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Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

...ts. Contaminated surface water sources and large poorly functioning municipal water distribution systems contribute to transmission of waterborne bacterial diseases. Chlorination and safe water handling can eliminate the risk of waterborne bacterial diseases. To provide the high-risk group with potable wa...

Women At A Greater Risk For Heart Failure

...lso have diabetes. Add kidney disease, obesity, or poorly controlled diabetes into the mix and the risk is even higher. Women with these conditions are six- to 10-times more likely to develop heart failure. The next highest risk in the study was seen in women with an irregular heartbeat, who were 2.9-time...

Elderly Women Remain At Risk From Hypertension

...pertensive women are especially at risk for having poorly controlled hypertension. Risks for cardiovascular disease also are substantial in this population, indicating the need for greater efforts at safe, effective risk reduction among the oldest hypertensive persons. Among men and women study participant...

Elderly Women Remain At Risk From Hypertension

...pertensive women are especially at risk for having poorly controlled hypertension. Risks for cardiovascular disease also are substantial in this population, indicating the need for greater efforts at safe, effective risk reduction among the oldest hypertensive persons. Among men and women study participant...

Understanding Chronic Infections May Help in Developing Therapeutic Vaccines

...T cells in the chronically infected mice responded poorly to the vaccine." Specifically, Wherry says, the T cells failed to proliferate, or expand in number. This failure to proliferate seemed to correlate with a high viral load, which suggests several directions researchers might pursue in improving resp...

Low grade prostate cancer may be treated with mild treatment

...en a rating of 2 to 4 in the Gleason scale. In the poorly differentiated disease which has a Gleason score o...s risk of developing, androgen withdrawal therapy, poorly differentiated disease...

Breast Cancer Diagnosed Late In Men

...udy. Researchers say that breast cancer in men is poorly understood, mainly because the disease is so rare among males, accounting for less than 1 percent of all cancers in men. Doctors aren’t sure how the disease develops, which treatments are best, or how it progresses. Researchers analyzed data from a ...

The After Effects Of Pneumonia

...talized for pneumonia. In addition, patients with poorly controlled diabetes and a hematocrit (ratio of the volume of packed red blood cells to the volume of whole blood) of less than 35 percent were significant predictors of death. Researchers also observed a higher risk of early death among patients 41 t...

Shyness Linked To HIV Progression

...to an increased risk of disease, however, has been poorly understood. This study provides the first clinical evidence that neural activity may mediate the relationship between psychological risk factors and infectious diseases. Researchers subjected 54 HIV-positive men to various stress tests, each time m...

Memory said to automatically improve with age

...ciated with better memory.Dealing with blood sugar poorly not only affects one's ability to remember but also the size of one area of the brain. Researchers found that individuals with poor glucose regulation had a smaller hippocampus, the part of the brain dealing with memory.Moderate cardiovascular exerc...

Gene Mutation Causes Ovarian Failure

...for further study into, what researchers say, is a poorly understood condition. Premature ovarian failure is a form of infertility that affects about 250,000 women in the United States. It is diagnosed in one out of every 100 women ages 30 to 39. Investigators created mice that lack both copies of a gene ca...

Asthma not just a childhood condition

...s of breath are also common symptoms that indicate poorly controlled asthma. It is vital people recognise the symptoms early in order to get appropriate treatment. If the condition goes untreated, it can lead to poor health and an increased risk of long-term lung damage....

Use of sunbed is harmful

...have very fair skin, People who burn easily or tan poorly or People who have had skin cancer should never use sunbeds. Sunbeds are linked to two types of skin cancer, called basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma. However the Sunbed Association said they are providing a controlled environment for tanning an...

Asthma is not just a childhood condition

...s of breath are also common symptoms that indicate poorly controlled asthma. There seems to be a commonly held misconception that asthma only affects children. The condition not only affect all ages, it can start for the first time at any age. It may be the case that many people have asthma but don't real...

New ways to help children with trauma

... brains don't deal with trauma as well and they do poorly on standard tests than school-age children. Hence, the researchers have developed a new assessment tool for young children, the "Infant Face Scale", which has been, until now, effective in better assessing infants following traumatic brain injury....

Fructose may cause uninterpreted abdominal pain

...rchers of University of Kansas it is observed that poorly absorbed fructose may be the cause if you have abdominal pain, gas and diarrhea.// Often people suffer from bowel symptoms like bloating, gas, rumbling, and diarrhea and no obvious reason can be found. They have found out that a high proportion of he...

Viagra for heart and lung patients

...to prevent pulmonary hypertension but results were poorly presented. Even if researchers were confident in the results of the study, it is unclear how the effects of sildenafil in healthy young men with acute hypoxia and pulmonary hypertension would relate to the effects of sildenafil in patients with ch...

Oral memory indicates future Alzheimer's patients

...arly diagnosis. They find that those who performed poorly on a test called the California Verbal Learning Test were most at risk. This involves testing verbal memory. The learning test was a stronger predictor of future Alzheimer's disease than brain imaging. But shrinkage of the hippocampus - an area con...

Gene therapy - Aim to improve blood flow

... often means that areas of the heart muscle become poorly supplied with blood - this can lead to both painful angina attacks, and to heart attacks. If blood vessels could be encouraged to grow to reinforce the supply to the heart muscle,// this could drastically improve quality of life. In diabetes, this is...

Prefiguring Alzheimer's disease

...s, after death, were more likely to have performed poorly on memory tests, without actually showing symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. The tangles are generally seen as the hallmark of Alzheimer's. This suggests that mild cognitive impairment, especially of memory, is very early Alzheimer's disease. The findi...

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