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Second-hand Smoke Could Increase The Risk Of Osteoporosis In Pre-menstrual Women

...an almost 5% lower mineral density in smokers than non smokers. A spokeswoman from the National Osteoporosis Society in UK said the study added further proof that smoking was bad for smokers and non-smokers alike. He said, 'Our understanding of the effects of passive smoking on bone health is not quite...

Long term Sobriety can Reverse Effects of Alcohol Damage

...ined spatial test averages were lower those of the non alcoholics. Fein and colleagues are reluctant to give them a clean bill of health because spatial orientation is a brain function particularly affected by alcoholism. Fein and colleagues warn that the results of their study weren’t able to prove th...

ACTOS Linked to Several Cardiovascular Benefits

...care treatment, reduced the recurrence of fatal or non fatal (excluding silent MI) heart attacks by 28 percent (P=0.045). Prevented Recurrent Strokes Patients with diabetes have a markedly higher risk of stroke than those without. In fact, strokes occur twice as often in people with diabetes. Of the ...

"New" Clear Advantages In Nuclear Medicine

...ble ethereal energy that permits doctors// to peer non invasively into the body. In the words of Jonathan M Links the former president of Society of Nuclear Medicine(SNM), who has presented his views in the current issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, regarding understanding radiolog...

Walnuts May Help Fight Fat and Keep Arteries Supple

...nico in Barcelona, conducted a study on 24 healthy non smoker adults of whom had normal body weights and normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels. Half the candidates had Cholesterol levels moderately on the higher side. The group was then randomly divided into two halves and to both groups two meals...

Call In Fruits And Vegetables To Avoid Gall Stones

... which opens new vistas for those who would like a non invasive method to treat gall stones. MTS...

Judicial Probe Ordered for Botched Eye Surgery Camp

... process of equipment and the linens. "It seems non adherence of strict asepsis and sterilisation protocol may have caused this catastrophe," said the expert committee report that was made public. The people who lost their eyesight were operated on Sep 12, 13 and 16. "There were hundreds more who ...

Autistic Children May Lag behind in ‘Categorization of Objects

... their ability to differentiate between living and non living things and segregating objects according to their category. The paper which can be found in the Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities is perhaps an answer to one of the intriguing traits of autism: the incapacity to comprehend the...

Head and Neck Cancer-Taxotere Approved

...drug is already in use for treating breast cancer, non small cell lung cancer and prostate cancer and is now approved for treating inoperable types of head and neck cancer.Taxotere was last year's third best selling drug for Sanofi and its sales are likely to rise further following the approval. MAL...

IBS Sufferers Benefited by Non-Absorbable Antibiotics

A non absorbable antibiotic which stays in the gut has been found to be an effective long-term treatment for irritable// bowel syndrome (IBS) according to researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The study has been published in the October 17 issue of...

Advantage Coffee and Disadvantage-Diabetes

...rinkers of caffeinated coffee had an edge over the non drinkers by about 60% reduction in diabetes risk. Yet the time is still not ripe to advice coffee as a tactic to lower the risk of diabetes. American Diabetes Association spokesman Larry Deeb, MD, said 'People with diabetes and those at risk for de...

Male Contraceptive Drug - Non Hormonal Alternative

A contraceptive drug for men , based on a non hormonal approach is being studied by scientists. Until now , the fact that an adult male usually produces// 150 million sperm has made the formulation of a male birth control pill diffcult. Final clinical trials are being done on a hormonal male p...

Iron intake reduces risk of infertility

...They also investigated the dissimilarities between non heme iron and heme iron. The former is obtained fr...t their iron intake, " he added. The increase in non heme intake reduces the risk of infertility. According to the study, there was a 62% (lowest in the ...

Tomatoes: Culprits of Salmonella outbreak

...sterday. The symptoms of the disease are fever and non bloody diarrhea that may extend up to a week. Clinical data of 73 patients has revealed 14 hospitalized and no deaths. The CDC reported that the outbreak appeared to be over although the hunt for the source of the outbreak may take days to weeks. Th...

TB Returns , Sharp Rise In Cases In UK

...e HPA's Respiratory Diseases Department, said that non UK born patients accounted for 5310 cases out of 8113 , while the UK born population's levels remained low and stable. However Dr.Watson added that of these only 22% had arrived in the UK during the past 2 years. This suggests that they had caught ...

Menstruation Increases Chances Of Sports Injury

...er, explained that the present perception was that non mensruating women had more injuries due to a lower bone density. The current findings, he felt, could be attributed to the effects of relaxin. The FA women's team doctor, Dr Pippa Bennett, said that this factor has been considered and the players' ...

Hoosiers Live at the Mercy of Nursing Homes

...h as mental retardation or autism and over 301,000 non institutionalized Hoosiers have a diagnosed disability of some kind, including 209,000 with a physical disability and 70,700 with a mental disability.The lack of state guardianship programs has translated into limited services for wards (those needin...

The Holy Grail of Diabetes Management

...e international community for more funds to combat non –communicable diseases. Importantly, the campaign will seek to raise awareness among people suffering diabetes or at risk of diabetes, with education, and prevention measures. The need of the hour certainly hovers around delving into the socio-cultur...

FDA gives the green signal for silicone breast implants

... Radiological Health, accumulation of clinical and non clinical data over the years has resulted in the change in policy by FDA. The conclusions are based on a thorough review by the FDA on the core studies conducted by Allergan and Mentor. The companies will be required to continue their studies for a...

Violent Video Games Leave Deep Impressions in Brain

...RI scanners.They were assigned to watch violent or non violent video games randomly, for half an hour.Then,minute metabolic variations in the activity of the brain were closely monitored . The teenagers who were assigned to watch violent varieties of video games showed a definite change in the MRI image...

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