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Artificial disc looks hopeful

...to its next phase and the disc will be tested on a much larger group of patients with spinal disc problems....

A new male contraceptive

...cause the dose needed to induce infertility was so much lower than the standard dose given humans for Gaucher's disease, the investigators believe side effects in men would be negligible. The investigators suggest this drug has significant potential to serve as a safe and effective a male contraceptive i...

Geriatric heart patients benefit from extra weight

...community knows about the older population and how much more physicians and surgeons need to learn about the physiology of older patients. Doctors connected with the study point out that by exploring what happens to people as they age, one will have the information to tailor one's care to this patient pop...

Gardeners, Beware of your back!

...ace yourself properly without attempting to do too much at one time....

Bone marrow stem cells may help repair cardiac tissues

... that stem cells derived from bone marrow which is much less controversial than embryo cells// helps patients who have had a heart attack and had undergone conventional bypass therapy. Doctors in eastern Germany found that when patients who had a heart attack were injected with bone marrow stem cells int...

Effect of alcohol drinking on breast cancer

...ers. They looked at two issues. The first was how much a woman needed to drink to increase her chance of breast cancer. The second was whether smoking increased this risk. They found that a single daily drink of 1 oz of spirits such as whiskey, gin, or vodka, or 3 oz of wine increases a woman's breast ca...

Do you heed to healthy eating advice?

...to eat five portions a day. Older people were also much more likely to follow the eating advice compared t... while men eat only 3.4 portions. People were also much more likely to eat fruit than vegetables. This study was conducted as a precursor to the British Go...

Damage to arteries from injury can be avoided with carbon monoxide

...n. They discovered that the carbon monoxide spared much of the vessel damage associated with transplantation and angioplasty in the pre-treated rats. The researchers claim that the carbon monoxide blocks white cells of the immune system from infiltrating the damaged area, which stops the build up of plaqu...

Caffeine is not the only culprit in coffee!

... capsules raised homocysteine levels, coffee had a much greater effect than caffeine alone. While caffeine capsules raised homocysteine levels by 5%, coffee led to an increase of 11%, compared with the effect of the sugar pills. This suggests that coffee contains multiple substances that affect the body ...

Fear of the dark could be more than just fear!

...to things at night, and insisted curtains be drawn much earlier than other children would choose to. One girl also had a fear of shadows. After suggestion by the researchers to use and an intensity adjustable night light, carry a flashlight when going out at night, and parents draw the curtains before dus...

Osteoporosis and kidney stones gene marker identified

...tory of kidney stones, which makes them absorb too much calcium. They reported on six gene mutations which... the risk of kidney stones, because they cause too much calcium absorption - a condition known as absorptive hypercalciuria (AH). They also added that peopl...

Less sleep:more risk for heart attack in women

...se who get the suggested eight hours. However, too much sleep isn't good, either, as researchers found that those women who slept nine or more hours// a night also increased their heart disease risk. The study, conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, evaluated some 71,617 wo...

Care with a touch!

...ic touch therapy and massage therapy have received much scrutiny. Researchers, who explained that touch is a natural and essential instrument// of healing, involved, for the study, patients who were assigned to either a touch therapy group, a massage therapy group, or a friendly visit group. The subjects ...

New and unique treatment for Psoriasis patients

.... Karen Weiss cautioned that though the drug has a much more selective effect, it is still too soon to say it is very selective and very safe. In fact, she added that patients on the drug would require a blood test before each weekly dose to ensure their levels of infection-fighting immune cells have not ...

Children who used anaesthesia drugs could suffer brain damage

...s that had been anaesthetized in infancy performed much worse than rats that had not been subjected to the anaesthesia. The researchers also found that in every rat brain that was examined, moderately severe brain cell death had occurred in several brain regions, including the hippocampus. The researchers...

Sun is bad - More or less does not matter!

...e and melanoma, the rarest type of skin cancer, is much weaker. It has however, been found that the more sun burns one has, as a child or a teenager, the higher their risk of developing// melanoma. Also, according to the study that was published in the Journal Cancer, melanoma may even be genetic. This wa...

Treatment for fibroids with "Abortion Pill"

...ic, a chance to raise their blood count. They feel much better, healthier, and if they need surgery, they are much more likely to not require blood transfusion. Eisinger added that Mifepristone, compared to the curr...

Yet another plus for breast feeding!

...of babies. Babies who are breast-fed in bed are at much less risk of being smothered than babies who are b... However, mothers who bottle-feed their babies are much more likely to turn their backs on their baby or put the baby's head at the same level as their own,...

Blood pressure control with ACE inhibitor or diuretic?

...onflicting results of the two trials will not make much difference, and that almost all people with high blood pressure need to take more than one drug. Reid said that their study recommended starting with an ACE inhibitor and then using a diuretic, if one is over the age of 65, while the ALLHAT study rec...

Treatment over a longer period for blood clotting

... a low-dose of warfarin would be beneficial or too much of a risk. The study included more than 500 patients who received standard treatment and then were assigned to receive a placebo or low-intensity warfarin. Participants were followed to see who had recurrent venous thromboembolism, major hemorrhage,...

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