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Fruits found To Be Good For Eyes

... larger health studies. All were at least 50 years old at the beginning of the studies and were followed regularly for more than 12 years. A comparison of dietary records kept by the participants showed eating fruit was associated with a lower risk of developing the worst form of the disease, neovascul...

Vaccine To Stop the Spread of Chickenpox

...ted. The study showed among children 1 to 14 years old who were exposed to chickenpox from unvaccinated children, the secondary disease rate was nearly 72 percent. Among the same age group exposed to vaccinated cases, the secondary attack rate was 15 percent. Overall, vaccinated patients were half as con...

Could Midlife Alcohol Drinking Lead To Dementia ?

...pment of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in old age, taking into account genetic susceptibility they could not come to any conclusion regarding the same, however they say that more such studies have to be done in order to come to a consensus on the matter....

Hormone Replacement Therapy

... group to treat right now is women around 50 years old who are first facing menopause. These women are likely to be suffering from symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats and for them, the treatment “may be safe and reasonable, but they’re made to feel if they take HRT they are taking cyanide.They ...

Hormone Therapy Could Increase Ones Risk For Breast Cancer

...een ages 50 and 79. The average woman was 62 years old and 12-years post-menopausal. Half of the women received estrogen plus progestin, and the other half received a placebo. All had a baseline mammogram at the beginning of the study and a follow-up mammogram one or two years later. The effect of hormo...

The Impact of Stress Early In Life

...ettings. In contrast, monkeys separated at 1 month old displayed increases in social dominance, social-comfort seeking, and overall sociability. In another study, researchers separated infant monkeys from their mothers during the first week of life and then placed them in social groups of other monkeys....

Kids with Congenital Heart Disease Found To Have Low I.Q Levels

...development and intelligence when they were 1 year old and then again for IQ and achievement when they were 8 years old. The goal was to see if the early test results predicted the later test results. Researchers say they found that nearly all of the children who scored within the normal range on the IQ...

Activity Found To Improve Sleep In The Elderly

...rtant factors in maintaining cognitive vitality in old age....

Physical Activity Good For Developing Cognitive Skills

...eir study suggests that being physically active in old age could keep the brain fit....

Two Sessions Of Exercise A Week Could Help Elderly Patients

...onconsecutive days per week. People 50 to 60 years old who are just beginning a strength-training program, as well as frail individuals, should consider starting with lighter weights and fewer repetitions. Researchers feel as little as two sessions a week for older people could see results that include i...

Heart Disease Risk Factors Found To Increase Risk of Dementia In Old Age

...may significantly increase the risk of dementia in old age. Risk factors for cardiovascular disease include high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes and smoking. Each of these cardiovascular risk factors identified at midlife (ages 40 to 44) were associated with a 20-percent to 40-percent risk of demen...

Understanding Insulin Resistance

...e study included 307 healthy children 4 or 5 years old who will be followed until they are 16 years old. Researchers are keeping track of each child’s height, weight, physical activity, resting energy expenditure, and insulin resistance. Researchers have found, at 5 years old, insulin resistance was 35...

More Importance To Be Given To Prenatal Nutrition

... showed no difference until the mice were 4 months old an age equivalent to human adolescence when mice babies born underweight began showing a higher level of blood glucose . By 6 months of age, the mice had extremely high levels of blood glucose, similar to full-blown diabetes in humans and were not pr...

A case for euthanasia

...o restore the feeding and hydration to the 41 year old woman. The judge said that the parents had not established a "substantial likelihood of success" on the merits of their argument. It has been a long legal battle, since when Schiavo collapsed in her home on 25th February 1990, suffering from heart f...

TV watching may turn your child into a bully

... become bullies. The researchers, who observed 4yr old children in such situations to the ages of 6 through 11 yrs, said that these behaviors are positively correlated with bullying behaviors. The results of the study show that parental guidance and nearness plays an important role in controlling aggre...

Skin infections are becoming drug resistant

... significantly higher for children below two years old than among those who are two years and older. Race is also a factor as the results showed more people of the black community being affected than white community. Most of the cases were on the skin and soft tissue, however 6% cases were invasive in ...

Lupin flour may cause peanut allergy like reactions

... The Lancet, was based on the experience of a 25yr old woman who had the similar symptoms of anaphylaxis and was allergic to peanuts. However when her food that had caused the allergic reaction was checked for peanuts had not revealed any peanut ingredient. The researchers of the study had found the ingr...

Exercise can improve functional limitation of arthritis patients

...5 adults were taken in the study of age 65 yrs and old with arthritis. Functions, which were checked, were ability to do tasks pertaining to daily living and specialized activities of daily living that involved rigorous activities. Account was taken of other factors as well like health, behavior patterns...

New device for ailing heart fitted into first patient

...mp. With the fitting of the device on the 56 year old patient will lead to more observations being made on the feasibilty of the device....

Canada helps in giving birth to world first baby from frozen egg

...d’s first baby born from frozen eggs. The 26 year old mother of the baby had her eggs collected from her, frozen by the special process called vitrification, and thawed and fertilized from sperms of her partner through in-vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection. The resultant embryo was...

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