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Increase your life span by doing away with bad habits

... The finding revealed that the chances of subjects reaching the age of 85, was almost 69% for men with no risk factors whatsoever. In contrast men with minimum of 6 risk factors or more had only a 22% chance of living till they were 85 years old. 'If you're a middle-aged man, No. 1, go see your doctor. If ...

Cardiac Emergency Therapy Finds Single Medication Effective Vs. Combination Drugs

... in an artery that prevents oxygen-rich blood from reaching the heart. When people present with ACS symptoms, they are traditionally immediately put on a cocktail of drugs that prevent the formation of blood clots that can cause a heart attack. Two of these drugs are potent anti-clotting agents: heparin, w...

Britishers 'Stiff Upper Lip' Causing More Deaths Due To Heart Attack

...an ambulance, resulting in more deaths even before reaching hospitals. Meanwhile, patients given an emergency ...eart and circulation apart from funding education, reaching the public and health professionals, providing life-saving cardiac equipment and support for rehabil...

Childhood Survivors Of Brain Tumors More At Risk For Strokes Later In Life

... often hit when the childhood cancer survivors are reaching early adulthood – in their late 20s and early 30s. "Many people think, 'You're five years out from your cancer, you must be cured, and you can get on with the rest of your life.' But these patients suddenly develop a new complication of the cancer ...

Hope for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease

...o an epidemic because people are more successfully reaching old age,' he said. Using a new model of PET scan, doctors at Melbourne's Austin Hospital found one in five people over 65 without any memory problems had early signs of Alzheimer's. They had traces of a protein called amyloid in their brains, thoug...

Complications Resulting From Bariatric Surgery Vary With HealthGrades Ratings

...ho are obese has doubled in the last thirty years, reaching 30 percent, according to the CDC's National Center...ation's healthcare bill to overweight and obesity, reaching 9.1 percent of U.S. medical costs, or $78 billion, in the most recent study. The first annual He...

'Origin Of Sex' Can Be Revealed By Sperm Proteome

...hin a sperm that make one sperm more successful at reaching and fertilising the egg than its peers. 'This question of sperm competition has baffled scientists for years,' said Dr Karr. 'If we can work out what makes one sperm more successful than another, we might be able to apply this knowledge to clinic...

Season for Ladder Accidents!!

...ommitting three ladder do nots: climbing too high, reaching sideways and not anchoring herself with one hand. 'We tend to use ladders without thinking of the potential dangers,' she said Dr. Gary Joubert, city head of emergency services, said, 'Falls from ladders are a problem in London, as well as people e...

The need to revamp cervical cancer prevention programs

...e Cancer Council NSW. "Money might be better spent reaching that group - and Aboriginal women who were also at elevated risk - than on frequent rescreening of low-risk women," he said. The risk of cervical cancer death has been reduced to 1/3rds ever since the introduction of Pap screening in the early 1980...

Now A Computer Game To Battle AIDS

... HIV, two million are in sub-Saharan Africa. Hence reaching out to youth is seen as crucial. Some early responses to the game, however, commented on the need to use a form of Swahili comprehensible across the region, and the need to make the game work on mobile phones. Computer games have also been called ...

NYC health agenda: Dishing out calorie content of items on the menu

...ast food concept, which seems to race with time in reaching food to the table. Commenting on the proposal, John Whipple, president of the National Council of Chain Restaurants, called it ‘expensive’ and said the end result of such a move would be akin to restaurants digging their own grave. “Restaurant...

Carefully Monitored Treatment Can Help Those Who Suffer from Depression

...f Psychiatry. Results showed that the chances of reaching remission were higher after the first and second treatment steps (37 percent and 31 percent respectively), than after the third and fourth steps (14 percent and 13 percent). For those who did improve or remit in fewer treatment steps, lower relapse r...

Three Teslas magnetic resonance imager acquired. Shot in the arm for research

...e early diagnostic search for a cancer prior to it reaching a certain size. Side effects Despite the overall innocuousness of the exploration and diagnostic technique, there are certain patients for which its use has side effects, basically those with pacemakers given that the magnetic fields render this he...

How Brain Injury Leads to Seizures, Memory Problems

...yrus. The dentate gyrus controls overactivity from reaching seizure-prone brain cells further along the circuit. The dentate gyrus is a gatekeeper in maintaining a balance between two systems of neurotransmitters in the brain: the glutamate system and the gamma-aminobutyric acid system, abbreviated GABA(A)....

Hypnosis and Acupuncture Show Promise for Labor Pain

...hat the treatment somehow blocks pain signals from reaching the brain. During hypnosis a patient’s attention is focused narrowly to achieve changes in mood, perception or behavior. Simkin said she’s not surprised that the best evidence on complementary and alternative therapies was for hypnosis and acupunct...

Autistic Children May Lag behind in ‘Categorization of Objects

...humans, we rely on the motions of others -- a hand reaching out to shake ours, a person running toward us -- to help us interpret their actions and intentions. "People have not really studied these conceptual deficits in very young children as the possible basis for the social and cognitive deficits in older...

Depression Benefitted by Internet-based Interventions

...aid that the internet provided an effective way to reaching people struggling with mental health in rural and remote areas, as well as providing easy access to information to the over 60% of people affected by mental health problems don't seek or receive any professional help. Source-Eurekalert NLA...

Cipla launches 3-in-1 AIDS drug in India

...sue in HIV treatment to prevent the infection from reaching the advanced stage of AIDS,” said senior consultant in Internal Medicine at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Dr Nalin Nag. He said, “Viraday is very patient friendly, as it requires just one pill a day and freedom from the severe side effect of many oth...

Supercentenarian Center to study longevity

..."Demographers have shown that the number of people reaching 100 years old is growing exponentially, while few people live to be older than 110. Researchers are turning to science to try to explain why that is. " Jeanne Louise Calment, was the oldest person whose age was authenticated. She lived for 122 year...

Mother’s Milk may have no influence on child’s Q

...shed in September revealed that the probability of reaching the developmental milestones late is increased by 50% in the babies who are never breastfed than those who were given only mother’s milk till 4 months and attach this to "some component(s) of breast milk or feature of breastfeeding" than the mother’s...

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