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H2O - a cure for low blood pressure

US researchers have found that a large glass of water may be the latest blood pressure drug for some patients. Investigators at Vanderbilt's Autonomic Dysfunction Center reported that water has a powerful blood pressure raising effect in patients who experience faintin...

New scalpel probes into cancer

...ancer cells beneath layers skin, blood and muscle have been developed by US researchers. The bottle-top sized microcavity laser developed by the US department of Energy will enable surgeons to operate more accurately on tumours without cutting large amounts of tissue.// This device could detect which c...

Prevention is better than cure

...as compared to an adult. Cigarette smokers tend to have more severe colds than non-smokers and are more likely to suffer serious complications such as bronchitis and pneumonia. Though colds are generally contracted from other people, social isolation also increases susceptibility to colds.Stress is anoth...

GlaxoSmithKline - Changes Lamictal(R) Label Appearance and Packaging

... It is important for patients with epilepsy not to have an interruption in treatment because it could lead...ilepticus. Conversely, those patients that do not have epilepsy could be placed at unnecessary risk of adverse events, including serious rash, if they are ...

The big brain in suicides

...om England has found that people who commit sucide have heavier brains than most people. The human brain ... The researchers said all suicide victims should have a routine post-mortem examination to check for oedema (fluid collection in the brain),a thorough bra...

Meditation relieves stress

... Researchers at West Virginia University in the US have been looking at how a meditation programme called 'mindfulness training' can help people who describe themselves as 'stressed out'. This training programme involved two and a half hour classes once a week for eight weeks, and an eight hour retreat.//...

Better prostate cancer detection

... in one or more of the six inner areas - and would have been missed if the conventional method was used. Dr Bahnson routinely uses the extended biopsy now. An added bonus of this technique is that it saves certain patients from having to come back for a second biopsy - when the first is clear but cance...

E Merck introduces Livogen Z with zinc sulphate

...of Livogen Z even before the tablets. E Merck will have only one version of Livogen Z and it will contain ...he composition of the drug. E Merck is believed to have added zinc sulphate to Livogen Z as they felt it was unethical to sell otherwise....

New treatment for Osteoporosis

...le Rock, Stavros Manolagas and Starvroula Kousteni have created forms of sex hormones that will keep bone cells alive, at the same time not increase the risk of cancer. This was done by discovering that oestrogen and testosterone can trigger more than one kind of signal in cells. It was known that when ...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...tomato products, such as tomato sauce and ketchup, have long been associated with a reduced risk of variou...uch an action is yet to be found. Clinical trials have suggested that lycopene, which is found in tomato products and other natural plant nutrients may be ...

Thirty minutes of work up per day reduces the risk of Diabetes

...agreed with the experts that it is common sense to have made up this study. The Diabetes Prevention Program was conducted at 27 centers nationwide and involved more than 3000 participants. Participants ranged in age from 25 to 85 and generally sustained a 5% weight loss throughout the 3-year study. In th...

A better way to measure cholesterol

...ntermediate density lipoprotein.// Researchers have found a more accurate way of predicting death from heart disease. In a study covering 4,462 adults aged 40 to 64, increasing non-HDL cholesterol levels were linked to increased risk of death from heart disease. Men with high levels were twice as ...

Maternal alcohol consumption linked to behavioral problems in children

...k during pregnancy were three times more likely to have a child diagnosed with behavioral problems.//This ...ek across pregnancy--were three times as likely to have delinquent behavior scores in the clinical range. Alcohol consumption during pregnancy can cause fe...

How much can exercise improve health?

...ing different conditions and diseases, but all may have different associations. These ar... of exercise on specific diseases, the evidence we have for physical activity and cardiovascular disease is probably the strongest of any evidence. Lee said...

B Vitamin protects and lowers toxicity of Arthritis Drug

...he arthritis drug methotrexate were less likely to have a liver related complications than those taking just methotrexate. Hence patients taking the folate supplements were able to continue their drug therapy for longer periods. In their study which included 400 patients , came out with the figur...

Starch fights cancer

...ustrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), researchers have revealed that resistant starch could be as importa...in the fight against bowel cancer. They have noted that people in Africa, Japan and China have low rates of bowel cancer even though they eat les...

Eye Saver

... from a certain form of cancer of the eye need not have to remove their dieased eye, according to a new study. The results of the Collaborative ocular Melanoma Study(COMS), a multi-centre trial released by the Archives of Opthalmology, found that survival rates were the same regardless of whether th...

Helping stroke patients to recover balance

...itng cure for some postural problems. People who have a stroke affecting the brain's right hemisphere may suffer paralysis down their left side and can lean to the right.// Caroline Tilkete and her colleagues at the Lyon neurological laboratory of INSERM the French medical research agency, gave wedge sh...

Simple Therapy

...d colleagues at the Massachusetts General Hospital have rid the mice of the immune cells that attack the p...ain from attacking the islets.The once sickly mice have seen their blood sugar levels returning to normal and by most measures, the mice appeared to be cur...

Detecting anomalies in heart rythm

Researchers in Germany have developed a new risk assessment methodology to detect any anomaly in heart beat rythm and patient's risk of cardiac death. ECG is the basic data with which patient's risk of cardiac death can be determined and analysed by the computer.The time inte...

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