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Breast-fed Children Weather Digestive Disease

...ight protect against coeliac disease by preventing gastrointestinal infections in an infant, which can weaken the lining of the bowel and allow gluten to pass deeper into the gut than normal. Breast milk also contains certain immune cells from the mother that might confer protection against gluten intolerance, they...

Breastfeeding: A Boon For Cealiac Disease

...nother possibility is that breastfeeding might cut gastrointestinal infections which would otherwise weaken the lining...to the AHRQ. CD has been strongly associated with gastrointestinal lymphoma. Patients with CD are four to 40 times more likely to develop gastrointestinal lymphoma and...

Men under 50 susceptible to suicide after discharge from emergency

...ain, headache, review of prescription medicine and gastrointestinal diarrhoea. By comparison, women aged under 50 were most likely to die of breast cancer in the weeks after an emergency department discharge. The research found the five most significant factors for predicting risk of death overall includ...

Height of ignorance in people!

... protective effects, there is an increased risk of gastrointestinal complications ranging from stomach pain to ulcers, haemorrhage, and severe and potentially deadly gastrointestinal problems. Each year, the side effects of long-term NSAID use cause nearly 103,000 hospitalizations a...

Fish Oil Could Soon Be Used In The Treatment Of Depression

...ish oil include a fishy aftertaste and the risk of gastrointestinal disorder. The next step by the researchers is to find out if this decrease in levels of the inflammatory protein would produce a concomitant reduction in the depression levels. If successful, it would serve as a bonus for nearly 60% of multiple scler...

Novel Treatment Found To Prolong Survival Of Liver Cancer Patients

...tients had severe complications ranging from upper gastrointestinal ulcers or bleeding, liver disease to problems associated with the catheter. Research is also underway to further refine techniques for effective delivery of radiation. It has also been proposed to test liver function as a parallel approach to predict...

Fruitfly My Distant Cousin

...ns. Insects have the same basic structure to their gastrointestinal tract as vertebrates. They have a mouth, an esophagus, the equivalent to a stomach, and large and small intestines. This research was conducted by Professor Benjamin Ohlstein and his team from Carnegie Institute, Embryology Department, which was pub...

Obesity: Digestive Disorders Come In The Way Of Exercise

...eople—they cannot reduce weight by exercise due to gastrointestinal problems//. Doctors treating overweight or obese ...bility to exercise may be hampered by a variety of gastrointestinal problems that frequently affect individuals who are overweight, science portal EurekAlert reported. ...

Problem in physical exertion, in obese, could have a GI reason.

...d. The researchers found that associations between gastrointestinal symptoms, diet and exercise had implications in treatment of both obesity and gastrointestinal problems. According to psychologist Rona Levy, lead author of the study and a University of Washingt...

New Gastric Cancer Drug Unlikely to Benefit Kidney Cancer Patients

...e Journal of Urology says that drugs used to treat gastrointestinal stromal cancers (GISTs) are likely to be ineffective for// patients with full blown kidney cancer. These findings are reported by investigators at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, who say that the drug in question is not going to help patients with ...

Five New Anti-Inflammatory Compounds Produced By Indian Scientists

...al role in the metabolic process. The incidence of gastrointestinal problems is yet another disadvantage, that restricts use of painkillers....

Bacteria Commonly Seen In Radioactive Waste, Hot Springs Found Inside Humans

...ould eventually pave for a better understanding of gastrointestinal diseases and newer treatment strategies. The bacteria 'Helicobacter pylori', that was discovered about 20 years ago, has been largely blamed for causing peptic ulcers. However the exact mechanism by which the stomach could harbor such a vast variet...

Demand For Diet Drugs On The Rise

...ed to mention that it would also result in serious gastrointestinal distress. But many doctors and nutritionist have been telling the public that there are alternate methods to lose weight, which are very safe and lack the side effects. Joanne Ikeda, co-director of the Center for Weight and Health at UC-Berkeley, sai...

Newborns Affected By Antidepressant Intake Of Mothers

...uch mothers display symptoms like disturbed sleep, gastrointestinal problems, high-pitched crying, and tremors within 48 hours after birth. These symptoms are higher in the case of babies of women who had taken higher doses of the medicines. The risk factors were lesser in the case of women who consumed less than ...

Breastfeeding Provides Added Protection To Babies

...ix months also provides greater protection against gastrointestinal infections. Edited (IANS)...

Cancer Treatment To Become Less Expensive

...is will particularly contribute towards preventing gastrointestinal cancer claiming too many lives in the country, according to the Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India’s (SGEI) Randhir Sud. The cost of treating the disease will also come down to less than Rs.50,000 from the present Rs.100,000 to Rs.150,...

Novel Technology For Early Detection of Gastrointestinal Cancer

...el technology, Narrow Band Imaging that can detect gastrointestinal cancers with 95% accuracy, much earlier than other detection methods can be soon availed by residents in Delhi. // The technique is based on a type of endoscopy (visualization of the internal organs through a telescope introduced through body caviti...

Women, Exercise and Colon Cancer

... prostaglandins and insulin besides increasing the gastrointestinal transit time, it might also play a constructive role in reducing the incidence of colon cancer. A team of researchers led by Brook A. Calton, M.H.S. formerly at the National Cancer Institute and now at the University of California-San Francisco, look...

TNF Protein Can Predict GVHD Bone Marrow Transplant Recipients

... threat to the graft survival. The patient's skin, gastrointestinal and liver cells can be destroyed, sometimes, even leading to death. The researchers studied the measurement of TNF levels in 170 patients, out of which 94 had established GVHD (the graft attacks the patient tissue). All these patients were found to...

Just Had Bowel Surgery? Chew Gum For A Speedy Recovery

... and the subsequent release of hormones that cause gastrointestinal activation. Bowel function may be compromised following any kind of abdominal surgery. This condition is commonly referred to as ileus, can cause increased post-operative pain, abdominal distension (bloating of abdomen) and vomiting, increased suscep...

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