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...organs). As excessive bleeding is one of the major reasons women undergo hysterectomy, the treatment may also reduce the need for this surgical procedure. Most existing ways of blocking periods depend on synthetic versions of the naturally-occurring hormones oestrogen and progesterone, but these are not to...

New combined therapy for Knee Joint pain

...r many factors before we can be definite about the reasons for the knee pain. //Majority of the people are affected by Osteoarthritis. It is explained below briefly. The basic sturcture of knee joint is composed of 3 bones tibia, Femur (thigh bone and patella). Thigh bone (femur) articulate with leg bone (t...

New birth control to limit women's periods

...re Periods?" -- argues that there are good medical reasons for a woman to have a period. "Bleeding is the only way our bodies can rid themselves of excess stored iron, and excess stored iron is another risk factor for heart attack and strokes," Rako says. "And that's why in their menstrual years, women have...

Simple Procedural Improvements Can Improve Care Of Stroke Patients

..., the forms included boxes to check for acceptable reasons for not using the treatment, such as not using a clot-busting drug for a patient who arrived at the hospital more than three hours after the first symptoms or not using cholesterol-lowering drugs for a patient who already had low cholesterol. The tr...

Trust In Doctors Can Affect Taking Medications

...who reported problems taking medications for other reasons were much more likely to report that they had cut back on medicine use due to cost. Research has shown that skipping medications due to cost can seriously affect a person’s health. That’s especially true for people with chronic diseases. The patien...

HRT Not That Risky For Breast Cancer

...John Boyages, the Director of the Institute “The reasons for taking hormone replacement therapy vary and decisions about its use must be made at an individual level. Our analysis provides women and clinicians with better information to make these choices,” they conclude. Source:BMJ...

Gene Target For Tuberculosis Identified

... dormant state and do not manifest the disease for reasons not yet understood. Understanding the basic pathways of pathogenesis such as these offers new targets and policies for disease prevention. This is just a starter kit. We still have a long way to go with respect to the cure and therapeutic interventi...

Heart Attack Patients Reaching Hospital During Off-Hours Have Increased Risk Of Death

...y or PCI. The authors write that understanding the reasons for variation in reperfusion treatment times by patient arrival period, and whether such variation is common to all hospitals and to both fibrinolytic therapy and PCI, could inform the design and targeting of interventions to improve timely reperfusi...

Be Wary Of Heavy Metal Poisoning From Ayurvedic Medicines

...angerously high levels of heavy metals have raised reasons for concern among the consumers in UK following which a health advice has been issued to avoid consumption of six brands of // ayurvedic herbal products. The products banned for consumption in the UK market include: Karela tables (made by Shriji H...

Experts Insist That Neonatal Herpes Be Reported Regularly

...tment have eliminated those barriers. Some of the reasons due to which the disease is not reported, according to the researchers are misunderstanding by both the public and the healthcare establishment about the frequency of genital herpes and the breadth of the populations at risk, coupled with reticence o...

Maybe It Is Time For Doctors To Look After Their Health As Well

...r concludes: “There seems to be several underlying reasons for this worrying development. It appears in part due to increased stress from being poorly resourced and having responsibility for the quality of the work of other staff, together with trying to meet the expectations of relatives. On top of this, t...

Women and Black Patients have less chances to survive a Heart Attack

...etween patients. We simply could not determine the reasons for these differences." Saif Rathore, a third year medical student at Yale and the study's second author said, "Continued race and sex disparities suggest that the solution may rely more on health-system related factors. The lack of change suggests t...

Early Awareness About Weight Management Needed To Tackle Lifelong Obesity

...f 12, excessive weight was a probable trigger. The reasons for that aren't entirely clear, but scientists have theorized that deposits of fats may unleash a cascade of hormones alerting the body that it is capable of producing offspring. Another theory: The excess calories consumed by an overweight girl cau...

Controversy over spread of Mad Cow disease from India

...aminated bones for preparation of animal feed. The reasons for the spread of Mad cow disease as mentioned by Professor Alan Colchester of University of Kent may be due to result of cattle being fed by feed which may be contaminated by remains of sheep which would have died due to scrapie disease or would hav...

Stem Cells, Tumor Cells Share Similar Properties: Scope For Treatment and Prevention?

...in particular tissues. If this does not happen for reasons not yet understood why, the result can be a growth in the form of cancer. A lot of similarities infact exist between the stem cells and tumor cells in the sense that they undergo rapid cell division and closely resemble each other in their properties...

Obese Adults Undergo Less Medical Tests And More Vulnerable To Diseases

... may lead to flu complications in this people. The reasons for fat people not going for regular examination is that the examination procedure like pelvic examinations and mammograms are mostly painful to obese people compared to normal people. Moreover, obese adults mostly have a lower income and they have t...

Mental exercises reduces brain ageing

...the brain.” Professor Roberton said, “One of the reasons our memories let us down as we get older is that we don’t attack the information with the same brain vigor as when we were young”. In a small study when young people were asked to memorize words, more activity was found in the frontal lobe of the lef...

Leading Biotech Companies Are Interested In Acquisition Of Smaller Companies

...high for these small companies and is one of these reasons these companies are considering a big pharma buy o...n Mackay, Sr. Vice President, Pfizer. This was the reasons behind acquisition of Idun Pharmaceuticals, in the development of Caspase modulators, which are pro...

Early treatment of stuttering can help children

...ildren of preschool age, say the authors. Several reasons support implementing the program in the preschool years. For example, the program seems to be less effective once children reach school age, while delaying treatment until school age risks exposing children to the serious social and psychological eff...

Indian Researcher Discovers Reason For Malignancy of Skin Cancer

...researcher and his team have discovered one of the reasons why melanoma, a serious form of skin cancer, is so malignant//. Piyush Gupta, lead author of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology research team, found that melanoma, unlike other cancers, is born with its metastatic (spread of cancer cells) eng...

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