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Dealing with personality disorders

...n fluvoxamine or a placebo for six weeks. This was followed by another six weeks in which all of the participants were given fluvoxamine. Again, it was unknown to the participants if they had been given the drug or the placebo. Researchers then gave the participants fluvoxamine for 12 weeks and told the parti...

Unhappy relationships could result in more than just heart breaks!

...tudy which was conducted over a three year period, followed 105 patients whose ages ranged from 20 to 65, who had mild high blood pressure(defined as repeated diastolic pressures above 90 mm Hg on three separate occasions between 6 weeks and 6 months). Ambulatory blood pressure over 24 hours and an echocardio...

Women with diabetes could benefit from HRT

...r estrogen and progestin HRT, or a dummy pill, and followed up for four years. It was found that in the dummy pill group, there were 98 new diagnoses of diabetes while there were only 62 in the HRT group. This increased risk, say the researchers, could not be explained by other factors separating the two grou...

Diabetics & Foot infections

... infections had considerable improvement when they followed safe practices advised by their doctors. The study...ent in the foot condition among those patients who followed ‘good foot care’ practices while those patients who did not follow advice showed poor improvement. R...

Survival rates in breast cancer patients improved with "Dose Dense Chemotherapy"

...yclophosphamide (C): Sequential administration (A followed by T, followed by C) in three-week intervals (conventional) Sequential administration in two-week intervals, with ...

Research on Celiac Disease in children

...per day, up to a maximum of 50 gm/day. The clinic followed up by telephone at 1, 3, 6, and 9 months and with blood testing and biopsy at one year. None of the children displayed any symptoms during the year. After one year, one child had elevated blood readings but a normal biopsy. Also, after one year, o...

Less sleep:more risk for heart attack in women

...ted heart disease at the start of the study -- and followed them over 10 years to detect any association between sleep habits and heart attacks. Each had answered questions about sleep duration in 1986, 10 years after the study began. Researchers found that women who sleep five or fewer hours have an 82 perce...

Smokers more prone to depression

...se who smoke face the highest odds for depression, followed by ex-smokers and non-smokers respectively. However, researchers added that more studies are needed before a definite causal path can be established. A study of cross-sectional data obtained from the US National Household Survey on Drug Abuse(collect...

Lymphedema patients can benefit form exercise

...n survivors to a control group. The exercise group followed a progressive, eight-week upper-body exercise program that consisted of resistance training and aerobic activity. The study results indicated that there was no changes in arm circumference or arm volume as a result of the exercise program. They also ...

Oxygen helps heal wounds

... application on 58 wounds in 32 patients, who were followed up between one to eight months after treatment end...ut for 90-minute periods on four consecutive days, followed by three days of rest. The cycle was then repeated as long as the wound appeared to be healing or un...

New imaging technique for tracking Alzheimer's

...ting with the areas that are concerned with memory followed by emotional and inhibition control, and finally sensation. But areas controlling vision and some other functions are spared. The information available through this new technique can currently only be obtained indirectly, through cognitive testing. ...

Treatment over a longer period for blood clotting

...olism includes a five- to 10-day course of heparin followed by three to 12 months of the oral drug warfarin. H...acebo or low-intensity warfarin. Participants were followed to see who had recurrent venous thromboembolism, major hemorrhage, and who died. After four years, r...

Plastic surgery popular with men also!

...en saying so. Relationship reasons and job reasons followed with 7% and 4% respectively. About 13% of patients, i.e., nearly one million men opted for cosmetic plastic surgery in 2001....

Death due to premature heartbeat after exercise

...py occurred and when it occurred. Their status was followed for more than five// years. The researchers found that only 2 per cent had premature heartbeats during recovery after exercise compared to 3 per cent who had it during exercise. Two percent of the subjects had frequent ventricular ectopy both during ...

Cervicogenic headache can be identified with a fibromyalgia test

...on determined the presence of pain, which was then followed up an X-ray of the site of pain for those who had headache and neck pain. The X-ray helped determine the disc which was causing the cervicogenic headache. Dr. McFadden believes that once patients are made to understand the relationship between heada...

Old theory of adaptation confirmed by new study

...ions on life satisfaction. 24,000 individuals were followed for 15 years and were frequently questioned about their life satisfaction. The study specifically// looked at individuals who were single and then married and those who were married and were widowed during the study. They found that though people ini...

Risk of hemorrhagic stroke increased in smoking individuals

...e new study that covered 22,022 male US physicians followed for nearly 18 years has shown that compared to those who// had never smoked, men who smoked less than 20 cigarettes a day had a 1.7 times higher risk of hemorrhagic stroke and in men who smoked more than this, the risk went up to 2.4 times. Former sm...

Moderate Exercise may not help prevent Heart Disease

...er the risk of early death among 2,000 British men followed for a decade. Previous research has given conflicting results, dividing experts between a group that believes moderate exercise is enough and a smaller group convinced that vigorous exercise is needed before any heart benefit can occur. A major dra...

Once-Daily Cipro(R) XR for Treating Complicated Urinary Tract Infections

...tes to the serum and tissues within hours. This is followed by a second extended release of the active ingredient, which produces 24-hour urine concentrations. Research study compared 1000mg once-daily Cipro XR to a twice-daily 500 mg dose of conventional Cipro. Patients were evaluated based on the presenc...

Eating Fish Helps the Heart

...t in either the fiber or fat group. This study was followed by a series of studies and controlled clinical trials that all showed the same thing: A diet rich in fatty fish reduces fatal heart attacks. The American Heart Association states that a dietary approach to increasing omega-fatty acid intake is prefer...

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