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The essence of cosmetic surgery

...e Surgery to assess how the frequency and costs of four common cosmetic surgery procedures had changed from 1980 to 1999. The procedures were: facelift, brow-lift, eyelid surgery(blepharoplasty) and nose remodelling (rhinoplasty). They found a direct relationship between increasing surgeons' fees and incr...

Incontinence after pregnancy

...ancy or childbirth. According to the group, one in four women between ages 32 and 55 has experienced an episode of urinary incontinence. According to a new study, researchers from Australia studied more than 600 women after they gave birth....

Herbal treatment should be estimated

...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...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...r of fatal strokes in the estradiol group — 12 vs. four in the placebo group, Viscoli says. And non-fatal ...lts are due in 2004, but an interim analysis after four years found no difference between the HRT and placebo groups. ...

Boys reduced mother's life expectancy

...uction was 40 weeks per son, though it ranged from four to 65. Daughters increased a mother's life expectancy by an average of 30 weeks. Mothers with many daughters who survived to adulthood had the longest lifespans in these pre-industrial Sami people. A woman's longevity was not related to her total fam...

Iron supplementation quite necessary

... 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...

Dangers of sunlight

...levels of sunlight, or solar radiation, were up to four times more likely to develop cataracts.The researchers, led by Dr Cecile Delcourt, from the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), said: "It seems that sunlight exposure throughout a lifetime may be important to cataract ...

Antioxidants found in chocolates

...hocolate is equivalent to two glasses of red wine, four cups of tea, six apples or 15 glasses of orange juice. She also found that the chocolate antioxidants are well absorbed by the body, and remain active. So one can willingly include chocolate in a healthy diet. The main reason for limiting chocolate...

Is acupuncture safe?

...re Council reported on 34,407 treatments done in a four week period. Again, there were no serious adverse events. The public can be reassured by these studies - it shows acupuncture is at least as safe as routine drug treatment. But the research has not yet proved that whether acupuncture actually works. ...

A high carbohydrate diet good for health

...died 10,000 adults over age 20, dividing them into four levels of carbohydrate intake. These include the very-low-carbohydrate group (less than 30 percent), low-carbohydrate group (30-45 percent), moderate-carbohydrate group (45-55 percent), and a high-carbohydrate group (greater than 50 percent). Resear...

A new method to help smokers quit

... abstinent and those on the higher dose had nearly four times the chance of abstinence. Smokers receiving the active lozenge showed continually higher abstinence rates at the 12-, 24-, and 52-week follow-ups. In addition, researchers say use of the active lozenge led to reduced cravings and withdrawal. M...

Body mass index guide needs revision

...risk of developing impaired glucose tolerance, and four times the risk of diabetes. The researchers calculated that if they could prevent gains in BMI beyond 22, then 46 per cent of diabetes cases could be averted and 30 per cent of cases of impaired glucose tolerance. This only applies to aborigines - pr...

Migraine relieved by deadly toxin

...inkillers. Following a course consisting of one to four botox injections over three months, 80% reported an improvement in their condition....

A new genetic label for stroke

... people under age 48 who suffer a stroke are about four times more likely than their healthy peers to have...e age. Results showed people who had a stroke were four times more likely than healthy individuals to carry one of the abnormalities. This risk factor was a...

Putting cancer risk with a vision

...r, smoking, and other diseases and conditions. The four charts track separate categories:// Women who have never smoked, women who are current smokers, men who have never smoked, and men who are current smokers. Each chart contains a row for age along with columns including two types of vascular disease,...

Detering memory problems

...d about 7,500 older people who were examined every four years between 1988 and 1999. At the fourth visit, the participants had retinal photographs taken to evaluate for microvascular abnormalities. Cognitive tests were given during the second and fourth visits. None of the participants had suffered a stro...

Watch what you eat during summer

...never leave it without refrigeration for more than four hours - otherwise, a melon should always be kept on ice....

Social anxiety has hope from a new drug

... marked improvement in their symptoms after around four weeks. This is the first time that this kind of drug has been tested for SAD - and it looks promising, because there were also few of the side effects often associated with antidepressants....

Photographs as a parameter

...nas of 12000 people and monitored their health for four years. They found that people with 'blots' or narrowing of tiny blood vessels on the retina were two and a half times more likely to suffer a stroke during the study. This finding held true even when the team controlled for risk factors that might af...

New surgery in head and neck cancer

... tissue. So far results have been reported on just four patients, but the trial is ongoing....

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