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Tag: "occur" at medical news

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

... Ischemic strokes, the more common type of stroke, occur when a clot blocks blood flow to part of the brain. Transient ischemic attacks, or TIAs, occur when the blood flow is only briefly interrupted. Most TIA symptoms disappear within an hour, but the...

Defebrillators in use

...rain staff to use them. But most cardiac arrests occur in the home. Researchers in the Public Health services in Seattle, Washington, have shown that domestic AED use is also quite feasible. They found that older people could readily be trained in AED use without any other aids. However, periodic re-tr...

Gene therapy restores sight

...e said. "In humans, any gene therapy would have to occur before birth". Dr Stone said a further challenge would be identifying the exact genetic defect for LCA."Different people with LCA have defects in different genes, or different parts of the same gene, and this varies from one continent to another," h...

Increase in renal problems

The cognitive problems that can occur in patients with chronic renal failure might be al...sible to link the results with similar events that occur in the nervous system in other disorders, such as in Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease. “However,...

A new genetic label for stroke

...LDL (the bad cholesterol).// Although most strokes occur in older people, stroke is not a rare event in younger individuals. Health officials estimate 4percent to 29 percent of the most common form of stroke, those caused by a blood clot breaking off and traveling to the brain, happen in people under age 4...

Mental illness a key factor in suicide

...ccording to researchers, suicide is more likely to occur among young people who have had a parent commit suicide, those whose mother died early, or those who have a history of mental illness in the family, including the individual, their parents or their siblings. The study also shows males are three and a...

Endometriosis connected to fertility

... and the delicate lining of the pelvis, but it can occur in other areas of the body as well....

Allergies: A major health problem

...of occurrence on our body. When allergy explosions occur in the nose and sinuses it is known as hay fever or allergic “rhinitis”. When it occurs in lungs we call it as asthma. In the event of symptoms surfacing on the skin it is described as “hives”. When it attacks the whole body violently it is known as ...

A new infection- 'hot tub lung'

...ung by inhalation. The problem is most likely to occur where owners do not properly clean the tubs or change the filters as often as is recommended. If you own the tub, be scrupulous about keeping it clean. If it belongs to your health club, check with the owners if you think there might be a problem....

Renal problem increased

The cognitive problems that can occur in patients with chronic renal failure might be al...sible to link the results with similar events that occur in the nervous system in other disorders, such as in Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease. “However,...

Cholesterol lowering drugs aid people after heart transplant

...e arteries - reducing the thickening that tends to occur after a heart transplant....

Memory deprivation after operations

...tor involved. Brain changes, similar to those that occur in dementia, have been found on anaesthetic exposure in animal studies. Further study into the genetic susceptibility of some people to anaesthetics is ongoing at the University of Leicester, UK....

Stress triggers acne

...ormonal changes that are already underway. Pimples occur when excess oil accumulates around skin cells helping bacteria to thrive, resulting in redness & inflammation. Washing the skin clean with a mild cleanser, day and night, is essential in keeping away pimples. However, skin must not be scrubbed or w...

Autopsy reports could be valuable and informative

... that there are many reasons why discrepancies can occur between clinical examination and autopsy findings which could be as varied as the patient having presented with atypical symptoms of a disease, or due to limited information from lab results. Sometimes a doctor may fail to consider a broad enough ran...

Children! Protecting them from medical mistakes

... and parents. Medicine-related medical errors can occur when a child is given the wrong medicine or is given the wrong dose of medicine for the child's weight....

New and unique treatment for Psoriasis patients

...-to-treat psoriasis. Psoriasis has been thought to occur when the immune system goes amok and cells called memory effector T cells prompt skin inflammation. The treatments that are currently available for psoriasis range from ointments to ultraviolet therapy to other injected drugs that can broadly suppres...

Asthma not just a childhood condition

...recognised and managed in early stages. Asthma can occur in an individual for the first time at any age. There also exists a possibility where many people don't realise they have asthma.// However, around two-thirds of those surveyed thought asthma was only a children's condition. Only 4% were aware that i...

Awareness increase Prostate cancer detection

...ican Cancer Society, most cases of prostate cancer occur in men older than 50 and more than 70 percent of these cases are in men older than 65. However, some men in their 20s have been diagnosed. African-American males have the highest incidence. Those with a family history of prostate cancer are at greate...

Gene Therapy could treat Impotence

...e injured in the rats to mimic the damage that can occur when men undergo prostate-removal. Doctors injected harmless, modified herpes virus to deliver proteins known as neurotrophic factors into the penis and the area near the cavernous nerves, which are located around the prostate gland and play an// imp...

Hope for First New Melanoma Treatment in Decades

...o evade the body's immune system. The changes that occur in these cells are difficult to pinpoint and therefore, little is known about how and where they occur. This study reveals PTEN as a target gene that is altered, enabling melanoma cells to form tumors. In non-cancerous cells, PTEN normally starts a ...

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