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Alcoholics are prone to disability

...blem drinkers. The researchers collected data at four time points over the six year period of the study.This began a few years ago and was concluded that drinking causes the disability. They also found that problem drinkers not disabled at the start of the study tended to become so over time....

Red Wine Helps Fight Heart disease

... cells were exposed to extracts from 23 red wines, four white wines, one rose and one type of red grape juice. Researchers found the decrease in endothelin-1 levels was related to the amount of polyphenols in the wines. The white and rose wines -- which contain little or none of the pigment -- had no effe...

Caffeine can induce epilepsy in newborns

...of coffee, and starved them of oxygen for three to four minutes. They found that the cells all fired at the same time - a phenomenon seen during epileptic seizures. Nothing happened if caffeine was not added to the preparation, or if oxygen was present. The researchers believe that the caffeine molecules...

Cure for blindness

...clinical trials in humans within the next three to four years....

ZYDUS enters female health care segment

...o India with an international experience of around four years. There are more than 10 million users of the drug in the US alone. With life expectancy of women in India on the rise, a safe and efficacious therapy can play a critical role in ensuring a healthier and graceful post-menopausal life. The compan...

Unsatisfactory Grade On Women's Health Issues

...care providers. After the release of the report, four states made improvements in women's access to health coverage, while five states improved benefits for pregnant women. Many states improved health screenings for women's cancers. Still, few states have made progress in women's diabetes rates or in pr...

Genes for Vision discovered

... that were previously known. Two hundred and sixty four of these were newly identified genes. Of these, 241 had homologs in humans. “This makes photoreceptors the most well characterised cell type in the body,” said Cepko. The database provides a genetic lantern by which to see the goings on inside phot...

Body can reshape heart damage

...cs of stem cells. Even in the one patient who died four days after his transplant, the researchers found plenty of evidence in his heart that Y-containing cells had moved in and started work....

Infection linked with heart attack

... compromised immunity) and Epstein-Barr virus. The four bacteria tested for were: Haemophilus influenzae ,...ctions had a 2 percent chance of dying, those with four to five had a 8 per cent chance, and in those with six to eight infections, the chance went up to 5 ...

Alzheimer's followed by head injury

...le those who experienced severe head injuries were four times as likely to develop the condition.The docto...had been unconscious for more than 24 hours - were four times more likely to have Alzheimer's disease. Dr Brenda Plassman, from Duke University who was also...

Relief from common back pain

...e most common ailments affectig adults; as many as four out of five Americans experience significant back problems during their lives. Back pain is the second most common reason for doctor visits, and herniated disk is the culprit for many. The condition can be caused by such thing as trauma, strenuous ac...

Burden of lung disease

...now the UK’s biggest killer, accounting for one in four deaths, more than cancer or coronary heart disease. The key issue is that the diversity of lung disease has yet to be recognised.// While other serious conditions have specialists who deal only in one disorder, chest physicians look after everything ...

Infertile men at cancer risk

...n men.// It is the second major study in less than four months to make the link between abnormalities in sperm production and cancer of the testicles. But the researchers maintain their findings should provide "some reassurance to men identified with abnormal semen characteristics" for the absolute incre...

Science of swooning

...g up. Blood flow in their forearms was measured at four different gravitational levels after having a non-alcoholic drink to determine how much their blood vessels tightened in response to a drop in blood pressure. The tests were then repeated on another day after the subjects had drunk two to three bee...

New Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise

...vaccine at increased levels each time. Vieweg said four men developed flu-like symptoms and fever and four men experienced inflammation at the injection site, but overall, the vaccine was well tolerated. Vie...

Breast feeding can alter hormones

... were then asked to rub the pads under their noses four times a day for two to three months. The results showed that the length of women's menstrual cycles moved towards extremes after taking in the pheromones - short cycles became significantly shorter, long cycles significantly longer.And she added tha...

Herbal treatment not to be sneezed at

...otal petasine per tablets. The dose was one tablet four times daily. The participants on antihistamines were given a single 10 mg tablet daily. While the butterbur recipients did not report any adverse symptoms, a small number of people taking antihistamines reported side effects, mostly drowsiness and f...

Less sleep increases mortality rates

... who sleep for eight hours or longer, or less than four hours a night, have a significantly increased death rate. Insomnia does not appear to be a risk, but those who took sleeping pills were more likely to die sooner. It is not clear why sleep has this effect upon mortality, although the highest risk see...

Tobacco chewing leads to dental caries

... that men who use chewing tobacco exclusively were four times more likely than those who had never used tobacco to have one or more decayed or filled root surface. On average, the men who used chewing tobacco exclusively had 4.45 decayed or filled root surfaces more than any other tobacco-use group and th...

Depression hurts the heart

... of 55//- both with and without heart disease- for four years to trace the effects of depression. They then found that people with major depression were at least three times as likelyto die of heart disease as were patients who weren't depressed.Even subjects with mild depression experienced a fatality r...

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