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New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...ng causes of morbidity and mortality. Five million people die of stroke each year and more than 15 million suffer non-fatal strokes. But the question of the day is about the recovery - whether the patient would recover and if so how long would it take. Researchers at the National Institute of Neurological ...

ZYBAN, The smoking cessation drug marked for its adverse reactions

...drug Zyban, which is being taken by over 5 million people world wide, is held responsilble for a raise in the suspected adverse reactions due to drug intake in UK. Pharmacovigilance statistics of MCA has shown a raise of about 37% more adverse reactions so called "yellow cards" during the period of Januar...

GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia

...nstitute, said that he shared in the excitement of people with CML, but he also mentioned several caveats. He said many research questions remain to be answered, such as how long Gleevec will control CML. Does the drug actually cure CML patients? Or, does it delay the onset of moreadvanced forms of the ca...

GLEEVEC - An Oral treatment for leukemia

...nstitute, said that he shared in the excitement of people with CML, but he also mentioned several caveats. He said many research questions remain to be answered, such as how long Gleevec will control CML. Does the drug actually cure CML patients? Or, does it delay the onset of moreadvanced forms of the ca...

WORM! WORM! all the way

...om that seen in normal mice. A recent study of 50 people who had undergone a colostomy, or removal of part of the colon, to treat severe ulcerative colitis. They developed infections in the remaining area of the colon. Doctors got the infections under control and then gave 30 patients a mixture consisting...

Regular exercise prevents hip fractures

... Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark, and colleagues, when people undergo the aging process, regular physical activi...ures. In the study, they found that 55% of the people engaged in moderate physical activity for two to four hours per day. After adjustment for other fact...

Alcohol shrinks brain

...ir 40s and 38% of those in their 50s. About 61% of people in their 60s had shrunken frontal lobes. Older individuals were nearly three times more likely to show brain shrinkage in this region than individuals in their 30s, Dr.Kubota said. The good news is that alcoholic brain damage is partly reversible. ...

Malaria strikes Munger tribals

...utheast of the state capital, Patna. Thirty-eight people have died of cerebral malaria in this eastern Indian state of Bihar over the past 3 weeks,said the state's health minister Mr.Shakuni Choudhary. Mr. Choudry said that all the necessary steps are being taken to bring down the calamity.They have sent ...

Roller coaster takes brain for a big ride!!

...train from heavy lifting. Although it is rare for people to develop subdural haematomas after riding roller coasters, it can happen, says Dr. Ishano Kyuorite of Japan. He further added that Giant roller coasters which are higher and faster may be more dangerous. The subdural haematomas are caused by the u...

Antifever drug betters stroke outcome

...r-reducer acetaminophen lowers body temperature in people who have had a stroke, according to a new study conducted in The Netherlands. Rise in the body temperature during the first few days, though small enough that they hardly manifest as fever, has been linked to poorer outcomes including an increased r...

Hostility can hurt your heart

...searchers at Ohio State University have found that people who tend to get angry showed an increase in the le...study// states that it is one possible reason that people with high hostility and anger tend to get heart disease. The study measured the levels of homocyste...

Risk of Cancer can be reduced to 40% with a High Fiber Diet

A study was conducted with 400,000 people from nine countries, who were divided into five se...d a decreased chance of developing colon cancer in people eating lots of fish, but a raised risk in those consuming large amounts of preserved meats such as h...

Prevention is better than cure

... from sneezing in the open lest the virus preys on people in the vicinity. Avoid exposure to coughs and sneezes; avoid touching eyes and nose; wash hands after using the toilet and after touching objects that might carry cold viruses; stay in good general health (diet, rest and exercise); and maintain a ...

The big brain in suicides

A study from England has found that people who commit sucide have heavier brains than most pe...ctims. A comparative brain study was made between people who died a natural death with those of people who commited sucide. Results concluded that the brain ...

Meditation relieves stress

... meditation programme has proved useful in helping people deal with stress. There has been quite a bit of research showing that meditation helps people improve both their physical and mental ill health. Researchers at West Virginia University in th...

New treatment for Osteoporosis

...tments for osteoporosis could become available. As people age, their bones become weak and their sex hormone levels decrease. The most common treatment is hormone replacement therapy. But this can increase the risk of cancer, especially in women.// At the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Stavros ...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...definitive from the study. Surprisingly, however, people who eat lots of fruits and vegetables do not necessarily have high lycopene levels. A few fruits, such as watermelon, have very low amounts of lycopene. The tomato, however, appears to be unique in its content of lycopene. The National Cancer Insti...

Thirty minutes of work up per day reduces the risk of Diabetes

...National Institutes of Health, showed that at-risk people who exercised at least 30 minutes per day reduced their risk of diabetes by 58%, even without medication. People who are at risk of developing type 2 diabetes can sharply reduce the odds through a regular regimen of diet and exercise, according to d...

How much can exercise improve health?

Researchers are trying to establish whether people who exercise can improve their health or it would ...erican College of Sports Medicine establishes that people who exercise improve their health.// But researchers often can't tell how much health-improvement pa...

Starch fights cancer

...inst bowel cancer. They have noted that people in Africa, Japan and China have low rates of bowel cancer even though they eat less fibre than Westerners.// The researchers have discovered that resistant starch which, as its name suggests cannot be digested, passes into the colon where it rele...

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