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Losing that baby fat among women

...or weight gain during their pregnancies. They were followed for an average of 7.5 years. The average weight gain for the group at the end of the study was 6.0 kilograms. Women who gained less than the recommended amount of weight during their pregnancies were, on average, 4.5 kilograms heavier at the last fol...

Diet combined to Alzheimer's disease

... who did not have Alzheimer's disease. Researchers followed the patients for about four years and kept track of how many calories and fat grams they consumed. The participants also underwent tests for the presence of a gene that has been associated with Alzheimer's disease, called APOE epsilon 4. The average...

Rectal Cancer treated with radiation

...sed, which included radiation with contact X-rays, followed by external beam radiation. After four to six weeks, an iridium implant delivered a completion dose to the tumor. No chemotherapy was given to any of the patients. Researchers found the five-year overall survival rate was 60 percent and, for patient...

Screening of Lazy Eye

...lazy eye and vision loss in their healthy eye were followed over a two-year time span. Of the participants, 30 percent had significant visual impairment, 50 percent had visual impairment, and 20 percent had severe visual impairment or blindness. About 40 percent of people who had been employed were unable to ...

A new herbal therapy to quit smoking

... mechanical to a conscious process. This will be followed by the finalising of a Pilot Quitting Date, a 24-hour period, when the person will keep away from smoking and resume. This is done to reduce the stress of quitting, according to therapists at Newtrition. The Ultimate Quitting Date is then fixed, fi...

Vitamin E supports Female Hearts

...d suffered a heart attack. Researchers from Naples followed a group of about 350 women with an average age of 50 who had no evidence of heart disease at the beginning of the study. None of the women were taking vitamin supplements containing the antioxidants A, C, or E. Women completed food frequency questio...

Physical activity less among black girls

... Institute Growth 2,000 black and white girls were followed from the ages of 9 or 12 to the ages of 17 or 19 years old. Each girl's physical activity level was measured. The study shows activity levels were low from the start and declined dramatically over time. The decline in physical activity was greater i...

Benign eye tumors being treated

...d man who had been initially diagnosed in 1995 and followed for the next 5 years, during which time he began to experience significantly worsening vision and an expanding central blind spot. Researchers used photodynamic therapy to treat the detached retinas and shrink the tumors. Photodynamic therapy includ...

Virus connection to cervical injury

...h no history of abnormal cervical cell growth were followed for ten years. They had a cervical smear at the start and another two years later. Those who were free of HPV infection at the start were less likely to develop squamous intraepithelial lesions, which usually lead to cervical cancer. The study highli...

Conserving the larynx

...wo chemotherapy drugs, cisplatin and fluorouracil, followed by radiotherapy if there was a good response to chemotherapy. In the second, patients got cisplatin at the same time as radiotherapy, and in the third, they received radiotherapy alone. Two years on, it was obvious that receiving a combination of c...

Consuming fish prevents dementia risk

...requency of consuming meat, fish and seafood, then followed them up to, five and seven years afterwards. Those who ate fish or seafood at least once a week had a significantly lower risk of being diagnosed with dementia in the seven years following. Education could partly account for this, however (highly e...

Vitamin E rich diet guards from Parkinson's

...nd Parkinson's disease. The participants have been followed up for several years and asked about their dietary intakes of many foods. Those with a high intake of vitamin E appeared to be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease. It makes sense - for the condition has been linked to oxidative damage of bra...

Quitting the smoking habit

...he reasons for prescribing the antidepressants and followed up to see if people were complying with the treatment. Psychiatric residents conducted group sessions covering education on smoking cessation and helped participants develop a personal plan for quitting, which was revised as the year progressed. Des...

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 ...

Swelling increases stroke risk with high B.P.

...ion-sensitive plasma proteins (ISPs). The men were followed up for nearly 19 years, during which time 200 strokes occurred. Men with high levels of ISPs and high blood pressure were four times more likely to have a stroke than men with normal blood pressure and ISPs. When blood pressure was elevated, but IS...

Mediterranean diet aids Asian masses

...noleic acid compared to the rest of the group, who followed a conventional Asian diet. After two years, there had been35 cardiac events in the Mediterranean diet group, compared to 70 in the control group. There was also a halving of sudden cardiac death and non-fatal heart attacks. The researchers hope tha...

Sun burns treated with creams

...iveness of the cream in a 25-week study, which was followed by an additional 26-week period in which participa...re allowed to continue using the cream while being followed by the researchers. In the first study period, about 573 subjects were assigned to receive either 0...

Cure for Bacterial Meningitis

... every six hours for four days. Patients were then followed to see how they recovered. Researchers say 150 patients received the dexamethasone and 142 patients received a placebo. Researchers report the group receiving the steroid had better outcomes and a lower risk of death. Among the patients with pneumon...

Cholesterol-lowering therapy benefits older people also

...ceived pravastatin and half a placebo and all were followed up for an average of just over three years. Pravastatin lowered low density lipoprotein (LDL, or 'bad' cholesterol) by about a third, and reduced a combination of coronary death, non-fatal heart attack and stroke by 16 per cent. Closer analysis sho...

Change in weight not a risk in healthy men

According to a new study, weight loss followed by weight gain is only a health risk in men with pre-existing disease. The health risks of obesity are now well established to many. But weight, once lost,// is often put on again and some studies have suggested that fluctuating weight may, in itself...

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