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Creatine Helps Strengthen Older Men

...body builders, and there's some evidence they help increase muscle mass. Could these supplements help maintain muscle in older people? One new study indicates the answer is yes. //Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan studied 33 men aged 60 to 84 who had similar lifestyles and muscle tone. All the men...

Eat more vegetables and fruits

...stats are available). Among women, the percentage increase was from 20 per cent to 25 per cent during this time. Older people, white people, college graduates, those taking regular exercise, and non-smokers were more likely to be eating lots of produce. The percentage of obese people eating their five portio...

Keys to good bone health

...rcises cause too much jarring of the spine and can increase the risk of vertebral fractures. Resistance exercises are also part of a good osteoporosis prevention program, and should be performed two to three times per week. They strengthen the muscles and stimulate the bones to grow stronger. Exercising wit...

Drug Combinations May Boost Stroke Risk

...selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, increase levels of serotonin in the blood by preventing the...ssels to contract. Other types of medications also increase serotonin levels, although they act through different mechanisms. When combined, these effects could...

Get, set, go...

... Canada have found that children have the greatest increase in bone mineral after the growth spurt just before...search co-ordinator Heather McKay said: "If we can increase bone mass by 10% by adulthood, we can decrease the incidence of fractures by 50%."The young voluntee...

Excess vitamin A increases fracture risk

... intake of a diet high in retinol or vitamin A may increase the risk of osteoporotic hip fracture. Any vitamin or mineral taken in adequately is good for health. Excess or less quantities of the nutrients is not good and ineffective.// We tend to think that vitamins are good for us - but that's not always the...

New Dietary Approach To Manage Kidney Stones

...alcium in urine may be prescribed. These drugs may increase cholesterol and can cause bloating and other uncomfortable side effects. Men who develop kidney stones are often told to limit their dietary intake of calcium. But new research suggests that restricting animal protein and salt may be a better way to...

Cytobrush to detect oral cancer

...er is only 40 per cent overall, but survival rates increase to greater than 80 per cent if the cancer is found early. With the engineers and cytologists at Oral Scan Systems, a New York-based health devices company, a dentist who finds an area of concern runs a small round brush - similar to a mascara wand ov...

Why cluster headaches?

...hniques, Professor Goadsby and colleagues found an increase of grey matter in an area of the brain known as the hypothalamus on the side where the headache occurs. Professor Goadsby said: "We also found that the area of the brain where these structural abnormalities were seen, the hypothalamus, is the same ar...

High vitamin A increases risk of hip fractures

Too much vitamin A may increase the risk of hip fractures in older women. Vitamin A is important for such things as healthy skin and hair and bone growth.// Researchers found that women with the highest total intake - both from food and vitamin supplements - had double the risk of ...

Infertile men at cancer risk

...h abnormal semen characteristics" for the absolute increase in individual risk is small. The study compared results of semen analysis conducted at Apollo laboratories between 1975 and 1995 with the incidence of testicular cancer in the Indian national cancer register. It found 78 cases of testicular cancer ...

Babies Need Vaccination

...ooper, AAP president. While there's been no known increase in infants infected with hepatitis B, vaccinating them before they leave the hospital ``just makes good sense,'' Cooper said.Newborns can contract the virus from infected mothers' blood during childbirth, but vaccinating them soon afterward can preve...

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

...also increased in younger patients, the percentage increase in patients over 65 was greatest. The percentage of operations performed on men over 65 rose from 2 percent to 30 percent, while it increased from 16 percent to 45 percent in women older than 65. Pell found that the risk of death in the two years f...

Relief to pregnant women using fertility drugs

...best evidence that the popular medications used to increase the number of eggs a woman produces in a single monthly cycle do not increase the risk of ovarian cancer. // The controversy over the link between fertility drugs and ovarian ca...

HIV infections have reached a new high

...of people infected with HIV in the UK is likely to increase by almost half over the first five years of the 21st century, according to public health experts.// New figures released by the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) predict that the number of people living with an HIV diagnosis may rise from arou...

Choose your mate

...sexual selection can lead to a genetically related increase in the components of adult fitness."...

The negative advancement

...s, which employes sunbeds to achieve tanning could increase the chances of a number of more common skin cancers. However, research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute claims to have found a relationship between// tanning lamps and many types of skin cancer like basal cell carcinoma, squ...

Risk Of Decongestants In Hypertensive Patients

... If you already have high blood pressure, that can increase your risk for stroke or heart attack. Furthermore, the decongestants can work against anti-hypertensive drugs that patients might take for their high blood pressure. There are over-the-counter cold and flu products that claim to be safe for people w...

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...the number of potential patients to 36 million, an increase of 140 percent. "We're urging caution," say Donald Fedder, a University of Maryland pharmacologist and lead author of the study. Statins are safe in the short term, but doctors "need to follow their patients over a period of time to watch what may h...

New Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise

...fic antigen. PSA, prostate-specific antigen levels increase in prostate cancer patients. These dendritic cells are then injected under the patient's skin to trigger immune system to destroy the tumor. Patients received three doses of the vaccine at increased levels each time. Vieweg said four men developed f...

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