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FDA Approves New surgery Treatment for Farsightedness

...hin 24 to 48 hours. Most of the patients have been followed for 2 years, and they have expressed overwhelming satisfaction with the procedure....

Sharing injection equipment spreads Hepatitis C

...on filter to strain out 'impurities. Thorpe's team followed 600 injection drug users from 1995 to 1998. All of the young adults in the study provided blood samples and those who did not already have HCV were retested 6 months and 1 year later. About one quarter of the drug users were already infected with H...

Breast cancer risk seen in twins

...reast cancer.// The twins without cancer were then followed up for several years to see who developed the disease. One third of the identical twins were destined to get breast cancer, compared to just one woman in nine among the general population. In simple words, sharing your genes with an affected twin s...

Microwave radiation has no hazards

.... Furthermore, he explained that the Navy veterans followed in this study were exposed to much more radiation than we get today from our phones and machines. He felt that the average person would never be exposed to the high levels of radar waves that the Navy technicians were exposed to. Tarone explained th...

Pancreatic Cancer may be linked to Diabetes

...t diabetes in Rochester, between 1970 and 1996 and followed them for three years to see who developed pancreatic cancer. Investigators found 1,050 new diabetes cases in people age 40 and older. Of those, 21 developed pancreatic cancer within three years. Based on normal national data, Chari said, one would e...

Gestational Diabetes linked to Chromosomal defici

...study in the 1990s. Those who gave birth were then followed for one year. The investigators found that women who developed gestational diabetes were twice as likely to have children with chromosomal defects--a prevalence of just over 4%, compared with roughly 2% among women without gestational diabetes. The ...

Celiac Disease in Type 1 Diabetes

... time they were diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and followed them for six years. Doctors used blood tests to test for celiac disease because many patients were experiencing no symptoms. 50% of cases of celiac disease were present at the onset of diabetes while the rest were found a few years after the start of...

Mild Depression may guard aged women

... The study participants' mortality rates also were followed over the years. The study revealed that women exhibiting symptoms of mild depression died at a rate only 60 percent of that of women of the same age showing either no signs of depression or suffering more severe depression, according to the findings...

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 ...

Vitamin E is healthy for all

...effects and the health benefits of nuts. The first followed over 600 residents in Texas, and finds that those ...d study, over 3,000 people in the Netherlands were followed for six years and, again, high intakes of vitamins C and E were linked with reduced dementia risk. A...

What makes young girls smoke

... study, sponsored by the National Heart Institute, followed more than 1,500 young girls, beginning at ages 8 and 9 for 8 years. Researchers compared the effects of certain risk factors on becoming a daily smoker in black and white girls, and examined the impact of risk factors independently for each group. Pa...

Heart patients should play Golf

... University have now addressed this question. They followed 15 male golfers, aged between 50 and 75, half of whom had heart problems. The men underwent a graded exercise test to determine their exercise capacity. Then they played nine holes, pulling their own golf cart and wearing portable devices to assess...

Women are at risk with raised cholesterol

...troke and aged from 30 to 95 years. The women were followed up for several years, during which time there were 500 stroke-related deaths. Those with the highest cholesterol levels were more likely to have a blood-clot related stroke, esepcially if they were younger than 50 at the start of the study. The fin...

Supplements for Ear Infections

...y a daily teaspoon of lemon-flavored cod liver oil followed by a chewy, multi-vitamin tablet with selenium may help prevent middle ear infections in children. New studies show children with otitis media, or middle ear infection,// required fewer antibiotics and had fewer ear infections once they began taking ...

Suicide risk high in 12-17 Age Group

...states were the most at risk - almost 10 percent - followed by young people in the South, 13 percent; the Midwest, 10 percent; and the Northeast, 11 percent. In all, the study showed that 9 percent of children age 12-13 considered or tried to commit suicide in 2000. The percentage for teenagers 14-15 and 16-1...

Scientific markers of aging described

...udy of aging, with a group of rhesus monkeys. They followed the men for 22 years, the monkeys for 12. The monkeys were in two groups - one following a normal diet, the other on calorie restriction. The latter tended to have a lower body temperature, lower blood insulin levels and higher levels of a hormone ...

Impact on Lung function based on exposure

...d 4,000 men and women between ages 19 and 32, then followed them up until age 40. All of the participants provided information regarding family smoking status, early diagnosis of asthma, early initiation of smoking, adult asthma, and cigarette smoking. Results showed smoking at an early age was related to a ...

Study on obesity and heart failure

...average age was 52 years old. The individuals were followed for up to 14 years. Researchers looked at who had heart failure, what their other risk factors were, and their body mass index. Even after adjusting for other risk factors, researchers found a 5 percent increase in the risk of heart failure for men ...

Stroke and Dementia - a ghastly association

...hin three months after a stroke. The patients were followed for two years. This study showed patients who are diagnosed with dementia after a stroke have a more than eight-fold increase in risk of death within two years. When dementia was diagnosed before the stroke, the risk of death was twice as high as th...

Breastfed babies grow rapidly

...leagues, suggest. To investigate, the researchers followed a group of more than 17,000 healthy infants weighing at least 5.5 pounds and born in the Republic of Belarus. Weight, length, and head circumference, a gauge of brain development, were measured at 1, 2, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months. Some infants were born i...

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