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Hormone Replacement Therapy -- What to do?

...s well as alternative therapies. For people with moderate to severe symptoms, defined as more than seven hot flashes a day or three to four night sweats each night, low-dose antidepressants have been found to ease the symptoms in 30 percent to 60 percent of patients. In the future, Doctors say other option...

Relief from Migraine

...st sign of pain, rather than waiting until pain is moderate to severe, as was the requirement of the original ...nts to take the drugs only when their pain reached moderate to severe levels. However, patients in one study on the drug sumatriptan violated this rule, taking ...

Radiation for Bone Pain

...e cancer had spread to the bones. All patients had moderate to severe pain. They were divided between women with breast cancer and men with prostate cancer. Results show a single dose of radiation therapy was effective in significantly reducing pain in two-thirds of the patients. A single larger dose of the ...

Radiation for Bone Pain

...e cancer had spread to the bones. All patients had moderate to severe pain. They were divided between women with breast cancer and men with prostate cancer. Results show a single dose of radiation therapy was effective in significantly reducing pain in two-thirds of the patients. A single larger dose of the ...

Corticosteroids Safe for Bones

...he studies reviewed included patients who received moderate to high doses of corticosteroid therapy. Results show long-term use of these medications by patients with asthma or COPD was not associated with significant changes in BMD. Schmier says using ICS therapy is important in controlling symptoms of vari...

Lasers for Acne

...ctors from London recruited 41 adults with mild to moderate facial acne. Thirty-one of the patients received one treatment of the pulsed-dye laser. The other 10 served as the control group. Researchers say, at three months, the acne scale scores for the laser patients dropped in half. The patients in the cont...

Corticosteroids Safe for Bones

...he studies reviewed included patients who received moderate to high doses of corticosteroid therapy. Results show long-term use of these medications by patients with asthma or COPD was not associated with significant changes in BMD. Schmier says using ICS therapy is important in controlling symptoms of vario...

House heads for Medicare drug vote

... stiff opposition in the Senate from Democrats and moderate Republicans who fear the competition provisions would allow private health plans to siphon off the healthiest seniors while leaving the oldest and sickest seniors in the traditional Medicare program, where they would pay higher premiums. It also incl...

Link Between Alcohol and Decrease in Brain Size

...roke and to study if a link existed between low to moderate alcohol consumption and a decrease in brain size o...findings do not support the hypothesis that low or moderate alcohol intake offers any protection against cerebral abnormalities or the risk of stroke in middle-...

Dementia and Down Syndrome

...urrently show no signs of dementia, 10 people with moderate Alzheimer's, and 24 healthy control subjects. In the initial phase, all underwent positron emission tomography scans to measure glucose metabolic rates in the brain while performing a task involving mental abilities. GMR is known to play a role in de...

Snail venom Found To Ease Pain In Cancer Victims

...onventional drugs such as morphine.Pain relief was moderate to complete in 53 percent of ziconotide patients, compared with about 18 percent of the placebo group. Serious side effects occurred in 22 ziconotide patients and four placebo patients. Subsequent research has shown that starting patients on lower ...

New Drug Combination Found To Improve Memory in Alzheimer’s Patient

.... Researchers studied more than 300 patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s. Participants were already taking the drug donepezil when the study began. Donepezil works by preventing the breakdown of acetylcholine, a chemical messenger in the brain that is important for memory and other thinking skills.Fo...

Link Between Alcohol Consumption And Cardiovascular Disease

...ed nearly 2,500 seniors ages 70 to 79 who consumed moderate levels of alcohol (one to seven drinks per week), ...inogen activator inhibitor (PAI-1). Results show moderate drinkers had the lowest levels of IL-6 and CPR in comparison to non-drinkers. However, those who con...

Benefits Of The Worlds Most Widely Used Beverage

...disease have produced conflicting results but that moderate consumption, which it defines as one or two cups per day, does not seem harmful....

Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy Not Safe

New research indicates that even light to moderate drinking should be avoided as it may interfere wit...ght drinking as three or less drinks per week, and moderate drinking is more than three drinks a week, but less than one drink per day. Previous studies have s...

Exercise Effective in Reducing Cancer Risk

...those who were not active. Exercise was defined as moderate activity, such as household chores or 30 minutes of walking, and higher levels of activity, such as 60 minutes or more of a cardiovascular regimen. Results from another study conducted by researchers from Brigham support the theory that exercise be...

Problems Of a Growing Company

...ness and hospital admissions. The study also found moderate expansion in the number of employees resulted in a decreased risk of hospital admissions. For the research, investigators looked at personnel changes from 1991 to 1996 in 24,000 employees. Most of the workers were healthy with a good employment rec...

Alcohol Consumption Questioned

...cts bone health in women. A new study reports that moderate // drinking does not increase the risk of osteopo...nsity measured as well as chemical markers. While moderate drinking was associated with thinner bones, researchers say there was no clear link between chemical...

Biofeedback Found To Reduce Steroid Dependence In Asthmatics

... Researchers tested the therapy in 94 adults with moderate persistent asthma. The participants were divided i...a under control. Asthma severity also dropped from moderate persistent to mild persistent. Asthma symptoms improved in all three therapy groups, but the group t...

The Efficacy Of Allergy Shots Questioned

...ren's resistance and is recommended for those with moderate or severe reactions to stings. Researchers studie...rcent). Thus specialists say that in children with moderate to severe reactions , allergy shots would lower the risk of serious allergic reactions and provide c...

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