means 1 6

Tag: "means" at medical news

Dogs Can Sense Bladder Cancer

...e to show that dogs can detect cancer by olfactory means more successfully than would be expected by chance alone....

The Benefits Of Soy

...o represent women in their 30s and 40s, presumably means the same benefit would apply to premenopausal women conclude researchers ....

Acupunture relieves pain and improves function in knee Osteoarthritis

...Ph.D., NIAMS Director. "Thus, seeking an effective means of decreasing osteoarthritis pain and increasing function is of critical importance." During the course of the study, led by Brian M. Berman, M.D., Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of...

Olive Oil Found To Offer A Protective Effect Against Breast Cancer

...c acid in breast tissue could provide an effective means of influencing the outcome of breast cancer patients who have high levels of Her-2/neu....

Reducing Blood Pressure in Women By Increasing Folate

...trials to examine folic acid supplementation as a means of lowering blood pressure and preventing hypertension in young women....

Understanding The Link Between Movement And Metabolism

...n. People with low metabolism have low NEAT, which means they have a biological need to sit more. In conclusion researchers say , although NEAT appears to be fixed, doctors can use this data to help obese patients by focusing on energy as well as food....

Futuristic devices are here to take care of dental problems

...the convention is expected to provide the dentists means to diagnose dental problems at very early stages, that will go a long way in preventing dental problems in children. It is possible today for the dentists to early diagnosis by using cultures and fluorescent lights. They also have options of using ma...

Heredity Can Decide Your Drinking Habits

...rinking may be related in opposite direction. This means people with a stronger gene of this type will tend to drink alcohol less than people with a weaker effect of this gene. The gene is responsible for enhancing the pleasure that is derived from alcohol consumption, or the “high” people get out of drink...

Acupuncture May Well Be The Next Cure For High Blood Pressure

...tive treatment to clinical conditions. Acupuncture means to puncture with a needle. In a broad sense the process includes traditional body puncturing with needles, as well as some variants like moxibustion, electric acupuncture or electro-puncture, laser acupuncture etc. Researchers of the new study rep...

Traditional risk factors are more harmful than newer factors of cardiac disease

...e American Medical Association, said that all this means that elderly people having chronic kidney ailments need to be more careful about the traditional factors that can cause a heart failure or stroke than of newer risks. Some of the proven preventive measures of the traditional risk factors for cardiac...

Teenagers may become violent after watching aggressive acts

...ns children to resort to violence or aggression as means of problem solving. These children were taken as a part of a follow up study after two years. Then they were asked as to how many had witnessed a gun shooting. Finally after five years from the initial contact, the children were once again reviewed t...

New dosage of medicine gets more results in neuroblastoma

...educing the size of the cancer tumor with the drug means that it will be easier to remove the malignant growth in the surgery. 40% of the patients enrolled for the study were surviving when the article was written. The study was published in the current issue of Clinical Oncology. Reference: Clinical Onco...

Pollution Free Hydrogen based fuel for Energy

...om coal gasification. "Wind is the most promising means of generating hydrogen", said Jacobson. "Switching from a fossil-fuel economy to a hydrogen economy would be subject to technological hurdles, the difficulty of creating a new energy infrastructure, and considerable conversion costs but could provi...

Losing weight is beneficial for osteoarthritis for the knee

...duce the load on the knee joint by about 18%. This means for each 5% weight loss, the functionality of the knees improve by about 18% for osteoarthritis patients. Researchers have reported that moderate weight loss can be of great benefit for arthritis patients. As the load on the knee reduces with weight...

Need for better support for chronic pain in children’

...orry that there is a lack of data for the ways and means to treat chronic// pain in children. The statistics reveals that 15% of children suffer from aches and 2% have inabilities preventing them from doing normal work. The pain causes psychological distress, which has big impact on siblings and parents. A...

Hypertension Drug of Choice for African Americans

...r via enhanced release of nitric oxide,(2-3) which means it can widen the blood vessels, contributing to th...knowing it. - High blood pressure or hypertension means high pressure (tension) in the arteries. The arteries are the vessels that carry blood from the pump...

Scientists Warn Against Food Borne Illnesses

...thogens.” “Many people thought that unpasteurized means organic or natural,” he said. It does not.Bobe recommends that proper food handling be taught as early as kindergarten and future food safety information be quantitative to help identify the relative risk of, say, a senior eating cold deli meat. Howe...

Inhaling Salt Can Lead To Hypertension

...tension: Further information Hypertension: This means high blood pressure. When the systolic blood pressure is over 140 and the diastolic blood pressure is over 90 consistently, then the person is said to suffer from hypertension. Essential hypertension may be caused by genetics, diet, intake of salt, a...

Elderly Women Remain At Risk From Hypertension

...ension: Further information Hypertension: This means high blood pressure. When the systolic blood pressure is over 140 and the diastolic blood pressure is over 90 consistently, then the person is said to suffer from hypertension. Essential hypertension may be caused by genetics, diet, intake of salt, a...

Calcium-Vitamin D Combo For Reduced Fracture Risk

...ther Information Osteoporosis: In Greek, Osteo means "bone" and porosis mean a "porous condition". In osteoporosis the bone mass in the body becomes reduced or porous like and the skeletal system of your body is deeply affected and brings about a lot of changes to your system. Risk factors for devel...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10