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Public Defibrillators Found To Improve Survival Rate

...ated in public locations where there is at least a moderate likelihood of a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest....

Blood Pressure On The Rise

...et that includes lots of fruits and vegetables and moderate amounts of salt, can reduce a person’s chances of developing high blood pressure....

Could Midlife Alcohol Drinking Lead To Dementia ?

...ncreases the risk of dementia , some find light to moderate drinking may protect against the condition, // and others still find no association at all. In a study carried out among around 1,000 men and women between the ages of 65 and 79 who were followed over 23 years, researchers reported frequent drinking...

Decrease in Brain Size Linked To Alcohol Consumption

...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-...

Hormone Replacement Therapy

... as 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...

Alcohol Consumption After Heart Surgery Questioned

A new study shows moderate consumption of alcohol may cut the rate of reblock... mean non-drinkers should start to drink, but that moderate consumers of alcohol with an increased cardiovascular risk should not be advised to stop....

Irregular Heartbeat Linked To Alcohol

... fibrillation or flutter in men. However in women, moderate consumption of alcohol did not seem to be associated with the risk of atrial fibrillation or flutter....

Hope For Patient With Alzheimer’s Diseas

.../ 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...

Cholesterol Drug Found To Slow Alzheimer’s Progressio

...onducted to test the drug on patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease . 46 patients were followed fo... which are the only FDA-approved drugs for mild to moderate Alzheimer’s. Previous studies have shown that high cholesterol is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s dis...

Another Alternative For Diabetics On Insulin

...tibody levels were observed in this group. Mild to moderate cough was also more frequent in the inhaled insulin group, but decreased during the treatment. Similar to previous studies, researchers observed a trend toward less weight gain in the inhaled insulin group. Researchers conclude saying inhaled insuli...

Marijuana Use Could Result In Psychosis

...sychosis, and psychotic symptoms. Results showed a moderate increase in psychosis later in life in adolescents and young adults who frequently used marijuana. Those with a predisposition to psychosis had an even stronger increased risk. In conclusion researchers say Marijuana use moderately increases the ris...

Home-based Treatment For Eczema More Effective Compared To Hospital Care

...d scaling. Researchers examined 158 patients with moderate to severe chronic hand eczema for more than one year. About half the patients followed a home-based program taking a pill form of the medication psoralen-UV-A followed by exposure to UV-A light from a portable tanning unit. The other half received a ...

Arithmetic Skills Found To Diminish With Progression Of Alzheimer’s Disease

...d Alzheimer’s disease and nine were diagnosed with moderate Alzheimer’s disease. The study also included 23 he... written arithmetic tests. Patients with mild and moderate Alzheimer’s disease performed significantly below the healthy participants on both the oral and writ...

Effective Treatment Option For Macular Degeneration

...rs or more of visual acuity, which is considered a moderate loss. It also reduced the chance of the loss of 30 letters or more (six lines on the eye chart), which is considered a severe loss. Thus researchers say treatment with pegaptanib reduced the risk of progression to legal blindness in the study, promo...

Heavy Drinking Can Increase Stroke Risk

...not drink. Researchers also found while light and moderate drinkers were not at a greater risk, the frequency with which they consumed alcohol modestly influenced their risk. Thus researchers say their findings directly support current public health recommendations stating that men should consume less than t...

Aerobic Exercise Beneficial In Treating Depression

...erobic exercise is just as good at beating mild to moderate depression as standard antidepressant medications....ifferent exercise programs for people with mild to moderate depression, there was a 50-percent reduction in depressive symptoms among those taking part in aero...

Effective Treatment Option For Dehydrated Kids

...n therapy is recommended for children with mild to moderate dehydration. However, a recent survey reveals that most pediatric emergency medicine physicians do not use this therapy instead they use intravenous methods, which are performed by injecting the fluid directly into a vein. In a study conducted to ev...

HIV-positive Parents Require More Counseling

...sing and hugging, and around 14 percent reported a moderate fear in this area. About 22 percent said they generally refrain from kissing their kids on the lips, and nearly 18 percent reported avoiding the sharing of utensils due to these fears. About 40 percent said they avoid these and other behaviors at lea...

The Beneficial Effects Of Wine For Heart Disease

...ol has been done on men, it is still not clear why moderate amounts of wine seems to be good for the heart. To determine the effects of wine on women’s hearts, the alcohol habits of 102 women under age 75 were analyzed . All of the women had survived a heart attack or heart surgery for blocked arteries. Afte...

Diet and exercise can be a better option to control diabetes

...alled glucose intolerance or prediabetes. Diet and moderate exercise has been shown to prevent or delay the setting of diabetes type 2 in patients with prediabetes. However, the results were more predominant for nonsmokers than otherwise. Caring for diabetes and its conditions are expensive. In a second stu...

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