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Heavy Drinking Raises Risk of Liver Cancer

...an 50 grams of alcohol a day, equivalent to around four to five glasses of wine, was associated with an el...grams of alcohol daily, the equivalent of three to four glasses of wine, was associated with a moderate risk. "Drinking up to 30 grams per day is probably ...

Drug Combo Works Better for children with ADHD, Tics

... ADHD and a chronic tic disorder were divided into four groups. While one group received a placebo, a second received Ritalin, a third received clonidine, and a fourth received a combination of the two drugs. The biggest reductions in ADHD symptoms were seen in children taking both clonidine and Ritalin. ...

Reducing Lung Cancer Risk

... with those who continue to smoke.// Over the past four decades, Britain has had the largest reduction in lung cancer in the world. One of the authors is Sir Richard Doll, professor of medicine at Oxford, whose pioneer study in 1950 established the smoking and lung cancer link. A comparison is made betw...

Tobacco and alcohol connected to larger health problems

...atus and smoking habits. They classified them into four groups:current tobacco use only, history of alcohol problems only, both, or neither. The patients with both current tobacco use and past alcohol problems had noticeably lower scores on both general and mental health. They also showed higher levels ...

Obesity increases health costs

...contributed to a fall in quality of life at nearly four time the rate of smoking or alcohol abuse....

Toxin connected to 'Flesh-eating' Pneumonia in Kids

... diagnosed in their laboratory. In 1999, they add, four US children died of Staph infection, three of whom had symptoms akin to those of necrotizing pneumonia. Etienne said his team doesn't know why these PVL cases are concentrated in children and young adults, when most cases of Staph pneumonia occur in...

Obesity in children a risk factor for diabetes

...between 5 and 18. They found that in the 55 aged four to 10, 25% were showing signs of "insulin resistanceThis is where cells gradually become less amenable to the effects of the hormone insulin, which reduces blood glucose levels after a meal . People with insulin resistance can go on to develop diabet...

Contraceptive pill to reduce PMS

...uld also reduce a woman's monthly periods to just four a year. US researchers have almost completed trial... "The main advantages are fewer periods per year - four versus 13 - less blood loss, fewer pads, and less risk of the side effects of menstruation such as a...

Gel pares inflammatory activity throughout body

...f 100 adults with chronic periodontal disease into four groups, two of which had an antibiotic-infused gel applied to their periodontal pockets while the other two received standard treatment without the gel. Treatment was administered at the beginning of the study and again three months later. Followin...

Hope for tinnitus sufferers

...ts’ pain. After training for two hours a day over four weeks the tinnitus sufferers reported a 35% reduct...ed tones showed no improvement. The team says that four weeks may not be enough to make a permanent difference but suggest that the longer the training prog...

Cholesterol Drug Helps After Angioplasty

...roven cholesterol-lowering medication. After about four years of treatment, Serruys found: * A 22 percent reduction in death, heart attack or requiring another heart procedure, either open heart bypass surgery or another angioplasty. * Diabetic patients on fluvastatin experienced a 47 percent reduction ...

Pig cloning for organs

...ated the sheep Dolly, scientists say they produced four piglets without one of two genes that lead to the ...produced seven piglets, but three died. One of the four living piglets was born with an ocular defect and small ear flaps. "The deaths appeared to be caused...

Consumer group seeks Sibutramine ban

...ight loss from using the medication is 5% to 9% in four to six months. At the time of its approval, experts warned that the drug was not meant for people with heart disease. Studies showed that the drug slightly increased the blood pressure of some patients and substantially increased it in others....

Schizophrenia detected early

...ople could allow early detection. His team scanned four healthy patients and nine people diagnosed as having schizophrenia and was able to differentiate between them with 100% accuracy. "This research is clearly in its early stages and it is therefore important not to raise false hopes, but if it does pr...

Hypertensive drugs may cause cough

... Another nine patients were given a placebo. After four weeks, eight of those on iron found their cough significantly improved, and for three it had virtually disappeared. There was no such improvement in the placebo group. The researchers say that iron decreases levels of nitric oxide, a hormone tha...

Spirituality relieves stress

...35 people who were assigned to this course learned four different meditation techniques, yoga and other techniques for dealing with stress. After three months, their psychological distress had more than halved - bringing them into the normal range - while their physical health also improved. There was no ...

Right side of the brain helps in awareness

...phed images. But after numbing of right hemisphere four out of five patients only remembered seeing the famous person. In a follow-up experiment, 10 people in the neurology department were shown a morphed image of their face with the face of a famous person and a second image of a familiar colleague's fa...

The hazards of using disinfectant hand gel

...olleagues in Germany, compared a range of gels and four alcohol-based hand rinses with the performance of a standard disinfectant, 2-propanol. They found that none of the gel formulations was as good as the 2-propanol at killing bacteria. However, the rinses did give as good a performance as 2-propanol....

Sharing injection equipment spreads Hepatitis C

...t illicit drugs including heroin and cocaine--were four times more likely to contract HCV. Those who shared cotton filters more than doubled their risk of contracting the virus. Sharing syringes and rinse water also boosted risk, but not significantly. Dr. Lorna Thorpe of the University of Illinois at Ch...

Cholesterol lowering drugs increase neuropathy risk

...agnosis of neuropathy were looked at, the risk was four times higher. This doesn't mean that people should stop taking statins - a move that might increase their risk of heart problems. But if symptoms of peripheral neuropathy develop in someone on statins, it's important they review their medication with...

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