loss 1 5

Tag: "loss" at medical news

Abortion made easy pill causes alarm in state

...ear-old patient who had taken the tablets suffered loss of 2000 cc blood during suction process and the only way to save her was to perform an emergency hysterectomy, she claimed. The other was an incomplete abortion. Given in the hands of unscrupulous fly-by-night abortionists who are thriving unchecke...

Tremors connected to Body Mass Index

... suggest physicians focus more attention on weight loss in ET patients....

Multiple organ disease cured by genes

...e defect, leading to blindness, heart disease, and loss of mobility. Most humans with MPS die in childhood. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have carried out the first ever gene therapy for MPS in dogs born with the disease. This introduces a healthy version of the defective enzyme, beta-g...

Benign eye tumors being treated

...reat the tumors unless the problems lead to vision loss or a detached retina. In these cases, each of the...uffering from a tumor in one eye, and all suffered loss of vision and a detached retina. In the first case, a 60 year old man attempted reatment after exper...

A smoke free place to be initiated

Passive smokers have always been at a loss when it comes to health issues. In California, travel is now the major source of environmental tobacco smoke for residents. Environmental tobacco smoke// (ETS, or passive smoking)is linked to a wide range of adverse health effects - from exacerbation...

Heart attack kills one in every 10 Indians

... and also offered a 50 per cent discount on weight loss treatment....

Chinese herbal remedies aids in cancer treatment

... reduction in symptoms such as nausea, vomiting or loss of appetite. The researchers are now investigating in depth with more subjects for this study....

Laser may stop macular degeneration

...eople with dry macular degeneration have a gradual loss of vision. While there are a number of procedures under study to treat the wet form, there are fewer options available for the dry form. A team of researchers led by Thomas Friberg, M.D., from the University of Pittsburgh, are studying the use of a ...

Change in weight not a risk in healthy men

According to a new study, weight loss followed by weight gain is only a health risk in men with pre-existing disease. The health risks of obesity are now well established to many. But weight, once lost,// is often put on again and some studies have suggested that fluctuating weight may, ...

Caffeine fights Gallstones

...ho are overweight or have experienced rapid weight loss ran a higher risk. 80,900 women were tracked over a period of two decades to compare their coffee consumption to whether they had their gall bladder removed. Researchers found 7,815 women had their gallbladders removed. The study also suggested that...

Spine Surgeries becoming less painful

... that there is less tissue damage and lesser blood loss and the patient can be discharged within two days of the procedure. This method, the Micro Endoscopic Discectomy Method (MED) is also being used in Bangalore and Delhi apart from Ahmedabad where it was recently introduced....

Spurt in hospital admissions following football shoot-outs

England's loss to Argentina in a World Cup match in 1998 ending with a penalty shootout increased heart attack rates by 27 per cent. The fact that extreme stress and emotion// can cause a heart attack in vulnerable people is known to almost everyone.However, resea...

Fewer teeth & Increased Ischemic Stroke risk

...ection associated to periodontal disease and tooth loss causes inflammation that affects the arteries. Do...o claim that earlier studies have shown that tooth loss is related to disease of the carotid artery, the main artery to the brain. Whatever the explanation...

Vision loss could result due to MSG

...riental and processed foods could result in vision loss due to retina// injury. Glutamate is an amino acid which acts as a neurotransmitter, a chemical that sends signals between nerve cells. The findings were published following a study which involved rats that were fed with diets high in MSG over a si...

Myostatin gene could hold the key to treatment for DMD

... and strength in mice with DMD is increased by the loss of the myostatin gene. She teamed with Hopkins geneticist Se-Jin Lee to create a strain of mice lacking the myostatin gene which were later bred with mice with DMD. They found that the offspring had significantly larger, stronger muscles than disease...

Former smokers can be protected with vitamin A derivative

... that smoking causes genetic damage in the form of loss of a gene that could protect cells from becoming cancerous. Researchers from the University of Texas have now shown that a close chemical relative of vitamin A restores// the function of this gene called retinoic acid receptor (RAR) beta. This chemic...

Herbal supplement ephedra posing threat to people's health

...e herbal supplement ephedra, often used for weight loss or to boost energy, is posing a threat to people's health and experts are calling for authorities to ban or restrict access to the supplement. The study used data gathered by the American Association of Poison Control Centers. Researchers claim that ...

Scientists locate key hormone involved in appetite control

...in levels increase naturally in response to weight loss or reduced caloric intake and the hormone diminish...tite in patients who have undergone extreme weight loss due to illness, a condition known as cachexia, and in finding new drugs that would assist children w...

Hyaluronan supplementation therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis

...involved in in these type of joint problems is the loss of a special salt called hyaluronan within the fluid that moisturizes the area. This fluid is called synovial fluid. Hyaluronan supplementation injections are being given to humans since 1987, after the therapy was proved beneficial in// racehorses w...

Green tea beneficial in preventing osteoarthritis

...ilage destruction in test-tube models of cartilage loss that mimic what happens in the arthritic joint. Also, earlier studies have shown that EGCG reduces joint swelling and pain. The new discovery needs further testing on human volunteers. However, Sheffield University has already taken out a patent for...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10