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INVEGA Receives Marketing Authorization In EU For Treatment Of Schizophrenia

... risk factors such as being overweight or a family history of diabetes, blood sugar testing should be performed at the beginning and throughout treatment with INVEGA. Complications of diabetes can be serious and even life threatening. If signs of high blood sugar or diabetes develop, such as being thirsty al...

National Eye Institute Targets Mexican-Americans for Glaucoma Awareness

...ge 60, blacks over age 40 and people with a family history of glaucoma all face a higher risk for the disease. Five percent of Hispanics have primary open-angle glaucoma, the most common form glaucoma. The rate increases to 8% among those in their 60s and to 15% for those in their 70s. Hispanics are the l...

UK Scientists to Undertake Seven Year Study of Peanut Allergy

...o avoid nuts during pregnancy if there is a family history of allergy. This group is also advised not to give their babies peanuts before they are three-years-old. It is not clear how to prevent peanut allergy. Some studies suggest that peanut avoidance in early infancy may help to prevent allergy, whereas...

Drinking Heavy Amounts of Alcohol Shrinks Your Brain

...inal effects of drinking, people who had a 12-year history of heavy drinking had less brain volume than those who changed into the high drinking group during those 12 years. Researchers are following up on these findings to make sure these differences hold up....

Cholesterol-lowering Drugs Reduce Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack

...sient ischemic attack, or mini-stroke, and with no history of heart disease. Half of the participants received the cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin and half received a placebo. The participants were then followed for an average of four and a half years. For each 10-percent decrease in LDL, or low-de...

Research Demonstrates Link Between Domestic Violence and Asthma

... from asthma, and were also asked about a personal history of experiencing or witnessing domestic violence. Researchers also accounted for many other factors that have been associated with asthma, including exposure to tobacco smoke and level of education and income. The study found that women who had exp...

Despite Being Effective Electroconvulsive Therapy is Underused for Severe Depression

...e University of Louisville. Dr. Taylor reviews the history and current use of ECT for depression and other psychiatric disorders, making the case for increased use of this research-proven therapy. The idea of inducing seizures to treat psychiatric disorders has a long history, but it wasn't until the 1950s...

New Therapies may Help to Avoid Transplant in Some Heart Failure Patients

...ve a much more reliable description of the natural history of the changes in heart function during LVAD support," Maybaum said. "That makes us optimistic that other strategies may allow us to further improve cardiac function." Two novel strategies will soon be tested in clinical trials for LVAD patients i...

Practicing Spirituality may Help Smokers to Quit

...nd beliefs. Of the 104 participants, 92 had some history of using spiritual resources, and of those, 78 percent believed that using those resources when making a quit attempt could be helpful. Seventy-seven percent believed having treatment staff encourage the use of spiritual resources to help them quit c...

Two Australian Teenagers Sentenced to Life for Murder

...ere 16 at the time of the murder - that their long history of drug use leading up to the night before the murder could not excuse what they had done. All three girls danced together at a party on June 17, just hours before the killing. Prosecutor Simon Stone told the court the three friends had slept in ...

Risk of Lymphoma Increases With Hepatitis C Virus Infection

...graphics, socioeconomic status, and particularly a history of injection drug use or blood transfusions received before 1990, when screening for hepatitis C virus was started....

Younger Women At Risk Of Heart Disease

... the women were white, and 88 percent had a family history of heart disease.The vast majority (88 percent) re...g a group of women almost all of whom had a family history of heart disease. "This is really the first time research has focused on women aged less than 55,"...

Burnt Brits Don't Feel Hot

... or fair hair, lots of moles or freckles, a family history of skin cancer or experience of sunburn in the past. Those at risk can burn in as little as 10 minutes in the midday summer sun."...

Scientists in Britain Create Artificial Blood

...don from May 22 as part of an exhibition about the history of plastics....

7 Common Myths About Osteoporosis

...ctly hereditary FACT: While women with a family history of osteoporosis are at an increased risk of developing the disease, not having a family history does not mean that you are immune to having this condition, says Douyon. Everyone is susceptible. Ho...

Cocaine Stigma Continues to Haunt Kate Moss

... fresh-faced schoolboy." Moss has had a troubled history with drugs. She was photographed snorting drugs at a music studio in 2005 and has had an on-and-off relationship with rocker Pete Doherty, who has also spent time in rehab for drug addiction. Kate has since her separation with her boy friend and af...

Aspirin a Day Can Keep Colon Cancer Away

...se at increased risk of the disease through family history or other factors. Andrew Chan, of the gastrointestinal unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, said the results "provide convincing evidence that aspirin, at biologically relevant doses, can reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer". H...

Scientists Recommend New Guidelines For Cholesterol Testing In Children

...least one parent with high cholesterol or a family history of early heart disease. Typically high-risk adolescents should be screened, and probably every year or two, opines Janssen. "A high-risk adolescent would be one who's had a parent or grandparent with premature cardiovascular disease or high choles...

Multiple Sclerosis Could Be Checked Through Testosterone Gel

...become common and noted that MS research has had a history of promising therapies that ultimately failed. But the Mayo Clinic's Rodriguez, who's familiar with the study findings, said he doubts that testosterone therapy will become standard, because it has side effects and has been connected to an increase...

Mid-Life Headaches May Increase Risk of Vision Problems

Middle-aged men and women with a history of migraine and other headaches are more likely to...vision problems or blindness, than those without a history of headaches, according to a study published in the May 15, 2007, issue of Neurology, the scientific...

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