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Tsunami Survivors Face Pneumonia Threat

...ys following the tsunami on 26 December last year, groups such as the World Health Organization issued statements alerting people to the possibility that diarrhoea-type diseases, particularly cholera, would spread rapidly. Cholera outbreaks typically begin to appear one to two weeks after a catastrophe, as ...

Body Weight Found To Influence PSA Levels

...ncreased. The association held true across all age groups and throughout all races. A study done in 2003 showed that men with the highest body mass indexes were 34-percent more likely to develop the disease than those with lower BMIs. Other studies have also shown poorer outcomes for obese men diagnosed wit...

The Addition Of Radiation Therapy Found To Improve Survival In Breast Cancer Patients

...including cardiac deaths, were acceptable for both groups of patients. Thus researchers say, their results, and those from other studies, confirm that in situations where residual disease remains, adjuvant chemotherapy alone in high-risk breast cancer patients is suboptimal and that the addition of locoreg...

Understanding The Link Between Phobias And Fatal Heart Disease

... women's level of anxiety was classified into four groups of scores from zero to four and higher based on their answers. The relationship between the score on the phobia index and the subsequent risk of having a heart disease event was analyzed and it was found that women who suffered most from phobic anxi...

Aerobic Exercise Beneficial In Treating Depression

... weeks, people taking part in the aerobic exercise groups saw, on average, a 47-percent decline in depressiv...up had a complete remission of symptoms. The other groups also saw a decline in depressive symptoms, but they were not considered statistically significant. ...

Steroids Effective For Treating Carpel Tunnel Syndrome

...sults showed no difference in outcomes between the groups over the long term, and in the short term, people who received the injections actually reported better relief of symptoms....

Blood Thinning Medication Could Prevent Strokes

...nd there was no major difference between treatment groups in rates of major bleeding, but total bleeding was lower with ximelagatran....

Neglected Gum Disease Could Increase Risk Of Heart Attack and Stroke

...finding by assessing the levels of three different groups of microbes: those that are known to cause periodontal disease, those that are thought to possibly cause periodontal disease, and those that are not connected to the disease. Thus researchers say since gum infections are preventable and treatable, ...

Carrots Found To Reduce Cancer Risk

...vided 24 rats with pre-cancerous tumors into three groups and fed them different diets. After 18 weeks, rats who consumed carrots with their ordinary feed as well as rats who consumed falcarinol with their feed -- the same amount as contained in the carrots -- were one-third less likely to develop full-scal...

Understanding Food Preferences in Kids

...b samples and participants were divided into three groups based on their genotype of varying sensitivities to bitterness. Results showed while more than half of participants with bitter-sensitive sites on their genotype detected bitterness in a certain solution, only a few participants who had bitter-insen...

The Counter Effect Of Alzheimer's Drug

...t baseline, six weeks, and 26 weeks.Neither of the groups showed any significant improvement in agitation after six or 26 weeks compared to the placebo group. It was also observed that those taking quetiapine showed a significant cognitive decline. Thus researchers say though quetiapine has been regarded a...

More Importance To Be Given To Prenatal Nutrition

...th pregnant mice. The mice were separated into two groups of mothers and were studied for the three weeks of pregnancy. For two weeks, both groups were fully nourished. On the third week, one group of mothers was restricted to only half the amount...

Hope For Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

...e receptor 9, or TLR9, were given to two different groups of mice that appeared similar but were from different genetic strains. Reactions were different in the two strains of mice. The TLR9 activators inhibited the severity of experimental colitis but had no effect on the other group of mice. To understan...

Yogurt To Control Obesity

...n lipogenesis. The study took recordings of two groups of obese subjects, one group was put on balanced deficit diets and the other was put on yogurt treatment. Dietary macronutrients and fiber were held constant for both the groups. Records were taken of body weight, body fat and fat distribution, bloo...

Promised Drug Doesn't Help Acute Heart Failure

...a, or a significant breathing problem, for the two groups of hospitalized patients over 24 hours. After a week, there was also no difference between the placebo group and group receiving tezosentan in incidence of death or worsening of heart failure. After six months, no difference was observed in overall m...

Diuretics are better for treating blood pressure problems than newer medicines

... of heart failure due to hyper tension in both the groups of African-Americans and Americans. Drug chlorthalidone had more pronounced effect on some conditions of the African-Americans. However for the initial treatment of hypertension and high blood pressure, diuretics still remain the choice of the medic...

Your headache can stem from your body weight

...ews and had divided the number of people into five groups according to their body mass index. 67% of the respondents were female and the average age of the people who participated in the study was 43 yrs. Obese people reported having at least one attack of severely crippling headache that makes them unable...

Anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the risk of oral cancer for smokers

...e of having oral cancer than others, when both the groups are moderate smokers of tobacco. The study suggested that NSAID might have anti carcinogenic effect on smokers who smoked for 30 or less pack-years. A pack-year is smoking for one year at a cigarette pack a day. Smokers smoking for 30 pack-years ma...

Vitamin D, calcium don’t prevent fractures in elderl

...esult was obtained from the comparison between the groups which had both and the ones who had placebo. The results showed that there was not much improvement in the condition of the geriatric population from administration of the supplementary calcium or vitamin D in prevention of fractures....

Surgery of spine for back pain may not be cost effective

...hampering their daily life. They were divided into groups of surgery and rehabilitation according to their choice. The patients were followed up were two years on their health records. Surgery group did better in the initial results; however in the long run there was not much difference between the two grou...

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