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Blood transfusions beneficial after heart attacks

...es of many elderly heart attack victims by quickly giving blood transfusions to those who have even mild ane... Taking care of anemia is probably as important as giving aspirin, beta blockers or clot-dissolving drugs, which are already standard care for heart attacks. ...

All the more bad

...aid: "This study emphasises the health benefits of giving up smoking no matter what your age."Giving up smoking has got to be the best thing you can do for your health." "Carbon monoxide and nicotine are well proven to be damaging to the heart and circulation. Perhaps more studies into paraoxonase will re...

Snoring could be a warning

...nt both the snoring and the high blood pressure by giving women breathing masks attached to a machine that kept their airways open while they were asleep. Lincolnshire GP Dr Martyn Walling, a member of the Primary Care Gynaecology Group, said "Snoring can be more common in pregnancy because women who are 30...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

...ant implications for how aggressive doctors are in giving medications to patients whom they previously simply observed....

Common contraception

...ly. "It might be that this channel is involved in giving the sperm's tail a kind of turbocharge at the last instant, when it needs more power to penetrate the zona pellucida," Dr Chapman speculated.A contraceptive designed to prevent fertilisation would not interfere with the gene but simply inhibit the io...

Beer does good

...es. Professor Joe Vinston carried out the tests by giving hamsters the human equivalent of two beers a day. He said other research had shown health benefits from antioxidants in wine and that the alcohol in beer and wine helped protect against heart disease. But he said he believed his study was the first...

First Artificial Heart patient has Major setback

...o months after the heart implant kept doctors from giving Tools blood-thinning anticoagulants that reduce the risk of clots, which can cause strokes. Doctors finally were able to give Tools anti-coagulant medicine during the last month, and that could have had the unintended effect of freeing the already-...

Patients Pressure Would Result In Overprescription

...r to be trying to maximize patient satisfaction by giving antibiotic-seeking patients what they want....

Sniff out flatulence

...uts the sting into flatulence. It was described as giving a rotten egg smell by the scientists while dimethyl, another gas isolated in tests, had a "sweet" bouquet. The researchers selected two judges who had proved their ability to distinguish between the array of different gases through a blindfold test....

Bar Codes For Prescribed Drugs

...ents' hospital identification bracelets to prevent giving the wrong dose or the wrong medicine. The bar codes would include such information as a unique product code number, a lot number and an expiration date. Such information would not only facilitate matching, but would aid in recalling products when n...

A new hearing device improves hearing

...ack - distracting sounds and whistles - as well as giving the wearer the feeling of talking within a barrel. The new aids have two parts - internal and external. The external processor is attached magnetically just behind the ear and picks up sounds which it transmits to the internal part, a receiver impl...

Exposure to EMF may cause leukemia

...lves to airborne pollutants such as exhaust fumes, giving them an electrical charge and making them more likely to be deposited in the lungs when inhaled. ICNIRP sets international guidelines for protection against the electromagnetic fields associated with the transmission, generation and use of electricit...

New technique to diagnose heart disease

...rope, that were scheduled for a conventional test, giving them an MRI scan in addition. The new imaging technique, which does not involve any injections, was 63 per cent accurate in diagnosis of heart disease. The accuracy rose to 70 per cent when it came to looking at three-vessel or left main artery disea...

Nervous disorder being treated

... have found that the symptoms can be alleviated by giving patients an intravenous supply of a human protein called immunoglobulin (IVIg) designed to buttress the immune system. The immune system acts to produce antibodies that reduce levels of a brain chemical that plays a crucial role in controlling the ...

Medications for depression

...psychotherapy - physicians may feel more confident giving out a prescription than offering therapy. This is acceptable so long as people get better, but more effort could perhaps be made to give patients a choice of treatments for depression....

Babies Need Vaccination

...possible disease from infected mothers.Previously, giving the shots in the hospital was recommended only for newborns// whose mothers were known to be infected or whose disease status was unknown.The new recommendation is listed in the childhood immunization schedule for 2002, prepared by the American Acade...

Find a partner

...relationship may benefit men's long-term health by giving them emotional ward.// Researchers in Stockholm found they also found that death rates from heart disease and stroke were higher in unmarried men than in married men. There was hardly any discrepancy in death rates between married and unmarried wom...

A treatment for Osteoporosis

...can cause severe indigestion. So scientists tried giving women a week's dose at once, enrolling 1200 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis in a two-year international trial (medical centres from the US to France participated). They found that taking one pill a week could protect bone just as well. And re...

Additional Radiotheraphy for Breast Cancer

Research says that giving extra radiotherapy to patients with early breast cancer significantly reduces the risk of cancer recurring in the breast. //The results were so clear that clinical practice should be changed immediately, particularly for younger women. Nearly five t...

Vitamin E decreases high blood pressure in kidney failure

...pressure. In the latest study, they also show that giving the animals vitamin E, a known antioxidant, reduces the high blood pressure. The vitamin seems to work by restoring levels of nitric oxide, a natural hormone which can relax blood vessels and also has antioxidant properties. Previously, levels of n...

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