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Tag: "normal" at medical news

Pollution could be a risk

... Keeping busy and trying to get the cities back to normal keeps anxiety and grief at bay. And the sheer scal... lungs more easily.He said: "They can get past the normal defence mechanisms in the lungs and penetrate deeply into the air exchange regions. Prof Dockery s...

Psychological consequence of terrorist attacks

... Keeping busy and trying to get the cities back to normal keeps anxiety and grief at bay. And the sheer scale of the tragedy has engendered a kind of emotional numbness in many but this will wear off in time.// It would not just be those directly involved in the crisis that are affected - many millions more...

Vitamin B for Hepatitis

...inotransferase levels fell from abnormally high to normal levels; these levels increased when thiamine was subsequently withdrawn. And in subsequent liver biopsies after thiamine treatment, HBV DNA was undetectable.This is the first study to investigate thiamine for treating hepatitis B infection....

E. coli strains resistant to a common antibiotic

...w source of urinary tract infections. E. coli is a normal inhabitant of the digestive tract that can cause both intestinal upsets and urinary infections. But while E. coli from bad food is a frequent cause of diarrhoea and other digestive miseries, urinary tract infections were thought until now to result m...

Therapy for stopping the spread of cancer cells

... by hanging on to carbohydrate molecules on other, normal cells, and then letting go and moving on to the next cell. The composition of carbohydrates on the cells affects the balance between hanging on to neighbouring cells and letting go.// Researchers at the University of Georgia have found that an enzym...

The mouth-heart connection

...find that people with gum disease have higher than normal CRP levels. // It may be that oral bacteria enter the circulation via the gums, and then trigger the liver to make more CRP. Previous studies suggest that CRP contributes to inflammation of the coronary arteries, so encouraging the deposition of fa...

Wound healing made faster

... surprised to find that not only did it initiate a normal injury response in the cells, but heightened it. Dr Leavesley says they have yet to understand why this is the case, but he believes that when the hormones are assembled in the complex they are more easily recognised by the body's repairing cells.Wh...

Relating heart protection and antihypertensive drugs

Maintaining a normal blood pressure is essential in the prevention of heart disease and is controlled by antihypertensive drugs, say researchers. Dr Jan Staessen and colleagues from Leuven, in Belgium, set out to determine whether it is the pharmacological properties of ...

The mouth-heart connection

...find that people with gum disease have higher than normal CRP levels. // It may be that oral bacteria enter the circulation via the gums, and then trigger the liver to make more CRP. Previous studies suggest that CRP contributes to inflammation of the coronary arteries, so encouraging the deposition of fa...

New gene for hairloss

Researchers have found a normal role for a gene that causes two rare hair-loss disorders when it is disabled.Gone are the days when scientists were finding it diificult to treat ordinary baldness. So far, even with the new work, there is no evidence of a direct link between the hai...

Snoring could be a warning

... at 32 women with severe pre-eclampsia and 40 with normal pregnancies and found that all the women with pre-eclampsia were snorers.Women with the highest degree of airway obstruction during sleep also had the highest blood pressures. The Australian researchers found that they could prevent both the snorin...

Anti-Cancer Drug Restores Normal Cell Growth

...nd colleagues believe these drugs may help restore normal growth to cancer cells, which typically arise from normal cells in which growth regulation has gone awry. The drug's side effects were comparable to those s...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

...lightly elevated but still considered to be within normal ranges--called high-normal--are at increased risk ... greater risk of heart disease than did those with normal blood pressure, and men with high-normal values had 1.6 times greater risk of heart disease than did...

Woman gets cancer from transplanted kidney

.... Analysis of the cancer cells and the patient's normal tissue indicated that the cancer had its start in the donated organ. The relative who had donated the kidney had been diagnosed with small cell carcinoma of the lung nearly 2 years before donating a kidney. People who receive an organ transplant ar...

Infertility in relation with virus

...n these men far more frequently than in those with normal semen. Dr Jorg Schlehofer, from the Deutsches Kr...red to only one out of 22 in the group of men with normal semen. The researchers also analysed samples taken from the testicles of 48 men taking part in ferti...

Quit coffee and help your heart

...hat "it is not only unfiltered coffee, but notably normal filtered coffee affects cholesterol and homocystei...If your cholesterol or homocysteine level is above normal and you are a heavy coffee drinker you should consider reducing your consumption of coffee.// In th...

More about HIV

... infected with HIV, the immune cells begin to lose normal function. Antibodies are produced in response, and...is 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...

New light on Cardiology

...n of LVH in a broad range of patients – those with normal or controlled blood pressure, both with and without coronary heart disease.// The HOPE study compared the effects of the ACE inhibitor in addition to standard therapy with placebo and vitamin E in a sample of about 7,580 high-risk patients with car...

Borderline blood pressure- possible health risk

It is best to keep blood pressure at normal (120/80 mmHg). Better still, there is a benefit in...alth risk. Research is now focussing upon the high normal or borderline group, with blood pressure of less than 140/90 but more than 130/85.// Generally res...

Shapely sperm-a valuable indicator of fertility

...infertility depends upon first establishing what's normal and abnormal. The World Health Organization's widely used standards to classify semen as normal if it contains 10 million sperm per milliliter and at least half of them are moving around. But the ...

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