Researchers Scale to assess the Severity of Epilepsy in Kids
...ent. Researchers identified three factors that may increase a child's risk of having intractable epilepsy - a form of the disease that does not respond to commonly used drugs. Children who have their first epileptic seizure before their first birthday which is also called symptomatic generalized epilepsy - a......ung. Smoking also causes changes in the lungs that increase the risk of tumors spreading from other sites. Inspite of the fact that it is not completely clear whether smoking provides a nidus in the lungs which envisages the spread, there may also be some lifestyle factors to explain the risk. Murin also po...Sweet Candies replace bitter Pills for Anaemia
... iron status. It is also noted that these candies increase the iron in the blood to about 10% in 3 months. So its time for u kids to ask your mom to buy u candies.....iron candies....Emphasis to ban Drugs ads by Doctors
An increase in the number of advertisements by the drug companies has prompted the doctors to urge the government to ban prescription drug ads from television, news papers and magazines. American Medical Association's New Jersey delegate Dr. Angelo agro said tha...Increase in sugar...decrease in brain function!!!
Long term effects of increase in blood sugar namely blindness, malfunction of the kidneys are known. But what about their immediate effects??. The researchers of Virginia have now come out with astonishing details that a raise in the blood sugar decreases the brain function. Mor...Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children
...iatricians should be aware of the possibility that increase in headache frequency might be due to abuse of even paracetamol, which is harmless. Rachel Hering-Hanit, a neurologist at the Meir General Hospital in Kfar Saba and colleagues said "They should avoid advising children to take pain medications at lib...ZYBAN, The smoking cessation drug marked for its adverse reactions
...ained that the main factor responsible for such an increase in the "yellow cards" is the smoking cessation aid Zyban. However, from January to April 2001 Zyban "accounted for 32% of all yellow cards" she added. Over 5000 adverse reactions including 40 deaths relating to Zyban has been reported. As a result ...Regular exercise prevents hip fractures
... everyone's life, in order to control the alarming increase in hip fractures. In the study, they found that 55% of the people engaged in moderate physical activity for two to four hours per day. After adjustment for other factors, the researchers found that the risk of hip fracture was 28% less for active...Roller coaster takes brain for a big ride!!
Riding roller coasters may increase the risk of developing potentially harmful blood clots on the brain's surface. The Neurological center reported a case of 25 year old healthy male who developed blood clots on the brains surface, known as subdural haematomas, after riding several ro...Antifever drug betters stroke outcome
...he risk of stroke patients dying doubles for every increase of 1 degree celcius. "Though its effects may be modest in size," Dippel added, "it is cheap and has almost no harmful effects."...... Drinking beer regularly for 3 weeks led to a 30% increase in vitamin B6 levels. This vitamin is thought to help break down homocysteine. Drinking red wine or Dutch gin brought only about half that increase, research showed. Older individuals and men with an elevated body mass index tended to have higher ho...Moderate Use of Analgesics - Not Associated With Kidney Dysfunction
...r nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs(NSAIDs) may increase the risk of chronic kidney problems in healthy patients. Researches at Women's hospital in Boston analyzed the use of these pain relievers among 11,032 men with no history of kidney problems. They compared analgesic use to measured creatitine levels...... found that people who tend to get angry showed an increase in the levels of homocysteine - which is a chemical found in blood and strongly associated with coronary heart disease. Catherine Stoney, associate professor in the department of psychology and co-author of this study// states that it is one possibl......dely recommended for women planning pregnancy, may increase the chances of having twins. Professor Judith Lumley, from La Trobe University examined various folate supplement trials and found women who took folate before becoming pregnant had a 50 per cent greater chance of having twins.// Folate has been pr...H2O - a cure for low blood pressure
...s something about the water itself that causes the increase in blood pressure; intravenous infusion of 475 millilitres of sugar solution did not elicit the effect. Water might be increasing blood pressure by interacting with osmoreceptors (which sense salt concentrations) or stretch receptors in the stomach......st were the first to report on this unusual weight increase in sucide victims. A comparative brain study was made between people who died a natural death with those of people who commited sucide. Results concluded that the brain was significantly lighter in the natural cause than the sucide group. A theory ...New treatment for Osteoporosis
...tment is hormone replacement therapy. But this can increase the risk of cancer, especially in women.// At t...t 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 ......d IQ was stronger in boys than girls, with a 1000g increase in birth weight related to a 4.6 increase in IQ among boys but only 2.8 points in girls. The authors say differences in IQ of this size ...Alerts for safety of heart device
... 1990 to 2000.// Over this time, there has been an increase of 49 per cent in patients fitted with a pacemaker...lfunction and computer errors. There was a sharp increase in the annual rate of warnings between 1995 and 2000. As the rate of manufacturing of devices increa......r pain killers should carry warnings that they can increase the risk of miscarriage. The comments follow a study by Danish reseacher Gunnar Lauge Nielsen and colleagues published in this week's British Medical Journal which studied the effect on women of taking strong non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs li...