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Stroke and the Pill

...e. Most studies looking at the link, however, have looked at women who took early forms of the pill, which contained higher levels of estrogen compared to those in use today. Whether lower dose pills confer the same risk has been unclear, but most doctors have continued //to recommend the pill only for heal...

Pharmacist’s Role in Medication Error

...chers report positive findings in a new study that looked at the role of the pharmacist 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 m...

Easier Dialysis for Kids

...t, Maya is hooked to a dialysis machine. "Her room looked like a little mini-hospital room," says Megan. Now, thanks to a new, smaller machine, it looks like a little girl’s room again. "The current machine is a major advance in home peritoneal dialysis. It’s very portable, so it allows the family to engag...

Smoking and Oral Contraceptives:

...s from the Institute of Health Sciences in England looked at the deaths associated with oral contraceptives ...port 889 of the 17,000 women had died. Researchers looked at the cause of death and which contraceptive they used. The study reports there was no increased ri...

Stress make acne worse

...s making acne worse, but few clinical studies have looked at this, Dr. Alexa B. Kimball, from Stanford University in California, told. "Frankly, we started our study with the goal of debunking this myth," she added. "There are a number of good studies that show pretty clearly that acne causes stress," Kimba...

How to Improve Life Expectancy

...h gains of reducing risk factors for disease. They looked at 20 risk factors. Some of those include unsafe sex, alcohol use, unsafe water, //sanitation and hygiene, indoor smoke, childhood sexual abuse, and vitamin deficiencies. They found 47 percent of premature deaths and 39 percent of total diseases aro...

Parkinson’s Drug Linked to Gamblin

...t of one drug therapy. For the study, researchers looked at the data of 1,884 patients who were seen at the center during one year. They found nine patients had gambling problems. All nine were taking levodopa and a dopamine agonist. In the brain levodopa is transformed into dopamine. The other study drug ...

Twins Less Prone to Suicide Than Others

... scientists said on Friday. Researchers in Denmark looked at the records of more than 20,000 same-sex twins who died between 1943 and 1993 and compared their rates of suicide with the wider population. They found that the suicide rate was lower for twins, regardless of their sex.// The findings came as a s...

Why We Lean to the Left

... In a series of experiment, the Purdue scientists looked for the reasons why all 20 of the amino acids that comprise living things exhibit what is called "left-handed chirality." That refers to the basic direction that amino acids -- basic biological molecules -- twist. Amino acids -- which possess the sa...

Delaying Parkinson’s Diseas

... risk of Alzheimer’s disease in humans. This study looked at the results of two previous studies. The two studies involved nearly 145,000 men and women. All were free of Parkinson’s disease, stroke, and cancer. About 6 percent of men and nearly 4 percent of women reported regular use of NSAIDs. During the ...

New Help for Head and Neck Cancer

...boosting immune system responses. Few studies have looked specifically at how this treatment affects people with head and neck cancers. In this study, investigators tested 12 patients with previously untreated head and neck cancers to gauge their reactions to injections of a combination of mixed natural cy...

Low-Dose Hormones Help the Bones

...e total body every year for three years. They also looked at markers for bone resorption and bone formation during the study. Researchers found women who were on the low dose of estrogen had an increase in their bone mineral density at all the sites measured compared to women on the placebo. They found the...

Drug Users and Risk of Death

...ers are at the greatest risk of death. Researchers looked at the drug-related deaths in Scotland in 2000 and 2001. Results show 292 drug-related deaths in 2000 and 332 drug-related deaths in 2001. Researchers say, of the 332 people who died in 2001, 65 were female, 80 were younger than 25 years old and 112...

Risks for Silent Strokes

... to help blood flow in the body. Researchers also looked at patients who had white coat hypertension. White coat hypertension is when a patient has high blood pressure only when they are in the doctor’s office. Those with diabetes and white coat hypertension had more silent strokes than those who had high ...

Depression a cause for Death in Elderly

...eath in many people, but previous research has not looked at the elderly in particular. // A new study focuses on depression in elderly people living in the community and not in assisted-living facilities or nursing homes. The study, involved 250 participants in a community health program. At the start o...

Vibrating Insoles could Help Balance

...pstart the nervous system into action. A new study looked at the use of the //insoles to help people maintain better balance. They proved most effective in elderly people -- a group who can benefit most from better balance and reduce the number of falls and bone fractures. Researchers tested the insoles on...

Drug-Coated Stent

... in even the most complex of patients. Researchers looked at stents coated with the drug sirolimus. It is an...prevent the problem from recurring. This new study looked at a drug-coated stent in patients with more challenging cardiac problems. The study, included 53 m...

Downside of Diets in Children

...ldren’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School looked at whether dieting to control weight works among children and adolescents. Researchers found in 1996, 25 percent of the girls and about 14 percent of the boys were infrequent dieters and about 5 percent of the girls and 2 percent of the boys were fr...

Memory said to automatically improve with age

...ay mean keeping more precious memories.Researchers looked at MRI scans of people 55 or older and discovered dramatic differences in their brains. The people who were physically fit had gray matter in better shape.It was found that losing weight can also improve memory function. Losing weight will improve h...

Sudden Cardiac Death due to inherited Heart Disease

...inherited heart disease.For the study, researchers looked at first degree relatives of 32 people who died of SADS. The average age of the individuals who died was 30 years old. Researchers say they found one in four of the families were diagnosed with inherited heart disease. Specifically, the relatives eit...

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