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Warm yourself to sleep

...peculate that some sleep disorders associated with old age and illness may be caused by poor circulation and an inability to widen blood vessels in the hands and feet....

Creatine Helps Strengthen Older Men

... would help us maintain our independence well into old age....

Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

...ed the vision of 43 children between 3 and 6 years old whose mothers were frequently exposed on the job to organic solvents with 29 children whose mothers were not exposed. . The researchers found a significantly higher number of children with color blindness and poorer visual acuity among the group whos...

Body can reshape heart damage

...lear whether those cells came from remnants of the old male heart and migrated to the new one, or whether they were originally highly versatile stem cells from the men's bone marrow and moved to the heart in an attempt to repair the damage from the heart surgery. Many of the male cells that had found a...

The way you talk matters a lot

...t of a temporary stroke.//Scientists say a 43-year old psychiatrist in France spent an hour on the telephone talking to a patient, cradling the receiver between his left ear and shoulder so he could keep his hands free. Soon after that he experienced a temporary blindness in his left eye, together with...

Cytobrush to detect oral cancer

...etrate and get a better sampling of cells than the old scraping technique.” The sample is sent to a lab where it is scanned using advanced computer technology. Suspicious slides are tagged for further evaluation by a technician. The computer is so exacting, Green berg said, that the false negative rate, ...

Robots craft medical history

...assisted in removing the gall bladder of a 68-year old woman using a remote controlled robot. This is termed as the world's// first long-distance operation in the medical history. The operation took place at the European Institute for TeleSurgery in Strasbourg. According to Jacques Marceausx it is a ph...

Computers may become surgeons

...brain. However, these images are often up to a day old and, if certain conditions change, can become useless. And although the small number of magnetic resonance imaging machines worldwide are capable of providing updated images during surgery, the instruments still have to be held and manipulated by h...

Lower surgical volume linked to higher death rate

...open heart operations on children less than a year old had a mortality rate 25 per cent lower than a hospital carrying out 40 such operations. But this alone, does not explain the high death rates, which was a low-volume centre. Less than a fifth of the excess deaths at the Bristol Royal hospital during...

The negative advancement

...viewed almost 2,500 people between 25 and 74 years old - most of whom had developed skin cancer - asking them about their history of sun exposure, sunbed usage and smoking history. Overall, people who reported having any use of tanning lamps were 2.5 times more likely to develop squamous cell carcinoma a...

Inadequate Drug Treatment For Youth

... Abuse shows that 1.1 million children 12-17 years old have problems with drugs and alcohol. Only about 122,000 of them got treatment in the year 2000.// "Those kids are only the tip of the (drug abuse) iceberg," says Mitchell Rosenthal, head of Phoenix House Foundation, the nation's largest non-profit...

The brain wave

... but no all people to care about others. A 3-year old feels empathy and will pat another child in the shoulder or comfort his mom when she’s crying. Scientists now believe that empathy has roots early in life. It may be linked to imitation, which we know babies do from a very early age. Researchers used...

Less sleep increases mortality rates

...ucted over a six year time period// shows that the old advice that you need eight hours sleep a night might need modifying. Looking at the length of time people sleep and its relationship to life expectancy, researchers at the University of Texas, and colleagues, find that seven hours is the optimum. P...

Dietary advice for diabetes

...hey offer a lot more variety and interest than the old high-carbohydrate/low-fat recommendations (though that's still considered a healthy option too)....

Exercise is necessary in daily life

...und. Perhaps, he says, it's time to go back to the old ways - even just for a little while each day. Walk, don't take the elevator, and push a lawn mower, rather than riding it. There are many more opportunities to get more active by 'turning back the clock'. Just one or two hundred calories extra exer...

FDA changes rules on testing drugs for children

... FDA said it wants to see if the new law makes the old mandate, which drug makers hated, unnecessary.// But three Democrats complained to President Bush that the action was halting "an important regulation that protects children from potentially unsafe and improperly dosed medications." Adult medicat...

Mild Depression may guard aged women

...d by the regressive health problems that accompany old age and sometimes depression itself can contribute to these ailments. Gallagher-Thompson said that depression has been called the common cold of geriatric mental health....

Putting cancer risk with a vision

... number of risk factors. "A smoker who is 40 years old has an all-cause mortality risk of (a non-smoker) who is 50. It's like they are ten years older."...

Hypertension drugs could lower Disability

...portant factor in the development of disability in old age. The next step will be to find out whether the...ns might actually delay the onset of disability in old age....

Dangers from lead

...oblems as babies exposed to lead from sources like old pain, researchers reported recently. In an article in the journal Pediatrics, they said this type of lead exposure// “may constitute a significant public health problem, in view of the long residence time of lead in bone.” The findings demonstrated ...

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