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Friendship can extend lifespan

...ad less strong network of friends. Friends or peer groups not only influences lifestyles like smoking, drink... a spouse. In these years they also act as support groups for providing company, influencing their emotional moods, self esteem and their coping patterns....

Asthma and Panic- a vicious cycle

...ed. Also the individuals were categorized into two groups (1) panic disorder as those who had recurrent unexplained panic attacks during the year before the interview, and (2) any panic as those who had panic disorder or panic attacks. The findings over the whole study period showed that asthma was more st...

Race an important links to the risk of advanced colorectal cancer

...ncer stage of diagnosis and mortality. Some ethnic groups have a 10 to 60 percent higher risk of stage III or IV colorectal cancer compared to some non-Hispanic whites. Some have 20 to 30 percent higher risk of death from the disease. The good news for Asian Americans and non-Hispanic whites is that they ar...

Antibiotics for acute uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infection

...(LRTI) were randomly allocated into one of the six groups consisting of leaflet or no leaflet in the groups...scribed, fewer patients in the delayed and control groups used antibiotics, fewer patients were "very satisfied” and fewer patients believed in the effectiven...

Water pills for diabetic with high blood pressure

...f heart failure due to // hypertension in both the groups of African-Americans and Americans. Now the same researchers are saying that the same drugs can benefit the patients with diabetes who suffer from high blood pressure and related cardiovascular illness. The research findings form a part of the Antih...

Maintaining Weight Loss with Drugs

...g orlistat . For the study researchers studied two groups of children between ages 12 and 16, all of whom we...hildren received a placebo three times a day. Both groups were given instructions on how to lose weight, exercise, and eat healthier. Results of the study sh...

New Combination Therapy Option for HIV Patients

...ug interactions and see how Aptivus works in other groups of people, such as patients taking HIV medicines for the first time, children, and HIV-1 positive women....

Cobblestone Walking May Be The Key For Healthy Living.

...ves balance and physical performance among the age groups of 60 and adults. John Fisher,Ph.D., from the Ore... of the mats. They then compiled a study using two groups - One group, which used cobblestone mats for walking and the other group who used the conventional f...

AIDS - The ‘silent but lethal tsunami’ of Asia

... epidemic is still mainly affecting the vulnerable groups such as injecting drug users, the sex workers and the homosexuals. However, it is now slowly finding its way into the general population. When looking at the larger picture it is clear that the failure to fight the AIDS virus will definitely affec...

New study reveals how to strike a balance between heart-healthy fats

...recommendations of how much from each of these fat groups are good for health. Researchers have compared the comparative role of both the dietary fats in their study for achieving optimum dietary benefits for lowering the risks of cardiovascular disease. They have taken two heart healthy oils such as sunfl...

Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives May Increase Risk For Heart Attack Or Stroke

...ral contraceptives are optimal therapy for certain groups of women who are at baseline risk or who are taking the pill for a longer time, such as women with PCOS." According to Nestler, previous epidemiological studies have shown an increased risk of cardiovascular events associated with oral contraceptiv...

Weight Loss Relieves Osteoarthritis Pain

... percent gain in overall function . Three kinds of groups were formed based on a regime of diet only, exercise only or a combination of healthy habits. The abstract written on the above study, states that for every one pound of weight loss, there is a 4-pound reduction in the load exerted on the knee with ...

Use Of Sunscreen In Childhood And Prevents Future Skin Cancer

...e experimental group was randomly divided into two groups one of which was made the control i.e. their paren... distributed and filled. After three years the two groups of children were re-examined and results were compared. They revealed that children who received sun...

Strong Magnetic Stimulation Can Help Treating Severe Depression

...stint of therapy. 'Admittedly, the division of the groups was not made on a random basis, which reduces the reliability of the findings,' Dr. Wagner warns. 'The number of patients taking part is also too small for us to draw final conclusions about the effectiveness.' However, other studies also confirm tha...

Irritable bowel syndrome associated with food intake, confirms blood test

...logy of irritable bowel syndrome, in all the three groups of patients suffering from the syndrome tested. These three groups of patients were divided as per the symptoms of diarrhea, constipation and alternations, for the res...

Contemplating the effects of the “Morning After“ Pill

...s no difference in pregnancy rates between the two groups and it was observed that the rate at which ovulation was impaired in their study was identical to the estimated efficacy of EC. Thus indicating that EC is does not work as an abortifacient....

Handwashing prevents diarrhea and acute lower respiratory infections

...h contrrols. But no difference was seen among the groups who received plain soap as compared to those who received antibacterial soap. The authors conclude that washing hands with soap reduced diarrhoea and acute respiratory infections by half and incidence of impetigo reduced by almost a third. ...

Over Six Million HIV Infected People In South Africa- Finds A Survey

... HIV measured among pregnant women rose in all age groups from 2003 to 2004. According to the report women in their early 20s and 30s are the most vulnerable, with 38.5 percent of pregnant women aged 25-29 infected with the HI virus. The survey found wide provincial variations, with HIV prevalen...

Estimates For Number Of HIV/AIDS Deaths In India Still Not Available

...he population is HIV-positive. However, there are groups in India that argue that even road accidents kill many more people than AIDS and much more attention is being paid to the disease because it has some high profile advocates. However, experts like Piot counter the argument by saying the real impact ...

Carboplatin Drug Is More Effective Than Radiation Therapy For Testicular Cancer

... relapse-free survival was similar between the two groups (95·4% for the carboplatin group vs. 96·6% for radiation therapy). At 5 years they also found that patients receiving carboplatin were less likely to develop tumors in their remaining testicle. Treatment for stage 1 seminoma—a cancer of the testes—h...

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