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Many factors influence sexual potency

...elation between longevity and sexual activity. The old saying ``use it or lose it'' applies here. Therapies for impotence include medication changes, lifestyle changes, mechanical devises, oral medication and counseling....

Losing that baby fat among women

...xcess pounds by the time their babies are 5 months old are mosr probably to revive those extra pounds 8 years later.// These findings come from researchers from University of Texas, who say their study is the first to examine how body weight during and shortly after pregnancy impacts weight and body mas...

The issue of urinary incontinence

...yhow, much progress has been made and, in fact, an old people's ward need not smell at all. Professor Malone-Lee and his team helped introduce the incontinence pad and, after many years of research into absorbent materials, have banged upon a synthetic polymer. The technology came from the disposable n...

Osteoarthritis and Estrogen are connected

...1,500 postmenopausal women between 40 and 90 years old took part in the study. The women were examined for osteoarthritis in the hip, hand and knee. Information on their estrogen use was also collected. Researchers say 500 women reported using estrogen for at least one year. The study finds 30 percent o...

Benign eye tumors being treated

...nd a detached retina. In the first case, a 60 year old man attempted reatment after experiencing decrease...t eye for two weeks. In the second case, a 40 year old man came to the clinic complaining of flickering lights and decreased visual acuity in his left eye....

Prostate cancer and Vitamins

... of taking too many vitamins. This was a 56 year old man about to have treatment for localized prostate cancer. He had been taking over 2,057 times the recommended daily dose of the B vitamin niacin. The treatment, which involves implanting radioactive 'seeds' in the tumour had to be cancelled. For the...

Massage therapy regulates sleep cycle of newborns

...d 12 weeks of age. The study revealed that 8-week old infants in the massage group displayed an activity...found to be higher during nighttime in the 12-week old massaged infants....

Geriatric heart patients benefit from extra weight

...nd 94. The study concluded that for the especially old patients in the group, increased BMI does not increase the risk of complications from cardiovascular surgery. The study included cardiovascular procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafting, aortic valve repair, and others. While among the gene...

Gardeners, Beware of your back!

Middle and old age people are now increasingly taking to gardening as a hobby, as newspapers and TV programmes paint a rosy picture of beautiful gardens. Though gardening has been proven to have it's own health benefits, researchers now suggest that enthusiastic// ...

Televisions ruling baby's world!

...n has revealed that children as young as 12 months old are influenced by emotions displayed on television. They also use emotional information picked up from adults around them to make decisions. Donna Mumme, assistant professor of psychology at Tufts University, and her team tested //babies, showing ac...

Immune function could benefit from exercise

...that exercise could benefit both the young and the old in more ways than one. A new study has now shown that exercise not only helps the elderly in protecting their bones, it also helps boost the immune function, thus reducing the risk of Upper Respiratory Infections(URI). URIs, which could be caused by ...

Progression of Glaucoma could be controlled with early detection

...rial had included 255 patients from 50 to 80 years old who had early stage glaucoma in at least one eye. ...ye pressure or who had the disease in both eyes or old age. Researchers concluded that each millimeter of mercury that was lowered was associated with a 10...

Children who used anaesthesia drugs could suffer brain damage

...group was kept alive until they were about a month old while the third group grew into adulthood. Researchers tested the month old and adult rats to see how the anaesthesia affected their learning and memory. They also recorded ele...

New FDA regulations puts some cough syrups off market

...dministration's(FDA) new effort to re-examine very old drugs that began selling before the government ever required proof that drugs worked well, has landed dozens of brands of prescription cough syrup in trouble. Until now FDA stressed that the expectorant, extended-release guaifenesin, is not dangerous...

Infertility may result from bone fragments

...ble even with a hysteroscope. Is a case, a 36 year old woman who ended a pregnancy 15 years earlier and w... the doctors note that any fetus at least 12 weeks old can have bony tissues. In previous studies, they say, virtually all women who had such fragments rem...

Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses

....// In 2000 10.8 million children under five years old died, over half of them from just five preventable communicable diseases and malnutrition. 99% of these deaths are in developing countries. "This strong support and reinforced commitment by the Member States to strengthen child and adolescent health ...

Age should not rule out visectomy reversal

...rsal simply because the female partner is 35 years old or older," the authors note. However, "in our series there was only one live delivery for a women older than 40 years and, therefore, careful preoperative counseling is required for these couples," they add. During a vasectomy, a surgeon cuts a sma...

Restricted Activity Predicts Disability

...unctional decline and not just a benign feature of old age."...

Novel Therapy for Chronic Problem

...17 men and four women ranging in age from 28 years old to 55 years old. All of the patients were treated with topical corticosteroids for six weeks. The patients swallowed the drug twice a day to coat the esophagus. Interviews were conducted with the patients after treatment and months later. Researcher...

Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

...of anxiety and became a cultural icon, is 40 years old this year. The drug owes its success to the stubborn streak of chemist Leo Sternbach, who refused to quit after his boss at Hoffmann-La Roche ended a project to develop a tranquilizer to compete with a rival company's drug. Sternbach tested one last ...

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