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Vitamin D Might Prevent Development of Active TB, Study Says

...t specialist and secretary of TB Alert, said it is positive that the study's findings confirmed what already was suspected about the benefits of vitamin D. 'What makes this a potentially very good intervention is that it is cheap and easy to administer,' he said, adding that additional clinical trials are nee...

Feelings Of Injustice At Work Can Lead To A Heart Attack

...e study felt they were unfairly treated. The least positive category, those who "strongly agreed" with a state...r angina during the study. By contrast, the most positive category, whose respondents "strongly disagreed" with the statement, included 966 people, and only 6...

CTA Useful in Detecting Ruptured Cerebral Aneurysms

...iscern the ruptured one accurately. Furthermore, a positive CTA in the setting of acute spontaneous SAH is sufficient for intraoperative treatment planning, he said....

Researchers Find Link Between Sleep Disorder and Dementia

...nts. I try to explain this, but also emphasize the positive -- that some people never show any symptoms and live a normal life. There are documented cases of patients who have had RBD for decades and die from heart disease, stroke or cancer, and never show any signs of dementia or parkinsonism." Boeve said. ...

Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells

...he drug, and so on. Its the first time weve seen a positive feedback loop like this in a GDEPT therapy." The drug damages DNA inside the cancer cells to the point where the cells stop functioning. They have no choice but to shut down and die. Another benefit of the therapy is that it doesnt just kill only...

Library Of Brains To Aid Study of Brain Development In Children

...with children's development," Waber opines. On a positive note, the gap between children from rich and poor families was smaller than that found by previous research, a difference Waber attributed to the NIH study's rigorous screening procedure. By doing a better job at finding truly healthy children from...

Spirituality And Health

Can spirituality have a positive effect on someones physical health? This question is debated in several articles published in a supplement of the latest Medical Journal of Australia. Spirituality and Health reviews the current research on religion and spirituality in health, its...

Teenage Self Confidence Can Translate Later into Material Wealth

...dence. If your parents are doctors or lawyers, a positive self-concept matters a whole lot more than if your... have it made, it is surprising to see what little positive impact socioeconomic status has in the absence of self-esteem, Judge said. Research has shown that...

Sleep Apnea may Increase Risk of Diabetes

...t for sleep apnea is a treatment called continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), which delivers air through a mask while the patient sleeps, keeping the airway open. It is successful in treating sleep apnea and improving daytime drowsiness, resulting in an improved quality of life and even reduction in ris...

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Heart Attack or Death by 30 Percent

...a is a technique called nasal CPAP, for continuous positive airway pressure, which delivers air through a mask while the patient sleeps, keeping the airway open. It has proved successful in many cases in providing a good nights sleep, preventing daytime accidents due to sleepiness and improving quality of lif...

AIDS Victims, Supporters Gather in Bond of Hope

...wati was not hesitant to say that she has been HIV positive for the past one year and so is her husband. Nor w...il, another HIV affected was also there. "I am HIV positive and have been living life to the fullest for the last four years. Initially, the people around me tr...

Researchers Claims to Have Found Cure for Hepatitis C

... of the virus. The remaining eight patients tested positive for the hepatitis C virus at an average of two years following treatment completion. The study found that the eight patients exhibited no consistency in age, gender or hepatitis C virus genotype, and it has yet not been determined whether they expe...

XDR-TB a Serious Threat to India

...mples at their hospital, and found that 1,274 were positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Of these, 32% were found to be MDR-TB, out of which 8% were XDR-TB. Tuberculosis can infect many sites in the body but most commonly affects the lungs. All XDR-TB cases were in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, o...

Sling Surgery Better Than Burch for Treating Stress Incontinence in Women

...more common among women with slings, tempering the positive results of the procedure. The most common side effect was urinary tract infections, which occurred in 63 percent of women with a sling and 47 percent of the Burch group. Women with a sling also had more voiding problems (14 percent versus 2 percent) ...

Regular Smokers are at the Risk of Developing Depression

...ne as such in short term is assumed to have some positive effects on mood", says Dr. Tellervo Korhonen from the Department of Public Health at the University of Helsinki. "We should look for explanation to our result from long term effects of cigarette smoking, from addiction mechanisms and from other sub...

Effectiveness of Hormone Therapy During Menopause

...unt of important and valuable research done on the positive and negative health effects of therapy using estro...an be administered for a much shorter period, with positive gains in cognition later in life. The study also hopes to determine the best way to counteract the...

FDA Refuses to Lift Ban on Blood Donation by Gays

...uld test negative, even when they are actually HIV positive and infectious. However, it would change this po...egated by modern blood tests, which can detect HIV positive donors within just ten to twentyone dyas of infection. They had suggested a one-year deferral fol...

Suspected Human Infection of Birdflu Reported in Vietnam

...ive provinces in Vietnam. A 30-year-old man tested positive for lethal H5N1 strain after being hospitalized in serious condition. If the diagnosis is confirmed, the resident of the Vinh Phuc province with population of about 1.1 million will be the first victim of the virus in 14 months, deputy Health Mini...

Drinking Three or More Cups of Tea a Day Reduces Heart Attack Risk

... European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Another positive impact of tea is that it protects from dental plague which is a reason for tooth decay. Drinking tea also helps in bone strengthening. However, whether the drink protects from cancer is not very clear....

Sleep Apnea Increases Risk of Diabetes and Hypertension in Pregnant Women

... is an apparatus called nasal CPAP, for continuous positive airway pressure, which delivers air through a mask while the patient sleeps, keeping the airway open. The researchers analyzed data from all pregnancies associated with sleep apnea, gestational diabetes (women who developed diabetes during pregnan...

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