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Heart and dental care

... do not take them, sometimes because their doctors never offer advice about them and may not even realize that the antibiotics are warranted, according to a recent report. //Researchers have put forward a simple suggestion that they say may increase compliance with the antibiotic recommendations. The resea...

Hormone Therapy applicable for Prostate Cancer

...h. "Androgen suppression in the history of man has never cured anybody that we know of."Dr. Rowan Chlebowski, chief of medical oncology at the Harbor-UCLA Research Education Institute in Los Angeles, said doctors sometimes walk a tightrope between the potential benefits and downsides of hormone therapy....

Altitude sickness connected to genes

...likely to have the variation than climbers who had never had it. The authors write, "We did this study to try to decipher the genetic cause of the nitric oxide deficit in patients with HAPE." The gene in question, the endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) gene, is key in the role of releasing nitric ox...

Impact on Lung function based on exposure

... were 8.2 percent in people without asthma who had never smoked, 10.1 percent in asthmatics who did not smoke, and 11.5 percent in people who smoked 15 or more cigarettes a day at the beginning of the study. Among people who had asthma and also smoked heavily, the rate of decline was 16 percent. The resea...

The importance of vaccines

... most effective medical intervention and there has never been a better time than the present for vaccine development and implementation, write. However, the future of vaccination as a preventative strategy is uncertain, and there is not a great deal of enthusiasm about vaccine development among those who...

Voice has to be looked after with care

...d to use their voices more carefully. You should never shout or yell. If you have to make yourself heard above background noise, it is best to use a microphone. It is also important to hydrate your vocal cords, and for this you should really be aiming for a dozen eight ounce glasses of water a day. Caffe...

National Lung Study in the process

... current or former smoker age 55 to 74 >Have never had lung cancer and have not had any cancer within the last five years >Must not be currently enrolled in any other cancer screening or prevention trial >Have not had a CT scan of the chest or lungs within the past 19 months....

Germs to blame for bad breath

...nding just 92 species of bacteria, 29 of which had never before been described in scientific literature. Dr Israel Kleinberg, chairman of the oral biology and pathology department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook's dental school suggested that environmental differences could also be the r...

Risk of hemorrhagic stroke increased in smoking individuals

...8 years has shown that compared to those who// had never smoked, men who smoked less than 20 cigarettes a d...the same risk of hemorrhagic stroke as men who had never smoked. Previous research has also established that almost 12 per cent of all strokes are hemorrhagi...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) signals vascular disease

...10 percent seek treatment, partly because patients never tell and doctors never ask.// ED is one symptom of early vascular disease. Some men care more about ED than about heart a...

Use of sunbed is harmful

...n poorly or People who have had skin cancer should never use sunbeds. Sunbeds are linked to two types of skin cancer, called basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma. However the Sunbed Association said they are providing a controlled environment for tanning and a strict code of practice was in operation....

Teens Misusing Nicotine-Replacement Products

...han 1 percent of all the students -- said they had never smoked....

A Drink a Day may Keep Diabetes Away

...nurses’ study to assess diabetes risk in women who never drank or who consumed light, moderate, or heavy am...etes during the follow up. Compared with women who never drank, women who consumed light to moderate amounts of alcohol were significantly less likely to hav...

Skin Cancer “Reflection” Detectin

...le to treat him despite a delayed diagnosis. "They never found a primary, which is what you call the skin cancer as it first forms on the surface of the skin. It had already gotten into my lymph system,” he says.// Now, technology called photonics may help doctors detect skin cancer much sooner. Optical s...

Smoking and Oral Contraceptives:

...d the birth control pill compared to the women who never used oral contraceptives. In fact, the numbers suggest the death rate was lower among those who were on birth control pills. However, there was an increased risk of death from heart disease in women who used the oral contraceptive and smoked. Specifi...

Adding Fish to Diet May Reduce Risk of Alzheimer's

...0 percent lower risk of Alzheimer's than those who never or rarely ate fish. The meals included tuna sandwiches, fishsticks and shellfish; the amounts eaten were not specified.// The researchers found an association between eating fish and a reduced risk of Alzheimer's even after adjusting for age, sex, e...

HRT: A Difficult Decision

...ased risk of breast cancer compared with those who never took HRT. The use of combined HRT was associated with a substantially greater increase in risk than other types of HRT. In fact, study authors say combined HRT causes four times as many extra breast cancer cases as oestrogen-only HRT. In an accompan...

Do Asthma Sufferers Lack Physical Activity?

...ent who had asthma in the past, and 27 percent who never had asthma were considered inactive. When looking ... and 91 kilocalories per week lower than those who never had asthma. On the other hand, the study found 27 percent of the participants with current asthma, ...

A voice saving surgery

...ot forget, and that is something she says she will never forget. Diagnosed with cancer of her vocal cords, Hancock had surgery to remove the cancer -- and her larynx -- at just 21. Without her larynx, she had no voice. Several attempts to restore it failed, but she didn't give up. She says, "I've always b...

It's Never Too Late to Stop Smoking,Study Finds

...n Health Sciences Centre in London, Ontario. "It's never too late." Drawing on data from 6,704 patients enrolled in the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction Prevention and Intervention trials, Dr. Suskin and his colleagues compared the health of current smokers to ex-smokers who quit less than two yea...

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