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Female Heart Attack Victims Show Signs of Lasting Depression

... 11 per cent of the men. As well, the women scored lower than their male counterparts in physical and social functioning after one year (52.97 compared to 74.82, and 77.9 to 67.42 respectively). We confirmed that depression definitely played a role in the quality of life of recovering patients, confirming...

India to Monitor Pregnancies to Check Girl Foeticide: Report

... has only 927 females for every 1,000 males -- far lower than the worldwide average of 1,050 females -- mainly due to selective abortion in the country where many people prefer to have male children. "This will check both foeticide and infant mortality," the minister for women and child development Renuk...

Women With Heart Disease Suffers from Depression

... 11 per cent of the men. As well, the women scored lower than their male counterparts in physical and social functioning after one year (52.97 compared to 74.82, and 77.9 to 67.42 respectively). We confirmed that depression definitely played a role in the quality of life of recovering patients, confirmin...

Indian Researcher Duo Finds Automated Tailgating can Save Fuel, Cut CO2 Emissions

...f it were driving alone. The second car has a much lower drag coefficient than the first car in a two-car platoon. The middle car experiences the lowest drag in a three-car platoon and the third car in the platoon, starting from the front, experiences the least drag in a four-car platoon," said Mitra. Ac...

Surgical Repair of Athletic Hernia Speeds Return to Play

... athletic hernia have exertion-related pain in the lower abdominal and groin region that is associated with...in from an athletic hernia, or pubalgia, is in the lower abdominal region and pubic bone. Typically this pain has been unexplained for a period of time, and ...

Study Finds Most Women Getting Wrong Dose of Fertility Drugs

...than required, while 15 percent were being given a lower dose of the infertility drugs. When 113 of the women were then given the right dose, an average of 10 eggs were harvested. "That is the ideal number of eggs you would be looking for," the New Scientist quoted Trew, as saying. The findings of t...

Lower Mortality Rates in Hospitals With Good Quality Care

...her according to specific quality measures have a lower chance of dying than patients treated at lower-ran...erforming well on HQA measures was associated with lower risk-adjusted mortality rates for AMI, CHF and pneumonia. (By adjusting for risk, the researchers ma...

Nasal Cannula Treatment for Sleep Apnea Patients

...rnative to current sleep apnea treatments that may lower the barrier for care in patients with sleep-associated breathing disorders....

Walking Upright Saves Humans 75 Pc More Energy Compared to Apes

...found to include predicted changes consistent with lower energy cost- longer hind legs compared to body mass and structural changes to the pelvic bone allowing for more upright walking. Analysis of these features in early fossil hominins, coupled with analysis of bipedal walking in chimpanzees, revealed...

Right Foods Could Improve Drug Effectiveness, Lower Drug Costs

...mprove the effectiveness of drugs and dramatically lower the rapidly rising costs of treating patients, exp...a, probably caused by unabsorbed drug. So taking a lower dose with food should "reduce the amount of unabsorbed drug, and therefore theoretically also reduce...

Worms are Killing the Planet

... move to another level in search of more food. The lower trays of compost can be used and a tap allows the liquid collected to be drained off as fertiliser. The red worms used in composting are extremely efficient at breaking down decomposing material such as kitchen scraps and other organic material bu...

Value Meal Would Lower Drug Costs

...ractions between food and drugs could dramatically lower the rapidly rising costs of several anticancer dru...a, probably caused by unabsorbed drug. So taking a lower dose with food should "reduce the amount of unabsorbed drug, and therefore theoretically also reduce...

Indian Introduces Paan-flavoured Condoms

...AIDS stands at two million to 3.1 million, sharply lower than earlier estimates, but vowed to spend billions to check a wider epidemic. Previous estimates from India's National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) had put the HIV caseload at 5.2 million, while UNAIDS in 2006 estimated 5.7 million cases which...

Brain Tumor Children Poor Performance in Schools

...dren who have had a brain tumor were significantly lower in each school subject, and differed most in foreign language, especially for girls. More than 58 percent of female patients received grades below an eight (four = fail, 10 = excellent) in foreign language compared to 38 percent of healthy children. ...

Poor Ventilation may Cause Lung Disorders Inn Inuit Children

...ercrowding may contribute to the high incidence of lower respiratory tract lung infections in young Inuit ...in the Baffin Region of Nunavut. They found that lower respiratory tract infection was significantly associated with indoor carbon dioxide levels and occup...

Differences in Brain Functions Results in non-contact Knee Injuries

...wer processing speed and reaction time, as well as lower visual and verbal memory performance may predispose certain individuals to errors in coordination during physical activity that can lead to injury, Swanik said. But can we do anything to improve our brain function and protect ourselves from injury? ...

Avandia Improves Quality of Life in Diabetes Patients

...or glycemic control, which is the drugs ability to lower blood sugar levels, the review authors say. Rosiglitazone treatment produced about the same reductions as other oral antidiabetic drugs. When the reviewers looked at patient-oriented results of the treatments such as side effects, diabetic complica...

Diet and Exercise Helps Reduce Weight After Pregnancy

...heir pre-pregnancy weight within six months have a lower risk of being overweight ten years later. As well as helping reduce body weight, exercise has the added advantage of improving the womens cardiovascular fitness and preserves fat-free mass dieting alone reduces fat-free mass, says Amanda Amorim, an...

Anticoagulants is Better for Atrial Fibrillation

... anti-platelet treatments are offered to people at lower risk. A team of Cochrane Researchers set out to compare the relative benefits of these two treatments. After searching the medical literature, they drew on data found in eight trials that together involved a total of 9598 people who had AF but had n...

20 Mg Rimonabant Per Day may Help to Quit Smoking

...ten accompanies attempts at stopping smoking . The lower dose of 5mg, however, was not shown to be effectiv...rmore the people who did manage to quit using this lower dose were equally likely to remain abstinent whether they continued with rimonabant treatment or mov...

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