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Progestin protects against ovarian cancer

... cancer. The study is based on examination of the medical and oral contraceptive histories of more than 3,200 women who took part in a study. The groups included women who took no pills; those who took pills high in both estrogen and progestin; women who took pills high in one or the other of the hormones, ...

Alzheimer's followed by head injury

...ffer from the disease. The doctors analysed the medical records and interviewed 326 male Navy and Marine World War II veterans who were hospitalised during their period of service with a head injury. They found that those who suffered mild head injuries - who had lost consciousness for no more than 30 min...

New Dietary Approach To Manage Kidney Stones

... to excrete, cost billions of dollars each year in medical care and lost productivity. While the stones can sometimes be prevented by drinking plenty of water, avoiding infections and emptying the bladder frequently,// medication to reduce the excretion of calcium in urine may be prescribed. These drugs may ...

Water regulation in humans

Hopkins medical sleuths found that the absence of a certain protein interferes with the body's ability to regulate its water levels.Reported in the New England journal of medicine,it provides insight into how the kidney works.// The protein aquaporin-1has a def...

Moderate alcohol consumption protects against dementia

...rain, which is linked to dementia. There is even a medical condition called alcoholic dementia. Scientists at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, conducted a six-year study of 5,395 people aged 55 and over who did not have signs of dementia. Everyone was categorized according to how much they ...

Robots craft medical history

A new invenvtion in the medical history. A team of surgeons in France, assisted in...the world's// first long-distance operation in the medical history. The operation took place at the European Institute for TeleSurgery in Strasbourg. Accordin...

A novel augmentation

...o particular tissue. This is the process that some medical scientists believe will eventually allow whole human organs to be grown in the laboratory for transplant. Such transplants would be engendered by cloning from a patient's own cells and would therefore have no problems of negation. Makoto Asashima, ...

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

...hese studies, researchers from hospitals and other medical institutions across the UK, with funding from the Medical Research Council, plan to undertake extensive trials to find out conclusively if this type of treatment can lessen asphyxia's serious effects. During the study, parents of more than 200 child...

Computers may become surgeons

Brain surgery, endoscopies and other complicated medical procedures could be made safer and faster in the future by using computers. Scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles are examining the way people use vision// to interact with their environment and are attempting to design computer s...

Drugs control and industry departments to share a common e-platform

...control department as well as the state health and medical services departments will be facilitated through the portal within the next one-year. All license renewals, fresh applications, queries relating to inspections, punitive actions and rules and regulations can all be had from one single source. The mon...

FDA approves first pocket-sized EKG machine

...room. It's also the first hand-held computer-based medical device, part of a growing trend to miniaturize some of medicine's most important equipment. Electrocardiograms, also called EKGs or ECGs, are recordings of the heart's electrical signals, used to diagnose heart attacks, irregular heartbeats and othe...

Arginine food bar assists people with angina

A medical food bar enriched with arginine and vitamins incre...s in the US have just disclosed good results for a medical food bar having arginine and a cocktail of vitamins along with soy isoflavones. A group of 30 patien...

Delirium linked to death

...this study have implications for the care of older medical inpatients and for research in such patients. Fir...ld prompt efforts to identify and treat underlying medical problems....

Eyedrops for amblyopia

...andard treatment for some forms of amblyopia," the medical name for lazy eye, said Dr. Paul Sieving, director of the National Eye Institute. The study found the drops worked as well as patches in treating mild to moderate forms of the disorder in children ages 3 to 6. More severe forms, may require patches....

Tongue piercing leads to bacterial infection

...ty students, and there is significant incidence of medical complications among students with piercing,"// sai...me type of body piercing and 22 percent suffered a medical complication from the piercing, according to a report in the recent jounal of medicine. Conforming ...

Defeating colon cancer

...our cancer risk. According to researchers in the medical University of Texas, they highlighted how dietary intervention helps those with a family history of colon cancer. The research covered nearly 50,000 female nurses whose family history of dietary habits were known. This showed that those who had a gen...

Take care of skin in winter

... have dermatitis or eczema - both of which require medical attention....

Nausea Linked To Anxiety And Depression

...tially harmful medications for nausea, unnecessary medical investigation and probably a better quality of life for the patients. Haug and colleagues in the department of psychiatry conducted what is perhaps the largest study of the prevalence of nausea ever undertaken. Overall, 48 percent of 62,000 people i...

Scientists found ancient Human Germ Killer

...tist at the University of California, Los Angeles, medical school, said he and other researchers// were led to the mutated human gene for an HIV-inhibiting compound by a sort of natural antibiotic found in the bone marrow of rhesus monkeys. The monkey substance was designated RTD-1. Such naturally occurring...

Healthy Medicine Or Harmful Intoxicant?

...benefits or a deadly intoxicant with no legitimate medical use? GHB -- gamma hydroxy butyric acid -- hailed as a wonder drug for the first 30 years// of its career, has been blamed as an illegal killer for the past 12 years. Many blame GHB for thousands of deaths and emergency room visits, while others claim...

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