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Lead can be fatal

...ty problems. However, there have only been a small number of studies to investigate the connection of lead exposure to mortality in the general population. Researchers assessed the link by examining follow-up data from participants of the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The partic...

Mountain biking connected to infertility

...id more than 10 million Americans mountain bike, a number that has risen in recent years. While the sport has been associated for some time with erectile dysfunction, this study looked at whether there is a link between the sport and reduced fertility. Semen analysis was performed on the bikers and non-bik...

Risk of Heart disease reduced by yoga

...nd helps with weight loss. Yoga also decreases the number of angina episodes, increases exercise tolerance and decreases narrowing of the arteries (coronary stenosis). Researchers feel that Given that yoga is relatively cheap, and acceptable to many people as a therapy, it would be useful to have some bigge...

Hormones do not guard against heart failure

...there was no significant difference, either in the number of women who suffered another heart attack or in the number of women who died because of a heart attack, between the two groups. Researchers therefore conclude...

Spine Surgeries becoming less painful

The number of people suffering from spine problems is on the rise; the most common of them being a herniated disc and spinal canal stenosis. Herniated disc is more common in the age group of 25 to 35 years while spinal canal stenosis is common among// older peo...

Need for Blood Transfusions reduced

...e new red blood cells and is meant to decrease the number of red blood cell transfusions. Erythropoietin, produced in the kidney, stimulates the production of red blood cells. Study was conducted at 67 centers with 1,305 patients who had been in the ICU for two days and were expected to stay there for at ...

Acupuncture in Paediatric care

...A recent study which shows significant rise in the number of visits made to acupuncturists, proves the popularity of the traditional method for relief of pain. However, it has not reached mainstream pediatric treatment yet. Very few acupuncturists treat children and not many pediatricians are familiar with...

Want to have a nice day? Eat breakfast!

...this decade where there is a steady decline in the number of people who eat breakfast, some manage to grab a sweet roll or a fast food sandwich and coffee. However, these do not make up an adequate breakfast as they only help suppress hunger pangs temporarily, but do very little to aid brain function. So wh...

Gardeners, Beware of your back!

... that the back pain was a result of gardening. The number was even higher, at 55 per cent, among those in the 35 plus age group. The survey also showed that six out of 10 people claimed that they have stopped enjoying normal leisure activities due to the severity of the back pain. Doctors say that people b...

Gene connected to Multi-System disorder discovered

...om their instructions) have already been tied to a number of inherited conditions involving deafness or peripheral neuropathy because of their widespread presence in cells during critical developmental periods. Researchers, during the course of this study, have also helped identify a faulty connexin gene as...

Machines take over the battle against hospital bugs

...the air to monitor bacteria levels, and logged the number of patient infections. During the next six months of the study, the ionisers were switched on and it was found that the infections due to acinetobacter reduced dramatically. Lead researcher Clive Beggs believed that the negative ions produced by the...

Breast Cancer risk for women on dopamine antagonists

...believe that the study is significant because more number of women, world over, are being affected by breast cancer and understanding risk factors for the disease is paramount to controlling its incidence. Animal studies have suggested dopamine antagonists can raise blood levels of prolactin, which has been...

Pizza is bad for health. But, do you know how bad?

...so added that eating a salad would cut down on the number of slices you eat. However, choosing other side orders like buffalo wings and cheese breads would only do more damage than good....

Autopsy reports could be valuable and informative

...ever, researchers say that in the recent years the number of autopsies performed have been greatly reduced - from 50 per cent in the 1960s to less than 6 per cent. This could be attributed to today's physicians being less familiar with procedures surrounding autopsy or simply due to high costs....

Survival rates in breast cancer patients improved with "Dose Dense Chemotherapy"

...otherapy. In neutropenia there is a decline in the number of a certain type of white blood cells which hampers the immune system of the body. Filgrastim, also known as the granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), helps prevent neutropenia by stimulating the formation of white blood cells called neutr...

Wash your hands to keep healthy!

...rly half. A recent American study included a huge number of Navy recruits who were made to wash their hands five times a day for a year and the rate of illness was measured. The researchers found that at the end of the hand washing program after one year the rate of respiratory illness, such as flu and bro...

Use of CT scans to detect lung cancer questioned

...nign,// and the costs of the scan far outweigh the number of lives saved by annual full-body CT screening. Following this, the National Cancer Institute has begun an eight-year trial comparing CT scans with chest x-rays in the diagnosis of lung cancer. The study's senior author Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, direc...

Novel Anti-Neutrophilic Effect produced by Salmeterol in mild asthma patients

...ed with fluticasone propionate, reduced neutrophil number and human neutrophil lipocalin level in bronchial lavage fluid, and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 level in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. It was also observed that the numbers of (CD3+) T-lymphocytes, (CD4+) T-helper cells, (CD45RO+) activated T-h...

Resistant tumors could be treated with the discovery of a new molecule within cancer cells

... of drugs such as Taxol, which are used to treat a number of cancers in their later stages. In the study, the// researchers focused on a molecule called AURORA-A which is found at higher than normal levels in up to half of breast and bowel tumors, and in many other kinds of cancer. They genetically engineer...

Macular Degeneration treatment with Laser

...f these drusen can disappear and decrease in size, number and thickness. The laser treatment is however for the dry form of the disease and Dr. Fox, an ophthalmologist said that this treatment could also help people who go on to develop the more serious wet form. He believes that the incidence of patients ...

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