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Dry Eye Is A Symptom Of Menopause

... nearly one fourth of all office visits. Caused by insufficient tear production or excessive tear evaporation, dry eye can be a mild, episodic feeling of discomfort associated with certain circumstances, such as exposure to dry, hot or windy environments; however, it can also be a chronic medical condition that, ...

Herbal Preparation Effective For Treating Short Term Low-Back Pain

...rbal treatments remain uncertain because "there is insufficient evidence to make definitive conclusions regarding those trials comparing herbal medicine interventions with standard drugs." The trials of devil's claw were the strongest in terms of methodology, followed by white willow bark and cayenne, the trial...

14% Of Pune Population Diabetic: Children Most Affected

...unt of insulin is being produced, this quantity is insufficient to meet the demand. The problem associated with diabetes, which is rightly called the slow poison, is that if left unattended, it can lead to a number of diabetic complications, increasing an individual’s susceptibility to heart disease, stroke, k...

Vitamin D Deficiency On Rise Among Europeans

... Europe and more than 30 million in Britain -- had insufficient levels of vitamin D, according to foodconsumer.org. A shortage of vitamin D can lead to Type 1 diabetes and cancers of the breast, bowel and prostate, said Bouillon. The most natural way to boost vitamin D levels is by eating oily fish and by g...

Breast cancer: Possible Link Between Asymmetrical Breasts and Cancer

...' Maria Lead beater has said that this study is insufficient to prove anything conclusive, in order to seal the link. She added, 'There are many causes of breast asymmetry, and for many women having slightly different shaped breasts is perfectly normal. However, if your breasts are normally close in size and y...

Military-based Research Labs Needed To Manage Bird Flu Threat

...als to human beings) stem from remote nations with insufficient scientific resources and ineffective surveillance measures, globalization of the research labs should be enabled through enhanced funding and an active participation....

Trachoma cannot be obliterated with just one dose of antibiotic

...years found that a single dose of an antibiotic is insufficient to nip infection causing trachoma, which happens to be the// primary cause of blindness. A previous study in one Tanzanian village had seemed to show that a single distribution exercise of one antibiotic was enough to completely negate the infectio...

Don’t Chicken Out

... was used to prepare the dishes. And even this was insufficient to feed the chicken starved mouths, as many returned home disappointed. Kunhon said “The overwhelming response to the programme shows that people are no longer apprehensive of the bird flu. The mela was organised to help bail out more than 4.5 lakh p...

Mexican candies with lead content banned

...ous system and kidney damage, behavioral problems, insufficient muscle and bone growth, hearing and vision problems. <br...

Definite Genetic Link Between Diabetes And Obesity Established

...rnia. During early stages of the disease, there is insufficient insulin production, resulting in elevated blood sugar levels. A compensatory mechanism is then activated in the beta cells characterized by excessive insulin secretion and eventually leading to type II diabetes. The reason why obesity could lead to...

Self-Prescribed Vitamins And Herbal Remedies Can Do More Harm Than Good

... One reason behind the observation could be due to insufficient audit of alternative treatment options by the TGA before marketing. A majority of the products were classified L on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, meaning that a specific product can be taken to be safe, without any further testing or ...

Flu Pandemic Gets More Attention Than AIDS

...one, there have been 5 million new infections. The insufficient attention that HIV/AIDS is getting reflects on the failure of the health policy, according to The Global AIDS Fund sources, wherein too little is being done too late. The Global Fund is committed to fighting AIDS in 130 nations with 350 programs s...

Disadvantaged Students May Not Go In For College Education

...hich are available to them. One reason for this is insufficient scholarship information available to them. The other reasons are group identity, self-contrast, and social identity, according to Jennifer A. Zimbroff, the author of the study. Most of these students come from communities that are collectivist in ...

US is unprepared for a bio-terrorist attack

...mergency arises, while over 25% of the states have insufficient capabilities with regard to bio-terrorism laboratory response. Another 20% of the states do not have enough number of scientists for managing tests in the case of plague or anthrax outbreaks, and another 10% of the states have the capacity to respond...

Physicians should encourage US women to breastfeed

...e breast tenderness or soreness, engorged breasts, insufficient milk, inverted nipples and busy work of the mother. The researchers feel that physicians should advise and encourage the pregnant women about the benefits of breastfeeding which would help number of pregnant women to start breastfeeding....

Identification Of Gene Sequence To Promote Growth Of New Arteries

...rteries is very essential because when there is an insufficient blood flow to the leg, it can lead to gangrene, necessitating leg amputations under worse conditions. Sarkar and his researchers (University of California, San Francisco) conducted a study in which two sets of mice were taken and human vascular di...

Proper Treatment of Hypothyroidism Found To Prevent Heart Diseases

...sm. Hypothyroidism is a condition characterized by insufficient production of thyroid hormones. The effects of hypothyroidism were studied in rats on a short-term and long-term basis. From the research, it was found that hypothyroidism led to severe clinically significant changes in the architecture of the hear...

Low turnover by Diabetics for free annual checkup

... (glucose) occurs, which may be due to shortage or insufficient functioning of insulin required for food products/glucose. More than 170 million people worldwide are affective due to diabetes....

Herceptin Not A ‘Wonder’ Drug, Says The Lanct

... its effectiveness//. "The available evidence is insufficient to make reliable judgments. It is profoundly misleading to suggest, even rhetorically, that the published data may be indicative of a cure for breast cancer," the editors of The Lancet wrote in an article that was released online on Wednesday. This c...

Strategies To Boost Living Donor Kidney Transplants

There is an insufficient supply of deceased donor kidneys for transplantati...vember issue of the journal Urology focuses on the insufficient supply of transplantable kidneys, strategies that have been developed to increase the number of livi...

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