life 1 4

Tag: "life" at medical news

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...ing realization that elevated cholesterol early in life can cause deadly cardiovascular consequences later, and convincing evidence that statin drugs are highly effective at controlling runaway low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the so-called "bad" form of the blood fat. But studies that have proved the eff...

No link between bad weather and rheumatism

...be because it is such a prominent feature of daily life or, they may attribute changes in pain to the weather because an association between the two is widely believe....

Tiotropium surpasses Ipratropium

...ly improves lung function, dyspnoea and quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary dis... 18 per cent in the ipratropium group. Quality of life measures increased by 52 per cent in the tiotropium group and 35 per cent in the ipratropium group. ...

Arginine food bar assists people with angina

...ins increased the exercise capacity and quality of life of those with angina. Arginine is an amino acid// ... arginine bar as did exercise capacity. Quality of life also went up, although there was no obvious improvement on these patients' ECG scores. These finding...

New therapy for bone cancer

...e of radioactivity because the samarium has a half life of only two days....

Less sleep increases mortality rates

...ength of time people sleep and its relationship to life expectancy, researchers at the University of Texas, and colleagues, find that seven hours is the optimum. People who sleep for eight hours or longer, or less than four hours a night, have a significantly increased death rate. Insomnia does not appe...

Wheat wards off colon cancer

...oto the lead researcher said,he added "Throughout life you make a lot of free radicals. "You want to keep them from forming because they contribute to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, cataracts, even wrinkling. The biochemists are optimistic about wheat's cancer-fighting ability because their prelimina...

Northfield Labs Receives FDA Comments

...olymerized hemoglobin, PolyHeme has a longer shelf life than blood, requires no cross matching and does not transmit disease. // Northfield Laboratories Inc. reported that it received comments from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) on its Biologi...

AIDS drugs linked to heart attack risk

...ations.// New research raises the possibility that life saving AIDS drugs may also increase the risk of heart trouble, though experts say the medicines' benefits outweigh any danger. Researchers are at odds over whether the drug combinations are bad for the heart. The drug combinations have been in wide...

Obesity increases health costs

...ively. Obesity contributed to a fall in quality of life at nearly four time the rate of smoking or alcohol abuse....

Tomato Sauce reduces Cancer Risk- Study

...hen the data was adjusted for the effects of other life style factors, the researchers found that tomatoes, especially if they had been cooked, were beneficial against prostate cancer. ``Spaghetti sauce was the most popular'' and also seemed to give the most protection, said Giovannucci. He said that cook...

Nausea Linked To Anxiety And Depression

...cal investigation and probably a better quality of life for the patients. Haug and colleagues in the department of psychiatry conducted what is perhaps the largest study of the prevalence of nausea ever undertaken. Overall, 48 percent of 62,000 people indicated they had suffered from one or several gastr...

Heart Surgery Is Getting Safer for the Old

... if indicated, is safe and will improve quality of life in these patients," and head of cardiac surgery at Southeastern Healthcare in Illinois. The researchers reviewed the outcome of 80 patients aged 70 to 80 who had undergone elective open-heart surgery such as coronary artery bypass or valve replacem...

Epilepsy can be predicted

...onsequences of seizures and improve the quality of life of people with epilepsy by decreasing the risk of injury, and the sense of helplessness fostered by the unpredictability of the disease."Dr David Fish, from the Institute of Neurology in London, said the research represented a potentially exciting br...

Arthritis drug can prolong life

...ieve people with rheumatoid arthritis have shorter life spans partly because they face increased chances of getting heart disease and dying from it. The latest study found that patients on methotrexate were 60% less likely to die prematurely than those not getting the drug....

Meningitis C vaccine a cost-effective success

...’s lifetime, resulting in almost 23,000 discounted life years saved. That saving would avoid costs of abou...on the price of the vaccine, and that the cost per life year saved over the entire programme would be ￡7,657. The researchers conclude that the meningitis C...

Exercise is necessary in daily life

... Alabama at Birmingham points to our modern way of life as being the major cause of physical inactivity. Modern conveniences, from cars and motorised lawn mowers to computer games and TV encourage too much sitting and lying around. Perhaps, he says, it's time to go back to the old ways - even just for a l...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...e between those who think such research destroys a life and those who say it has life-saving potential. The new findings challenge the notion adult stem cells taken from one tissue can directly produce cell types of other tissues and organs.// It may be that this capability, revealed in recent research, m...

Spirituality relieves stress

...nto their perceptions, reactions and behaviours in life situations. Through the practice of mindfulness, subjects are taught to consciously respond to stressful situations in their daily life....

Down syndrome life anticipation doubles

... Down Syndrome Association of NSW predicts the new life expectancy findings are relevant to Australia. "Prior to 1970 most Down syndrome children were institutionalised at birth or soon after," she said. "Respiratory illnesses which are common in children with Down syndrome would not have been treated a...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10