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One in Three Heart Attack Patients Have No Chest Pains

... And for women, diabetics and others who belong to groups likely to have atypical heart attack symptoms, more than half may never have such pains. The report examined symptoms in more than 400,000 people who were treated for heart attacks in U.S. hospitals from 1994 to 1998. It found that patients who had n...

Homeopathic preparation better than placebo in perennial allergic

...o group (mean difference 19.8 L/min). While both groups reported an improvement in symptoms, when the researchers combined the results from this trial with those of three previous trials (n = 253), there was a mean symptom reduction on visual analogue scores of 28% (10.9 mm) for homoeopathy compared with ...

International community warns India on HIV situation

...d to this is the shocking fact that some high-risk groups in the country have a prevalence rate of over 50%. Dr. Skolnik of the World Bank says that India should treat the situation as a national emergency and nothing short of that shall work. He added that all over the world the main cause of the HIV disas...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...g hapless patients. These researchers studied two groups of patients. One was the immunotherapy group who received the injections the other group was the placebo group which received placebo injection whenever the other group received the vaccine. When compared after the two-year period the difference was ...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

... hapless patients. These researchers studied two groups of patients. One was the immunotherapy group who received the injections the other group was the placebo group which received placebo injection whenever the other group received the vaccine. When compared after the two-year period the difference was ...

Morning after pill effective up to five days after having unprotected sex

...at there was hardly any difference between the two groups thereby proving that taking the morning after pill up to 5 days after having unprotected sex was indeed a wise thing to do....

India to benefit from pharma companies' move

...second successful revolution. Several independent groups in Britain are now rising to support what is developing into a legal revolution against drug apartheid. Street power is giving way to Internet power to make opposition known. Close to a million signed an Internet petition in support of the South Afri...

Half of world's children are passive smokers - damning disclosure from WHO

...mpaigns to attack legitimate studies, set up front groups to push smokers rights, sued health authorities in court, and done everything in their power to delay and defeat meaningful action on second-hand smoke". Another startling and worrying statistic is that figures predict that nearly 20% of the women i...

Acupuncture superseeds massage therapy for short term relief of pain

...re were no significant differences among the study groups which employed acupuncture or massage therapy. Hence they concluded that acupuncture to be effective for short term gains and not for long. Irnich told that massage and acupuncture both have local effects but acupuncture seems to have also general e...

One...just one cigarette can spoil the heart function.

...idence of heart disease.They were divided into two groups with one group left with smoking and the other with nicotine gums for 15 minutes.Doppler echocardiogram was done before and after the process , and was found that , in the cigarette group, there were differences in several measures of heart blood flo...

Say "no" to x-rays

...pear to worsen the outcome. The study tracked two groups of patients - 421 in all - who had had lower back pain for over six weeks. One group was given radiography, the other was not. Researchers found that after three months, patients who had initially received the radiography did not receive any clinica...

Reversing heart failure

... The researchers looked at heart tissue from two groups of transplant patients - one group had received LVAD support, the other had not. In the first group, the heart muscle had a stronger contracting mechanism than in the second - suggesting that the LVAD was actually reversing the heart failure. More st...

Human gene number increases

...of the genes in human tissues confirming that both groups predicted real genes. If the rest of the mooted genes are genuine, an estimate of 42,000 or more is closer to the mark. According to the researchers, gene-prediction algorithms are at fault, rather than the underlying sequence itself. Cooke says tha...

Chemists prepare for face-off with manufacturers

...everal pharmaceutical companies and large business groups decided to get into retailing, by opening their own outlet or chain of outlets, which was seen by the RDCA members as a threat to their existence. According to Mr. Shah, Cadila Healthcare, Cipla and Ranbaxy from among the pharmaceutical companies h...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

... one of three smoking cessation groups. One of the groups received standard smoking cessation therapy, where...men in the weight control and the standard therapy groups gained on average 11.9 pounds and 16.9 pounds, respectively. Dr. Perkins says these results indica...

Gastrointestinal ills more common in diabetics

...e had any of 16 gastrointestinal symptoms and five groups of symptoms. Three symptoms--fecal incontinence, nausea and difficulty swallowing--were much more common in diabetics. But glycemic control was related to the likelihood of gastrointestinal problems, Bytzer and colleagues found. Participants who re...

The patient's voice

... a website that everyone can access. The first two groups are patients with high blood pressure and prostate cancer, respectively, and these will be followed by experiences of cancer of the breast, bowel and cervix. The site will also have lots of other useful and up-to-date information, as well as links ...

Micro-camera provides new breast imaging technique

...t breast cancer by improved screening of high-risk groups of women. Further developments currently underway may allow the collection of cells from abnormal areas using the endoscope, avoiding the need for biopsy altogether. Although general anaesthetic has been used so far, it is also likely that the proc...

Borderline blood pressure- possible health risk

...ed nearly men and women, dividing them into three groups on the basis of blood pressure: borderline and optimal, as defined above, and an in-between group defined as normal where blood pressure lay between 130 and 120 (top figure) and 70 and 80 (bottom figure). Over the 12 years following initial blood pre...

Safe for people with asthma

...er got a placebo injection. After 15 days, the two groups swapped over, and hence everyone got both injections, in a different pattern.// Every day for two weeks after each injection, the patients were monitored for peak expiratory flow, asthma symptoms and time off school or work, all as a measure of ast...

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