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Tag: "prevention" at medical news

Keys to good bone health

...rty-five minutes walking per day, could ensure the prevention of osteoporosis development later in life.//Althou... well known that exercise is a major factor in the prevention of osteoporosis, the common bone-thinning disease. In fact, there are exercises that have been ident...

HIV infections have reached a new high

...earest indication yet that, without a boost in HIV prevention investments and a reinvigorated national HIV prevention programme, our past successes will be undermined....

Caution On Use of Cholesterol Drugs

...ates taking statin group of drugs for the primary prevention of cardiovascular problems. But the guidelines revised last year expand the number of potential patients to 36 million, an increase of 140 percent. "We're urging caution," say Donald Fedder, a University of Maryland pharmacologist and lead author of...

FDA Imposes New Restrictions On Roche's Accutane

...d significant changes to the drugmaker's pregnancy prevention programme. The pregnancy prevention programme was adopted about 13 years ago, when Accutane was conclusively linked to birth defects and...

Obesity a global problem

... under-nutrition also need to pay attention to the prevention of obesity-related illnesses, including heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Obesity is also on the increase among non-Western immigrants to industrialised countries, as well as certain Western groups undergoing rapid socioeconomic changes. Researche...

Smoke less to stay young

...young people show signs of addiction, the time for prevention is past. "By then, they need to be helped to kick the habit."it follows that public health campaigns aimed at young people must be drastically modified to convince them to eliminate cigarettes completely....

Awakening call for fall prevention

...hey don't want to take hormones. As far as fall prevention is concerned, common sense around the home goes a long way - no slippery rugs or high heels, and consider installing safety grab bars in the bath. It is also important not to let yourself become housebound . If you feel vulnerable, enlist the help of...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...o on HRT only for relief of menopausal symptoms or prevention of osteoporosis fractures, although other treatments are available for the latter. WEST researchers, funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, studied 600 postmenopausal women who had recently had an ischemic stroke or t...

A high carbohydrate diet good for health

...cessfully adopted for both weight loss and for the prevention of weight gain by the segment of population who is in the normal weight range."...

Guard against heart attacks

...e effects of naproxen versus other NSAIDs //in the prevention of acute myocardial infarctions (AMI), or heart attacks, in older patients. The study evaluated all patients in Quebec over age 65 who had been hospitalized between 1995 and 1998 for a heart attack. Researchers found naproxen had a protective effect...

A ray of light on Cardiology

...(HOPE) study showed the drug to cause reversal and prevention of LVH in a broad range of patients – those with n...of the patients who received a placebo experienced prevention or regression of LVH, which the researchers said was “intriguing” but was more likely to be due to o...

Putting cancer risk with a vision

...t their risk of getting cancer as they contemplate prevention trials or screening strategies," said Donald L. Trump, chairman of medicine and senior vice president for clinical research at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. Trump said clinical researchers might also find use for the charts. "It is ...

Heart attack risk starts at 20

...ation recommended Monday in new guidelines for the prevention of heart attack and stroke. Thomas Pearson, chairman of the panel, observed that heart disease actually begins in teenage years,// and there certainly is an opportunity to make large changes in behavior early on. He said that twenty percent of people...

Mental illness a key factor in suicide

...searchers conclude that an important target in the prevention of suicide in young people would be the early recognition and treatment of mental illness. Improved psycho pathological assessment and treatment after discharge from psychiatric facilities could therefore help decrease suicide rates....

Preventing mental decline in the aged

...-inflammatories may eventually prove useful in the prevention and treatment of cognitive decline in the aging. The study also shows medical conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and hyperlipidemia, or excess fats in the blood, can contribute to mental decline in older people. Drinking too much alcohol or ...

Stroke and Dementia - a ghastly association

... their increased risk of death. Currently, stroke prevention focuses on patients without dementia, but researchers felt that doctors also need to focus on patients with dementia in order to improve their survival rate....

National Lung Study in the process

...urrently enrolled in any other cancer screening or prevention trial >Have not had a CT scan of the chest or lungs within the past 19 months....

Energy intake directly related to portion size

...intake which could be effectively addressed in the prevention and treatment of obesity....

Wine drinkers may have reasons to cheer

...a. This in turn means that potential treatment and prevention methods could be developed from these substances. The study tracked the drinking pattern of 1700 people in Copenhagen in the 1970s and then assessed them in the 1990s when they were 65 years or more. Over the two decades about 80 of the subjects had...

Stroke also in list of common childhood ailments

...ed at all. There is also very less knowledge about prevention of strokes and very few accepted treatments for stroke in the very young. Dr.Deborah Hirtz, a Pediatric Neurologist stated that strokes are harder to spot in the very young because they lack muscle coordination anyway, though the symptoms of stroke i...

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