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Radioactive Seeds used in Prostate Cancer treatment can migrate with the body

... cases, these pellets end up in the lungs, causing increased risk of radiation to the patients. These findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association. As a precautionary measure in such patients, chest x-rays should be taken every year to make sure no lesions developed. ...

OBESE LIL' GIRLS !! SWEAT IT OUT OR U MIGHT BE ASTHAMATIC !!!

...are between 6 and 11 years of age have a sevenfold increased risk of developing asthma .The boys do not have any such associated risk of asthma even if they are obese , the researchers say. The risk of asthma is much higher among the girls who attain menarche before the age of 11.However ,the risk ,common in ...

Hypertensive Drug Improves Sexual Dysfunction in Hypertensive Men

...orted that the sexual activity atleast once a week increased from 40.5 % to 62.3%. The investigators said "these results seem to be limited to the effect of losartan". Since drug -related impotence is one of the main causes of patients discontinuing the hypertensive drugs, this is a new dimension to be viewed...

Researchers Scale to assess the Severity of Epilepsy in Kids

...eir electroencephalogram (EEG) tests, were also at increased risk for intractable epilepsy. These three factors would help the doctors to predict which of them will need more aggressive therapy such as surgery, newer drugs or a specialized diet. A lot of these children do well on currently available medicatio...

Smoking spreads Cancer

...ify that female smokers with breast cancer face an increased risk of their tumors spreading to the lungs and other organs than do nonsmokers "There is a relationship between smoking and the spread of the disease," says study author Susan Murin, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University of Califor...

Asthma! A new warning for heart disease

... with asthma. Though the earlier studies had shown increased cardiovascular mortality among patients with asthm...d be interesting to find if asthma patients had an increased risk of heart disease. The reason to study nonsmokers is to rule out the strong influence of smoking...

Increase in sugar...decrease in brain function!!!

... 270. It was also found that all the four symptoms increased with the raise in blood sugar. Daniel Cox, M.D., from the University of Virginia says, "For the first time, we can demonstrate that performance of the brain is impaired in the short term when a patient has too much blood sugar. Once you get above a ...

Heart disease threat starts early in life for Diabetics

... of blood fats such as LDL ("bad") cholesterol and increased blood homocysteine, a substance that is associated with heart disease risk.These results underscore the fact and the need to treat early on....

Obesity raises IVF miscarriage risk

...% of the cases. This equates approximately to 50% increased risk among the lower weight group, and a doubled risk among the most obese patients. Professor Norman speculated that as the body's ability to deal with insulin properly could be affected by carrying excess weight, this could impact on the supply of...

TELITHROMYCIN - the proven effective new drug for cap

... or two classes of antimicrobials. This results in increased pressure on those classes ", and this infact is responsible for the resistance strains of this group of bacteria. The efficacy of the drug was assessed by five clinical trials and clinical and biological outcomes was noted. Blood samples were taken ...

Risk of heart disease begins in teens

... of blood fats such as LDL ,"bad" cholesterol, and increased blood homocysteine, a substance that is associated with heart disease risk. Dr. Jody S Krantz, author of the study feels that early intervention is warranted and is mandatory in adolescents and young adults suffering from diabetes and possible assoc...

Antifever drug betters stroke outcome

...r, has been linked to poorer outcomes including an increased risk of death.In their study, which included 75 stroke patients who were put on 5 day course of high- or low-dose acetaminophen or an inactive placebo. Twenty-four hours after treatment began, body temperature was an average of 0.4 degrees Celsius l...

Drinking arsenic water leads to cancer

... While there is no known cure, researchers suggest increased use of vitamins A, C and E and proteins may help the body resist the onset of the diseases. Bangladesh, a low-lying area, has been the victim of its own success in providing clean drinking water to nearly all of its 130 million people. More than 3 m...

H2O - a cure for low blood pressure

...two or three minutes after the water was ingested, increased rapidly over the next 15 minutes, and then began to decrease after about 60 minutes. Drinking more water at 60 minutes caused the blood pressure effect to be sustained for another hour. "There is something about the water itself that causes the inc...

Hormone replacement Therapy a headache

...nes that decrease with menopause, cause a slightly increased risk of cancer of the breast and endometrium, the ...ontinuously. Once women stopped using the drug the increased risk dropped quite rapidly," she said.A close watch on women taking hormone replacement therapy is r...

Watch your weight when pregnant

...nd that the number of women who needed a C-section increased as BMI of a person increased. Among women with a BMI of 20 or less ( which indicates a low amount of body fat),had a normal delivery. Whereas if BMI ranged from 21-30 ( which indicates a range of body fat from healthy to a fatter proportion), the in...

A better way to measure cholesterol

...creasing non-HDL cholesterol levels were linked to increased risk of death from heart disease. Men with high levels were twice as likely to die compared to those with low levels. For women, the relative risk was nearly two and a half times greater. They found out that non-HDL was a better predictor than el...

Tea Tales

...lecules which occur naturally// in the body and an increased amount of them can damage cells resulting in heart diseases, cancer, cholestrol and BP.Polyphenols can stop the damage that free radicals do to cells, neutralise enzymes essential for tumour growth and de-activate cancer promoters. A cup of tea ...

Young womens woes

...ch classic symptoms as chest pain, gray colour and increased sweating, women can also experience general malais...ore at risk of death after heart attack because of increased depression, social isolation and lack of support once they leave hospital. Because heart attacks are...

Garlic a day keeps cancer away

...d varying levels of disulfide to rats and found it increased levels of the cancer-protecting gut enzymes by up to 60 per cent when given in amounts equivalent// to a moderate daily intake in humans.They say that even half a clove of raw garlic could have the same beneficial effect in humans....

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