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Home care aids in lung disease

...mergency room, compared to the controls. They also made more progress in understanding their illness. After eight weeks, 52 per cent knew all about COPD, compared to just 30 per cent of controls. And 83 per cent of the home group had learned how to inhale properly, thanks to nurse education, compared to 5...

Maintaining warmth during cold

...en jersey. The third, outermost, layer needs to be made of a material that will create a good barrier against rain, snow and wind. A decent waterproof jacket or coat will do the job....

Spine Surgeries becoming less painful

...es which required an incision of about 12cms to be made and the patient took a longer time to recover. En...scopic Spinal Surgery, an incision of anly 2cms is made and an endoscope (a 2mm camera) is inserted into the vertebral column to free the spinal cord of pre...

Acupuncture in Paediatric care

...ich shows significant rise in the number of visits made to acupuncturists, proves the popularity of the traditional method for relief of pain. However, it has not reached mainstream pediatric treatment yet. Very few acupuncturists treat children and not many pediatricians are familiar with acupuncture. ...

Reduced fertility in men who mountain bike

...ed fertility & the sport. A comparative study was made of 35 extreme mountain bikers and 30 non-bikers, wherein extreme bikers were classified as those who biked more than two hours a day, six days a week, and more than 3,000 miles a year. Analysis of semen of the two participating groups indicated a con...

Research on causes for falling helps develop preventive strategies

...died volunteers of various age groups as they were made to walk on a treadmill which was gradually made slippery by introducing a fluid on the walking surface. The researchers attached sensors to the feet...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

...hat problems with connexin genes (and the proteins made from their instructions) have already been tied to a number of inherited conditions involving deafness or peripheral neuropathy because of their widespread presence in cells during critical developmental periods. Researchers, during the course of thi...

Machines take over the battle against hospital bugs

...dopted by the St. James's University Hospital, has made these new weapons a viable option to fight hospital acquired infection....

Myostatin gene could hold the key to treatment for DMD

...hat the myostatin-blocking antibodies he used were made in mouse cells to target mouse myostatin and that it is necessary to make specific human antibodies before proceeding to clinical trials. However, Kathryn indicated that there are other ways of inhibiting myostatin and that antibodies are farthest in...

The Happiness Formula....

...fferent sexes. While four in ten men said that sex made them happy and three in ten said that a victory by a favourite sports team, seven in ten women said that happiness was related to being with family and one in four related happiness to losing weight. Romance and a pay rise or a hobby featured high in...

Depressed women show signs of earlier onset of Perimenopause

...ation for one year or longer compared to women who made a normal transition to menopause (around age 50). The new research study included 330 women with and 646 women without a history of major depression between the ages of 36 and 45 years old. None of the women enrolled in the study had gone through me...

Survival rates in breast cancer patients improved with "Dose Dense Chemotherapy"

...lgrastim (dose dense) The dose dense regimen was made tolerable to patients with the drug filgrastim, which helps prevent neutropenia, a serious complication of chemotherapy. In neutropenia there is a decline in the number of a certain type of white blood cells which hampers the immune system of the bod...

Wash your hands to keep healthy!

...y included a huge number of Navy recruits who were made to wash their hands five times a day for a year and the rate of illness was measured. The researchers found that at the end of the hand washing program after one year the rate of respiratory illness, such as flu and bronchitis, was down 45 per cent c...

Ways to whiter teeth!

...ain its color. Tooth veneer, a non-stain covering, made of porcelain, which the dentist bonds to the tooth enamel, is another alternative to keep teeth white and shining....

Herbal supplement ephedra posing threat to people's health

...ible for 62 per cent of all herbal-related reports made to poison control centres in the US. This fact further gathered importance as, in the same year, products containing ephedra accounted for less than 1 per cent of herbal supplement sales in the US. Researchers concluded that their findings show that ...

Hyaluronan supplementation therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis

...uronan products on the market and each of these is made differently in regard to mode of production, molecular weight, concentration and treatment regimen. Therefore, they cautioned clinicians to look at the evidence supporting the use of a given product before they use it. The study also revealed that th...

Miscarriage during pregnancy and heart disease linked

...An expert lauded the study and said that the study made sense biologically because many of the medical conditions that predispose people to have miscarriage can also predispose them to have heart disease. Among those conditions, he adds, are kidney disease and a predisposition to blood clots. Study autho...

New lung cancer vaccine on the anvil

... of the Journal of Clinical Oncology that vaccines made from patients' own tumors are safe and future enhancements could make them a powerful new treatment for deadly cancers. Researchers claim that the tumors grow out of control when the T-cells -- which orchestrate immune system attacks -- ignore them. ...

A cup of coffee could hamper your diet

... you up to 110 calories. Ask that your beverage be made with fat-free milk instead of whole milk. This saves you about 80 calories and up to eight grams of fat. Use a sugar substitute instead of real sugar. One teaspoon of sugar is 15 calories. Order coffee without whipped cream, flavored syrup, chocolate...

Cervicogenic headache can be identified with a fibromyalgia test

...che. Dr. McFadden believes that once patients are made to understand the relationship between headache and neck pain, treatment options can be evolved. He concluded that this study prompted physicians to use the simple standard fibromyalgia test to disqualify or identify neck pain as a symptom in the hea...

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