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Massage therapy regulates sleep cycle of newborns

A new study involving twenty mothers and their full-term infants, reveal...the Earth's 24-hour rotational time. In the study involving twenty mothers, participants were assigned to either the treatment group, in which mothers massaged ...

Stroke Risk and Fish :A factual interconnection

...troke over a period of 13 years in the new study involving more than 43,005 men aged 39 to 76. Ischemic stroke// which is caused by a clot that blocks the blood vessel supplying the brain with blood was confirmed with 378 participants, 105 were confirmed as hemorrhagic stroke, caused by a leaky blood vessel ...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

...eady been tied to a number of inherited conditions involving deafness or peripheral neuropathy because of their widespread presence in cells during critical developmental periods. Researchers, during the course of this study, have also helped identify a faulty connexin gene as the cause of a skin and deafness ...

Effect of alcohol drinking on breast cancer

...r and reviewed the results of 65 separate studies, involving nearly 200,000 women say they are sure that it is the alcohol that matters. They looked at two issues. The first was how much a woman needed to drink to increase her chance of breast cancer. The second was whether smoking increased this risk. They f...

Survival rates in breast cancer patients improved with "Dose Dense Chemotherapy"

...en were assigned to one of four treatment regimens involving the standard chemotherapy drugs doxorubicin (A), paclitaxel (T), and cyclophosphamide (C): Sequential administration (A followed by T, followed by C) in three-week intervals (conventional) Sequential administration in two-week intervals, with filgr...

Heart disease in women being under-treated

A new study involving 2,763 post menopausal women with heart disease has shown that doctors are under-using aspirin, beta blockers and cholesterol lowering drugs to treat these women even though the medications have been shown to prevent further heart attacks or other hea...

Drinking milk: Good or bad?

...is well established fact(or is it still?). A study involving 20 countries published in the New Zealand Medical Journal found a significant link between drinking milk containing the A-1 beta case in protein and the national rate of heart disease and insulin dependent diabetes. Researchers found that heart disea...

Melanoma caused by low DNA repair capacity

...ma. Researchers have now found out through a study involving a group of 312 people with melanoma that those with fair skin// have lowered DNA repair capacity and are more likely to develop skin cancer. They analysed the DNA repair capacity of this group of people affected by melanoma and found that they had an...

More information sought by patients on medical errors

... researchers conducted several focus group studies involving patients, doctors, and// patients and doctors together. The study was conducted to find out the attitude of patients and doctors towards medical errors. Researchers found that patients wanted to know if a mistake occurred during their treatment, why ...

FDA approves Watson Pharmaceuticals' Oxytrol patch

...end of May 2003 was approved after clinical trials involving more than 1000 people....

Protection from Dementia

...randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial involving around 6,100 people with prior stroke or mini-stroke. About half the group received an ACE inhibitor, a blood pressure drug, and some also received a diuretic. The other half received a placebo. Participants were followed for around four years. Resu...

Drugs Deter Heart Disease for Transplant Patients

...plant. Investigators conducted a randomized trial involving about 2,100 kidney transplant patients. About half the group was assigned to take the cholesterol-lowering statin fluvastatin. The other half received a placebo. All were treated for five to six years. By the end of the study, researchers found fluv...

Vitamins Harming, not Helping, the Heart

...to review the results of eight large-scale studies involving beta carotene treatment and seven involving vitamin E. All trials included at least 1,000 patients. Patients in the studies were followed betwee...

Pfizer unveils anti-smoking drug

... drugmaker's next blockbuster. In clinical trials involving several hundred smokers, the New York-based company said almost half of smokers given this oral medicine, called Varenicline, were able to quit smoking after only seven weeks. In the same trial, only 16 percent of people receiving sugar pills manag...

Heart disease diagnosed by dentist?

...see, dentist . "By eliminating a local infection involving a tooth or the gums, patients have been able to decrease blood pressure medications and improve overall health," he said. If bacteria in the infected gums dislodge, they can enter the bloodstream, attach to blood vessels and increase clot formation...

Pharmacist’s Role in Medication Error

...armacist in helping doctors prevent medical errors involving medications. The investigation done finds having a pharmacist participate in medical rounds with doctors resulted in the identification and prevention of nearly 5,000 medication errors over more than four years.// The study was conducted in a cardio...

Drug Reduces Risk of Clogged Arteries, Veins

...kely to suffer venous thromboembolism (a condition involving clotting or obstruction of a vein that includes both deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) than people who received a placebo,// according to the study results. In the group taking fondaparinux, 5.6 percent had venus thromboembolism events, co...

Cholesterol drugs improve strange heart problem

...shown to be useful for patients with heart disease involving the coronary arteries. However, it was unclear if statins were beneficial for IDC. The new findings are published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Treatment with simvastatin (Zocor), a type of statin, modestly reduced total...

HRT: A Difficult Decision

...rs about whether to stay on the drugs. A new study involving over a million women// provides strong evidence that the use of HRT is associated with a greater risk of breast cancer. The study found combination HRT puts women at a great risk. The study also reports an increase risk of death from breast cancer in...

Troubled Childhood found to affect your Liver

...aw their conclusions after a lengthy medical study involving more than 17,000 people. Researchers surveyed patients about abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction such as divorce or domestic violence during childhood. Overall, nearly 7 percent of patients reported liver disease. Researchers say, “An increase...

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