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Childhood Sunburn Can Lead to Skin Cancer Later

... diagnosed in 2003, and some 7,600 new deaths will occur from this disease this year. One way to protect your children is to make certain they wear a sunscreen with a sun protection factor (SPF) of at least 15, and to make sure they use the product correctly.Although sunscreen can go a long way in protect...

Pharmacist’s Role in Medication Error

...tudy by researchers found as many as 98,000 deaths occur each year from medical errors, fand many of these are medication errors...

World SARS-free within weeks

... is whether it will be cyclical or whether it will occur seasonally!...

Preventing Childhood Deaths

...ic Republic of Congo, and Ethiopia) and 90 percent occur in just 42 countries.// Forty percent of all childhood deaths occur in infants under 1 month of age. Children under age 5 most often succumb to diarrhea, pneumonia, mea...

Benefits of Vitamin Supplements Unclear

...cause harm, they found several adverse effects can occur if vitamins are taken in large doses. For example, researchers say moderate doses of vitamin A can reduce bone mineral density, and high doses may cause liver damage or harm a fetus. The Task Force does not recommend using beta-carotene supplements,...

Low-dose Growth Hormone (GH) with diet and exercise may help weight loss

...hey stop losing weight. Low levels of GH, known to occur with obesity, may be to blame.// When GH is low, the body tends to accumulate body fat and lose muscle, and energy levels are low. Past studies of GH replacement in obesity have involved extremely high doses of GH, which were found to have side effe...

Antibiotics May Help Prevent Strokes

...f blood vessels supplying the brain? Strokes often occur when cholesterol plaques in blood vessels rupture and block blood flow to the brain. Interestingly, recent reports have shown that these plagues can contain bacteria.// Some researchers believe that the presence of these bugs makes plaque rupture mor...

Estrogen in Food Reduces Cancer Risk

... Phytoestrogens are oestrogen-like compounds which occur naturally //in many plants and fungi. They are found in many soy-based foods and added to other foods such as white bread, coffee and orange juice. Researchers from the Northern California Cancer Center evaluated the association between dietary intak...

Recognize Heart Attack Signs

...comes along with chest discomfort. But it also can occur before chest discomfort. Other symptoms: May include breaking out in a cold sweat, nausea, or light-headedness. The AHA urges anyone experiencing these symptoms to seek medical attention as soon as possible. In fact, the AHA and NHLBI joined forces...

Meditation Works Medically

...t topic. Most research has focused on changes that occur during meditation and not as a result of meditation. Whereas these studies have been informative, they tell us little about changes that are potentially more enduring. The authors of the study say the meditation led to a significant reduction in anx...

Reducing Medication Errors

...es.// Studies show in adults, adverse drug events occur in five of every 100 medication orders. A new study led by researchers at Ottawa, shows computerized systems for ordering medications can reduce the number of errors. This is in place of hand-writing the orders. They studied the pediatric population ...

Teen brain changes increase cigarette addiction

The brain changes that occur during adolescence may mean teenagers smokers are more likely to become seriously hooked than those who take up the habit as adults, suggests a new rat study.// Previous studies have suggested that the earlier someone starts smoking, the more likely...

Teens break bones 'due to lack of milk'

...100,000 young people in 1999-2001. Most fractures occur around the time of the growth spurt during puberty and specialists have suggested that this could be because the bones become more porous when they are growing fast. That, though, does not explain the increase. The commonest age for fractures is betw...

Breast cancer ignorance revealed

...east cancer is age, and that 80% of breast cancers occur in women over 50. "We are worried that the lack of knowledge in women may delay detection of breast cancer." Breast cancer is now the most common cancer for women in the UK - a woman has a one in nine risk of developing it at some point in her life...

Better Diet Even Late in Life May Prolong It

...amaging effects of processes, like oxidation, that occur as food is digested. But Partridge says this theory can't explain why flies changed to restricted diets later in life did just as well as those who had been on restricted diets their whole lives. "Dietary restriction late in adulthood is just as ben...

Link Between Migraines and Behavioral Disorders

...ildren should be treated aggressively if headaches occur more than three times a month. However more research is needed to confirm these findings.Researchers say: In the future, they hope to examine the correlation between chronic daily headaches and behavioral issues. We’d also like to determine if depr...

Same molecule found in meat, milk, tumors

...unity," the researchers said. Autoimmune diseases occur when the body mistakenly attacks healthy tissue and include type-1 or juvenile diabetes and some types of arthritis. But much research has focused on the fat content of animal fat or byproducts of cooking meat as the cause of disease.Researchers dev...

Black tea said to lower cholesterol

... these active ingredients [that lower cholesterol] occur in a lot of other foods. Scientists at the USDA's research division also are studying the bioactivity of tea compounds for use in treating a wide-range of diseases. Research is currently being conducted on the effect tea has on blood glucose levels...

Defending against Tuberculosis

... treatments than those currently in use. This will occur only as a result of scientists' devoting more analysis to the bacteria's weaknesses and the host's strengths."...

Prevention of Rickets

...min D, calcium, or phosphate. It is most likely to occur during rapid growth, when the body demands high levels of calcium and phosphate. Rickets may be seen in young children 6 to 24 months old. Doctors say rickets is increasing for two main reasons. They say more babies are being breastfed longer, with ...

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