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Aspirin reduces deaths

...m all causes in heart patients.// The researchers followed up over 6,000 patients referred to the Clinic with heart problems between 1990 and 1998. Of these, 37 per cent were prescribed aspirin. Over the following years, taking aspirin reduced the risk of death from all causes by at least 30 per cent. The gr...

Physicians Consider Self-Prescribing Ethical

...e most commonly prescribed drugs were antibiotics, followed by antidepressants and cardiovascular disease medications. About 75% of the urban physicians considered self-prescription ethical compared with only 58% of rural physicians. About half of all physicians considered self-prescription healthy and about ...

The patient's voice

...d prostate cancer, respectively, and these will be followed by experiences of cancer of the breast, bowel and cervix. The site will also have lots of other useful and up-to-date information, as well as links to other relevant sites, including patient support groups. It's planned to include all the common se...

Smoking can depreciate intellegence

...ce of intellectual impairment//, everyone else was followed up a year later to see whether there was any evidence of a decline in intellect. Of the 415 people who could be retested, one in 14 had suffered significant intellectual decline. The researchers found that smokers were up to five times more likely ...

Depression disturbs heart rate

... of mind may affect the health of your heart. They followed a subset of participants in the Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease trial, which looks at the outcome of a large number of heart attack patients admitted to coronary care between 1996 to 2000.// Of the group, 300 patients had been diagnose...

Smoker's are prone to Alzheimer's

...o 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 began.Over a two-year period, any who developed signs of dementia were assessed ...

Sex life enhanced by cycling

...in their mid to late-50s who had heart failure. 20 followed an exercise programme consisting of two one hour s... uptake (the usual goal for aerobic fitness). They followed the programme for nine weeks, after which time both their sex lives and their overall quality of lif...

FDA Approves Birth Control Skin Patch

...on the same day of the week. The regimen should be followed for 3 weeks, with no patch being applied in the fourth week. The treatment-free week allows a woman to have her period. Dangers associated with its use are similar to those of taking birth control pills, including greater risk of blood clots, heart...

Irregular Periods Linked to Diabetes

...y uses data from the Nurses Health Study II, which followed more than 100,000 women. The women supplied information about their menstrual cycles and other personal data -- weight, height, family history of diabetes, the level of physical activity. The results of the study are not surprising but are valuable....

Breakfast improves memory

... seen - those taking in the carbohydrate did best, followed by those whose calories came from fat. Given that complex carbohydrates have other health benefits, the study suggests that a bowl of whole grain cereal, fruit, or a couple of slices of toast, might be the best breakfast for your body and your mind....

Pioneering artificial heart patient dies

... for 151 days on the device. His progress has been followed by millions. ...

Depression a possible danger in elderly

...tal admission, tested then for depression and then followed them up for six months. Those who were depressed were 40 per cent more likely to be re-admitted during this time and used more in-patient services. The researchers suspect that if the follow-up time had been longer, they might even have found higher ...

Constipation can be a cause

...m, looked at 6,456 aged between 51 and 75 who were followed for 24 years.// Constipation was defined as having less than one bowel movement a day - approximately 5% of the population are thought to be affected to this degree. Men who were constipated were 2.7 times more likely to develop Parkinson's as men ...

MSI puts on hold plans for operations in Chennai

... the segment triggered the discount war. The other followed with discounts to counter threats from Subiksha....

Overweight children Don't Necessarily Become overweight adults

... of 1,142 children. Two-thirds of the group// were followed until the age of 15 years. The researchers collected data on adult lifestyle, including height, weight, and self-reported illness through questionnaires. It's true that overweight teenagers were more likely to become fat adults, but most fat adults w...

Triglycerides Linked To Stroke Risk

...not been clear, however. In the study, researchers followed more than 11,000 patients who had coronary heart disease but had never had a stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA). Researchers have shown that high triglycerides and the low levels of HDL, or "good," cholesterol that usually coexist are impo...

Cure for sleepless nights

...ey received the treatment for eight weeks and were followed up over a two-year period. The researchers found that drug and behavioural therapy combined was most effective in helping people to fall and stay asleep. But behavioural therapy scored higher than drugs. Fifty-five per cent of sufferers who were tre...

Almost a death experience

...dead relatives standing by. Researchers in France followed up 200 patients who had been successfully resuscitated from a cardiac arrest. One fifth reported NDE - but this was not linked to the duration of the arrest or time unconscious. It was more common among the under-60s and women and more people who had...

Hormone replacement therapy helps women

...searchers, is therefore of especial interest. They followed a group of over 1,000 women from different countries for a few years - assessing them with the State Exam, which measures cognitive performance. The women also gave information on their use of HRT. It appeared that lifetime use of HRT did benefit ...

Depression linked to mortality

...esearchers studied 2000 men aged 49 to 64 who were followed for 14 years.They found the men with depression or similar mental illness were much more likely to have fatal strokes, while the men who did not die from their strokes were very slightly more likely to have depression. Out of the 2,000 men, 137 had s...

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