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Iron supplementation for a common side effect

...tation cures the annoying cough that often plagues people on a widely-used blood pressure medication. The ...ure and other cardiac conditions. But up to 40% of people on ACE inhibitors are troubled by a cough. The side effect is not considered serious by doctors, but...

Say "no" to x-rays

...y of Chapel Hill have found that giving x-rays to people with lower back pain can appear to worsen the outcome. The study tracked two groups of patients - 421 in all - who had had lower back pain for over six weeks. One group was given radiography, the other was not. Researchers found that after three mo...

Dark skin protects

...een the two.He also points out that darker-skinned people are less likely than people with fair skin to develop serious skin diseases. It also explains why all do not have black skin....

Increase in tobacco deaths

...lled by tobacco. This shcok is suffiecient to make people think and leave this bad and risky habit.....

Vaccination reminder for anyone over 65..

...ab. Doctors at the Mayo Clinic in the US also urge people over 65 to have a pneumococcal vaccination.// Th...re otherwise healthy, you only need one dose. Some people with health problems may even benefit from the vaccine at a younger age. And if you had this vaccin...

A boost to quit smoking

...ath by 22%. Researchers in Texas have studied 33 people as they gave up smoking over a four month period t...efit almost straight away. Hence this can motivate people to quit smoking....

'Sweaty palms syndrome' can be cured by surgery

...ses excessive sweating of the hands and feet.These people look like they have just run their hands under a faucet and have not dried them.These people look like they have just run their hands under a faucet and have not dried them. One person in 500 ...

B Vitamin Supplementatoin Saves Money and Lives

...th B vitamins and giving additional supplements to people with heart disease could save lives and money.// Dr. Jeffrey A. Tice from the University of California, San Francisco, the lead author of the study, built a computer model to estimate the benefit of fortifying bread and cereal with folic acid, along...

Need for Colon cancer screening

... be screened periodically once in 5 years in older people (above 50).The usual test is the fecal occult bloo...ct fewer than 25% of precancerous colon growths in people with no symptoms, while one-time sigmoidoscopy detected 70% of growths. After completing both the te...

Increased Heart Attack Risk From Celebrex,Vioxx

...sixth leading prescription drug used by 14 million people last year. The other COX-2 inhibitor is Rofecoxib, sold as Vioxx. The drugs are popular because they provide the same pain- killing effects as aspirin and Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen, but with less chance of cau...

Herbs for Rememberance

...nder premature memory loss is not uncommon. Many people find prolonged stress and too much work causing la...i (Bacopa Monnieri), which is taken by millions of people in India to promote good memory and circulation. Recent extensive clinical and experimental trials...

Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer

...ch covers nearly 120,000 women.// They find that people who are obese have a 72 per cent higher risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those who are of normal weight or slightly underweight.This may be because excess weight is linked to blood glucose and insulin abnormalities, and the pancreas makes insuli...

Role of zinc in development

...ciency is often seen in developing countries where people eat a lot of cereals, pulses and vegetables but no animal products. This sort of diet contains lots of phytates, which bind iron and zinc, making it difficult for the blood to absorb them. Scientists now believe that zinc deficiency could be as comm...

Uncontrolled blood pressure

Among older people high blood pressure is poorly controlled. Drugs an...to be doing something about it. Surprisingly,these people did have health insurance and did see their doctor quite regularly - so lack of medical attention ca...

Silicon eye implants

...a (ASR), is being planned to be implanted in three people suffreing from retinal damage.This project is pla...had already done this work an year back over three people who had lost their vision due// to a hereditory condition called retinitis pigmentosa,said that impl...

Osteoporosis in men

... easily, affects women and men, nearly half of all people over the age of 75. One in eight men over age 50 ...case of hip fractures, can be life-threatening. In people age 65 and older, 80 percent of hip fractures in men can be attributed to osteoporosis. Of those men...

Ecstasy shrinks brain!!-researchers unveil the secrets of MDMA.

...ecame popular over the past 10 years// among young people attending all-night parties known as "raves." The ...nin transporters occurred throughout the brain and people who had used MDMA more often lost more serotonin transporters than those who had used the drug less ...

Air pollution affects the heart

...nction, by entering the circulation, especially in people with pre-existing disease. According to a new study by researchers at Harvard University now reveals that the adverse effects of pollution may affect everyone and not only older people.// They studied the impact of particles called PM2.5s - with di...

Meditation relieves stress

...ording to a new study a meditation programme helps people with chronic illness.Researchers at the Centre for Integrative Medicine at Jefferson University Hospital in Carolina, USA, offered 104 patients with chronic illness a meditation programme. This went on for eight weeks. The patients, who suffered fro...

Avacado a day

... myself, because of this study." He advocated that people should try to eat an avocado a day. Also, the researchers in this case are looking to identify the active compounds in the fruit so that they can be produced as a drug or a supplement. However, this is not the best way to get these nutrients. It is...

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