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Waking during surgery

...a group of such people. They found they remembered many unpleasant emotions and sensations: terror, pain, paralysis and a profound feeling of betrayal by medical staff.// For half of these patients, waking during surgery led to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a long-lasting psychological reaction...

Acupuncture for conception

There are many grueling and expensive options to explore for women who are trying to conceive the latest of it being Acupuncture. According to an article from the San Francisco Chronicle, older women are particularly favour acupuncture because they may have been t...

Avacado a day

...em by using the whole food, since there are likely many beneficial substances working synergistically. Watermelon, which was also found to be protective of the liver, is also a good source of the carotenoid lycopene....

Right drugs drastically cut stroke risk

...y involving about 6,000 patients over six years in many countries showed that strokes were cut by at least a quarter among patients given the drugs. // The drugs are inexpensive and easily available. Use of the drugs cut both strokes and heart attacks and consequently deaths. The drugs cost only about...

Link between Constipation and Parkinson's Disease

...onstipation can predate symptoms of Parkinson's by many years. But we can't conclude or yet know that whether exposure to something early in life left the men vulnerable to both conditions or perhaps constipation in men is an early sign of a predisposition to Parkinson's, maybe through a neurological conn...

'Prozac miracle' could end in disaster

...d investigator and a senior airforce officer - but many more are expected to join it. All were prescribed Paxil/Seroxat for mild depression or anxiety and none was told they might become hooked. When they tried to stop taking it, they suffered violent and disturbing symptoms, including jolting pains in th...

Nitric oxide involved in high blood pressure

...l causes of high blood pressure are diverse and in many cases unclear, this study shows the importance of making sure high blood pressure is always controlled and may provide greater understanding of the method. The team showed previously that increased free radical activity plays an important role in all...

Eating disorder... a survey

... suffer from the symptoms of an eating disorder.In many girls, the problems appear to set in from a very early age. Scientists from Canada surveyed 2,85739 girls aged 12 to 18 about their eating habits.They found that 27% had significant symptoms of eating disorders such as binge eating or purging.The g...

Recouping blood flow after a stroke

...cover lost functions - like speech and movement in many cases. Now a study in laboratory rats reveals that the blood supply of the brain can respond to stroke damage. Researchers at the Harvard University School of Medicine in the US simulated a minor stroke in a group of rats, by constricting the blood...

Gene clue to antibiotics

...te. The Streptomyces genome has already revealed many new genes that are involved in antibiotic synthesis. This opens up the way to the discovery of many new antibiotics. Streptomyces also makes potential anti-cancer drugs, and immune-suppressants. Inc...

Quality of life after cancer

According to American researchers many cancer survivors report a good quality of life, despite facing physical and psychological struggle. But generally Doctors and the general public assume that cancer must lead to a deterioration in your quality of life. Researchers at the King Edward ...

Voice may be improved by surgery

...or sleep apnoea - a disorder where breathing stops many times during the night - is to remodel the nasal and throat cavity through surgery. Often the problem is that the uvula - a flap of tissue at the top of the throat obstructs night-time breathing.// If the uvula is trimmed - in an operation called u...

What we can learn from dogs?

...ammals - and it sure has a bright future. We share many of our genes with our primate cousins - yet they rarely get cancer. Dogs and humans are similar in many ways, but dogs do not suffer from high blood pressure, even when they have kidney disease.// Profe...

Sleep apnoea increases post-operative risks

... airways. The person stops breathing, momentarily, many times during the night and levels of oxygen in the blood fall.// Researchers have studied 80 patients with sleep apnoea, and 70 with normal sleep breathing patterns, all of whom were having hip or knee replacements. They found that 20% in the sleep...

Gel prevents pregnancy

..., is being tested in four countries world-wide.For many women, protecting against pregnancy means the daily ritual of popping the contraceptive pill. But now there's a new option under trial.// Dr Edith Weisberg from the Family Planning Association says "The gel is like any other gel, but it contains a n...

New test for heart attack

...e to send 508 patients home within six hours - and many within 90 minutes. Of these, only one returned later with a heart attack, meaning the test is practically 100 per cent accurate....

Poor diet among smokers

...State University, showed in their new survey, that many people living with smokers are compounding the problem of passive smoking by eating a poor diet. Nonsmoking men living with smokers consume more fat and cholesterol and less calcium and vitamin A than those living with non-smokers. Among nonsmoking w...

Zydus Cadila and Kopran in strategic alliance

...uct development to introduce several new products, many of them for the first time in India. While on one hand Aten would grow faster in the hands of Zydus Cadila, Kopran would be able to achieve higher growths through its strategy of launching new products....

Mushroom and muscle loss

... breakdown, in the blood.// The study "raises as many questions as answers, at least in my mind," said Dr. Denis Benjamin, chair of the North American Mycological Association's toxicology committee.There are other mushrooms which have delayed effects, or cumulative toxicity -- and it's rare to find more...

Fingerprinting prostate cancer

...state cancer's molecular fingerprint could lead to many new diagnostic tests. These could offer more to the patient than the current PSA (prostate specific antigen) test and can be used as a useful diagnostic tool....

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