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Antifever drug betters stroke outcome

... lowering body temperature in stroke patients with normal temperature might improve their odds of recovery. Eventhough the a difference of 0.4 degrees celcius may not seem impressive it is noted that the risk of stroke patients dying doubles for every increase of 1 degree celcius. "Though its effects may ...

Beer vitamin protects heart

...tain the blood levels of homocysteine to be in the normal range. Drinking beer regularly for 3 weeks led to a 30% increase in vitamin B6 levels. This vitamin is thought to help break down homocysteine. Drinking red wine or Dutch gin brought only about half that increase, research showed. Older individuals...

Arthroscopy for Ankles

... injury can be treated with arthroscopy and resume normal activities in a week or less. That compares to a minimum of six to eight weeks of recovery after open ankle surgery. One of the benefits of arthroscopy is fusion surgery, used as a last resort to relieve persistent and debilitating pain in the ankle ...

CDC reveals relationship between prepregnant weight and heart defects in infants

...ant state are likely to have heart defects than of normal weight women. In their extensive research which compared 608 infants born with an isolated heart defect with 2,767 infants without heart defects between 1968 and 1980, they found that infants of underweight women were 26% less likely to have a heart...

New scalpel probes into cancer

...rotein present and was able to distinguish between normal human brain cells and their malignant form. At pr...e. Because cancer cells contain more protein than normal cells, their greater density changes (refracts) the speed of the laser light passing through them. T...

Watch your weight when pregnant

... ( which indicates a low amount of body fat),had a normal delivery. Whereas if BMI ranged from 21-30 ( whic...hassels.They should work to be in good shape for a normal delivery....

Meditation relieves stress

...ress had more than halved - bringing them into the normal range - while their physical health also improved. There was no change within the control group, who didn't get the training. According to Dr Kimberley Williams, lead investigator in the study, the purpose of mindfulness training is for participan...

Simple Therapy

...ce have seen their blood sugar levels returning to normal and by most measures, the mice appeared to be cured of the disease....

Big and Bright

...since seven times as many children are born in the normal weight range compared to the low range, even small...fts in the distribution of birth weight within the normal range could affect the distribution of intelligence in the population as a whole. The findings mig...

Ear infection- a new treatment

...ar infections have been found to have a lower than normal amount of this bacteria. The research studied 130 children with recurrent Otitis Media. Firstly, all the children were treated with antibiotics for 10 days, then divided into two groups. One group was given a nasal spray containing live growth-inhib...

Herbs for Rememberance

...e herb has been shown to arrest memory loss due to normal ageing.Brahmi is a fascinating herb which has been said to improve brain and peripheral circulation, improve mood, promote positive personality and behaviour and to help reduce fits in epilepsy. Along with another herb called mucuna pruriens, it has ...

Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer

... of pancreatic cancer compared to those who are of normal weight or slightly underweight.This may be because excess weight is linked to blood glucose and insulin abnormalities, and the pancreas makes insulin. But moderate physical activity - about 1.5 hours a week of walking, cycling, swimming, work outs ...

Acupuncture for conception

...5 years are more fragile, making fertilization and normal conception more difficult.// Because the body rejects embryos that aren't developing properly, the rate of miscarriages among women over 40 is high, about 52 percent. Older women also have a higher chance of having a baby with Down syndrome. And ol...

Right drugs drastically cut stroke risk

...herapy. The study shows that even patients with normal blood pressure would benefit from this therapy. With the finding that normal patients can be benefited, people can greatly cut their exposure to strokes and heart attacks by tak...

Nitric oxide involved in high blood pressure

...h blood pressure in the front half of the body and normal pressure in the rear half. The rats' front halves showed significant increases in a chemical called nitrotyrosine, a product of nitric oxide inactivation by reactive oxygen species....

Babies of the deaf communicate

...st that theory, Petitto compared three babies with normal hearing to three babies with normal hearing who had been born into homes of deaf parents who mainly communicated to them through sign la...

Probiotics can help

...urnal is the first to examine long-term effects in normal healthy children. The researchers monitored 571 children attending day care centres in Helsinki, Finland over a seven month winter period. The children were fed milk with or without Lactobacillus GG three times a day. The team found there was no diff...

Sleep apnoea increases post-operative risks

...studied 80 patients with sleep apnoea, and 70 with normal sleep breathing patterns, all of whom were having hip or knee replacements. They found that 20% in the sleep apnoea group had complications after the operation, compared to nine per cent in the control group.he anaesthetics, sedatives and painkillers...

Fingerprinting prostate cancer

...lecular level, cancer tissue differs markedly from normal healthy tissue in its pattern of gene activity. Re...te tissue samples from more than 50 men - covering normal tissue, tissue with benign change, and also tissues from both localised and aggressive prostate canc...

The tall gene

...the Melbourne study shows they also help determine normal adult height in the general population....

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