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Potential for Adult Stem Cells to Repair Hearts Damaged Investigated

...hronic myocardial ischemia continues to experience insufficient flow of oxygen-rich blood to the heart despite optimum medical intervention. The study is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study that involves adult subjects with severe coronary artery disease who are currently on the maximum medical...

Newer Class of Antidepressants Similar in Effectiveness, Side Effects Differ

... review. Overall, current evidence on the drugs is insufficient for clinicians to predict which medications will work best for individual patients. Second-generation antidepressants, which include selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), are o...

Skepticism is Bad for Your Health

...e at the British Heart Foundation, said: "There is insufficient evidence to say that stress, depression or other emotions are significant risk factors for heart disease, although they are often associated with it. One difficulty is that emotions are subjective.” "It is particularly difficult to define if someon...

No Evidence to Support Many Off-label Uses of Atypical Antipsychotics

...vidence for off-label use of antipsychotics was of insufficient quality because studies were too small or lacked scientific rigor. Review authors evaluating the potential benefits and risks of the medications also found strong evidence that atypical antipsychotics can increase chances of adverse events. Some of...

Madhya Pradesh Has India's Most Malnourished Kids

... some hospitals there are unused facilities due to insufficient staff. For instance, in Patti block hospital there is no one to operate an X-ray machine. Patients have to depend on private clinics in Barwani town for tests. A survey conducted by a NGO found about 75 percent of pregnant women anaemic in trib...

Gambling to Be Taken as a Serious Addiction, Warns BMA

...h problems and the BMA is concerned that there are insufficient treatment facilities available. Psychological problems can include anxiety, depression, guilt and suicidal thoughts. There needs to be treatment for problem gambling available on the NHS similar to drug and alcohol services. The report also calls fo...

Safe Sun Exposure a Burning Issue

... a precautionary approach to the possible harms of insufficient circulating levels of vitamin D,' Dr Neale said. 'In the interim, … sun-safe practices should be encouraged and supplements used where necessary until we increase our basic understanding of the relationships between chronic disease, vitamin D and ...

Genetic Tests in the Treatment of Depression Not Yet Useful

There is insufficient evidence to determine if current gene-based tests intended to personalize the dose of medications in a class of drugs called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors //(SSRIs) improve patient outcomes or aid in treatment decisions in the clinical sett...

Breastfeeding Mothers Need Calcium to Guard Against Periodontal Diseases

... at risk, especially when they were on a diet with insufficient Calcium. "Our research emphasized the importance...loss in the mother, especially when the mother has insufficient Calcium intake. But additional studies in human populations are necessary to confirm these findings....

Increasing Trend of Kidney Stones Among U.S Kids

... opine, is due to the over consumption of salt and insufficient intake of water. It is well known that the best ways to offset kidney stones or delay their onset is to restrict salt in the diet and consume water in plenty. Pediatricians have advised that children must reduce the consumption of salt, to 2.4 gram...

New Study Challenges How Regulators Determine Risk

...ntly changed. Others, however, see the evidence as insufficient for such radical change and worry about other factors that can influence the effects of chemicals in low doses. The new study promises to add fuel to the debate, Calabrese says. Calabrese also suggests that the findings may have important implicat...

A World Health Insurance Needed: Report

... provide assistance, thus leaving poor states with insufficient means to meet their core obligations," say Ooms and colleagues. The second reason is the notion of "progressive realization," i.e. the recognition that economic, social, and cultural rights cannot be fully realized in a short period of time. "This...

Industrial Chemicals Are Impairing the Brain Development of Children Worldwide

...HD), and mental retardation. Still, there has been insufficient research done to identify the individual chemicals that can cause injury to the developing brains of children. In a new review study, published in the print issue of The Lancet researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Mount Sina...

Wards Pose Danger to Mother and Child

Mother and babies face danger at the wards due to insufficient doctors, midwives or due to lack of wards. At times the consultants are too busy to take time off their// meetings, according to a recent study. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists conducted a study according to which during 10% of...

Contraceptive Use Helps Reduce Rate of US Teen Pregnancy

... indicate that abstinence promotion, in itself, is insufficient to help adolescents prevent unintended pregnancies. Data from the report, "Explaining Recent Declines in Adolescent Pregnancy in the United States: The Contribution of Abstinence and Improved Contraceptive Use" suggest that the United States is fol...

Children of Bhopal Gas Victims Suffer from Deformity

...te," said Sarangi. "Research done in the past is insufficient and key aspects of the disaster and its aftermath have been ignored in research projects. Now, new issues have arisen necessitating fresh research. This includes exposure to water contamination among those living in the vicinity of the factory site,"...

No Proven Programs to Help Teens Quit Smoking

...fect when compared to placebo. For now, there is insufficient evidence to show that those treatments work in adolescents, the reviewers wrote. Nine studies tried to motivate teens to stop smoking through a variety of means, but the results were mixed. Some studies looked at quitting over a period of a singl...

Women Are More At Risk For PTSD Than Men

...not." "Simple checklists or short interviews are insufficient for assessing trauma and this is what is used most in these types of situations. More thorough assessments are needed to know if someone will suffer long-lasting symptoms from an accident, attack or disaster," said the authors. Source-Eurekalert SR...

Risk of STD Lowered with Circumcision

...refore concludes that, at present, the evidence is insufficient to support routine neonatal circumcision. In the present study, the researchers analyzed data collected for the Christchurch Health and Development Study, which included a large birth cohort of children from New Zealand. Male children were divided ...

First Paediatric AIDS clinic in Malawi

...awi in 2003. However, due to financial deficit and insufficient skilled people to treat paediatric HIV cases, the programme concentrated on adults. “Until now we have not had the capacity to help address the complex needs of the thousands of children with HIV in Malawi out of the estimated 50 to 60 thousand HIV...

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