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Emotional callers hamper speedy ambulance dispatch

...most difficulties but problems were also caused by people using mobile phones or pay-phones as opposed to land-lines. // The study, carried out by the Emergency Medicine Research Group at the University of Warwick, revealed that more than a quarter of ambulances are delayed because of such communication ...

Aspirin reduces deaths

...ording to a new study. The benefits of aspirin for people with a high risk of stroke or heart attack are now well known. For aspirin thins the blood - preventing clotting - and also reduces inflammation. A new study from doctors at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the US now reveals that aspirin reduces d...

Cigerettes unsafe during pregnancy

...benefit for themselves and their baby. "Educating people on how their babies should sleep has reduced SIDS ... Human Services emphasised that the job of getting people to quit was "difficult", pointing out that only 8 per cent more women gave up as a result of the qui...

Complementary and Alternative medicine

... those born pre-1945 had ever used CAM. But when people had tried a therapy, they tended to stay with it. Almost 50 per cent were still using the therapy 11 to 20 years on. There were, however, some dramatic shifts in the popularity of various therapies. In the 1960s, diet-based programmes and self-help w...

Decrease in testosterone levels lead to Alzheimer's

...in amyloid levels decreased. Dr Chater said that people with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s disease might have borderline amyloid levels until menopause, or the male equivalent andropause, reduces gonadal hormone secretion. “Brain amyloid levels may then rise enough to cause amyloid accumulation ...

Hemochromatosis Patients' Blood is Safe

...decisions on blood donations by these patients. If people with hemochromatosis qualify as donors then that could potentially have a significant impact on the national blood supply," said NHLBI Director Dr. Claude Lenfant. Current FDA regulations for blood donation do not prohibit blood from hemochromatosis...

Diet Can Influence Allergic Skin Reactions

...d with an allergen that touches the skin, and many people may not realize foods can also trigger it. In ..., cola and tomatoes--in short dozens of foods that people most like to eat. Study participants also gave up flavorings including vanilla and cinnamon, and con...

Sequencing of the Plague

... of such patients, and they cough them out, nearby people may catch "pneumonic" plague. This is always fatal without treatment. Pneumonic plague is the form feared as a latent biological weapon, as it can be released as an aerosol and can spread directly among humans, without the interposition of fleas.Rus...

Alternative therapies popular with Parkinson's patients

Nearly half of people with Parkinson's disease are using one or more typ... the US have carried out a survey of more than 200 people with Parkinson's disease. Forty per cent use one or more forms of CAM - and 12 per cent use five or ...

Renal problem alleviated

...event, cognitive dysfunction. An estimated 100,000 people in the UK suffer from some form of kidney disease, excluding cystitis and kidney stones, with renal failure leading to about 7,000 deaths in the UK each year....

Detecting brain aneurysms

... only if they are above a certain diameter.// Some people are born with a malformation of a blood vessel within the brain that leads to a weakness that, in turn, may cause a brain bleed. Till now, the technique for finding an aneurysm has involved injecting a dye into the blood vessels and imaging the resu...

New Drug ALT-711 decreases blood vessel stiffness

...igators at nine U.S. clinical centers recruited 93 people over the age of 50 who showed evidence of vascular stiffening, including high systolic blood pressure and pulse pressure of at least 60 mm Hg. The participants were randomly divided into two groups-those who received daily doses of ALT-711 and thos...

Emphysema surgery - unbeneficial

...est that lung reduction surgery was beneficial for people with emphysema. It appeared to leave them with a smaller, but more efficient, lung by cutting out a lot of the diseased tissue. // Following this report, the demand for surgery increased enormously and the National Institutes of Health launched f...

Angiotensin-II-receptor blockers - Treat kidney failure

... patients on placebo. The trials offer new hope to people with diabetes, for there has been no treatment for...e earliest possible diagnosis of kidney disease in people with diabetes....

Hepatitis G May Boost HIV Survival

... believed to cause illness may improve survival in people who have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In two new studies, HIV-positive people who were also infected with the hepatitis G virus tended to live longer than other people infected w...

Gastrointestinal ills more common in diabetics

...ht to occur in diabetics more //frequently than in people without the disease, but evidence supporting the l...x, they found that diabetics were more likely than people without the disease to have had any of 16 gastrointestinal symptoms and five groups of symptoms. Thr...

Helping the neurology of kidney failure

...hat are common in kidney failure.More than 300,000 people in the US suffer from kidney failure, which is usually caused by diabetes, high blood pressure or infection. Kidney failure often leads to neurological complications like fatigue, apathy, emotional instability and even convulsions and coma. // Rese...

Statins reduce heart attacks

...erol, the so-called bad cholesterol, especially in people with heart disease, diabetes, or multiple risk factors for a heart attack. Statin drugs work by slowing down the liver's production of cholesterol and increasing its ability to remove LDL cholesterol already in the blood. Statins may also modestly ...

The mouth-heart connection

...Researchers at the University of Buffalo find that people with gum disease have higher than normal CRP levels. // It may be that oral bacteria enter the circulation via the gums, and then trigger the liver to make more CRP. Previous studies suggest that CRP contributes to inflammation of the coronary arte...

Aggressive blood pressure treatment needed

...ng neglected. Doctors are often reluctant to treat people with high blood pressure when they have other risk...p. But the high risk group comprises exactly those people who are not being treated. It's a wake-up call for doctors - they should re-think their approach to ...

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