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Hobbies prevent dementia

...career attainment has already been associated with reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease. Now it seems that leisure activities, too, protect against cognitive decline as we age.//Researchers at Cleavland University, have been studying 1,000 people aged 60 or older, free of dementia at the start. They asked the...

Evidence supporting H.pylori eradication

... eradicated 90 per cent of H.pylori infections and reduced the six-month ulcer probability of 34 per cent found in the control group to 12 per cent in the NSAID-treated arthritis patients. Dr Francis Chan and colleagues recruited 100 arthritis patients who were receiving long-term NSAID treatment to partici...

Progestin protects against ovarian cancer

...who took pills containing high levels of progestin reduced their risk of ovarian cancer by an additional 50 percent....

Dyslexia due to cerebellum abnormality

...d spell. Dyslexia was found to have been linked to reduced activity in the cerebellum // of the brain that controls movement, co-ordination and balance, scientists have reported. The research, which was led by Professor Roderick Nicolson, compared the brain activity of eight normal and eight dyslexic adult...

Aspirin - a drug after one’s own hear

...chers found that aspirin and anti-platelet therapy reduced the risk of a serious heart attack or stroke by a quarter and of non-fatal heart attack by a third. It also cut less serious strokes by quarter....

Beverage protect against bladder cancer

...ch shows that the toxic effects of caffeine may be reduced in smokers, while caffeine may moderate the harmful effects of the cancer causing agents produced by smoking....

Link between chlorine byproducts and pregnancy risks

...sks including miscarriage, neural tube defects and reduced fetal growth from women drinking chlorination byproducts....

Immunisation to prevent cot deaths

...rs about babies'sleeping position has dramatically reduced the numbers of deaths. Scientists from Bristol University looked at more than 470,000 cot death cases from between 1984 and 1994, checking to see if they had been immunised or not. They found that only half the babies who had died from cot death ha...

Appropriate treatment for breast cancer

...those who have chemotherapy and tamoxifen may have reduced physical functioning. Researchers at the University of Cleavland report on one of the largest studies looking at quality of life in long-term survivors of breast cancer. They find that these women, on the whole, have excellent levels of health and so...

Diet plays a role in kidney stones

...ith a normal amount of calcium (15 mmol a day) but reduced animal protein (50 grams a day) and salt (30 mmol a day). The other men had a low calcium diet (12 mmol a day) and both groups were followed up for five years. After this time, 10 of the men on the normal calcium diet had suffered recurrences compa...

Combination therapy to treat breast cancer

...per cent. Working together, trastuzumab and ZD1839 reduced cell proliferation by 70 per cent. The findings suggest that simultaneous inhibition of the action of both growth factor receptors exerts a greater anti-tumour effect. The approach could be expanded to treat other types of cancer. Eventually, these ...

Asprin aids in pregnancy

... women who had taken anti-platelet drugs had a 15% reduced risk of pre-eclampsia, an 8% reduction in premature birth and 14% less chance of their baby dying in the womb. A spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said : "It appears from this systematic review that the use of as...

Immune cells halt round in space

...lls to communicate as their ability to interact is reduced by the rigid round shape. Researchers do not understand why the T-cells stay round in microgravity but suggest that intermolecular or submolecular forces such as hydrogen bonding might play a larger role in determining the cell's shape in the absence...

Reduced POD linked to fatal asthma attacks

Asthmatic patients with reduced perception of dyspnoea (POD) may be at increased risk of experiencing a life-threatening exacerbation of their condition.// It was found that patients with low POD had significantly more emergency department visits, hospitalisations, fatal asthma at...

Vaccination to prevent strokes

...nated over the past five years had a significantly reduced stroke risk. Dr.Eoin.Bredman said "There is a theory that infections can contribute to a risk factor for stroke, but however does not have any effect on the people over 75 years of age....

Tiotropium surpasses Ipratropium

...iod of one year. The group found that dyspnoea was reduced in the tiotropium patients by 31 per cent as compared to 18 per cent in the ipratropium group. Quality of life measures increased by 52 per cent in the tiotropium group and 35 per cent in the ipratropium group. Moreover, frequency of exacerbations f...

Heriditary dental disorders

...ll stumps. Specialized study of the animals showed reduced activity of the dspp gene, which produces a protei...sts revealed that dspp activity was substantiallyy reduced in the mouse model compared to normal animals. "This is the first time that overproduction of TGF-b1...

WBC linked with periodontitis

...ics to some of the knockout mice. The antibiotics reduced the amount of bacteria and eliminated alveolar bone loss in the knockout mice. The scientists said this betokens that bacteria are required for early onset periodontal disease to develop. "We think that the decreased ability of the white blood cell...

Cooling decreases heart attack effects

...heart rhythm. One group had their body temperature reduced to 34 to 32 degrees - hypothermia - over 24 hours, while the other group received normal care. After six months, 50 per cent of the hypothermia group had had a good neurologic outcome, with minimal disability, compared to 20 per cent of controls. M...

Osteoporosis associated with Childhood Cancer

...e at a greater risk for developing osteoporosis or reduced bone density.// Osteoporosis is generally found in women of menopausal age. Depending on the extent of bone loss, osteoporosis may be accompanied by pain, fracture or loss of height. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common form of childhood c...

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