One in Three Heart Attack Patients Have No Chest Pains
...Association suggests. And for women, diabetics and others who belong to groups likely to have atypical heart attack symptoms, more than half may never have such pains. The report examined symptoms in more than 400,000 people who were treated for heart attacks in U.S. hospitals from 1994 to 1998. It found th...Painkillers Do Not Shorten Dying Patients' Lives
... -- between the patients given more painkillers or others whose dosage was not changed....Startling Expose – Physicians Often Have No Regular Source Of Health Car
...regular source of health care are less likely than others to receive important preventive services such as flu shots and cancer screenings’, Sounds scary but this report will surely make at least a few physicians to sit up and shed the accumulated rust. In this context it is to be borne is mind that the Uni...Fight Heart disease and Pain with Meditation
...in Fairfield, Iowa, conducted the study along with others from Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles. Ayurveda which originated in India thousands of years ago has attracted world wide acclaim and meditation is the hallmark of Indian sch...Cut down TV and video games and you have less aggressive children.
...o games may have very little time to interact with others and may have very few social skills. Now that the word is out, it is hoped that the parents take more time off from their schedules and spend more time with their kids and talk to them, touch them and joke with them and involve them more in the soc......that some people rely on an orderly routine, while others thrive on never knowing what the day will bring, may have something to do with the brain's "pleasure centers," researchers have found. In the study, Berns and his colleagues gave the participants drops of water and fruit juice. Part of the time, the...Cancer patients turning to Internet for information
...r information about treatment and diagnosis. Many others said they searched for physicians or hospitals....Prevention is better than cure
...ial support system - seeing friends, relatives and others on a regular basis....Early detection of heart attack
...d positive for heart damage were admitted, and all others discharged. The results showed the new test is accurate and effective at ruling out heart damage within six hours in patients who are not suffering from a heart attack. Thereby allowing ealry discharge of these patients and also allowing beds and res......ods, wheat and sugar. Some herbs are taken orally, others are burned near certain parts of the body. Acupuncture treatments can be once or twice a week and are designed to help restore the flow of energy that acupuncture specialists say will prepare the patient for pregnancy,as the news states....Voice may be improved by surgery
...as unchanged. But you don't hear your own voice as others do. Friends and relatives thought that surgery had significantly improved the subjects' voices. A similar effect was seen in patients having surgery to treat sinus and tonsil problems....Fingerprinting prostate cancer
... are already known to be involved in cancer, while others were completely new. Of particular interest were two genes - hepsin and pim-1. The highest levels of hepsin were found in pre-cancerous tissue just before cancer develops, and the lowest in benign prostate tissue. Hepsin play a main role in tumour ......d night's sleep. One subject had returned to work; others had started driving, gardening and caring for children again.......tigators conducted a trial in this patient and two others with HBV infection to investigate the relationship. All had either failed treatment with interferon or could not tolerate the drug. While patients were on thiamine treatment, their aminotransferase levels fell from abnormally high to normal levels; t...Physicians Consider Self-Prescribing Ethical
..."necessary". Medical student Robert Wroblewski and others at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, surveyed 300 urban and rural physicians to determine general attitudes towards self-prescription. An earlier study had indicated that about half of all residents prescribe for themselves. // According to the...Fluoride Found Effective in Osteoporosis
...f Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, and others who contributed to the research.// There is no FDA-approved drug for osteoporosis that increases bone formation. In their study, Rubin and associates compared fluoride, calcium, and vitamin D with calcium and vitamin D alone in the treatment of 85...The phenomenon of sexual attraction
...t the attractive women lose and what they lose the others gain. "This is part of what we call the chemical warfare between the sexes, in which one tries to exploit the other." Professor Grammer presented the University of Vienna findings to a British Psychological Society (BPS) conference in London .He al......mp houses were found to need more antibiotics than others and were more likely to suffer from pneumonia, bronchitis or tonsillitis. The study published in the journal Allergies, showed that 2 in 9 of the students quizzed had homes with mould, damp stains or water damage. A body of medical evidence is growi......ub-type - went on to kill six people and infect 12 others in a small but densely populated area. Nine cases were children under the age of 10.Both viruses were known to be circulating among chickens in Hong Kong, and some of the cases were known to have had contact with poultry before they became ill.// A......68 diabetes-free children who were compared to 252 others who had juvenile diabetes. Those who had been vaccinated against hepatitis B, whooping cough, chickenpox and other diseases were no more likely to have developed diabetes than those who had not been given the vaccines. // Researchers at the U.S. Ce...