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Gene treatment for macular degeneration

...s learn more and more about the genes that cause a number of medical conditions, opportunities for treatment with gene therapy become increasingly likely. //In an interview with Jonathan Davidorf, M.D., explained exciting new advances in the treatment of some forms of macular degeneration. According to him ...

Watch your weight when pregnant

...ge BMI of 31. The researchers also found that the number of women who needed a C-section increased as BMI of a person increased. Among women with a BMI of 20 or less ( which indicates a low amount of body fat),had a normal delivery. Whereas if BMI ranged from 21-30 ( which indicates a range of body fat fr...

Diet combined to Alzheimer's disease

...ty in New York studied the association between the number of calories consumed and Alzheimer's disease. The study involved 980 elderly individuals who did not have Alzheimer's disease. Researchers followed the patients for about four years and kept track of how many calories and fat grams they consumed. The...

Oral memory indicates future Alzheimer's patients

...older people - so we can expect an increase in the number of cases as the population ages.// Treatments are now available and they seem to work best if they start early. This means early diagnosis is a priority. Researchers at the University of Toronto have been analysing investigations on 1,000 Alzheimer...

Carbon monoxide passes down

...oxide can be fatal if inhaled and is involved in a number of accidental deaths and suicides each year. //The main sources of carbon monoxide are vehicle emissions and malfunctioning domestic heating equipment. In 1980, the Clean Air Act was passed in the US to reduce carbon monoxide. The use of catalytic co...

Benefits in fertility procedures

...dure, doctors look at the embryo and test it for a number of conditions prior to implanting the embryo. This helps eliminate the implantation of embryos that are not going to result in live births. Dr. Werlin and colleagues are currently studying how useful PGD is in women of advanced maternal age, those w...

Screening bypasses radical breast surgery

...eening is linked with a fall of almost half in the number of mastectomies. A team working for the leading charity Cancer Research UK// has analyzed data from a group of 55,000 women in Florence, Italy, aged between 55 and 65. They find that following the introduction of a breast screening programme, the rat...

Latest device for identifying Melanomas

...nit, not only will save lives, but also reduce the number of unnecessary operations in which a spot is cut out just to be on the safe side....

Accomplishment of nicotine replacement therapy

... mid 1990s) has had. They found an increase in the number of smokers trying to quit - from 38 per cent of smokers in 1992 to 60 per cent in 1999. Use of NRT increased three fold over this time - probably as it became easier to obtain. But much of the increased use of NRT is down to light smokers (consumin...

Nasal sprays used for other ailments!

...sed for safe and effective delivery of drugs for a number of conditions. According to researchers// at the Mayo clinic say that familiarity should be present with the use of nasal sprays to treat allergies such as hay fever. A nasal spray is a good way of delivering a drug, because it gets into the bloods...

Watching television linked to smoking

... smoke. About 5 million adolescents smoke and that number has been increasing since 1990. While tobacco products are banned from advertising on television, smoking is still widespread on television programs. In California, researchers from Children's Hospital looked at whether adolescents who watched more ...

Flesh-eating virus

...hey were infected by clostridium, with the largest number of cases concentrated in Glasgow. The disease commonly begins in an established wound or broken skin before penetrating the tissues beneath the skin, causing blisters to form. Flu-like symptoms and diarrhoea can also occur, with patients developing...

Sensitive cough suffered by females

...a mouthpiece for one second. Then they counted the number of coughs produced by the participants over the next ten seconds. The substances used were capsaicin, the hot substance in red peppers, and citric acid. The women needed far less of each 'cough challenge' - as the substances were called - to induce...

Coenzyme Q10 may reduce risk of Parkinson's disease

...e of the brain, are slowly destroyed, leading to a number of motor and emotional symptoms. In a preliminary study, the popular food supplement coenzyme Q10 actually seems to slow down the progress of the disease, as opposed to treating the symptoms. Researchers at the University of California gave a group...

National Lung Study in the process

...ates. Unlike other cancers that have had a reduced number of deaths in recent years, the death toll from lung cancer has remained unchanged. Nearly 120,000 people die each year from lung cancer. This is more than breast, prostate, colon and pancreas cancer combined. Researchers hope this study will prove ef...

Advanced STD programs required

... how effective are programs intended to reduce the number of people with sexually transmitted infections, in...ogically sound. After analyzing the 30 studies, a number of conclusions were reached. For one, they determined that few studies are conducted on men alone an...

Laser may stop macular degeneration

...n have a gradual loss of vision. While there are a number of procedures under study to treat the wet form, there are fewer options available for the dry form. A team of researchers led by Thomas Friberg, M.D., from the University of Pittsburgh, are studying the use of a laser called the infrared OcuLight l...

Novel way to fight cancer

...inues, "We have been able to generate a very large number of immune cells that appear in the blood and constitute a majority of the immune system of the patient. These persist for over four months and are able to attack the tumor."...

Gastrointestinal conditions affect sleep

...24 hours in a sleep lab. Researchers evaluated the number of minutes required to fall asleep, the number of arousals from sleep, sleep efficiency, and the proportion of time spent in various stages of slee...

Airbags lessens oppressive eye injuries

...'s now well validated that airbags will reduce the number of severe and fatal injuries. //However, the effect of airbags on the eye has not been well explored until now. Researchers in Virginia, USA, analysed data from over 20,020 automobile accidents from 1994 to 1998. They looked at the severity of the ...

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