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Weather Forecasts Spring Pollen Allergy Severity

...ng pollen; and washing hair before bedtime after a prolonged outdoor exposure. ? Medication and Eye Drops – taking non-sedating antihistamines, oral decongestants, inhaled medications including anti-inflammatory nasal sprays and using eye drops to control and treat symptoms. ? Immunotherapy – receiving all...

Controversies Involving Health Foods

...to this finding consumption of vitamin pills for a prolonged period may actually increase the mortality rate by 5% and low fat dairy may hamper the chances of conceiving in women. The researchers from Copenhagen University Hospital conducted this exhaustive study on 200,000 people before arriving at a conclusi...

Fruit Flies May Pave Way to New Treatments for Age-related Heart Disease

...ts in young flies with the KCNQ mutation exhibited prolonged heart contractions and irregular beats seen usually in older flies (and older people). To enable their study of the fly heart, the researchers created new methods to dissect the hearts, and quantify heart contractility and other functions by using a ...

New Drugs Shows Promise in Slowing the Progression of Prostate Cancer

...trospective analysis showed that survival rate was prolonged to 16.4 months with the drug as compared to a median average of 10.7 months in a historical control group with similar baseline prognostic features. “Advanced prostate cancer is difficult to treat – and the drug therapies currently available to the...

New Drug Promises Prolonged Survival in Prostate Cancer Patients

...trospective analysis showed that survival rate was prolonged to 16.4 months with the drug as compared to a median average of 10.7 months in a historical control group with similar baseline prognostic features. “Advanced prostate cancer is difficult to treat – and the drug therapies currently available to the...

A New Approach to Manage Opiate Addiction

...hat the CRF1-deficient mice showed more severe and prolonged behavioral symptoms of withdrawal—such as jumping and "wet dog shaking"—when compared with normal mice as had been shown previously. Similarly, when the researchers administered a drug that blocks the receptor in normal mice, they saw the same aggrav...

Grape Expectations for Healthier Wine

...d that because wine growers don't store grapes for prolonged periods, they are unlikely to use ozone in any preservation process. He agreed, however that the ozone process could be tweaked to replace problematic sulphites added to wine during the liquification process, presenting the possibility of healthier m...

FDA Approves New Product to Treat Von Willebrand Disease

...n of the bleeding defect, patients may suffer from prolonged bleeding and delayed wound healing. Alphanate is purified from pooled human plasma from carefully screened and tested U.S. donors, and contains the clotting proteins deficient or defective in vWD, which are Factor VIII (also know as Antihemophilic ...

'Cancer Prevention' - In Your Hands

... adulthood. White people who expose themselves for prolonged periods under the sun to get tanned are at special risks. Using protective clothing, hats and sunscreen can help protect against the harmful radiation. A significant aspect of cancer prevention involves educating people, especially children, about ...

Cataplexy During Status Cataplecticus Resembles REM Sleep

...t cataplexy during status cataplecticus, a case of prolonged cataplexy, partially resembles normal rapid eye movement (REM) sleep but without the other imaging characteristics of this state, according to a study published in the February 1st issue of the journal SLEEP. The study, conducted by Dorothée Chabas...

Osteoporosis Does Not Spare Men Either

...pe with a fracture that could involve hip surgery, prolonged bed rest and rehabilitation. Source-Eurekalert PR...

Good Oral Health Practices Should Begin in Infancy

...Never allow your child to nurse or breast feed for prolonged periods and don't give him or her a bottle with milk, formula, sugar water or fruit juice during naps or at night in bed. - Encourage children to drink from a cup by their first birthday. - Discourage frequent use of a training (sippy) cup. - H...

Risk of Hemorrhage Increased in Vaginally Born Babies

...ciated with vaginal birth, it was not dependent on prolonged duration of labor or on traumatic or assisted vaginal birth. "In our study, neither the size of the baby or the baby's head, the length of the labor, nor the use of vacuum or forceps to assist the delivery caused the bleeds," Dr. Gilmore said. "The...

A Breakthrough in the Study of Hepatitis C

... allow the virus to infect cells but do not permit prolonged replication and production of virus, while other systems rely on derivatives of permissive virus isolates for efficient replication in transformed (mutated) cell lines. Still lacking has been a system to sustain replication of novel virus isolates fr...

Nobel Prize and Lifespan

...a scientist somehow acts like a health booster and prolonged his life. This research was titled "Mortality and Immortality" and published this month. PRI...

Training Breathing Muscles Improves Swimmer's Performance

... is very important, particularly underwater during prolonged or high intensity exercise such as swimming. "As shown by other studies, when breathing muscles become fatigued, the body switches to survival mode and "steals" blood flow and oxygen away from the locomotor muscles and redirects it to the respirat...

Cocaine During Pregnancy can Cause Behavioral and Neurological Problems in the Child

...tal exposure to cocaine in rabbits, which caused a prolonged displacement of dopamine receptors in some brain cells, which disturbed their capacity of normal functioning. Though this effect has not yet been assessed in cocaine-exposed children, the findings give researchers a place to start looking. "The h...

Food Hampers Deficient in Calories, Study Says

...d 820,600 Canadians, of whom 40% are children. The prolonged shortfall in calories and nutrients could cause long term health problems, researchers said. However, food banks are not to be blamed for this situation, researchers said. The food banks rely on donations and services from volunteers. The need of t...

Yes, Chicken Soup Can Help

...ople spend more time indoors — where they may have prolonged contact with others who may be sick. You “catch,” or acquire the cold by having hand-to-hand contact with someone who has a cold or by using shared objects such as doorknobs, computer keyboards or telephones. Once you touch your mouth, nose or eyes a...

Over-exercising Not Good for Muscular Dystrophy Patients

...ion. Further indicators are severe muscle cramps, prolonged shortness of breath and heavy body-extremities. Beil advises sufferers to avoid strenuous activity because, in the case of a rapid development of the condition, it can lead to faster degeneration of the muscles. But he recommends mild exercises lik...

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