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Better diabetes treatment promises Vanadium

...as an insulin sensitising agent. The compound also reduced the cholesterol levels in diabetic animals that have raised levels of cholesterol in comparison with normal animals. However, treatment did not have any significant effect on cholesterol levels in non-diabetic animals....

National Lung Study in the process

...nited States. Unlike other cancers that have had a reduced number of deaths in recent years, the death toll from lung cancer has remained unchanged. Nearly 120,000 people die each year from lung cancer. This is more than breast, prostate, colon and pancreas cancer combined. Researchers hope this study will p...

Consuming fish prevents dementia risk

...ho eat fish or seafood at least once a week have a reduced risk of dementia. Researchers from the University of Texas studied a group of 1205 people aged over 65 //and without dementia at the beginning. They asked them about the frequency of consuming meat, fish and seafood, then followed them up to, five an...

Clean air protects lives

...s, it was confirmed that cleaner air is linked to reduced death rates Cleaning up the air really can save lives. The investigators in Dublin and Boston// centered their research on a 1990 ban on coal in Dublin. They studied the death rates in the six years before and after the ban was implemented. After the...

Specialist care convalesces intensive care survival

...n hospitals where there are intensivists have both reduced ICU and hospital deaths and a reduced length of stay in the ICU. But at present, only one hospital in ten employs these critical care spec...

Mediterranean diet aids Asian masses

A diet rich in alpha-linoleic acid reduced cardiac events in Asian people at risk.Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a major public health problem in South Asian people, especially if they move to the West. The high prevalence of CAD is not fully explained by conventional risk factors,// like d...

Airbags lessens oppressive eye injuries

...found that the severity of eye injury was actually reduced by deployment of an airbag. Other eye injuries were caused by the windshield, instrument panel and steering wheel....

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer reappearance

...s provide an additional benefit: radiation therapy reduced the risk of local recurrence even when administered to patients who underwent total mesorectal excision....

Sun burns treated with creams

...-term study of tazarotene cream, has successfully reduced fine wrinkling and mottled skin in more than 55 percent// of those tested, and it continued to show additional benefit as the length of use increased. Ultraviolet radiation from the sun is known to have numerous ill effects on the skin, leading not ...

Cholesterol-lowering therapy benefits older people also

... (LDL, or 'bad' cholesterol) by about a third, and reduced a combination of coronary death, non-fatal heart a...r analysis shows that death from heart disease was reduced by 20 per cent, while stroke risk was unaffected. Lucidly, people of all ages can benefit from long-...

Mountain biking connected to infertility

...d at whether there is a link between the sport and reduced fertility. Semen analysis was performed on the bikers and non-bikers and the two groups were compared. Dr. Frauscher reported at today's meeting that bikers had a sperm count of 22 million/ml and 30 percent motility. Non-bikers showed a sperm count ...

Combating insomnia with warm feet

...ooties before bed, people with insomnia who have a reduced evening body temperature drop may experience a greater temperature change and go to sleep more easily. The booties are warmed in the microwave and are worn for 30 minutes during the hour before a person goes to sleep. Sensors are worn to measure the...

Home care aids in lung disease

...50 per cent of controls. The home care treatment reduced costs by 38 per cent - since these patients spent less time in hospital. What is more, the patients did not even require their full entitlement of care - most managed on just two nurse visits rather than the five permitted....

Hormones do not guard against heart failure

...ther a combination// of oestrogen and progesterone reduced the risk of future heart attack in post menopausal women who had already sufferd a previous attack. A daily dose of HRT or a placebo was given to these women and the frequency of a recurrent heart attack or cardiac death over that period was studied...

Stroke Risk and Fish :A factual interconnection

...s than once per month. Risk of ischemic stroke was reduced by 42-percent even with a small amount of fish consumption, one to three times per month. The reduced risk was 46-percent lower for those who consumed fish at least five times per week.Results show that...

Restless Legs Syndrome - Help at hand

...lts of all the examinations proved that gabapentin reduced the symptoms of RLS. The sleep lab studies that were conducted also indicated a decreased movement of legs in the night and an overall improvement in total sleep time and quality while patients were on the drug gabapentin. However, doctors suggested ...

Need for Blood Transfusions reduced

...nsfusions among critically ill patients may now be reduced by a new substance. A study showed that patients in intensive care with a lowered need for transfusion were the ones who had received weekly administration //of the man-made protein. Researchers examined the effectiveness of a substance called recom...

Reduced fertility in men who mountain bike

... at finding out whether there //was a link between reduced fertility & the sport. A comparative study was ma...esticles could cause vascular damage resulting in reduced count and motility. The risk of testicular cancer in men who mountain bike is also found to be highe...

Research on causes for falling helps develop preventive strategies

...add that poor sensory power, like poor vision, and reduced muscle strength could also contribute to a fall. The study has helped the researchers discover effective ways of preventing falls or reducing injuries during a fall. One such discovery is the "hip bag", which acts a protective cushion that is trigge...

Machines take over the battle against hospital bugs

...was found that the infections due to acinetobacter reduced dramatically. Lead researcher Clive Beggs believed that the negative ions produced by the ioniser may be removing the bacteria from the air, thus stopping the transmission of infections. He also added that the present study focused only on acinetoba...

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