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Mislabeled Body-building Steroid Supplements

...ooking to pump up their physiques should know that many over-the-counter steroid supplements don't measure up to their label claims. Many people who buy these supplements are getting ripped off. // Researchers evaluated 12 steroid supplements that they purchased in stores. They analyzed the products to ...

TV drug commercials prompt prescriptions

...ed one in eight viewers to get a prescription. But many viewers fail to retain critical information about the drug and possible side effects. TV commercials for prescription drugs have become commonplace since the Food and Drug Administration set up rules and made them legal. // The pervasive drug ads...

New HIV cases resist drugs

...er and the lifesaving cocktails of drugs that help many patients lead normal lives were becoming increasin...used a test to show how the virus responded to the many available drugs used to treat HIV. Of these, 78 percent carried virus that resisted at least one dru...

Predictable genes

...ancer, but researchers are sure that there must be many more.//The team at Cambridge University's Departme...ese factors, you can predict fairly accurately how many of them will get breast cancer....

FDA issues warning for Droperidol

...dol, a tranquilizer often used to treat the nausea many people feel after undergoing anesthesia. Droperidol has long carried a warning that it could cause sudden cardiac death at high doses in patients at risk of irregular heartbeats.// But the new warning says even standard low doses of droperidol can b...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

...Secretary Tommy Thompson announced plans to buy as many as 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine. But seve...ting potentially serious side effects including as many as 300 deaths. Other experts argue that once an outbreak has occurred, restricting mass transporta...

Low cholestrol,low behaviour

...by low cholesterol levels could be responsible for many types of dangerous behavior....

Gene Therapy For Cystic Fibrosis

...tioning. Treatment with new antibiotics now allows many children to reach adulthood, but there is no cure.// New research is moving us slightly closer to a treatment for cystic fibrosis that modifies the abnormal gene that causes the disease. Working with mice, scientists have restored key chemicals in ...

Unnatural death common in mentally ill

.... Alcohol and drug abuse were important factors is many of these deaths. Strategies for reducing suicide risk among the mentally ill continue to be important. But this study suggests that we also need to look at how to reduce other types of unnatural death in the community....

New Drug, Pleconaril speeds recovery from common cold

...mpletely clear up a day sooner than usual. Unlike many over-the-counter remedies, which ease cold symptoms by drying up plugged noses and soothing aches, pleconaril attacks a large group of viruses known as the picornaviruses. Among these is the rhinovirus, the bug that causes about half of all colds.// ...

Step Aerobics Increases good cholesterol

...ets, they might have done so. In addition to this, many more--such as age, smoking and body composition--contribute to a person's cholesterol levels....

Serotonin increases stroke risk

...g the levels of serotonin, a natural chemical with many different roles in the body.// Examples include diet pills, anti-migraine drugs and some of the newer antidepressants. Researchers at the Health welfare hospital, warn of the potential dangers of using such drugs in combination. They may narrow the...

Target for obesity treatment

... half are overweight. Being fat raises the risk of many potentially fatal health conditions//, including heart disease and diabetes, it's believed that obesity is linked to at least 300,000 deaths in the US annually. Researchers have pinpointed a gene( PPARgamma) that puts the finishing touch on turning...

Drug Combinations May Boost Stroke Risk

...od supply. The reports' authors speculate that too many serotonin drugs could cause restricted blood flow to the brain. Antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, increase levels of serotonin in the blood by preventing the neurons from "reabsorbing" serotonin it has alrea...

Get, set, go...

... The National osteoporosis center emphasized that many children need to be more physically active and one of the ways of tackling the huge problem of osteoporosis is to encourage youngsters to increase peak bone mass by taking enough of the right type of exercise with a well-balanced calcium rich diet....

More People Seeking Treatment for Depression

...n the US. In fact, a recent study stressed that as many as 8 million Americans with serious mental illness...raise awareness of the illness and thus encouraged many more individuals to seek treatment who may have felt stigmatized before. Another major force in p...

Relief from common back pain

...ne of the most common ailments affectig adults; as many as four out of five Americans experience significant back problems during their lives. Back pain is the second most common reason for doctor visits, and herniated disk is the culprit for many. The condition can be caused by such thing as trauma, stre...

Smoking Linked To Low Infant Birth Weight

...s. Low birth weight is a very complex entity and many environmental and genetic factors may be involved. This study is the first step to understand how genetic susceptibility interacts with environmental exposures to affect infant birth weight. This study will open up new areas of research that will lea...

Thumb Sucking in children Lead to Overbite

... Reuters Health. "What our study found is that for many children, the aforementioned conditions do not resolve by themselves, even 2 to 3 years after a habit is stopped." The study of 372 children found that nearly 6% of those who stopped sucking before they turned 1 had an irregular bite in the molar a...

Sex safe for strokes

...minal heart attack.Middle aged men can have sex as many times// as they like without having to fear their risk of having a stroke, according to research. Professor Shah Ebrahim, who led the University of Bristol team, said men should be livened by the research, which digresses fears that there is a lin...

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