of openness. Meanwhile, the patient should find the confidence to speak up! These days, the doctor-patient relationship should be a two-way process....

Gel prevents pregnancy

...ge effective methods, the more likely women are to find a method that suits them at a stage in their lives"....

New test for heart attack

... and maybe a formal hospital admission in order to find out the cause.// According to Doctors in Texas, a new and more rapid way of diagnosing a heart attack is very effective and is to be implemented. They do a blood test for three cardiac enzymes - troponin 1, creatine kinase-MB, and myoglobin - which ...

Mushroom and muscle loss

...ffects, or cumulative toxicity -- and it's rare to find more than one meal's worth of T. equestre, he said. If the study's conclusions are confirmed, T. equestre apparently would be the first mushroom to cause muscle loss, "It's one of those intriguing reports one will watch and see if it can be confirm...

Complementary and Alternative medicine

...ternative medicine (CAM) in over 2000 people. They find that the use of 20 therapies - from acupuncture to yoga - has increased in popularity since the 1960s. A new survey reveals that complementary and alternative medicine has always been popular, although the type of therapies used has changed over the ...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

.... "It would be an important clinical advance if we find a way to successfully address those concerns, making it easier for more women to stop smoking." The Pittsburgh investigators randomly assigned 219 women smokers who wanted to stop smoking, but were worried about gaining weight, to one of three smoki...

Helping the neurology of kidney failure

...lems in kidney failure using laboratory rats. They find that nitric oxide - a molecule which acts as a chemical signal - interacts with free radicals so creating a condition called oxidative stress, which damages brain cells. However, if rats with kidney failure are treated with an antioxidant drug, much ...

The mouth-heart connection

...in (CRP). Researchers at the University of Buffalo find that people with gum disease have higher than normal CRP levels. // It may be that oral bacteria enter the circulation via the gums, and then trigger the liver to make more CRP. Previous studies suggest that CRP contributes to inflammation of the c...

Wound healing made faster

...x on skin cells, the researchers were surprised to find that not only did it initiate a normal injury response in the cells, but heightened it. Dr Leavesley says they have yet to understand why this is the case, but he believes that when the hormones are assembled in the complex they are more easily reco...

Relating heart protection and antihypertensive drugs

... were effective in stroke prevention, they did not find that converting-enzyme inhibitors or alpha-blockers affected cardiovascular prognosis beyond their antihypertensive effects. However, they say their findings indicate the desirability of lowering blood pressure as much as possible to achieve the gr...

The mouth-heart connection

...in (CRP). Researchers at the University of Buffalo find that people with gum disease have higher than normal CRP levels. // It may be that oral bacteria enter the circulation via the gums, and then trigger the liver to make more CRP. Previous studies suggest that CRP contributes to inflammation of the c...

Biotechnology on the lead

...llpox, if it's meningitis, if it's anthrax, we can find it in a very precise fashion."This could prevent massive casualties, Dr Hunter said. Public health expert Dr Margaret Hamburg said lethal agents such as botulism, anthrax and bubonic plague could be purchased illegally over the internet, and might ...

Contraceptives decreases Libido

Women taking the contraceptive pill may find themselves less responsive to the very smells which attract them to men, say researchers. The study, published in the journal Human Reproduction, measured the ability of women to detect distinctive smells such as musk - while taking and not taking th...

Snoring could be a warning

...ncy because women who are 30-40 weeks pregnant can find it uncomfortable to sleep on their side, and have to start sleeping on their back." Dr Walling said women should have regular ante-natal checks on their blood pressure, weight, fluid retention and urine so that any symptoms of pre-eclampsia were pick...

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