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Tag: "moderate" at medical news

Women need to exercise more to prevent obesity

...y, we are advised to aim for 35 minutes a day// of moderate exercise for health and weight control. But scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham now warn that this may not be enough. They have studied a group of women who reported a tendency to gain weight. Physical inactivity alone accounted f...

Light therapy decreases depression during pregnancy

...he researchers reported that the patients showed a moderate improvement of their levels of depression after just three weeks of light treatment. For the seven women who underwent five weeks of light therapy, their average score on a scale that measures depression improved by 60%. When the light therapy was di...

Evading sports injuries

...yourself - the goal is 30 minutes or more a day of moderate exercise. Using the right equipment is essential too - a helmet when riding a bike, for instance, to avoid head injury. If you need to, do take lessons - being aware of the correct technique and form will help protect you from injury....

A new method to help smokers quit

... cravings and withdrawal. Most adverse events were moderate and were considered similar to those experienced by individuals using nicotine gum. Also, in general, those who used more of the active lozenges daily were more likely to remain abstinent over time. According to researchers, the new nicotine lozenge...

Drinking wine as part of a healthy living

...her types of alcohol. It is well established that moderate alcohol consumption seems to confer some health benefit,// chiefly in the form of reduced risk of heart disease. A new study shows that it may not be the alcohol itself, but linked lifestyle factors that produce at least some of the beneficial effect...

Advantages of Red Wine

...hown, "an inverse relationship between regular and moderate alcohol consumption and the risk for myocardial in...a long line of research to support the benefits of moderate drinking on heart health. Similar to the others, this study leaves a lot of unanswered questions. Re...

Function of genes in heart failure

...des, "A significant part of whether you have good, moderate or poor diastolic function may be determined by genes. We previously thought that diastolic heart failure was caused by hypertension and aging. It is now becoming clear that those two factors don't explain it all."...

Overweight can affect sex life

...en surveyed between the ages of 50 and 85 reported moderate //to severe erectile dysfunction. These men also were more likely to be older, have high blood pressure and weigh more. Men with a waistline measuring 40 inches were nearly twice as likely to suffer erectile dysfunction compared with men whose girt...

Back pain treated with Opioids

...w adverse long-term side effects. But there may be moderate side effects. And the risk of dependence appears to be low. Longer-acting opioids seem to be the best choice for the back pain patient. The researchers acknowledge that there is a great deal of prejudice among the medical community and the public a...

Regular exercise linked to extended menstrual cycles

According to a new study, moderate exercise may extend the time a woman has between h...indings lend modest support to the hypothesis that moderate levels of physical activity can lengthen the menstrual cycle," Sternfeld and her colleagues conclude...

Chinese herbal remedies aids in cancer treatment

...nary results show that the herbal remedy lead to a moderate reduction in symptoms such as nausea, vomiting or loss of appetite. The researchers are now investigating in depth with more subjects for this study....

Eczema patients lack natural antibiotic in skin

..., known as LL-37 and HBD-2, in eight patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis, 11 psoriasis patients, and six healthy individuals. Psoriasis is an inflammatory skin disease, whose patients rarely suffer skin infections. Microscopic examination of skin samples showed significant amounts of the peptid...

Treating acne with laser

... and light-based technologies// to improve mild to moderate acne in a few treatment sesions, and with no known... nm) has been studied for the treatment of mild to moderate in flammatory acne. In the study, two 15-minute exposures a week for a period of four weeks produce...

Women on HRT should avoid alcohol

... beverage per day, also acknowledged that light to moderate alcohol intake appears to reduce the risk of heart disease. Now, women and their doctors are the ones to decide if a daily drink is a health benefit or a health liability!...

Good news for moderate alcohol drinkers!

...the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that moderate drinking may reduce the risk of heart disease in some individuals. The study was conducted over a 12-year period with 38,077 male doctors, who included// dentists, veterinarians, optometrists, osteopathic physicians and podiatrists, aged 40 to 75 yea...

Exercise helps people with cramping leg pain

...s with claudication should walk until they reach a moderate level of leg pain and then continue for several minutes longer as this appears to increase muscle metabolism and endothelial function, though not beneficial in increasing blood flow to the limbs. br>...

Research on Celiac Disease in children

... the study was to determine the safety of adding a moderate amount of commercially-available oats to the diet of celiac children. Quaker Oats provided their standard product for the study as there were no GF oats available in the market. 14 children, aged 8 to 16, with normal growth and no abnormalities, cons...

Human wasting disease linked to a gene

...a, by leading to development of new drugs that can moderate cytokine production....

Immune function could benefit from exercise

... SIgA. The researchers thus concluded that regular moderate exercise enhances the mucosal immune function in elderly people....

Asmanex Twisthaler launched by Schering-Plough for treatment of asthma

... as therapy in the control and management of mild, moderate or severe persistent asthma in patients 12 years of age and older. It was launched in the United Kingdom in January and is expected to be launched in the other European Union(EU) markets, in the next few months. Asmanex Twisthaler, a dry powder inhal...

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