getting 1 7

Tag: "getting" at medical news

Reasons For Low Back Pain

...ovements in low back pain while lying in bed, when getting out of bed and in disability associated with back pain. The participants who used the medium-firm mattresses also reported a decrease in the need for pain killing drugs. Researchers say, their findings stress that recommendations for daily living, s...

Blood Pressure On The Rise

... blood pressure. Researchers conclude saying that getting regular physical activity, controlling weight and eating a nutritious diet that includes lots of fruits and vegetables and moderate amounts of salt, can reduce a person’s chances of developing high blood pressure....

Suppressing A Girls Height In Adolescence Could Lead to Fertility Problems

...escent girls estrogen treatments to keep them from getting too tall could leads to fertility // problems later on in life . Estrogen is thought to limit height by altering long bone development. The study involved 780 women who had been assessed for estrogen therapy as girls and completed a fertility survey...

Walnuts Could Aid Patients With Diabetes

...ing that Walnuts are an easy and convenient way of getting polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids into the diet especially for people with diabetes because they're a simple snack food, which is an integral component of managing the diet in diabetes....

Indian Treatment for Iraqi Babies

... evening by a paediatric cardiac physician and are getting ready for surgery on March one. "This is just a small group selected out of several thousands of children dying in Iraq due to heart complications. We have hospitals treating only adults suffering from cardiac problems but nothing for kids. The blu...

Activity Found To Improve Sleep In The Elderly

A new study suggests getting active can help elderly patients who have trouble sleeping .For the study researchers enrolled // 12 healthy adults between the ages of 67 and 86 in a 90-minute daily activity program. The program consisted of 30 minutes of exercise followed by 30 mi...

The Link Between Obesity And Lack Of Sleep Studied

...y suggests that obese and overweight people may be getting less sleep than normal-weight individuals . For the study researchers examined patients' total sleep time per 24 hours in relation to their body mass index. More than 1,000 patients completed a questionnaire that assessed demographics, medical probl...

The Harmful Effects Of Secondhand Smoke

...ly exposed thereby running about twice the risk of getting a respiratory disease. Thus researchers conclude saying that results of their study shows that secondhand tobacco smoke is indeed a significant health hazard....

Kids Not Getting Enough Fiber

... , most small children between ages 2 and 5 aren’t getting enough fiber // in their diets thereby putting them at higher risk for health problems like constipation and heart disease . Researchers analyzed data of a survey, conducted between 1994 and 1996 and in 1998, on dietary intake over a two-day period ...

HIV-positive Parents Require More Counseling

...ot. About 42 percent had at least a little fear of getting an infection from their child through intimate contact like kissing and hugging, and around 14 percent reported a moderate fear in this area. About 22 percent said they generally refrain from kissing their kids on the lips, and nearly 18 percent repo...

Energy Therapy For Quicker Healing

... . Treating a shoulder injury could be a matter of getting the right amount of energy in the right place. In conclusion researchers say practitioners should use their intuition to help them figure out how much is the right amount of energy for each patient....

Growing trend of delay in completing vaccination schedule

...orts said that about 25% of children had delays in getting 4 or more of the 6 vaccines (DTP, polio virus, MMR, Haemophilus influenzae type b; hepatitis B; and varicella) in US alone. This increases the risk of the virus attack and that of an epidemic. Only 18% of the children in US receive all the vaccinatio...

Light Cigarettes - Not So Light?

...en fooling // themselves by thinking that they are getting fewer cancer-causing substances from smoking “light” or “ultra-light” cigarettes. No significant difference was found in the amount of these dangerous byproducts in smokers’ urine, regardless of the type of cigarettes they smoked nor there was any ...

Transmission Of Infectious Disease On Planes Analyzed

...nger than eight hours places passengers at risk of getting the disease. Another study that examined transmission of SARS during air travel found sitting up to seven rows away could result in infection. Thus researchers say their evidence points to more frequent recirculation of cabin air. Some studies in th...

Childhood Obesity May Influence The Their Quality Of Life

...em of most countries as more and more children are getting used to a junk food diet and a sedentary life style. ...

Using herbal remedies with chemotherapy may not be a good idea

...still not known why the effectiveness of drugs are getting affected by the herb, and so the researchers are of the opinion that till such is known it is best to avoid the combination of drugs and alternate medicine like black cohosh....

Delaying pregnancy may lessen life expectancy of the child

... pregnancy for women across the globe. Delaying in getting pregnant leads to adverse effects on the offspring, like abnormal number of chromosomes, and other conditions. This is for the first time delayed pregnancy is being linked to lessening of life expectancy in the babies. Researchers who have worked wi...

Surgery of spine for back pain may not be cost effective

... brings them back to their life by helping them in getting settled to a new way of life that will not cause any more stress to cause severe back pains from spinal problems. The researchers had studied 349 patients with chronic back pain that was hampering their daily life. They were divided into groups of s...

Going to GP may delay cancer diagnosis, says new study

...our general practitioner may delay your chances of getting treated// for cancer early. According to a study published in the British Journal of Cancer, valuable time is lost when cancer patients goes to a GP first and diagnosis gets delayed. Patients with suspected prostate cancer might be diagnosed three ...

Eating food rich in calcium and vitamin D helps fight PMS

...el their social interactions and relationships are getting affected because of their physical conditions. Researchers of University of Massachusetts have observed 1057 women in the age group of 27 to 45 who reported PMS. Their result showed a significant lowering of the premenstrual symptoms in women who ha...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10