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Blood transfusions beneficial after heart attacks

Doctors can save the lives of many elderly heart attack victims by quickly giving blood transfusions to those who have even mild anemia, a U.S. study found. Researchers said this advice, if widely adopted, could save thousands of people each year. Taking care of anemia is probably as ...

Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

...ypermetabolism in thousands of patients, including many with crush and broken bone injuries from falls or car wrecks....

Diabetes on the rise

... young age at which diabetes is being diagnosed in many patients. A study of complications in more than ...he Diabetes Research Centre in Chennai showed that many had suffered eye, nerve or other tissue damage by the time diagnosis was made. More than a third of ...

Iron is a two sided sword

...men and older people with a poor diet. That is why many breakfast cereals are now fortified with iron, to make sure everyone gets enough of this important mineral.// But too much iron might be as bad for you as too little, say researchers at Ohio State University. They exposed human intestinal cells, in...

Smoker's are prone to Alzheimer's

...Alzheimer's. Another reason could be the fact that many smokers do not live long enough to develop the disease, which particularly affects the very elderly....

New gene for hairloss

...s when it malfunctions. Accoeding to researchers, many types of hair loss probably share a similar biological mechanism, and understanding the //hairless gene's function will help scientists figure that mechanism out. Previous work has shown that people who inherit a malfunctioning version of hairless ca...

Nobel laureates in chemistry

... of new drugs and materials, and are being used in many industrial syntheses of pharmaceutical products. // This year Nobel Prize in Chemistry concerns the way in which certain chiral molecules can be used to speed up and control important chemical reactions. In the early sixties it was not known wheth...

Collagen improves voice quality in Parkinsonism

...quire a general anaesthetic, is very promising for many Parkinson's patients with voice problems....

Detection of Cancer

...for prostate cancer is not very reliable and gives many false positives, while many women find a mammogram awkward," Professor Parish explained. The value of mammography for breast can...

Benefit of colonoscopy

...hat screening should continue throughout life. But many patients seem unaware that they are eligible for a free screen under Medicare arrangements - a telephone poll revealed that 16 per cent did not know if the FOBT was covered, and a further 10 per cent thought it was not covered....

Cement injections linked to osteoporosis

...e formerly done during surgery. Two weeks later//, many patients reported substantial improvements - less pain, better sleep and more mobility. A few patients did experience relapses of pain, while three developed a pulmonary embolism - a blockage in the lung area - caused by the cement moving beyond the...

Deep Sleep Doesn't Increase Memory

...p, usually just after falling asleep. "There are many kinds of brain activity that can affect the memory, but there is no conclusive evidence to show that REM sleep helps memory consolidation,'' said the study's author, Jerome M. Siegel, researcher at the Center for Sleep Research, Department of Veteran...

Is Smallpox Threat Real ?

... at least 30 percent of its victims and disfigures many who survive, was eradicated from the globe more th...d Moscow, Russia. A smallpox attack is just one of many potential bioterrorism threats, but "perhaps it is the most frightening," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, di...

Why running noses are a good thing

.... Those symptoms, of course, are common in flu and many other viruses that cause wintertime respiratory ills. So asking about it can help doctors rule out anthrax. The possible overuse of antibiotics worries officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which offered some guidance for doc...

Anti-Cancer Drug Restores Normal Cell Growth

... report. Researchers say the drug probably acts on many types of cancer cells, so it may be useful for treating other types of cancer. Dr. Antonio Fojo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and colleagues tested the drug, depsipeptide//, in patients with T-cell lymphoma, a cancer of the ...

Hormone treatment helps obese people slim down

...hormone that helps control body weight, could help many overweight people slim down. Discovered in 1994, leptin is normally produced by fat cells and is believed to provide a signal about the amount of body fat to the body's energy-regulation system. // Leptin treatment has already helped people who com...

Gene Therapy Destroys Pancreatic Cancer Cells

...ancer is among the deadliest of cancers, affecting many people a year and having an extremely low survival rate. Pancreatic cancer is the most aggressive cancer and there are few palliative treatments. Using a new two-pronged attack, researchers were able to destroy deadly pancreatic cancer cells in the t...

Common contraception

...hormone-based contraceptive. Hormones are found in many different tissues.// Working with mice, the researchers discovered that the sperm of mice without the CatSper gene were unable to penetrate the outer covering of the egg, called the zona pellucida. But when the researchers mixed the sperm with eggs ...

Exercises reduce risks of cancers

..."We've analysed a wide range of studies looking at many different types of physical activity, and taken together they provide convincing evidence that exercise really does protect against bowel cancer." It is not clear yet why exercise should help - it may alter levels of hormones which are key to cance...

Older men 'father' schizophrenics

...he scientists behind the research estimate that as many as one in four cases of schizophrenia could be caused by the father being old. Their study looked at records of almost 56,000 people// born in Jerusalem between 1966 and 1986, and compared them to data from the Israel Psychiatric Register, which is p...

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