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Air pollution affects the heart

...n fact, the ability to adapt heart rate with minor fluctuations in its beat rate is a sign of good health. Heart rate variability indicates the state of the blood vessels, blood pressure and the heart's electrical activity. The fact that air pollution appears to be linked with a decrease in heart rate variability...

Contraceptive pill to reduce PMS

...struation such as anaemia. "Moreover, the hormonal fluctuations typical of a real menstrual cycle are smoothed out and this may help to relieve pre-menstrual tension syndrome." Contraceptive pills work by artificially raising the level of female hormones in the blood. This overrides the normal hormonal signal ...

Regular exercise linked to extended menstrual cycles

...g, over a lifetime, in lower levels or less cyclic fluctuations of estrogen and progesterone. This could be a mechanism by which regular exercise may lower breast cancer risk, according to the researchers. They stress, however, that they do not know whether the possible hormonal effects seen in exercisers in this...

Drug Found To Bring Relief For Individuals With Early Parkinson’

... the need for levodopa, and the incidence of motor fluctuations without substantial side effects or increased mortality .However they say that large, long-term comparative trials that include patient-rated quality of life measures are needed....

A New Addition Could Help Patients With Parkinson’s Disease

...n’s disease // patients spend suffering from motor fluctuations they experience during the day . For the study researchers compared once-daily oral rasagiline to the drug entacapone, which must be taken with every levodopa dose, and a placebo in around 690 patients. Both of the additional drugs were effective in...

Spray on contraceptive clears Phase I trial

...riable transit times in the gut resulting in rapid fluctuations in plasma concentrations....

Maintaining a Pharma index could help track price fluctuations

...wholesale price index in order to track drug price fluctuations for price-related decisions. At present, the government is relying on the retail audit of market research agency ORG-IMS for drug price revisions. However it is felt that the present system of price revisions based on the retail audit of formulations...

Electronic Skin (E-Skin) To Robots

...ensor readings, with changes in current indicating fluctuations in temperature or pressure. The two layers are fabricated separately before being overlaid, slightly offset, and laminated to form the finished e-skin. The distance between each sensor in the matrices is roughly four centimetres and sensitivity to te...

Stenting: A Possible Remedy For Brain Artery Blockage

... patients who presented subacutely with neurologic fluctuations because of the ICA occlusion. Out of a total of 25 patients, 23 (92%) were successfully revascularized with carotid artery stenting. Only two clinically insignificant adverse events were noted: one asymptomatic hemorrhage and one nonflow-limiting di...

Asthma Attacks May Be Triggered By Inhalers

...le range of external agents, such as common colds, fluctuations in the weather, and exposure to allergic triggers'. 'Our new study applies mathematical models which are commonly used in engineering, but not in medicine to study the occurrence of asthma attacks. The mathematical models are based on processes, whi...

Cell Implants May Help Those Who Suffer From Parkinson's

...opa medication may result in dyskinesias and motor fluctuations in the long run, and the dosage may have to be increased after a period of 5 years. Levodopa can be produced from the retinal pigment epithelial cells of human beings which can be isolated from the eye tissue after postmortem, developed in culture,...

Seasonal Variation In Exercise And Eating Habits Identified

A novel study conducted to analyze the fluctuations in eating and exercise habits of individuals has revealed that it may vary over different seasons with a tendency to eat more during winter. // It is further supported by the fact that there is a corresponding seasonal change in the body weight and p...

$2.4 Million Grant To Unravel The Mystery Of Language Recognition.

...of conversion of sound waves into language is that fluctuations in air pressure are perceived in the ears but the second part of conversion is a multifarious task. This research will provide an insight of how the brain converts the sound waves into language. Statistics reveal that 1 million people in US are a...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Can Now Be Used For Mind Reading

...g leads to frustration. The study revealed rapid fluctuations in the brain activity levels in just a few seconds. The study participants were given nearly 90 things to remember, comprising of celebrity faces, common objects and famous locations. fMRI was used to identify specific regions of the brain involved i...

Mummy Is Always Right: Nurses Research Prove It Over Again

...e body temperature can lead to can lead to drastic fluctuations in temperature measurement. // Consuming a cold beverage or hot beverage was found to hamper the restoration of body temperature to baseline levels by 15 and 23 minutes respectively. Nurses at the University of Virginia Health System have conducted...

Mood Stabilizing drugs for Bipolar disorder

...ering drugs helps them to relieve of their mood // fluctuations and lead a normal life which helps them to overcome the Manic depressive illness. Researcher Hilary Blumberg and colleagues from Yale’s Mood Disorder Research Program, Department of Psychiatry as reported in the Journal Biological Psychiatry that s...

Aggressive Teenage Behaviour: Blame It On The Anabolic Steroids

... someone or landing in jail. Linking aggression to fluctuations in vasopressin makes it an important neurotransmitter to target for pharmacotherapy,' concluded the researchers. Let us hope that such studies would eventually pave way for the development of new treatment strategies for aggressive behaviour in tee...

Phamac to the Rescue of Diabetics

... new once-a-day insulin for those who have serious fluctuations in blood sugar level. // It has decided to give Insulin Glargine or Lantus at a subsidized rate from July 1. Murray Dear who is the president for the Diabetes New Zealand said that they have worked for obtaining funding to reduce the incidence o...

Dieting Behaviors Changed Among Weight Losers

...istently lower amounts of carbohydrates. Despite fluctuations in participant's fat and carbohydrate consumption over the years, physical activity levels remained high with participants averaging 60 minutes of moderate exercise per day. Moreover, the characteristics associated with continued weight loss maintena...

Fluctuating BP and Stroke Lowered Patient Survival Rate

Finding of a Mayo Clinic study says ‘significant fluctuations in the first hour blood pressure after a stroke drastically increases// the chances of death’. According to this study patient mortality increases with a varying diastolic blood pressure, which again is rooted to an impaired autoregulation of blood...

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