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Eat greens to have a ever green heart

... Harvard University, the cheif investigator of the first study found that just one additional daily serving of fruit or vegetable lowered risk of heart diseases by 4%. Spinach, kale, broccali, oranges and grape fruits offered the most protection, results show. "The mechanisms through which vegetables and f...

Glaxo launches pills to help smokers quit in 7-12 weeks

...neric - Bupropion Hydrochloride) is reportedly the first product aimed at stopping smoking and is available...about Rs. 5000 and takes about 7-12 weeks. In the first year of launch, Glaxo expects to target 50,000 patients which would translate to Rs.2.5 crore in sal...

Increase in sugar...decrease in brain function!!!

...D., from the University of Virginia says, "For the first time, we can demonstrate that performance of the brain is impaired in the short term when a patient has too much blood sugar. Once you get above a blood glucose level of about 270, the brain starts to show evidence of slowing down. A similar thing ha...

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

... answer or perform. The time interval between the first stroke symptoms and the MRI gives doctors an indication of critical changes in blood flow to the brain. "This allows us to be more certain about the probability of recovery, and to put a number on that probability," said Dr. Steven Warach, a neurolo...

Test-tube babies show no emotional problems

... children, according to new research. The world's first study that followed in-vitro, or test tube, babies...n other children. Since Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, was born 23 years ago, more than a million children worldwide have been born using A...

Mechanical Heart

The world's first self-contained mechanical heart has been implanted...has announced. The revolutionary procedure is the first major advance in the development of an artificial replacement heart in nearly two decades. If succes...

GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia

...ashington, approves the new leukemia drug-GLEEVEC, first of its kind that directly removes the sign of a protein known to cause cancer. It is given as an oral treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Other molecular-targeting drugs previously approved by the FDA interfere with proteins associa...

GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia

...ashington, approves the new leukemia drug-GLEEVEC, first of its kind that directly removes the sign of a protein known to cause cancer. It is given as an oral treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Other molecular-targeting drugs previously approved by the FDA interfere with proteins associa...

Antifever drug betters stroke outcome

...herlands. Rise in the body temperature during the first few days, though small enough that they hardly manifest as fever, has been linked to poorer outcomes including an increased risk of death.In their study, which included 75 stroke patients who were put on 5 day course of high- or low-dose acetaminoph...

Arthroscopy for Ankles

...throscopy has been used for about 25 years and was first used for knees, says Dr. John J Stienstra, an orthopedic surgeon at the Permanente Medical Group in Union City, California. Over the years, arthroscopy instruments have become smaller and techniques improved. Arthroscopy has a number of benefits com...

The big brain in suicides

...e Northern Birmingham Mental Health Trust were the first to report on this unusual weight increase in sucide victims. A comparative brain study was made between people who died a natural death with those of people who commited sucide. Results concluded that the brain was significantly lighter in the natur...

Better prostate cancer detection

...having to come back for a second biopsy - when the first is clear but cancer is still suspected....

Thirty minutes of work up per day reduces the risk of Diabetes

... and exercise, according to data from the nation's first major clinical trial to compare the preventive effects of diet and exercise versus medication.// Study participants who used metformin without diet and exercise also reduced their risk, by 31%. Professor of medicine at Harvard University and preside...

Simple Therapy

...lls that attack the pancreas and the islets in the first place.// Once the mutinous cells were eliminated,the researchers coaxed the mice's remaining immune cells to develop normally and specifically to refrain from attacking the islets.The once sickly mice have seen their blood sugar levels return...

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

...time interval between successive heartbeats is the first variable to be calculated.// When the programme has completed its analysis, it outputs atleast three characteristic values describing the heart rythm to cardiologists. Regular checkups and ECG tests help doctors to decide whether patients require t...

Stuttering and brain anatomy

... study results, reported in Neurology provides the first evidence that anatomic abnormalities within the areas of the brain that control speech and language puts an individual at risk for the development of stuttering.// Using MRI scans to measure the brains of 16 persistent developmental stuttering (PDS...

Early detection of prostate cancer

...h urinating, or blood in the urine) be tested. The first stage of testing includes both a rectal examination and a blood test for PSA levels. A diagnosis of prostate cancer is then confirmed or excluded using a biopsy. That same group of men, however, had other potential cancer indicators: their levels o...

Headache decreases appetite

...li lead to an acute fall in food intake during the first four hours after they are applied.This shows that there is an intimate link between the brain regions and the pain and appetite....

Reversing heart failure

...d received LVAD support, the other had not. In the first group, the heart muscle had a stronger contracting mechanism than in the second - suggesting that the LVAD was actually reversing the heart failure. More studies are needed - but this discovery raises the intriguing possibility that the LVAD can actu...

Increased Heart Attack Risk From Celebrex,Vioxx

... in pain and inflammation) while not affecting the first (which is involved in protecting lining of the stomach). Celebrex, was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration, FDA. The popular pain-killers Celebrex and Vioxx may slightly increase a person's risk of having a heart attack, acc...

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