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Teens' vitamin D deficiency an epidemic

...has helped weaken the 18-year-old's bones and left him prone to fractures.//Doctors say it's an often ove...octors say about half the youngsters referred to him turn out to be deficient in vitamin D, and in about a quarter of those cases, lifestyle habits contr...

Prevention of Prostate Cancer

... that's the whole key." He's hoping that will keep him one step ahead of cancer. Researchers say no more than 3 percent of the men in the study had side effects, including mild sexual dysfunction. However, they say when the drug was stopped, sexual function was returned to normal....

Just standing next to a large person can be bad for one's image

...en were asked their opinion of the man. They rated him from 1 to 5 on 50 negative adjectives -- called the "fat phobia scale" -- that people often use to describe obese people. The man with the big woman was rated 22 percent more negatively than the same man with the thin companion. When seen with the l...

Finding relief from Excruciating Headaches a challenge

...t at least half the young patients who come to see him suffer from chronic daily headaches. Often, it is a matter of trying various migraine medications. Among the most common are prescription drugs called "triptans," which are marketed under such names as Maxalt, Amerge, Imitrex and Zomig. They're tak...

Life After Testicular Cancer

...oth saving the patient's life because we're curing him of his cancer, and we're giving him the opportunity to create new life in the future," they say....

Wrestling found To Be Good for the Immune System

If your son loves wrestling you might want to get him involved in wrestling early, and it may significantly boost his immune system.// A new study reveals the levels of all groups of white blood cells rose significantly, particularly natural killer cells, in boys ages 14 to 18 after a one-and-a-half hou...

How Safe is Air Travel For Heart Patients

... Asking for an aisle seat to make it easier for him to get up during the flight Walking frequently through the cabin to keep blood flowing to his extremities Wearing below-the-knee compression stockings to prevent deep vein thrombosis Avoiding alcohol and drinking lots of other fluids to remain...

Gleevec for Lung Disease

...is wife Debbie. Earlier this year, his doctor told him he had a lung disease called pulmonary fibrosis. "...chael takes six pills a day and hopes they'll give him and his lungs a little more time. "I'd say 99 percent of the time, I believe it's going to work out....

Baby Talking Is Good For Your Child

...gets the attention of the child and actually helps him grasp the language faster than listening to normal adult talk. Baby talk or infant directed (ID) speech helps in distinguishing the words from fluent speech. In the experiments conducted by the researchers infants were able to distinguish words from...

Link between Faith, Health and Healing

...e American healthcare system." Anderson took upon him the bastion of promoting this synthesis and new age healing process. From being a victim of medical science and declared a dead man; having spent 20 years to studying this concept. Today he is the pioneer and one of Americas foremost healing authorit...

Doctors Warned by IMA Against Treating Maoist from Nepal

...an a doctor know which group the patient coming to him belongs to?" He advised his colleagues that in case of bullet, knife or other injuries caused by some violence the doctor concerned should start the treatment and then inform the police about it. <br...

Research Fraud By Doctor – Probe Demanded

...ty of (Dr. Ram B.) Singh, which might either clear him or support a case of scientific fraud," said C.R. Soman. He was referring to the latest issues of the two British medical journals in which they have expressed concern on research papers by Singh, a private practitioner in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh. ...

Mentally Imbalanced AIDS patient Chained

...last couple of weeks, his relatives tried to admit him to a hospital at Bagda. But he was refused admission. Hospitals in Kolkata and Barasat also refused to treat him. On Tuesday, locals staged a roadblock in Bagda with Debnath. The protest drew the attention of the district health authorities and he ...

Sleeping Boy Does A Rip Van Winkle

...echanical engineer posted at Jamshedpur, has taken him for treatment to Kolkata, Vellore in Tamil Nadu an...le his parents have run out of money trying to get him treated. East Midnapore district health chief Subrata Dutta has decided to send a medical team to e...

Cow's vein used in man to treat varicose ulcer.

...transplanted a bovine jugular vein to a man to rid him of a painful ulcer due to a weakened valve of a ve...k a few feet without the excruciating pain forcing him to stop. After almost 18 years of non-stop pain he is yet to come to terms with the fact that he is ...

Prostratin- Drug to eradicate HIV

...is still to be confirmed and tested. According to him it's an approach that, in the clinical community, there would be some level of resistance to. This is something that would turn the virus on and clinical prognosis is related to the levels of virus in the system. In fact, determining how much of the ...

Fat Cell Protein Hits Type-2 Diabetes

...es are obese, about 60 to 80 percent. According to him the idea has been developed that the adipose cell where the fat is stored is also producing very active molecules that are really functioning as hormones. He said his research team found a very clear mechanism by which an increase or decrease in fat ...

Research on HIV takes new direction

... team at the University of Cleavland. According to him chemically modified from existing antibiotics known as aminoglycosides, the new compounds target the genetic structure of the virus essential to its replication. Specifically, they target the "Rev" protein that is responsible for producing and sprea...

Doctor demonstrates `psychic surgery'

...return unhappy as a city court slapped a notice on him and the organisers of the event. Orbito had said ...that Orbito is not a proclaimed offender to arrest him from another country. "There are charges against him and we will arrest him when he comes next to Ba...

Laughter – best medicine to good healt

...ghter clubs in Chitradurga. The clubs started by him in April last have attracted a large number of middle-aged women and men. One need not pay any fee to join these clubs. Besides the nearly 200 permanent members, these clubs had ``floating members'', Mr. Neelakantaiah, a former District Commandant of...

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