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Liver donors can thrive after transplant

...achusetts and her team, conducted a study into the post liver transplant scenario- from both the donor’s angle and the recipient’s angle. She found that all the donors continued to live and thrive after the transplant in which a part of all donors’ liver were removed and transplanted to a recipient’s bod...

Negligent doctors asked to cough up 3 lakhs for death of patient

...ound 1130 hrs the next day, Chandrakala died. The post mortem revealed that death had occurred due to the aftershock of spinal anesthesia. The complainants alleged that the doctors had been careless in administering anesthesia and in giving post-operative care. The State Consumer Disputes Redressal Comm...

Ranbaxy gets US FDA approval for Lisinopril

...hospitals and generic distributors in the US, only post - June 2002. Sales in 2000 for Lisinopril touched $ 1.2 billion. It is sold under two brands in the US market , of which Zestril alone sold $ 0.66 billion in 2000. The tentative approval has been given for a single entity form of Lisinopril. An Abb...

High-protein diets may pose health risks

...en effectiveness in long-term weight reduction and post potential health threats for those who adhere to them for more than a short time, accordinhg to an advisory from the American Heart Associantion’s Nutrition Committee in Circulation published in: Journal of the American Heart Association. Some of th...

Exercise for patients with cancer

...stance training. They were separated into pre- and post menopausal status. The aerobic exercise consisted of walking and/or jogging and the resistance exercise consisted of exercise with a TheraBand. Ironically, researchers found arm strength improved the most in patients in the aerobic exercise group, no...

Stretching does not rule out soreness after exercise

According to latest review shows that pre and post exercise stretching does little to reduce muscle soreness and injury. If you do gym routines or exercise classes// you'll be well used to doing special stretches before and after the session to prepare your muscles. It's always assumed that this will...

Pregnancy shouldn't be dissuaded in older age

...ion with donor eggs. They analyzed the cases of 70 post menopausal women with no chronic medical conditions who had a total of 125 embryo transfer techniques. 85 of the eggs used were fresh and 32 of the eggs were frozen. Donors were between ages 22 and 33. Researchers of this study observe that there we...

Hormones do not guard against heart failure

...ence that HRT could reduce risk of heart attack in post menopausal women has been reversed by a recent stu...sterone reduced the risk of future heart attack in post menopausal women who had already sufferd a previous attack. A daily dose of HRT or a placebo was gi...

A Compilation of recent Diabetes Research articles

...2 diabetes patients. The study was conducted on 35 post menopausal women with type 2 diabetes who //either...nd glucose metabolism in diabetic and non-diabetic post menopausal women. Data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, conducted fr...

Heart disease in women being under-treated

A new study involving 2,763 post menopausal women with heart disease has shown that doctors are under-using aspirin, beta blockers and cholesterol lowering drugs to treat these women even though the medications have been shown to prevent further heart attacks or other heart trouble....

First head-to-head trials of once weekly Fosamax and Actonel therapies

...tes indicated for the treatment of osteoporosis in post menopausal women are co-marketed by Aventis and Pr...tudy, each of which will examine approximately 800 post menopausal women with osteoporosis(defined by a bone mineral density (BMD) T-score of...

Possibility of Link Diabetes with Iron

...diovascular disease or cancer. 700 women ten years post sample who had shown an average iron concentration of 109 nanograms/milliliter manifested with diabetes whereas those with levels of 71.5 nanograms/milliliter in healthy patients did not get diabetes. Women with diabetes were also likely to be heav...

Laser Surgery for Allergy

... year. In almost 38 million people, congestion and post nasal drip lead to more serious problems like chronic sinus infections. Newer treatments are now availble to combat such an allergy problem Rajiv Pandit, M.D. a ENT and Head and Neck Surgeon at , of Methodist Dallas Medical Center, now uses a powe...

Possibility Of Regaining Speech After Tongue, Voice Box Removal

... removed. Researchers say that TEP, combined with post operative speech rehabilitation therapy, can provide understandable speech communication and improve the quality of life of select cancer patients who might otherwise be unable to talk. Two groups of cancer patients who underwent laryngectomies (rem...

Caesarian sections may not help in reducing post-pregnancy blues

...o for caesarian births. When assessed for signs of post delivery depressions in new mothers till eight weeks after delivery, the results did not show any difference between types of delivery. Postnatal depression is often related to the hormonal changes that happen during the process of labor, with chan...

FDA Approves New Osteoporosis Drug

...age. Osteoporosis is most common is women in their post menopause age, although en above 50yrs are also at a risk. The new drug Boniva may be taken to treat osteoporosis in women after menopause. The drug may increase the bone mass by slowing the bone degeneration in women who take it. However the drug n...

Study links diabetics to increased risk of urinary tract infections

...istory of diabetes in comparison to normal healthy post menopause women. Even the incidence of being affected by asymptomatic bacteriuria seems to be more for postmenopausal women with diabetes than those who are not suffering from it. Researchers thus are of opinion that women after their menopause, if...

Post delivery antidepressants do not affect weight loss

.... For a long time antidepressants to be taken for post partum depression were thought to be a barrier to ...d that there were no significant difference in the post partum weight loss between the two groups. The study had shown that post delivery weight loss is no...

Enlarged waistline may predict atherogenesis for postmenopausal women

...edictor for atherogenesis and cardiac problems for post menopausal women. The study had looked into 557 w...t is now possible to predict the cardiac health of post menopausal women through their level of triglycerides and increased waistline. Enlarged waist with e...

Brain cells associated with insomnia and obesity

...man beings these cells may remain excitable in the post menopausal age in women, as at that time women report insomnia and the tendency to put on extra weight also increases. Previous studies have linked obesity to insomnia and a good night’s sleep has been suggested to overcome the problem of extra weig...

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