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Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

...eir bodies. None suffered from pneumonia or needed much mechanical help to breathe. Dr. David Herndon, ...he study, said more research is needed to show how much the preserved body mass strengthens patients and boosts recovery. But he believes the drug could saf...

Iron is a two sided sword

...gets enough of this important mineral.// But too much iron might be as bad for you as too little, say researchers at Ohio State University. They exposed human intestinal cells, in test tubes, to iron concentrations resembling those in food supplements. It is a reasonable model of what goes on in the bod...

FDA approves new device to treat women's bleeding disorder

...ecologists can scrape off part of the endometrium, much as they do during abortion, or can use one of a handful of outpatient FDA-approved devices that destroy the endometrium by freezing or heating it. The Food and Drug Administration approved Novacept Inc.'s NovaSure system as an outpatient electronic...

Toddlers stressed out

Pushing young children into learning too much too soon is more likely to produce stressed-out toddlers than high achievers, say nursery experts. This setting of targets for three to five-year olds could lead to symptoms of anxiety, such as tantrums and bed-wetting, rather than achieve accelerate...

More about HIV

...y begins to lose its uphill battle. Eventually, so much virus is produced that the immune system can no longer keep up. When this happens, T cell counts begin to decrease from a normal of 600-1200/uL to less than 200/uL. At this stage, the individual becomes susceptible to a myriad of illnesses and major ...

Bupropion relieves nerve pain

... patients reported their pain was improved or even much improved while 90 per cent of those taking the placebo found their pain the same, or worse. What's especially interesting is that the patients were chosen because they did not suffer from depression. It's often been said that the TCAs work by relie...

Acne may protect against infections

...ays. "If acne is eliminated we may begin to pay a much higher price as the incidence of certain cancers starts to rise. "One day we may all be popping pills of P. acnes in a bid to stay healthy."...

Creating brain cells from bone marrow

...ed to turn into neurons//, it flies in the face of much of what we know about development of tissues and organs. However, once the right growth factor cocktail had been concocted, it took just an hour to turn 100 per cent of the stem cells into neurons. The cells were also producing specific brain chemi...

First Artificial Heart patient has Major setback

...t of freeing the already-formed clot, probably not much larger than a pinhead, and allowing it to move to the brain....

Patients Pressure Would Result In Overprescription

...tions to reduce antibiotic prescribing must pay as much attention to the patient as to the physician." The manner in which the patient communicates his or her illness to the physician strongly influences whether or not the physician prescribes an antibiotic. These unnecessary prescriptions were often gi...

A need for new stem cell lines

... diseases won't be healed. He also said that since much biomedical research is international, it's likely most useful lines and reagents will be developed outside the U.S..Therefore, a ban on importation would also curtail important research....

Cardiac diseases develop early

...le with insulin resistance often end up having too much insulin circulating in the blood. Insulin resistance may lead to diabetes and a cluster of factors including insulin resistance (called Metabolic Syndrome X) has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease. Researchers measured obesity, insuli...

For a Better Memory

...mplicit memory. We don't really remember things as much as we just know them. The second type of memory is known as episodic memory. We remember not only a fact, but how and when we learned that fact. This research has great potential for helping stroke victims, as well as those who suffer with dementia...

A Chinese herb kills cancer cells

...cells. For it's known that cancer cells often have much higher iron concentrations that healthy cells. Professor Henry and his team pumped up breast cancer //cells with iron and then introduced artemisinin and found that after 10 hours all the cells were dead. With leukaemia cells, which can concentrate...

Women recognise faces better

...800 took part. The found that not only were women much better at face recognition that men, but also less susceptible to distracting factors such as hairstyles or change in facial expression says a report in New Scientist.Subjects were given eight facematching tasks to complete. They were shown a picture...

Teens listen to parents about smoking

...ng are less likely to pick up the habit. Teens are much less likely to smoke if they think their parents disapprove of the habit. Parental disapproval works even if the parents are smokers. Parents often perceive there is little they can do about adolescent smoking, and the study has contributed to thi...

Back injury cured by engineers

...a back injury use the wrong muscles and create too much load on the spine, putting them at risk of further problems. Physical therapists will need to re-educate people in the use of the normal movements if they are to protect the spine. Losing weight can help because overweight causes more strain on the s...

Lecithin lowers cholesterol absorption in body

...t of cholesterol is consumed when an egg is eaten, much of it becomes “Unavailable for absorption” in the presence of the phospholipid, Koo said.“This may be a reason why many studies found no association between egg intake and cholesterol,” he said. The phospholipid or lecithin, found in egg inhibits cho...

Nasal Spray Could Take Drugs Directly to Brain

...ccording to Frey, means the drug reaches the brain much faster than it would if it were administered into a vein. In this study, Frey and colleagues administered the growth factor to 37 male rats in which the researchers induced brain damage that mimics strokes in human brains. They then tested various m...

Alcohol within the body

...at older obese mice produced roughly five times as much ethanol as older lean mice, and all the obese mice developed fatty livers. Dr Diehl said: "We think that obesity changes the way the intestines propel their contents from one end to the other. "This means there are static periods when ethanol alcoh...

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