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Further support for use of statins in Alzheimer’s disease

...zheimer's disease by nearly 80%. Statins have been proved to offer// powerful protection against heart disease for people with high blood cholesterol. The findings provide the strongest evidence to date that statin drugs may also help protect people from Alzheimer's disease. An earlier, smaller study had ...

Is acupuncture safe?

...utine drug treatment. But the research has not yet proved that whether acupuncture actually works. Source- Medical Journal...

Researchers find new HIV hiding place

... striving to eradicate HIV from patients, this has proved much more difficult than once thought. The new findings add to that challenge, providing one more hurdle that doctors must overcome. But the hope is that we will be able to use this new information for good," he said. "For example, we may be able to...

New breast cancer drug appears encouraging

...aving oxygen therapy, for at least 15 hours a day, proved to be beneficial. The patients had a 40 per cent reduction in days spent in hospital with lung problems, and a 20 per cent reduction in the actual numbers of admissions to hospital. The study suggests that giving oxygen at home is a good way of allev...

The advantages of oxygen therapy

...aving oxygen therapy, for at least 15 hours a day, proved to be beneficial. The patients had a 40 per cent reduction in days spent in hospital with lung problems, and a 20 per cent reduction in the actual numbers of admissions to hospital. The study suggests that giving oxygen at home is a good way of allev...

Watch what you eat during summer

...specially if it contains mayo). Perhaps, melon has proved to be a real health hazard. It's a cool refreshing fruit so you'll probably want to include it on your picnic menu - if so, wash the outside, even if it already looks clean. And never leave it without refrigeration for more than four hours - otherwis...

Camera gives hope for detection of breast cancer

... women, with a total of 60 tumours, the new system proved to be able to detect more malignancies than the standard gamma camera. It was also more sensitive in the detection of small tumours, of less than one centimetre in diameter. Mammography is very useful, they say, but maybe scintimammography, with the ...

Personality Impacts Arthritis

...er, the personality characteristics of neuroticism proved to be the most consistent and effective predictor of anxiety and depression after three and five years. Researchers feel the study shows the importance of paying close attention to factors other than the disease when studying risk factors for height...

Stroke Risk and Fish :A factual interconnection

...te fish less than once per month. Researches have proved that diet rich in fish may even be better than a diet rich in vegetables reducing a substance in the body, called leptin, known to increase the risk of stroke, coronary artery disease, and heart attack....

Restless Legs Syndrome - Help at hand

...hile at home. The results of all the examinations proved that gabapentin reduced the symptoms of RLS. The sleep lab studies that were conducted also indicated a decreased movement of legs in the night and an overall improvement in total sleep time and quality while patients were on the drug gabapentin. How...

Weight gain following smoking cessation not linked to Leptin

...rchers in the University of Pittsburgh has however proved this wrong, by measuring leptin levels in non-smokers, current smokers and ex-smokers. They found no significant difference among the three groups. Researchers say that other factors, like hormones involved in body weight regulation, must be looked i...

Barcodes to become newborns' ID

...y involve lots of time and money, and is yet to be proved foolproof....

Wash your hands to keep healthy!

...s even before a meal. Recent research has however, proved that frequent hand washing is the most simple and low cost way of cutting rates of infection by nearly half. A recent American study included a huge number of Navy recruits who were made to wash their hands five times a day for a year and the rate o...

Progression of Glaucoma could be controlled with early detection

... percent decrease in the disease progression. This proved that early treatment of glaucoma can reduce the risk of the disease progressing....

Hyaluronan supplementation therapy for Knee Osteoarthritis

... given to humans since 1987, after the therapy was proved beneficial in// racehorses with injured knees. The American College of Rheumatology recommends intra-articular injections of hyaluronan for the treatment of pain associated with osteoarthritis of the knee. This is an alternative treatment to oral pai...

Proof that Vitamin C may be effective in combating colds

...e against the common cold. The belief has now been proved to be true by researchers who have studied changes...nd came back to normal after about two weeks. This proved that the effect of vitamin C is short-lived. The researchers also added that contrary to the belief ...

Electronic nose by Italian scientists

...ients. The equipment was tested on 60 patients and proved to be accurate. The electronic nose is a 12 cm cube with sensors mirroring the human olfactory system. The patient is asked to exhale into a sterilized bag which is connected to a tube. The breath is then pumped inside the cube and hence into the sen...

Changes in cabin pressure pose risks for moms-to-be

...torm could boost conception rates, no research has proved any such link. Air pressure changes during air travel, however, have concerned doctors enough to issue warnings against women //flying in late stages of pregnancy. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), changes i...

Bowel diseases linked to bug in milk

... not depend on a link with disease in humans to be proved or disproved....

Extra hormone found to cut appetite by a third

...nother appetite-suppressing hormone,// leptin, had proved disappointing. "We had to do a second trial to see if obese people were as sensitive" to the hormone, said researchers. The answer: "Yes, they are. They're just as sensitive as thin people." In a small study done , both obese and lean people ate ab...

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