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Benefits and Risks of Asthma Treatment Questioned

...ldren, but the effects are mostly related to dose, length of use, and the gender of the patient. ?h ICS therapy is associated with a decrease in childhood growth rates, but the effect is small and studies suggest it may not persist with long-term therapy. Adult height of asthmatic children treated with ICS ...

Vision Loss Due To Diabetic Retinopathy a Major Cause Of Concern

... participate in normal life activities. The median length of time patients had suffered from vision loss was two years. Results show vision loss stemming from diabetic retinopathy had the biggest impact on reading print, mobility, work, and leisure. Vision loss had a lesser effect on emotional reaction to...

More Patients Going In For Home Dialysis

...d complications, they do differ in procedural time length and location. Researchers surveyed nearly 650 patients at 37 dialysis centers around the country. The research shows that if given the option, kidney patients were 1.5-times more likely to rate peritoneal treatment as excellent than those who recei...

A Drug That Might Relieve Chronic Cough

...to 900 milligrams a day over four weeks. Treatment length varied from three months to four years depending on the persistence of symptoms. The rate of overall improvement of cough and sensory neuropathy using the drug was 68 percent. Only five patients complained of dizziness and drowsiness as side effects,...

Recovery After Heart Transplantation

...rt to narrow, and they narrow throughout the whole length of the arteries. It’s the major cause of death after the first year after transplant . An experimental drug called Everolimus is found to stop the immune system from attacking the transplanted organ and the overgrowth of cells that causes the arteri...

Gleevec for Lung Disease

...pe that the treatment of Gleevec will increase the length of their life as well as improve the quality." The research is currently ongoing to find out just how effective Gleevec is. For the study, Michael takes six pills a day and hopes they'll give him and his lungs a little more time. "I'd say 99 percen...

Mentally Demanding Jobs Found To Reduce The Risk Of Alzheimer’

...The information gathered included the type of job, length of job, and most important activities in the job. Researchers then used various measures to determine the mental, physical, social and fine motor skills for the different jobs. The study found, on average, people with Alzheimer’s disease held jobs w...

Strong Pelvic Muscles Found To Facilitate Childbirth

... served as the control. Researchers looked at the length of the second stage of labor, measured by the time...owever, there was no significant difference in the length of the second stage of labor between the two groups, 40 minutes compared to 45 minutes. Thus researc...

Shorter Radiation Schedules Found To Be More Effective For Patients With Breast Cancer

...er undergoing surgery , however for most women the length of time for radiation treatment is a major inconvenience leading them to choose mastectomy instead of breast conservation. Researchers studied women who received a four-week course of radiation therapy, with an incorporated boost. An incorporated bo...

Report on the Safety and Effectiveness of Melatonin supplements

...ual's age, type of primary sleep disorder, dose or length of treatment. Sleep efficiency refers to the percent of time a person is asleep after going to bed. Furthermore, melatonin supplements do not appear to affect sleep quality, wakefulness after sleep onset, total sleep time or percent of time spent i...

Physical Activity Good For Developing Cognitive Skills

..., Italy, and Netherlands Elderly (FINE) study. The length and intensity of physical activities of the participants was measured and cognitive function was evaluated starting in 1990. Results showed over 10 years, men who reduced their daily physical activity by an hour or more had 2.6-times more cognitive ...

Cancer Causing Herpes Virus At Last May Have A Cure

... lie latent in the infected cells for considerable length of time and may become reactivated to result in painful conditions. According to these researchers from Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, US, glycyrrhizic acid can successfully treat the latent herpes virus. Th...

Is Man’s Aggression Linked To His Finger

... of Biological Psychology says just that. Finger length ratio is the ratio of second finger or index finge... women. The results say that men with lower finger length ratio had higher trait physical aggression scores. However, there was no correlation between the dig...

Weight and size at birth predicts mortality in adulthood

...ity due to all causes in females. Similarly, short length at birth was a predictor of mortality due to all c...d an association with lower birth weight and lower length at birth. In females there was an association between those who had died of cardiovascular disease t...

Sedation dentistry: a new way to overcome fear of dentists

...edation during the entire dentistry procedure. The length of sedation will be dependent on the length of the dental procedure and may be controlled as per requirements. The dentists who have brought ou...

Laparoscopic surgery can be safely employed for radical resection of cancer

...red to the patients in the open surgery group. The length of the bowel resected , morbidity and mortality in 28 days period after the surgery did not differ between two groups....

Arsenic May Have Been Responsible For The Madness Of King George III Of England

...ng’s hair provides a plausible explanation for the length and severity of his attacks of illness; and contamination of his antimonial medications is the probable source of the arsenic. We propose that exposure to arsenic would exacerbate attacks of porphyria in a genetically predisposed individual. King Ge...

Womb may have impact upon Blood Pressure

... the circumference of the head and abdomen and the length of the babies' thigh bones. Blood pressure was me...h of an inch deviation from the typical thigh bone length at key stages in the womb, systolic blood pressure - the higher of the two numbers - was changed by ...

Drug used to treat hypertension effective in countering Migraines

...everity. The drug also a showed a reduction in the length of attacks, in addition to the reduction in the number of headache and migraine days. The study, though very interesting and beneficial to the millions of migraine sufferers around the globe, has not been able to find out how these drugs work to red...

Gene That Might Be Responsible For Aging

... the X chromosome. // Investigators measured the length of the end of the chromosomes, known as telomeres,...e of families living in northern Belgium. Telomere length was found to be similar between fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, mothers and daughters, and ...

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