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Meditation may reduce stress and help you live longer

...ad learnt to meditate showed a 23% decrease in the mortality rate, for causes such as cardiovascular disease or cancer. He results suggest that specific stress decreasing interventions like certain forms of meditation can be used to prevent and control high blood pressure, rate of deaths due to all causes or c...

New breed of mice to live longer

... research may be the first step towards increasing mortality through the free radical theory of ageing. The n...feel that this can be a pathbraeker for increasing mortality in humans, although instead of genetic mutations, drugs may need to be used that can boost the produ...

Surgery for early stage prostate cancer is better than waiting

...not be much beneficial to the patients in terms of mortality and disease being spread to other parts of the bod...seem to be much beneficial in reducing the rate of mortality by a big margin, this procedure is substantially more advantageous in reducing the spread of the dis...

Patients with long ICU stay may be at risk from dying

...he hospital after cardiac surgery can increase the mortality rate of the patients. The researchers had looked ... days in the intensive care. This may increase the mortality rate of these patients as well. Reference: Journal of Cardiac Surgery, May 2005...

Oral cancer screenings to reduce the mortality rates

...f oral cancer and help in reducing the oral cancer mortality rate. A research done by scientists from Kerala, ...dergone the medical treatment advised to them. The mortality rate from the screened group was 37.5% when compared to the control group that had the mortality rat...

Need for considering cardiovascular risks before giving HAART for HIV/aids patients

...infected with HIV have more risk of cardiovascular mortality on taking the HAART treatment than those who haven’t. HAART is associated with risk factors like increased plasma concentrations of triglycerides, total cholesterol, possibly hypertension, insulin resistance etc. HAART treatment can also induce endot...

Association between childhood diet and stroke

...his link between childhood diet and cardiovascular mortality was examined in a very interesting study published...le intake, fish intake and antioxidants and stroke mortality require confirmation. , vegetables, childhood, stroke, cardiovascular mortality, socioeconomic, F...

Two New Human Papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines to prevent cervical cancer

...ancer is the second leading cause of female cancer mortality worldwide, with 288,000 deaths annually. About 510,000 cases are // reported each year, 80% of them in developing countries. Two new vaccines are undergoing trial to prevent HPV infections, which causes cervical cancer. These vaccines must be given...

Twin pregnancy may be risky for the fetus

...e-term delivery after 32 weeks. This may lower the mortality risk associated with the fetuses before delivery. However researchers feel that more study is essential to find out more about the factors that increase the death rate of the fetus in cases of monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies. Reference: Pu...

Low birth weight in babies may mean health risk for fathers

... birth weight of babies and their parent’s rate of mortality by looking into the data generated from 783,814 children born in Sweden from the year 1973 to 1980. The results have shown that there is a significant inverse association between the birth weight of the babies and risk of cardiovascular diseases in t...

9-PCV vaccine found to be helpful in invasive Pneumonococcal infection

...l the hospital admissions by 15% and overall child mortality by 16%. The 9-PCV trial reports the higher reduct...lennium Development Goal in reducing the childhood mortality in developing countries. The evidence for efficacy of the vaccine in all hospital admissions is high...

Weight and size at birth predicts mortality in adulthood

... as low birth weight was associated with increased mortality due to all causes in females. Similarly, short length at birth was a predictor of mortality due to all causes in females. But this finding was found only in females and was not found in males....

Listeria Food Poisoning Can Be Dangerous In Pregnant Women And Elderly

... by Food Safety Authority of Ireland.(FSAI). The mortality due to infection can be as much as 30% associated with Listeria food contamination and only miniscule amounts need to be consumed to cause serious infection. Professor Flynn said.: “The infectious dose associated with L. monocytogenes is uncertain...

Obesity may cause frailties in elderly women

...ding to all personal needs, and risk of decreasing mortality along with lowering of general health leading to a varied number of diseases. The condition is very common in people suffering from chronic disease and elderly populations. Some of the symptoms pf being frail are slowness of movements, physical weakn...

Sharing a bed with infants may raise the risk for SIDS

...rome or SIDS is one of the major reasons of infant mortality for infants in the age group of one month to a year. SIDS is a disorder that seems to have no reasons leading to it and yet there are certain risk factors that seem to increase the incidence of SIDS. Researchers from University of Glasgow have repor...

Laparoscopic surgery can be safely employed for radical resection of cancer

.... The length of the bowel resected , morbidity and mortality in 28 days period after the surgery did not differ between two groups....

Cancer risk among nuclear industry workers

...ts show that an exposure of 100 Sv will cause 9.7% mortality from cancer (excluding leukaemia), and a 5.9% increased mortality from cancers excluding leukaemia, lung, and pleura. Our study is the largest study on nuclear indu...

Drinking Calcium Water Can Reduce Osteoporosis.

...he calcium in milk. “Osteoporosis currently has a mortality rate equivalent to breast cancer,"Says Dr. Joseph Lane, Chief of Osteoporosis Prevention at Cornell's Hospitalfor Special Surgery in New York City. Yet, Dr. Lane says, "Osteoporosis is aPreventable disease." The calcium drink is called Sanfaustino....

Abnormal heart rate and depression may increase death risk

...nts with coronary heart disease and increase their mortality rates. The research findings are important as it brings to focus the importance of understanding the role played by low heart rate variability in identifying medical prescriptions that can improve both depression and heart rate variability. Referenc...

Estimates For Number Of HIV/AIDS Deaths In India Still Not Available

... saying the real impact of the problem in terms of mortality rate would be felt five to 10 years from now. He feels that dealing with AIDS should be a top concern, and not enough is done in most states. Piot noted some states like Tamil Nadu had seen a decline in the infection rate. The problem of data accur...

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