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The Benefits of Alcohol Consumption Questioned

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

Consumption Of Coffee Found To Reduce Diabetes Risk

...ave produced conflicting results researchers say a moderate consumption, of one or two cups per day, does not seem harmful....

Cutting down on alcohol may reduce cigarette craving

...in smokers considerably. The study says not only moderate to heavy smokers but also the light smokers who don’t smoke more than a dozen cigarettes a week may also be benefited from their abstinence from alcohol. The study found out those alcoholic beverages increases the desire to smoke considerably in peop...

Anti-inflammatory drugs reduce the risk of oral cancer for smokers

... oral cancer than others, when both the groups are moderate smokers of tobacco. The study suggested that NSAID might have anti carcinogenic effect on smokers who smoked for 30 or less pack-years. A pack-year is smoking for one year at a cigarette pack a day. Smokers smoking for 30 pack-years may be all thos...

Hay fever may be cured by self-hypnosis

...ions. 79 patients of an average age of 34 yrs with moderate to sever allergic rhinitis from grass or pollen were taken in the study. All these people have been sufferers of hay fever for more than two years. Random parallel group was used as control for the study that went on for two years. The researchers h...

Diet and exercise to improve vascular function

...rtant source of fat. The diet also includes low to moderate amounts of dairy, fish and poultry. The diet must be matched with physical activities suited to the requirement of the individual and must be adapted as a family lifestyle rather than a treatment or therapy, to have the maximum effect. The trials of...

People suffering from Alzheimer’s: can they take decisions about their treatment

...e decisions about their treatments, but those with moderate to severe form of the disease may not remain compe...ng abilities of 48 patients suffering from mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease. ...

Moderate drinking can be good for the kidneys

...e researchers had taken 473 healthy males, who had moderate consumption of alcohol weekly (about a glass a day...ults of the research had showed that men who drank moderate alcohol weekly had 30% less chance of having elevated creatinine levels and low levels of glomerular...

Survivors of childhood cancer may have long-term health problems

...57.1% of the patients of childhood cancer reported moderate health problems, while 37% reported severe health problems. The research report was presented in the annual meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology. Reference: American Society of Clinical Oncology, Press release, May 2005...

New device for ailing heart fitted into first patient

...e special device is designed to help patients with moderate heart problems, who are still not ill enough to go for a heart transplant and its related side effects. These patients may be those who may feel extreme tiredness, difficulty in walking short distances and do not get much help from medications. The ...

Link found between depression and poor glycemic control

... out treatment for their depression. Patients with moderate to severe depressions have a three times more risk of having poor glycemic control than patients without depression. The researchers have looked into 200 Hispanic diabetes patients before they had arrived at their conclusions. They feel that the li...

Vitamin B linked to less risk of colorectal cancer in women

... risk from colorectal// cancer. And women who take moderate to high intake of alcohol along with vitamin B may have even reduced chance of having colorectal cancer. Cancer of the colorectal happens when there is growth of abnormal or malignant cells within the lining of colon or rectum. The study, which was ...

Hearing loss can happen from regular exposure to carbon monoxide

...red equipments, car exhaust and tobacco smokes. At moderate concentrations carbon monoxide can cause angina, poor vision, and at times brain function impairments. At high levels of concentration this gas can cause deaths. The researchers from UCLA have found out the carbon monoxide can cause oxidative stress...

Chronic kidney disease has genetical origins

...ild up of the waste products in the blood to cause moderate form of chronic kidney disease. Reference: Journal of American Medical Association, June 2005...

Physical activity improves survival in women with breast cancer

...women with breast cancer can improve survival with moderate exercise which is just one dimension in support of exercise. Merits of physical activity are many folds and are part of the routine recommendations for disease prevention and disease control. So get ready to include exercises in your daily routine....

Losing weight is beneficial for osteoarthritis for the knee

...rthritis 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 loss it can improve the quality of life of the patient many fold as it will mean less pain and more effective way of walking and carrying on more ...

Emergence Of New Gene Scanning Technology In Disease Research

...t of Health identified a mutant gene causing high, moderate cholesterol levels among 10,000 middle aged individuals. Through this technique one can identify rare genetic mutation in a population and identify gene level changes says professor Day. Although this research is at still at infancy treatment for di...

Transplanted heart made more acceptable by daclizumab

... placebo. The primary endpoint was a composite of moderate or severe cellular rejection, hemodynamically significant graft dysfunction, a second transplantation, or death or loss to follow-up within 6 months. It has been reported 44.7% of patients in the placebo group reached the primary endpoint, versus j...

Clarithromycin tablets to be launched in India soon

...tablets are indicated for the treatment of mild to moderate infections caused by susceptible strains of designated micro-organisms. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has determined that Ranbaxy’s formulation can be expected to have the same therapeutic effect as an equivalent dose of Abbott’s Biaxin...

Women who had stopped HRT get back their symptoms

...men had reported the return of their symptoms in a moderate to severe manner, even after using the hormones for as long as five continuous years. The researchers for the study had recommended that women, who are willing to try out HRT for getting some relief from their menopausal symptoms, may go for estroge...

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