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Weight Loss An Indicator Of Dementia In The Elderly

...t loss and men who were found to have dementia had lost at least 11 pounds over the two to four years prior to reaching the clinical threshold of dementia. The association was similar in Alzheimer's disease and vascular disease say researchers. Researchers conclude that poor nutrition and frailty frequen...

Fetal Cell Transplant Found To Improve Movement In Patients With Parkinson’s Disease

...planting aborted human fetal tissue to replace the lost dopamine-producing cells to help restore movement. Levodopa (Dopar or Larodopa) is the gold standard treatment for Parkinson’s disease. While the drug offers substantial relief, research shows it tends to lose its effectiveness after five to 10 year...

Old Drugs Safe To Use In Cancer Treatment ?

...re terminally ill with the disease and had already lost at least 10 percent of their body weight. The subj...erage of 0.37 kilograms while those on the placebo lost an average of 2.21 kilograms. After eight weeks of treatment, patients on thalidomide had lost about...

Drug Keeps The Weight Off

...results at the end of two years study and patients lost and kept off an average of 8.5 kilograms, or about 19 pounds. That translates to a 5-percent to 10-percent percent weight-loss for patients. For each kilogram, there was also a one-centimeter reduction in waistline. It was also proven to improve ins...

Gene Therapy To Treat Deafness

Replacing lost sensory hair cells in the inner ear may restore pa...or disease. Hearing loss becomes incurable, as the lost sensory hair cells do not regenerate. The new gene therapy may be able to cause clinically deaf peop...

Going to GP may delay cancer diagnosis, says new study

...in the British Journal of Cancer, valuable time is lost when cancer patients goes to a GP first and diagnosis gets delayed. Patients with suspected prostate cancer might be diagnosed three times later than those with breast cancer patients who straight away goes to gets treated for cancer. The average tim...

Gum inflammation increases the risk of Alzheimer’

...f gum disease from the incidence of loose teeth or lost teeth, among other factors of the survey. The research report linking poor oral health to increased risk of the disease was the surprise result of the research. Scientists of the study suggest that good oral health may not prevent the disease but e...

It is possible to have stem cell based treatment for eye problems now

...e it possible to target the protein to replace any lost retinal cells by using the stem cell technology to...e it possible to restore vision in people who have lost their sense to see because of loss of certain retinal cell types. Drawing parallels from their anima...

Pollution Free Hydrogen based fuel for Energy

... of hospitalizations and save more lives than were lost in the World Trade Center attacks. The work is sponsored by the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford and by NASA, the Science study compared emissions that would be produced in five cases--if all vehicles on the road were powered by: 1) co...

Diet to lose weight, and gain prosperity too?

...ck men and white men also gained wealth along with lost weight, but this is not particularly true for black women. The researchers for the study are however at loss explaining how the possible association happened but they are certain that the association is very much there. The researchers have also not...

Inherent similarities in identical twins may not be so strong

...eived//. The primary similarities they have may be lost over the time that can leave them very different form each other. Researchers have reported that this difference in identical twins is the direct result of their epigenome. Epigenome is the modifications that happen in the gene, not because of its g...

Yoga for preventing weight gain in middle age

...an of ten years, obese people of the age group had lost about 10 pounds than the people of the same BMI and age group who did not practice yoga. Only a vigorous session of yoga can cause weight loss and the people who practiced yoga did not do that kind of yoga at all. The researchers feel that the weig...

Patients With Alzheimer’s Need To Be Checked For Visual Clarit

...o have been staying in the medical homes most have lost their glasses, broken them or have glasses that have not been updated to their new eye sight power. Some of them are too impaired to even ask for a replacement or report their decreasing ability to see things clearly. The researchers are of the opin...

Tanzanian Government Sanctions $20 Million For AIDS Arug

... 12% of the country’s children are orphans as they lost their parents due to AIDS. Tanzania has planned to provide free anti-retroviral drugs (drugs which acts against HIV) to 500,000 HIV/AIDS patients within a period of five years. This year 44,000 patients in Tanzania will get anti-retroviral drugs by...

Post-Menopausal Status May Cause Tooth Decay

...The results showed 57.5% of the women in the study lost at least one tooth. Alveolar bone loss may be cause of tooth loss in Post-menopausal women, as studies has proved that loss of each millimeter of alveolar bone loss increases the risk of tooth loss. Periodontal disease is the major cause of alveola...

Knowledge Of Asthma For Teachers Can Help Children

...uld have asthma. Asthma is the cause of 10 million lost school days in children ages five to 17 and affects more than 10 percent of all children. Source: Newswise Medindia on Asthma: further information Asthma: Asthma is the condition of affected airways that restrict the airflow to the lungs. Peo...

Soya Found To Affect Women's Ability To Conceive: Professor

...tion is unable to take place because the sperm has lost special docking molecules that allow it to bind to the egg," she said. The findings could have significant implications for vegetarians, as many non-meat products contain soya. Fraser said it was not a question of avoiding soya products entirely....

Fasting, Feasting Your Way To Health

...ot only were the animals as healthy, but they also lost weight, because over time they ate 30 to 40 percent less food than a control group that was allowed to eat whenever it wanted to. "Intermittent fasting therefore has beneficial effects on glucose regulation and neuronal resistance to injury in these...

Magsaysay Award for Dr.Shanta from Chennai Cancer Institute

...t woman medical graduate and a social reformer who lost her sister to the disease, established the Adyar Cancer Institute in 1954. The institute - started with two doctors including Shanta - was a single building with minimal diagnostic and therapeutic facilities and a cluster of 12 huts to house the pa...

Geriatric Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease May Not Be Treated Properly

...th CKD who eventually required dialysis to replace lost kidney function. Records were reviewed to evaluate the patients' routine medical care in the two years before they started dialysis. The results showed important shortcomings in general health and CKD care. Many diabetic patients with CKD did not re...

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