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Eating Fish Helps the Heart

...ish like salmon, tuna or bluefish twice a week can prevent sudden cardiac death from irregular heart rhythms....tored in the cell membranes of heart cells and can prevent sudden cardiac death or fatal irregular heart rhythms. Specifically, the oils block excessive sodium...

Breaking up Dangerous Clots

... than those in the placebo group. Finding ways to prevent dangerous blood clots in hip surgery patients is a major concern among doctors, because these patients are at highest risk of any surgical patients for the development of deep vein thromboss....

Finasteride lowers risk of prostate cancer but increases risk of high-grade tumors

Finasteride prophylaxis appears to prevent or delay the onset of prostate cancer, however, finasteride may also accelerate the growth of high-grade cancers. More than 18,000 men were randomized , age 55 or older to finasteride 5 mg/day or placebo. At baseline, digital rectal examination resul...

Finasteride lowers risk of prostate cancer but increases risk of high-grade tumors

Finasteride prophylaxis appears to prevent or delay the onset of prostate cancer, however, finasteride may also accelerate the growth of high-grade cancers. More than 18,000 men were randomized , age 55 or older to finasteride 5 mg/day or placebo. At baseline, digital rectal examination resul...

Pharmacist’s Role in Medication Error

...d at the role of the pharmacist in helping doctors prevent medical errors involving medications. The investigation done finds having a pharmacist participate in medical rounds with doctors resulted in the identification and prevention of nearly 5,000 medication errors over more than four years.// The study ...

Preventing Childhood Deaths

...d tetanus. Some of the measures that could easily prevent many of these deaths are as follows.Low cost methods as breastfeeding, bednets treated with insecticide, measles vaccinations, and rehydration therapy for those with diarrhea and others would save the lives of a significant number of children in the ...

Benefits of Vitamin Supplements Unclear

...enough evidence to confirm vitamin supplements can prevent cancer, heart disease or stroke. In fact, research... supplements, either alone or in a multivitamin to prevent cancer or cardiovascular disease, giving the vitamin a "D" rating. They also say there is insufficie...

Gene Mutation Causes Ovarian Failure

...follicular activation. Current oral contraceptives prevent ovulation but do not slow the rate of activation....

Painkillers may protect against Alzheimer's disease

... we can advocate the regular use of these drugs to prevent Alzheimer's disease we need to wait for the result...imer's disease, people should not take an NSAID to prevent the illness because more research is needed....

How Much Should Athletes Drink?

...nt of fluids tolerable to optimize performance and prevent medical consequences. He adds there is also a misconception that a feeling of thirst underestimates fluid requirements. Drinking according to the personal dictates of thirst seems to be safe and effective, he says. Such fluid intake typically ranges ...

S. Africa AIDS in 'death phase'

... continue to use an AIDS drug called nevirapine to prevent newborn children from contracting the HIV infection from their mothers.As the incidence of HIVAIDS starts to plateau at about 33 percent, sickness and deaths are on the increase. Activists say AIDS kills about 600 South Africans each day -- a number...

Father of CPR dies at 79

...tudying if cooling the body just a few degrees can prevent brain damage in people who survive cardiac arrest but are left unconscious. "This is a huge loss. Can you imagine what he would have come up with in the future?" said James E. Cottrell, president of the American Society of Anesthesiologists....

Antibiotics May Help Prevent Strokes

...inst strokes. How could a drug that kills bacteria prevent a problem that involves the blockage of blood vess...s are currently underway to see if antibiotics can prevent problems like stroke in heart attack patients, Dr. Brassard noted. If these go well, perhaps the str...

Key enzyme protects against Alzheimer's

...identified it in 1995, have discovered it can also prevent tangles of protein in the brain which are a characteristic sign of Alzheimer's disease. "This will allow people to look in different directions in thinking about how Alzheimer's disease develops in the first place," Dr. Kun Ping Lu, //of Harvard Med...

Delaying Parkinson’s Diseas

A new study shows anti-inflammatory drugs do prevent the onset of Parkinson’s disease. The study, led by Harvard researchers, shows people who regularly take nonsteroidal// anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) had a lower risk of Parkinson’s than those who did not take the drugs. Parkinson’s disease is ch...

Low-Dose Hormones Help the Bones

...der women. Estrogen therapy is often prescribed to prevent osteoporosis. However, many women are reluctant// to take hormone therapy because of the increased risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke and deep vein blood clots. Now, new research finds a lower dosage of estrogen increases bone density in wo...

Teens' vitamin D deficiency an epidemic

...bones stop growing, vitamin D supplements can help prevent permanent damage. Routine testing urged Adolescence is a particularly vulnerable time because youngsters are undergoing such rapid growth, their bones require large amounts of calcium, and vitamin D is needed to help the body absorb it. Thus adequ...

Measles Risk in Transplant Patients

...apid diagnosis difficult and may delay measures to prevent further spread"...

Drug might prevent Prostate Cancer Spread

A drug commonly used to prevent bone loss may also help prevent prostate cancer from spreading and killing men. A new study from the United Kingdom indicates oral s...

Gene Increases Cancer Risk

...ase your risk of cancer can help you take steps to prevent cancer. These steps include preventive drug therap...ify high-risk individuals based on their genes and prevent many cases of cancer....

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