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Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with CAD

...-or no hormone replacement therapy. The women were followed for 4 years. Overall, 134 women received hormone replacement therapy. Of these, 58 had a previous hysterectomy. The other 121 women served as controls. On intention-to-treat analysis, there was no statistical difference in the incidence of unstabl...

Transdermal HRT not cardioprotective in postmenopausal women with Coronary Artery Disease

...-or no hormone replacement therapy. The women were followed for 4 years. Overall, 134 women received hormone replacement therapy. Of these, 58 had had a previous hysterectomy. The other 121 women served as controls. On intention-to-treat analysis, there was no statistical difference in the incidence of unst...

Inhaled Steroids Safe & Effective for Children with Asthma

...published in October 12, 2000 issue of NEJM, which followed children with asthma into adulthood, found that the children with asthma who received long-term treatment with inhaled steroids attained normal adult height....

Good sleep enhances task performance

...It shows it need initial period of slow wave sleep followed by REM....

Controversial Levis jean ad to be withdrawn

...tisement in question might not be used again. This followed complaints from many who felt that they did not enjoy the advertisement poking fun at organ donation. The ad shows an unconscious man falling from a carousel horse. A team of medics approaches him and finds he has a jeans donor card. They take his p...

Morning after pill effective up to five days after having unprotected sex

...and to half the group after 3 days. The women were followed up and the pregnancy rate was compared between the two groups. It was surprising that there was hardly any difference between the two groups thereby proving that taking the morning after pill up to 5 days after having unprotected sex was indeed a wis...

Chinese paracetamol may be slapped with dumping duty

... duties on paracetamol from China and Taiwan. This followed an investigation against imports of the commonly used drug on basis of a petition filed by three domestic companies - Hyderabad-based Triton Laboratories and Sri Krishna Pharmaceuticals; Solapur based Vamsi Labs, and Vijayawada-based Srinivasa Agro I...

Ductal lavage may detect early breast cancer

...vage detected precancerous cells, a woman could be followed more closely to see whether she developed cancer, Sukumar explained. Based on the test, women might be treated with drugs shown to prevent breast cancer....

Test-tube babies show no emotional problems

...ing to new research. The world's first study that followed in-vitro, or test tube, babies to the brink of adolescence showed that youngsters who had been conceived through fertility treatments do not suffer any more psychological problems than other children. Since Louise Brown, the world's first test tube ...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...ced cancer risk. In their study , the researchers followed 30 men with localized prostate cancer and administered 15 milligrams of lycopene daily to half of them ,while the other half received no intervention for three weeks prior to surgery.Those who were treated had smaller tumors and tumors that were mor...

Young womens woes

...rs from Emory, Yale and Massachusetts Universities followed 6000 patients for two years after they were discharged from hospital after a heart attack. They found that 28.9 per cent of the female patients had // died within two years, compared with 19.6 per cent of the male patients. Age had a dramatic impact...

Young women's woes

...rs from Emory, Yale and Massachusetts Universities followed 6000 patients for two years after they were discharged from hospital after a heart attack. They found that 28.9 per cent of the female patients had died// within two years, compared with 19.6 per cent of the male patients. Age had a dramatic impact,...

Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage

...y group of pregnant women who had taken NSAIDs and followed them through to see what happened to their pregnancy. And they compared this group to one which had taken no drugs. The study found that while taking such drugs did not cause more birth defects, low birth weight or preterm births, it did cause a hig...

Chaste plant a boon

...hich keeps the menstrual cycle regular. The study followed 178 women diagnosed with PMS who suffered symptoms such as unstable mood, anger, anxiety, tiredness, sleep disorders and bloating. They took one 20mg tablet a day throughout three monthly cycles, and the treatment was especially effective for irritab...

Ovarian cancer in relationship with Hormone therapy

...rnal of the American Medical Association.The study followed 201,681 postmenopausal women from 1982 to 1996 and found ERT (oestrogen replacement therapy) increased the risk and this persisted for up to 29 years after women stopped using it. Twenty two percent of the women in the study had used ERT, including ...

Breast milk is essential

...ic Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, followed 345 randomly selected children to test out the idea that breast-feeding had some effect on a baby's mental development. "Our data suggests that longer breast-feeding benefits cognitive development," they said. They added that the intimacy of breast...

Starving leads to obesity

...nceived during the Dutch famine of 1944-1945 which followed the Nazi occupation.// They found that the rate of obesity among the women, who were aged 50 when the study took place, was higher than in the general population. Many of these women had increased amounts of body fat in the abdominal area.This part...

Digital mammography proves effective

...oth a digital and a standard mammogram and will be followed for several years to assess the accuracy of the two methods in predicting breast cancer....

The effect of heart rate in middle aged men

... who were between 40 to 69 years of age , who were followed up over 4 to13 years.During such follow up there were 393 deaths.Of these deaths , 38% were due to cardiovascular diseases, 39% were from cancer, 5% from violence and 14% from other causes. For the remaining 4%, the cause of death was unknown. Upon ...

Surgery a safety in senility

...ation involves doctors carrying out an angioplasty followed by stenting - inserting steel mesh to keep an artery open, or coronary artery bypass graft surgery to improve blood flow through arteries. The patients were assessed after six months. In both groups, patients said both the severity of their angina ...

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