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Abnormal heart rate and depression may increase death risk

...after a heart surgery. Researchers from the study points out that treatments to alleviate the depressive feelings and improve the heart rates may work best for depressive patients with coronary heart disease and increase their mortality rates. The research findings are important as it brings to focus the i...

New findings come to light about monkeypox

...earchers for the study had suggested that evidence points out to the strain of virus that had traveled half the globe came from West Africa. This was one of the less virulent virus strains and had been seen in the western world for the first time. One of the reasons for the virus which primarily infects the...

New Study May Help Prevent Hereditary Deafness

...the early stages, it is really exciting because it points to other options for people who have hearing loss, other than hearing aids or cochlear implants". (IANS)...

Prevention And Timely Medical Care Can Help With Bug Bites

...ally considered safe, but may not be as effective, points out the investigators. Source: Newswise...

Acupuncture May Be An Effective Treatment Against Tension-Headaches

...seems to indicate that the location of acupuncture points and other aspects of traditional Chinese acupuncture do not make a major difference for tension headache, say the authors. Acupuncture treatments are sometimes associated with strong placebo effects, caution the authors. But these findings show that...

Geriatric Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease May Not Be Treated Properly

Research points out that elderly population may not be checked regularly for chronic kidney disease// (CKD) that can be a common condition in them. Researchers from Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston had reported in the recent issue of Journal of the American...

Breastfeeding Decline In Middle East Worries UN

...r the Middle East and North Africa. The statement points out that even the duration of breastfeeding is gradually declining in most countries, especially in urban areas. As a result, inappropriate complementary feeding and weaning practices are major causes of malnutrition, which is highest in the six mont...

Fat Cell Protein Hits Type-2 Diabetes

...in action in the liver. "This significant research points to the liver as the key sight of action by Acpr30," said Dr. Allen Cherrington, professor of physiology at Vanderbilt University Medical School in Nashville. "It could be one key in helping us find new ways to lower glucose profiles in type-2 diabeti...

Oral Sex may carry AIDS related Cancer Virus

...nsmission routes (of KSHV)."However, Osmond's team points out that there is "no consensus" on how KSHV is typically transmitted among gay men, and this study cannot answer that question. They speculate that KSHV--an apparently "ancient virus"--may have long been endemic among homosexual men without being n...

No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

...me as for women who do not take the pills. Spitzer points out that controversies about third generation oral...diology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He points out that the earlier study in Netherlands does not see any association of third generation oral cont...

Arsenic in drinking water

...ies for the removal of arsenic at water collection points such as wells, hand-pumps and springs. Simple technologies for household removal of arsenic from water are few and have to be adapted to, and proven sustainable in each different setting. Some studies have reported preliminary successes in using pac...

Brain scans show why we always have room for dessert

...r vanilla ice cream or peanut butter. "At various points before, during and after scanning we asked them to give us pleasantness ratings for the smells," Gottfried said. Unconsciously, the volunteers began to associate the images with the smells.Then they fed them either peanut butter or ice cream. They i...

When it comes to health, all chocolates not the same.

...- the top number -- had dropped an average of five points in the dark-chocolate group. The lower, or diastolic, reading fell an average of almost two points. In 1998, a Harvard study of nearly 8,000 of its male graduates determined that eating the equivalent of few bars of chocolate a month lowered the ris...

Botox Found To Be Effective for Voice Tremors

... the injection, with an average improvement of 1.6 points after six weeks.The main adverse effects of the treatment were breathiness and difficulty in swallowing. Thus researchers say Botox is a promising treatment for voice tremor, and further controlled studies should be pursued....

Patients In Hospital ICUs At Risk From Medical Errors

Research points out that patients in the ICU of the hospitals may face an increased risk of medical errors and adverse events. The study is published in the August issue // of Critical Care Medicine. Researchers found that over 20 percent of the patients admitted t...

Reaction To ADHD Medication May Be Genetic By Nature

New research points out that the difference in genes might be responsible for the way patients suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) differ in reacting to medications. // The study, done by the researchers from University of Illinois at Chicago...

General Anesthesia For Heroin Detoxification Is No Good

...tudy, which came in the latest issue of JAMA, also points out the fact that use // of general anesthesia in these circumstances can also lead to adverse life threatening events. Medically supervised heroin withdrawal remains plagued by patient discomfort and high dropout rates. Many patients fear the physi...

Statins Taken For Reducing Cholesterol Found To Reduce Death Rate Associated With Heart Attack As Well

...easing the levels of nitric oxide. Recent research points out that patients who get a statin drug in the critical first hours after a heart attack are much more likely to leave the hospital alive than those who don't get the cholesterol-lowering medication. Though statin therapy was shown to have prognostic...

New Technique To Test Stem Cells That Heal The Heart

...iately after injection as well as at multiple time points over seven days to assess whether the MSCs preferentially migrated or “homed” in on damaged cardiac tissue. Previous studies in animals were only able to demonstrate homing by examining the tissue microscopically after death. The team’s results, r...

Safe Neighborhood Means Less TV For Preschool Children

...dren tend to watch less TV. However the study also points out that this does not mean that these children// play more outdoors or are less overweight in comparison with their counterparts in unsafe neighborhoods. Drawing from a study of three-year-olds in 20 U.S. cities, researchers reported these findings...

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