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Gardening, Walking and moderate drinking reduce risk of dementia

...part of ageing. The study was conducted in 2,805 recruits with an average age of 60 years and the study was ... which the researchers found 115 men and 170 women recruits developed dementia. The study found that the recruits who had a daily walk or did daily gardening an...

Parenthood can have adverse mental health

...nthood brings more joy and relaxed life. The study recruits were asked to fill in a questionnaire which contained questions relating to their depression and mental status. Researchers feel that adults with children are more depressed due to their responsibility and family burden compared to adults with no chi...

Diuretics may decrease electrolytes level

...otassium electrolytes level and 6,400 of the study recruits had low levels of electrolytes. The study has been reported in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. thiazide diuretics has been very useful in preventing strokes in adults but it can also lead to decrease the electrolytes levels of sodium...

Move to make HIV Tests mandatory For Soldiers In Northeast

...l and to introduce mandatory HIV tests for all new recruits to the army, navy and air force. Singh told a news conference here Saturday that all "full blown cases of AIDS" in the armed forces would be removed from service even though they would continue to get medical treatment and pension benefits. Accordi...

Heparin does not protect from recurrent heart attacks

...ctionated heparin to 10,000 patients and the study recruits were analyzed. 5% of study recruits died in six months and 8% of patients died before one year. There was no difference in death rate be...

Gestational Age Linked To High Blood Pressure

...f data obtained from their birth records the study recruits were classified as full term babies and Pre-term babies. The babies who were born with a very minimal days of gestational age had 93% of developing high blood pressure compared to normally born babies. The authors have not yet found the reasons for ...

Osaka Medical Center study showed 70% of smokers couldn’t qui

...e survey questionnaire contained questions for the recruits about the number of cigarette smoked in a day? How many times you have tried to quit smoking? Have you tried quitting smoking by reducing the number of cigarettes smoked by you? Have you increased the number of cigarettes compared to initial period? ...

Web Based Psychotherapy for Depression

...it fall of the program was the increased number of recruits who withdrew from the study almost half of the pat... it had too much of work to be done. The remaining recruits were very happy of the web-based therapy and they showed a significant improvement with a decrease i...

Daily Gargling May Prevent Common Colds

...ers between the age group of 18 to 65. The study recruits were divided into three groups, the first group gargled water with povidone-iodine, the second group gargled with water and the third group had no gargling or usual care. The participants then led their normal lives for the next 60 days, or until the...

Fish Oil supplementation reduces physical aggression in school children’

...ets during the study period of 3 months. The study recruits were given bread rolls, steamed bread, sausages and spaghetti which contains high concentration of DHA-rich fish oil. The children’s were tested for a battery of tests like psychological tests, physical tests, questionnaires and blood sampling. The...

Booster dose not required for Hepatitis B Vaccination

...on. They found that 64% of children and 89% of the recruits retained protective concentrations of antibodies. The study shows that infant and adolescent immune systems can recall responding to hepatitis B more than 10 years after immunization. Experts View: Professor Zanetti concludes: “In light of our f...

Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer

...roup of 16 to 23 from 13 countries. Half the study recruits were given Gardasil and the other half were given placebo (dummy injection with no vaccine) and the recruits were followed for 2 years, the follow up showed that the vaccinated women did not develop any cancer...

Outsourcing clinical trials to India

...10 million suffer psychiatric disorders, and notes recruits in India are more likely to comply fully with the trial processes. An other important reason for considering India for clinical trial is availability of man power at a comparatively cheaper salaries, it is estimated that 20-30 percent of cost is save...

Married Women has more sexual problems

...d for more than 6 months. On an average, the study recruits said they had sex about four times a month. Those who had sex less than that had more sexual problems, regardless of gender. A questionnaire containing a battery of questions about the sexual interests and experience was asked in the study survey ab...

Testing For HIV/AIDS Compulsory For New Military Recruits

... will make testing for HIV/AIDS compulsory for new recruits in all the three wings from Oct 1. "Today the ar...one// and, therefore, AIDS/HIV testing for all new recruits to the navy, army and the air force will be made mandatory from Oct 1," said the Director General of...

Mental exercises reduces brain ageing

.... Professor Robertson conducted a study with 3000 recruits aged between 65 to 94, the study recruits were given various memory exercises and training for problem solving with computer aided games and t...

Pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing

...eported that magnesium supplements helped military recruits avoid hearing loss over two months of noisy basic training. These days, much of the work focuses on antioxidants, the chemical class that most famously includes vitamins C and E. That's because loud noise doesn't always damage the delicate inner ear...

Drug Tarceva for End-stage Lung cancer

... by Canadian –led international research team with recruits from all over the world. The first study was cond...ior to chemotherapy improved cure rate, 69% of the recruits are still alive five years later, compared with 54% who just had surgery. Overall, survival rate was...

FDA gives “black box warning” against three asthma drus

...vised by FDA. The SMART trial was done with 26,000 recruits and the study was stopped in 2003 after about 50 people died or had severe life-threatening breathing complications after taking Serevent compared with placebo. In the study 20 black people had serious complications or died compared to 5 taking place...

Cancer risk among nuclear industry workers

...e after low dose exposure of radiation. The study recruits were employed in 154 different facilities, involve...n. During the study period, about 24,158 (5.9%) of recruits died, 6519 from cancer other than leukaemia and 196 from leukaemia (excluding lymphocytic leukaemia)...

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