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The Link Between Obesity And Lack Of Sleep Studied

...archers examined patients' total sleep time per 24 hours in relation to their body mass index. More than 1,000 patients completed a questionnaire that assessed demographics, medical problems, sleep habits, and sleep disorders. Based on their findings researchers say they observed that total sleep time dec...

The Harmful Effects Of Secondhand Smoke

...e who had been exposed to cigarette smoke for many hours a day as children were more than three-times as li...imes higher risk and those exposed daily for fewer hours having about a two-times higher risk. The risk of developing other respiratory diseases like COPD ...

Understanding The Link Between Movement And Metabolism

... lean people do. 20 participants were followed 24 hours a day with a movement-monitoring system that included embedded sensors in customized, data-logging undergarments. According to researchers the lack of NEAT in obese patients doesn't reflect a lack of motivation, rather a chemical difference in the br...

Cooling Can Reduce The Risk Of Brain Damage In Oxygen Deprived Newborns

...bral palsy by having their brains cooled // for 72 hours after birth according to a recent study. Babies ...mical cascade is triggered leading to brain damage hours or days afterwards. Thus researchers say treatment may be possible for babies who suffer oxygen dep...

Understanding The Mystery Behind Sleepless Nights

... bed could be also helpful. Exercise atleast three hours before bedtime could also yield similar results. Having a bath at night , could get an individuals core body temperature elevated sufficiently and when one gets out of the bath their core body temperature starts to drop and it drops naturally as th...

Deep Brain Stimulation May Help Depression

...ivity may lessen considerably where they can spend hours in any single posture. Till date treatment was only done by routine prescription of antidepressants and psychotherapy, at times even electro-convulsive therapy was used. The current study results are published in the latest issue of the journal Neur...

Treatment For Sleep Apnea Found To Lower Blood Glucose Levels

...observed that when CPAP was used for at least four hours every day, participants had a significant reduction in glucose levels. Patients with diabetes who keep their blood sugar levels under control can considerably reduce their risk of developing late-stage complications including cardiovascular, kidney, ...

Drug Used To Improve Lung Function In Infants Could Slow Down Motor Coordination

...per kilogram of body weight intravenously every 12 hours for one week. Then, the dose was tapered over the next three weeks. It was observed that children in the dexamethasone group had significantly poorer motor skills, motor coordination and visual-motor integration than those who did not receive the t...

New Medicine For Parkinson’s disease

... the new drug Rasagiline is said to lessen the off hours (hours during which any drug has least effect) of Levodopa by about half-an hour daily. This is good news for patients who have been suffering from this disorder for very long and find their body resisting the effect of the drug Levodopa. Azilect i...

A New Addition Could Help Patients With Parkinson’s Disease

...ff time” on average by 1.18 hours, compared to 1.2 hours for entacapone. The drug was also found to be well-tolerated in the older age groups, with no evidence of an increase in hallucinations or occurrence of other common side effects of Parkinson’s drugs, such as daytime sleepiness, nausea, and leg swell...

Reduce eye infection through new-age contact lenses

...tis than those who use the lens only during waking hours (daily wear). However newer silicone hydro gel lenses seem to give a five times better protection against severe keratitis to people who wear lens for extended use. The usual hydro gel lenses do not give as much protection to the eyes against severe ...

Transmission Of Infectious Disease On Planes Analyzed

...dividual during a flight lasting longer than eight hours places passengers at risk of getting the disease. Another study that examined transmission of SARS during air travel found sitting up to seven rows away could result in infection. Thus researchers say their evidence points to more frequent recirculat...

Excess physical activity can induce stress fracture in adolescent girls

...hysical activity, which often lasts for 16 or more hours per week. These girls had a 1.88 times more risk o...e than the girls doing physical activity for fewer hours per week. The study also showed that adolescent girls who worked out for less than 16 hours per week...

Clothes may provide better protection against sun-related skin problems in children

...les children develop. For children who spends long hours in the sun and wore protection like sun block crea...s than children who stayed out in the sun for long hours in bathing suit and covered with sunscreen. Researchers believe there exists a negative correlation ...

Teens and women are more at risk of getting sunburned

...exposed were more sunburned, while exposure in the hours of 12 noon to 3 pm caused most sunburn. Reference: Archives of Dermatology, April 2005...

Late sleeping may lead to diabetes

...and// diabetes mellitus. Experimenting with sleep hours and sleeping late in the night, these are the thin...oup of 53 to 93 years in the study, the mean sleep hours was 7 hours in the night , with 27% of the people sleeping for six hours or less in the nights. Comp...

Epidural can affect the fetal head position

...livery, such as when epidural were administered, 4 hours after admission if no epidurals are given, and in late labor when the dilation is more than 8cms. Most fetuses were seen to have their head in occiput anterior at delivery. Of the fetuses, which were in occiput posterior late in labor, only 20% of t...

Full time workers are less health conscious than part time workers

...leisure activities for people who worked for eight hours or more. Part time workers on the other hand are more health conscious as they engage in more activities that involve physical activities including playing outdoor games, walking, running or exercising. Study shows that more part time workers engag...

Early test to detect kidney failure

...renal injury. The amount of NGAL in the urine at 2 hours after the bypass surgery was the earliest predicto...rations of NGAL in urine and serum taken after two hours of the surgery represent early biomarkers for acute renal injury after cardiac surgery. This may be ...

New drug for mental alertness

..., 300mg, and 1000mg. They were tested for total 27 hours after the administartion of the drug through EEG measures and a set of tests deigned to test mental alertness. Tests were taken later to confirm results as well. Results of the test showed that performance increased after the medication and continue...

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