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Blood transfusions beneficial after heart attacks

...ower their risk of death by one-quarter during the first month of recovery if they get transfusions. The risk falls by two-thirds among the severely anemic. Anemia is common among the elderly, and doctors routinely check for it. But there is no consensus about how to use the information, and willingness ...

Smoker's are prone to Alzheimer's

.... The study - the largest ever of its kind and the first major research to look at people before they develop Alzheimer's - followed 5,369 men and women aged 57 and over. None of the people had Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia, before the study by the Erasmus Medical School in Rotterdam bega...

Gas Masks Don't Always Fit an Emergency

...fighters or emergency medics who get to a disaster first is a self-contained breathing apparatus, which has its own oxygen canister, good for about a half-hour of breathing time. First responders also wear impermeable clothing designed to protect from agents that penetrate the skin. The second-most prot...

Vitamins reduce pre-eclampsia

...her if the condition runs in the family, it is the first pregnancy, and if the mother is over 40 years old or has diabetes or existing high blood pressure. If left untreated, it can cause internal bleeding, or even seizures (eclampsia).// The study, carried out at hospitals in London, looked at 346 women ...

Detection of Cancer

...eby improve the accuracy of cancer detection. The first stage of the test, C-Test1, uses a technique called mass spectrometry to search for the diagnostic molecule, which seems to be missing when cancer is present.The 'immunostimulator' nature of this diagnostic molecule points to its use as a potential c...

Anthrax drug doxycycline could stunt fetal growth

...ant to the drug. // The CDC has asked doctors to first consider doxycycline, which works equally well against strains of anthrax detected in recent weeks in the United States. But doxycycline is part of a class of drugs that can endanger fetuses, including staining primary teeth, weakening tooth enamel a...

Why running noses are a good thing

...ther people with aches and coughs have the ominous first signs of inhaled anthrax or ordinary colds and flu...ax victims don't have runny noses. In general, the first symptoms of inhaled anthrax are the same as the flu and other wintertime viruses -- fever, ache, cou...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

...taken in two numbers. The systolic value i.e., the first number in a blood pressure measurement, represents the pressure in the heart during contraction. The second number, the diastolic value, represents the pressure when the heart is at rest between beats. // In the study, the team of researchers monit...

Levels Of Blood Proteins May Help Heart Disease Care

...can lead to chest pain and heart attack. In the first study, researchers identified interleukin-6 (IL-6)//, an immune system protein that plays a role in inflammation, as a risk factor for death from CAD.They suggest that patients with elevated levels of IL-6 may be candidates for early surgical interve...

FDA approves new device to treat women's bleeding disorder

...e bleeding without a hysterectomy. NovaSure is the first of those outpatient options that heats the endometrium using radio-frequency energy. The company said it will begin selling the devices to gynecologists in mid-November....

Miscarriage linked to late embryos

...g to conceive, showed the day by day trend for the first time in a large sample (341 women). The work showed 12 per cent of pregnancies failed if implantation occurred by the ninth day, but the figure rose to 26 per cent when implantation occurred on the 10th day, 52 per cent on the 11th day and 82 per cen...

More about HIV

...n from stages II and III to stage IV. AZT was the first drug used to treat HIV infection. It has been replaced by more powerful treatments like protease inhibitors, but it's typical for powerful drugs to have even greater side effects. And with greater side effects comes greater stress reactions and the...

Ajanta Launches World's First Once-A-Day Nimesulide Oral Formulation

...y through new drug delivery system, is the world's first once-a-day nimesulide brand for the treatment of arthritis. Ajanta, which manufactures both Allopathic and Ayurvedic medicines, developed this oral formulation in its fully integrated research and development centre at Kandivali in Mumbai. // Sinc...

Gene Treatment for Heart Disease

For the first time, there is reason to believe that a gene-based treatment for heart disease may truly work. The treatment -- which triggers growth of new blood vessels in hearts with severe hardening of the arteries -- may provide a viable new option for thousand...

First human clone is near

...living or dead person. Scientists could create the first cloned human before the end of the year. Dr. Panayiotis Zavos, who along with his Italian colleague Dr. Severino Antinori has triggered worldwide alarm with plans to create tailor-made offspring. Countries like France and Germany have appealed to th...

Steps To Improve Quality Of Plant-Based Drugs

...nsure the raw material itself meets standards. The first meeting of a recently constituted Medicinal Plants...es to boost the medicinal plants sector. // As a first step, licensed manufacturers of drugs making use of plant-based material will be asked to submit a l...

Beer does good

...disease. But he said he believed his study was the first to show the antioxidants in beer also helped to protect against heart disease. Antioxidants in tea and grape juice could also help reduce arteriosclerosis, he added....

FDA Approves New HIV Drug, Viread

...for HIV replication in the body. But Viread is the first nucleotide analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor to be approved for treatment of HIV in the US. As a result//, it may offer a treatment option for patients whose infections have become resistant to currently available medications. Foster City, Ca...

Allergies are related to mothers' menses

...ing at the ages in between - the higher the age at first periods, or "menarche", as doctors call it, the le...study authors said: "To our knowledge, this is the first report of such an association. "However, the biological mechanism underlying this finding is not cle...

Sex life enhanced by cycling

...ions a week on a stationary exercise bike. For the first 20 minutes, they did stretching and warm-up and then, for the rest of the time, they cycled at 65 per cent of their peak oxygen uptake (the usual goal for aerobic fitness). They followed the programme for nine weeks, after which time both their sex l...

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