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Stretching does not rule out soreness after exercise

...e studies, covering 75 participants. Three studies looked at the effect of post-exercise stretching, while the other two evaluated stretching before starting exercise. The researchers concluded that stretching does not, after all, prevent injury or soreness. Further research is needed to determine what wo...

Watching television linked to smoking

...n California, researchers from Children's Hospital looked at whether adolescents who watched more television were more likely to start smoking. They used information from a national survey that gathered data on television viewing in 1990 and 1993 among youth ages 10 to 15 years. They also examined other ris...

Suicide might be inherited

...d risk of committing suicide, but few studies have looked at the factors that put people at especially high risk. Researchers from the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and St. Francis Medical Center in Pittsburgh studied the offspring of two groups: people with mood disorders who had attempted suici...

Errors in medication

...researchers, from Auburn University and elsewhere, looked at delivery and administration problems in 30 accredited and non accredited facilities in Georgia . In each of the facilities, medication delivery and administration was assessed during a one- to four-day period on high volume nursing units. The inv...

Naltrexone effective for drinking problems

...away the pleasure of drinking. Spanish researchers looked at a group of 150 alcohol-dependent patients with the Mediterranean drinking pattern. Half were given naltrexone and half a placebo for 13 weeks. After this time, only 8% in the naltrexone group resorted to heavy drinking, compared to 20% in the plac...

Risk of dementia reduced hypertension drugs

...tension - with levels from 160 to 190 mm Hg - were looked at. For around four years, these patients took blood-pressure lowering drugs or placebo. Those on the medication had a 50 per cent lower risk of dementia. The study was then stopped in 1998, when it was realized that lowering blood pressure by medica...

Regular exercise linked to extended menstrual cycles

...rmanente of Oakland, California and her colleagues looked at two groups of women who had participated in separate US studies. The nearly 550 women in both studies had provided information on their exercise habits and menstrual cycles. The researchers found that exercise, particularly vigorous activity, wa...

Surgery a safety in senility

...n, research suggests. Researchers in a Swiss study looked at patients with an average age of 80 who suffered from chronic angina.// Doctors either gave them medication, or referred them for an angioplasty - a treatment where a fine tube with a small inflatable balloon attached is inserted and the balloon ...

Stretching the muscles doesn't make them more resilient

...effects of stretching on muscle soreness; two also looked at injury risk. There’s no conclusive evidence that stretching protects muscles, agrees London-based physiotherapist Mark Todman. “In fact, you can make your joints more vulnerable by overstretching,” he says. Experiments on rabbits give the same re...

Vegetable and fruit intake depends on shopping

...the convenience of shopping facilities. The survey looked at black and white people in 200 US neighborhood areas. Six times more supermarkets were located in areas where white people lived, compared to black people. In general, the more supermarkets in an area, the more likely the local population was to ...

Pain relieved by ionized bracelets

..., while the other received a placebo bracelet that looked identical. The participants were asked to rate their pain at intervals during the 25 day study. Both groups reported significant improvement in pain. There was no difference in pain relief between those wearing an ionized bracelet and those wearing...

Drinking wine beneficial in dementia

... their drinking patterns from the 1975s. Then they looked for signs of dementia or Alzheimer's in the same group in the 1992s. They were able to document 75 people who developed dementia. Researchers then went back and compared alcohol intake of those individuals to those without dementia. Authors of the s...

Air pollution combined with greater medical needs

...e costs in a large group of the population. They looked at medical records and pollution measures in 185 metropolitan areas. They found that there was little difference in surgery rates between cities with the most pollution and those with the least. But there was a 20% difference in admissions to hospita...

Women who are obese have thicker arteries

... heart disease. In a new study, doctors in Texas looked at carotid wall thickening in a group of more than 5,050 women. They found that those who were obese were more likely to have thickened carotid arteries, whatever their other risk factors for heart problems. This new study is yet another wake-up call...

Airbags lessens oppressive eye injuries

...0,020 automobile accidents from 1994 to 1998. They looked at the severity of the various eye injuries that occurred. Level 1 included problems like skin abrasions around the eye and eyelid, while Level 4 described serious injuries such as optical nerve damage and retinal detachment. The researchers found ...

Implication of virus in colon cancer

...went on to test colon tumour samples for CMV. They looked at colorectal polyp tissue, adenocarcinoma (a type of colon cancer) and adjacent cells. They found that CMV was present in around 80 per cent of polyp and cancer samples....

Genetic indicates memory

...ogy called cDNA to screen thousands of genes. They looked at genes in the hippocampus area, a brain region known to be important in learning and memory. The researchers checked the genes one hour after the task, six hours later, and then 24 hours later. They say learning affected 140 different genes. They ...

Personality Impacts Arthritis

...y and depression. Researchers from The Netherlands looked at the role of personality characteristics to dete... and again after three and five years. Researchers looked at the role of neuroticism (a person who is overanxious, oversensitive and obsessive), clinical stat...

Change in walking might indicate Dementia

...y theorized it might be a warning sign. This study looked at the relationship between the two. Doctors studied 410 people age 65 and older. At the beginning of the study, 80 people had abnormal walking patterns. During the follow-up period, there were 113 newly diagnosed cases of dementia, 75 of them Alzhe...

Misinterpretation living wills

... taken to keep them alive. Researchers in the US looked at a small group of patients who had made a living will. They found that none of them wanted CPR or the insertion of a tube to make them breathe, if they had a terminal illness. Some did not want these procedures at all. But some of the doctors quest...

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