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Study Finds Fat Type That can Protect Against Weight Gain and Diabetes

...estigator C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., an internationally recognized researcher who is Head of Joslin’s Section on Obesity and Hormone Action and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. It has long been known that people significantly differ in their tendency to gain weight and develop ...

FDA and CDC Remind Consumers of the Dangers of Drinking Raw Milk

...tainly higher because not all cases of illness are recognized and reported. Consumers who become ill after consuming raw milk, and pregnant women who believe they consumed contaminated raw milk or cheese made from raw milk, should see a doctor or other health care provider immediately. Symptoms of illness c...

Antibiotic Vancomycin May Trigger Dangerously Low Platelet Count

...ontributed to these outcomes.” It is not widely recognized that vancomycin can cause thrombocytopenia. For that reason, the medication was continued in 15 of the 29 patients while other possible causes for the low platelet count were investigated, according to Dr. Aster. None of these patients had a rise in ...

Statin Therapy Cuts Bad Cholesterol Unprecedented 70 Percent

...n a statin clinical trial. Cardiologists have long recognized the challenge in helping high-risk patients reach their target cholesterol levels, to ultimately prevent heart attack and stroke,” said Dr. Christie Ballantyne, cardiologist at the Methodist DeBakey Heart Center and principal investigator for the stu...

Cholesterol in Stroke Patients Exceeds National Guidelines

...cal symptoms. “If this high cholesterol had been recognized and the guidelines been followed, then 93 percent of these people would have been treated with cholesterol-lowering drugs,” said Eric E. Smith, MD, MPH, with the Massachusetts General Hospital Stroke Service in Boston, and a member of the American Ac...

Irregular Heartbeat Linked to Genetic Mutation

...keup," the authors write. Atrial fibrillation is recognized more often in the elderly who have underlying structural heart disease. But in this study, Mayo Clinic researchers address the gene-based form of atrial fibrillation that affects younger people who do not otherwise harbor risk factors for the disease...

WHO Awards Prequalification Status to the First UAE Approved Vaccine

...t at American Hospital. Rotavirus is the leading recognized viral cause of diarrhea-related illness among infa... spread of the disease. Therefore, vaccination was recognized by WHO as the only control measure to have a significant impact on the incidence of severe rotavirus...

‘Delayed Reaction’ to Radiation Therapy Takes the Life of a Woman After 30 Yeas

...for victims when radiation treatment is officially recognized as the cause of death. Michael Williams, Vice President of Royal College of Radiologists, said: 'Sadly, Mrs. Roper was a very rare case of a patient who has an extreme reaction to radiotherapy. Research is currently under way to discover why these...

American Cancer Society Honors Exemplary Cancer Caregivers

...ancer patients.” The American Cancer Society has recognized cancer caregivers through the Lane Adams Quality of Life Award since 1988. The awards committee includes long-time national Society volunteers, including Vicki Adams Quan, the daughter of Lane W. Adams, the former executive vice president of the Soci...

Vietnam Gets First International Standard Vaccine Plant

...ical devices, and foods. Generally, it is a term recognized worldwide for the control and management of manufacturing and quality control testing of pharmaceutical products. Source-Bio-Bio Technology<BR...

Natural Immunity Against Avian Flu may Be Possible

...onded to the DNA vaccine by making antibodies that recognized huN1; a few also made antibodies against avN1. (Antibodies are proteins circulating in the body that recognize and stick to some specific part of a foreign agent such as a virus.) All the vaccinated mice survived infection with a man-made flu virus c...

Gene Tests To Identify Potential Diabetics

...f genes that are responsible for diabetes has been recognized resulting in tests that could spot potential diabetics//. This study has been reported in the journal Nature. Professor Philippe Froguel of Imperial College, London who conducted this study along with his team said that hereditary and life style p...

MRI Contrast Agent Linked to Complication in Renal Patients

...ntrast agents such as gadodiamide. "NSF is a newly recognized and sometimes fatal condition in which the skin becomes stiff, sometimes immobilizing the patient. In addition, internal organ involvement may be been," explains Dr. Cowper. "To date, NSF has only occurred in people on dialysis or with impaired renal...

Medications for Restless Legs Syndrome may Trigger Compulsive Gambling

...ts. “Although pathologic gambling has already been recognized in patients with Parkinson disease who often took high doses of dopamine agonists, the current report suggests that pathological gambling is not restricted to patients with Parkinson disease -- and also can occur at low dosages” explains Maja Tippman...

Beauticians and Barbers can Do More Than Their Services

... stroke, and a 7 percent increase in the women who recognized stroke when they were given a clinical scenario. After the trainings, there were two recorded cases of beauticians being able to prevent their clients from suffering a stroke due to timely intervention. Overall, the findings demonstrate that thes...

Extend Cervical Smears to Younger Women, Insist Specialists

... NHS Cervical Screening Program is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world, saving 4,500 lives a year. "The program's policy to screen women from the age of 25 is based on robust, independent research by scientists at Cancer Research UK. "The program is always alert to new evidence and i...

Scientists Explore Possible New Way to Fight AIDS

...led more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981. About 40 million people now live with HIV, with sub-Saharan Africa hardest hit. Lusso expressed "reasonable optimism" that treatment involving interleukin 7 may benefit people with AIDS, a disease for which no cure exists. "I don't thi...

Blindness from Smoking Terrifies Teens

...even lower among those who smoked, just 2% of whom recognized the link. But teens were far more frightened of losing their sight than of any other smoking related disease, giving it an average score of 4, compared with 3 for lung cancer, and 2 for heart disease and stroke. Nine out of 10 of the teens said ...

Genetic Fingerprints Identify Brain Tumors' Origins

... that predispose children to PAs. "It should be recognized that the genetic alterations in this tumor may be very subtle," Gutmann notes. "When we looked at gene activity levels in the tumors as a function of brain location, though, a very interesting pattern began to emerge." Cells in different parts of ...

Chromium Picolinate Effective for Diabetes Care

...ion. The chromium picolinate in Diachrome has been recognized as safe by many of the world's leading government and academic research institutions, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Institute of Medicine and the UK's Food Standards Agency. In addition, biotin has been deemed safe by the U....

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