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Repetitive Magnetic Stimulation of the Brain Gives the Stroke Patients a Reprieve

...n sends signals to the affected side that actually impair the patient's ability to move the arms and legs. Hence in this technique a magnet is used to reduce the nerve activity on the side of the brain not affected by the stroke. The study results are published in the journal Stroke. It also reports that ...

Simple Lifestyle Changes May Improve Cognitive Function and Brain Efficiency

...s the body to release cortisol, a hormone that can impair memory and damage brain memory cells. Brain function was tested before and after the 14-day study, using positron emission tomography (PET) scans to measure brain activity. Participants who followed the healthy longevity lifestyle plan demonstrated ...

Children Most Affected By Second Hand Smoke

...e larynx or bronchial tubes that potentially could impair breathing (29 percent vs. 5 percent), and actual airway obstruction (29 percent vs. 11 percent). Respiratory problems were similarly increased in the recovery room, but to a lesser extent. It was in the wakeup period in the operating room that they...

Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury with Embryonic Stem Cells

...not help with functional recovery, it also did not impair it. Upon further examination, the scientists found no damage to the tissues surrounding the spinal cord indicating that the transplantation had not caused any damage to the animals. "Our biggest safety concern was that in the case of a severe injur...

Study finds Adolescents Girls Have Lower Levels Of Vitamin-D

... deficiency during childhood and adolescence might impair the acquisition of peak bone mass at the end of skeletal growth and maturation, thereby increasing the risk of osteoporotic fractures later in life.” In their study that they and reported in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, Dr Mughal and his t...

Study Shows That The Quality Of HDL Produced Depends On The Food Consumed

...be a main reason for vascular disease, it can also impair the ability of blood vessels to react in a normal way to stress. Dr. David S. Celermajer from The Heart Research Institute in Sydney, Australia, said that by comparison, eating a meal that is high in polyunsaturated fat does not disturb the measure...

Why is sleeping on your child's snores, a bad idea?

...al because childhood obstructive sleep apnea could impair the child's potential for life. Parents would do well to keep tabs on the child's sleeping pattern and habits. Dr. Eric Saslow a Pediatric Neurologist commented, 'It may well be that some people who are thought to have ADD or learning disabilities ...

Head Injuries Lowered among Canadian Youth

...h severe injuries, the kind that can significantly impair physical, emotional, cognitive and social functioning, increased by 46 per cent by 2004. Margaret Keresteci, manager of clinical registries at the institute said, "When you take into account the often life-long impacts associated with head injuries,...

$68 million aid pours in from Gates Foundation to fight tropical diseases

...d worms. These worms are lethal in that they could impair child growth and development for life. Presently no vaccines are available to prevent these diseases and the drugs that are available for treatments are too costly and prone to side effects. "Many of the world's most debilitating illnesses are vi...

Chronic binge drinking can hasten HIV development

...mely difficult. "While alcohol abuse is known to impair immune defenses," he said, "resulting in a higher incidence and severity of infections – especially pneumonia – the adverse consequences of heavy alcohol consumption on the HIV-infected patient as it relates to disease progression are poorly understo...

Painkillers—New and Old—Increase the Risk for Heart Attak

...effect of some blood-pressure drugs. They can also impair blood vessels' ability to relax and may stimulate the growth of smooth muscle cells inside arteries. All these changes can contribute to the artery-clogging process known as atherosclerosis. Researchers have determined that use of a COX-2 inhibitor...

Bariatric Surgery Patients Have Special Medication Needs

...the amount of food passing through the stomach and impair the ability of the small intestines to absorb nutrients. This combination of approaches creates the need for special considerations to help patients get the best results from their medications, according to Miller and Smith. “Both the smaller stoma...

Rescuing Injured Hearts by Enhancing Regeneration

...ad replaced by scar tissue. Excessive scarring can impair the heart’s pumping capacity and can lead to life-threatening arrhythmias. Heart-muscle cells (cardiomyocytes) normally cannot replicate in mammals, a major obstacle to regeneration. However, in a paper last year, Felix Engel, PhD, and Mark Keating, ...

Eating Fish has more Benefits than Risks

... dominated by those who feel low levels of mercury impair cognitive development," said Dr. Gary Myers, a neurologist at the University of Rochester in New York. He was associated with one of the biggest studies following prenatal mercury exposure from fish against long-term development, however, not with ...

Allergy Drugs More Harmful Than Helpful for Chronic Ear Inflammation

... pretty ubiquitous and nontrivial effects that can impair a child’s functioning at home and at school," said Rosenfeld. "If you're going to subject your child to any medication that has the potential for harm, there needs to be some assurance of benefit. Don’t use ineffective medications just because you ha...

How Brain Injury Leads to Seizures, Memory Problems

...ring with normal function in the dentate gyrus may impair memory formation—especially antegrade memory, the ability to learn new things.” Epileptic seizures and impaired memory are two of the disabilities caused by TBI. Further animal studies, said Dr. Cohen, will investigate whether supplying KCC2 direct...

Researchers Study Effects Of Fat Around The Heart

...t excess fat around the heart and other organs may impair their function. Scientists have already established that excess fat in the abdomen increases the risk of diabetes, but there has been little research on whether fat that stored around other organs is harmful. The scientists suspect that constant ex...

Glowing Tribute to Obesity Clinic in Glasgow

...are the patients to deal with negative habits that impair a healthy approach to life. This includes equipping patients with skills that will help them to control cravings and inculcate healthy eating habits. The clinic began functioning in 2004.Since then it has had over 2,400 referrals.Heath officials se...

Researchers Discover Internal Compass of Immune Cells

...rugs which interfere with the amplification system impair cell migration to inflamed tissues. “These findings are very important because they suggest that novel classes of anti-inflammatory drugs could be developed to prevent rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, asthma, and many other chron...

Physicians Enlisted in Efforts to Keep Demented Drivers Off the Road

...heimer's disease and other forms of dementia, that impair medical fitness to drive." In a recent issue of the Gerontologist, Meuser and colleagues reported on the effects of their workshop after presentations to health professionals in seven Missouri locations, including a number of rural cities with larg...

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