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Stay away from strenouous work

...their pregnancy outcome. In the past 40 years, the number of working women in developed countries has nearly trebled, and women are on average working longer into their pregnancies....

Cardiac diseases develop early

...re in the boys. Systolic blood pressure is the top number in a blood pressure reading. This measurement represents the highest level of the blood's pressure within the artery walls and corresponds to the contraction of the heart's main pumping chambers (ventricles). Higher insulin resistance was related to ...

Too much coffee is too bad

...sity in women in the low caffeine group.Though the number of women with the tt genotype was found to be relatively small (six in the low caffeine group and five in the high caffeine group), these findings identify caffeine as a dietary factor, which can alter one’s genetic predisposition toward osteoporosis...

No vaccination - diabetes link

.... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a number of health care institutions in Oregon, Washington who conducted the study said earlier research also had not shown an association but a fresh look had not been taken since 1990 when some newer vaccines came into use. The cause of juvenile diabetes is...

A new treatment for liver cancer

...success rate in either reducing tumour size or the number of tumours. Till date, it has many patients have undergone this treatment with advanced liver tumours, who cannot be treated by any other means. TheraSphere involves injecting millions of microscopic glass beads containing the radioactive element y...

Dangers of Low Calcium Intake

...d to; meanwhile, milk consumption has dropped. The number of fractures among children and young adults has increased, probably due to lower intakes of calcium. Pediatricians are also seeing the emergence of rickets, a bone disease that results from low levels of vitamin D. As these children get older, thi...

Bar Codes For Prescribed Drugs

...information as a unique product code number, a lot number and an expiration date. Such information would not only facilitate matching, but would aid in recalling products when necessary. The Department of Veterans Affairs health system has already moved to purchase bar code scanning systems, but is being ha...

Predictable genes

...diet, and high alcohol consumption. He said: "The number and type of genes that account for the remainder of familial breast cancer is not clear. "It is, however, plausible, that at least some of this genetic predisposition is attributable to the effects of multiple, common, but individually weak genes." E...

A boon to epileptics

...with a dose of low-frequency magnetism reduces the number of seizures suffered by severe epileptics, a study...by between 20% and 50%, and in three patients, the number of seizures was reduced by more than half. However, the effects of the treatment wore off after six ...

Genes for Vision discovered

...oximately 300 photoreceptor genes - five times the number that were previously known. Two hundred and sixty four of these were newly identified genes. Of these, 241 had homologs in humans. “This makes photoreceptors the most well characterised cell type in the body,” said Cepko. The database provides a ge...

Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

...ed. . The researchers found a significantly higher number of children with color blindness and poorer visual acuity among the group whose mothers were exposed to organic solvents at work. The mothers of the affected children had jobs in the auto or paint industries or in laboratories. However, according t...

Less sodium,less pressure

...e drop of 8.9 points in systolic pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) and 4.5 points in diastolic pressure (the lower number). Dr. Eva Obarzanek, a nutritionist with NHLBI and project officer for the DASH-Sodium study, agrees that the current recommendation of 2400 mg per day may need to b...

Infection linked with heart attack

Risk of heart deaths is increasing day by day. The number of infections a person has been exposed to is link...Cleavland have shown a direct association with the number of infections and artery thickening and heart attack death. The tested 400 patients admitted to hosp...

Keys to good bone health

...irst research to directly link bone density to the number of steps taken per day, it is already well known that exercise is a major factor in the prevention of osteoporosis, the common bone-thinning disease. In fact, there are exercises that have been identified as particularly effective in building bone st...

Relief from common back pain

...their everyday lives.Nucleoplasty claims to have a number of benefits over invasive surgery because this is quick and painless. ...

Link Between Infection And Heart Disease

...f past infection or exposure. They found that the number of infections was directly related to dying from h... "We showed a significant association between the number of infections to which someone has been exposed and the extent of hardening of the arteries in the h...

Smoking Linked To Low Infant Birth Weight

...e higher death rates and are more susceptible to a number of other health problems during infancy and childh...ing has been associated with low birth weight in a number of previous studies, and women are advised not to smoke during pregnancy. In general, the women who ...

Medications for depression

...essants with fewer side effects. By contrast the number of patients receiving psychotherapy for depression declined from 60 per cent to 50 per cent. Physicians now seem to be more involved in depression treatment .This may be the reason why medication is being preferred over psychotherapy - physicians may...

Older Men Surviving Coronary Bypasses

...n men and 22 percent on women. "Overall, the total number of operations increased over the period," says Dr....Pell suspects this was probably due to the smaller number of procedures performed on women. "The main improvement has been in cardiac surgery, with the incr...

Relief to pregnant women using fertility drugs

... that the popular medications used to increase the number of eggs a woman produces in a single monthly cycle do not increase the risk of ovarian cancer. // The controversy over the link between fertility drugs and ovarian cancer developed about 10 years ago, when small, isolated pockets of women who had di...

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