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'Prozac miracle' could end in disaster

...d Paxil/Seroxat for mild depression or anxiety and none was told they might become hooked. When they tried to stop taking it, they suffered violent and disturbing symptoms, including jolting pains in the head, vertigo, loss of coordination, abdominal discomfort, flu symptoms, agitation and confusion. Th...

Quit Smoking

...h, headache and insomnia, but half of users suffer none of them and in most of those who do the effects are short-lived and not serious. It should not be taken by pregnant or lactating women, or people who have epilepsy or anorexia or are alcoholics....

Why running noses are a good thing

...case of anthrax in its early, treatable stage. But none of the five cases of inhaled anthrax so far have started with nasal congestion or runny nose. Those symptoms, of course, are common in flu and many other viruses that cause wintertime respiratory ills. So asking about it can help doctors rule out ant...

Hormones Linked To Migraines

...ad a delay in peak melatonin levels, compared with none of the healthy volunteers, and those with migraines and insomnia had lower peak melatonin concentrations. Normally, melatonin levels are highest 6 to 8 hours after sunset but levels were found to peak after 3 AM in people with chronic migraines. Lev...

Red Wine Helps Fight Heart disease

...he white and rose wines -- which contain little or none of the pigment -- had no effect on endothelin-1 levels. Red grape juice, which has plenty of the pigment, was markedly less potent in reducing endothelin-1 than red wine. The researchers said that something in the winemaking process changes the pig...

Good News For Women With Gestational Diabetes

...r high blood sugar, better than insulin shots, and none of the mothers suffered an episode of low blood sugar. Their babies' health was comparable to infants born to mothers with less severe gestational diabetes....

Toxin connected to 'Flesh-eating' Pneumonia in Kids

...curred in children, teens and adults in their 20s, none of whom had serious underlying disorders. The pneumonia itself was different as well. The young patients were more likely to have high fever and cough up blood, the investigators found. Most cases started with a flu-like illness that rapidly progres...

Scientists found ancient Human Germ Killer

...fact that HIV is almost always fatal suggests that none exists for that virus. Although it is not known if the monkey defensin is the reason these animals can be infected with AIDS-like viruses without becoming ill, the UCLA group became interested in the fact that there appeared to be no comparable huma...

An inventive blood test for diabetes

...out the test in 1,000 male patients aged 40 to 60, none of whom had previously been diagnosed with diabetes. They found 4 per cent of them had diabetes, according to the HgA1c test and confirmed by conventional testing. It may not be practical to screen the entire population by HgA1c of course, but the re...

Pen-nibbling addiction

...er he was banned// from using pens at work because none of his colleagues could find anything to write with. “My manager took me one side and said it wasn’t just the money I was costing them but the fact that nobody else could ever find a pen to use,” he told the Brighton Evening Argus. “I’ve been chewi...

The hazards of using disinfectant hand gel

...andard disinfectant, 2-propanol. They found that none of the gel formulations was as good as the 2-propanol at killing bacteria. However, the rinses did give as good a performance as 2-propanol. Substituting gels for rinses might help doctors and nurses look after their hands but they may be a health ha...

Beer guards against Colon Cancer

...nother 13 rats were fed salt water as controls and none of them developed cancer; they were not given the cancer-causing agent. The researcher suggested that it is prudent to suggest that beer, a low alcohol beverage brewed from natural, plant-derived ingredients which are rich in vitamins, amino acids ...

Enzyme stimulates growth of adult stem cells

...nd immune system cells. He said that without MMP9, none of the stem cells woke up,and stay sleeping, hibernating Rafii added that it would be difficult to administer MMP9 directly to adults who wanted to produce more of their own stem cells, but researchers may soon be able to administer the growth facto...

Lymphoma's Link to Hepatitis C

...bavirin was added to their treatment. In contrast, none of the six patients without the hepatitis C virus responded to the interferon therapy. Researchers felt that in patients with splenic lymphoma with villous lymphocytes who are infected with the hepatitis C virus, treatment with interferon can lead t...

Diet and Lung Function

...ve only a little scientific interest and virtually none from the news media is the connection between diet and respiratory health. A study of over 2,000 children aged 11-19// in southern California was done to examine this issue. The study appeared in the January 15, 2002 edition of the American Journal...

New drug for hypertension

....But clinical study of S-Amlodipine has shown that none of the patients in the treatment group reported any such side effects, they said adding, NCL has already filed Indian and foreign patent applications. S-Amlodipine is the first of many more chirally pure drugs on which the NCL and Emcure scientists a...

Multiple organ disease cured by genes

...ormally, compared to untreated animals, and showed none of the expected health problems. This is the first time gene therapy has been used for a disease involving multiple organs. It could replace the standard treatment - which is to give injections of the missing enzyme. The therapy could also be used ...

Benign eye tumors being treated

...atient. After 10 months to 15 months of follow-up, none of the tumors had returned. Researchers conclude photodynamic therapy appears to be effective for the treatment of choroidal hemangioma....

Quitting the smoking habit

...rogressed. Despite intermittent success, however, none of the treatments in the study was able to help people stay off cigarettes consistently for the entire study period. By the one-year follow-up, people taking the medications, either alone or in combination with counseling, were no more likely to have...

Eczema patients lack natural antibiotic in skin

...he peptides in the skin of psoriasis patients, but none to minor amounts in skin from atopic dermatitis patients, and none in the skin of healthy controls. Additional analysis indicated that most psoriasis patients had at l...

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