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Diabetics & Foot infections

...ong as 95 days and a higher percentage of patients reported new infections and required surgery. The study, which was a part of a larger initiative for a Diabetic Foot Clinic at the hospital found that good foot care practice was achieved by proper education and constant motivation of the patients and their...

Lowering blood pressure beneficial for PAD patients

...s. The drug group, which had 22 patients with PAD, reported only three heart attacks, while among the 31 PAD patients in the placebo group, 12 were reported to have suffered from heart attacks. The importance of lowering blood pressure in diabetic patients...

Backpacks cause more than just back injuries

...age 6 to 18 whose backpack-related// injuries were reported to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Boys and girls were equally represented and the mean age was 11.8 years. Researchers found that of nearly 250 children who arrived at 100 hospital e...

Progression of Glaucoma could be controlled with early detection

...e patients had progression of their glaucoma. They reported that the progression risk was cut in half in patients who were treated as compared to those who were not treated. They added that other factors were also responsible for progression of the disease, which included patients with higher eye pressure or ...

Osteoporosis and kidney stones gene marker identified

...es, which makes them absorb too much calcium. They reported on six gene mutations which increase the risk of kidney stones, because they cause too much calcium absorption - a condition known as absorptive hypercalciuria (AH). They also added that people with kidney stones had a greater risk// for osteoporosis...

Less sleep:more risk for heart attack in women

...d some 71,617 women ages 45 to 65 who did not have reported heart disease at the start of the study -- and followed them over 10 years to detect any association between sleep habits and heart attacks. Each had answered questions about sleep duration in 1986, 10 years after the study began. Researchers found t...

COPD patients can benefit through intense training

...s 95 per cent of the maximum. The researchers also reported that the respiratory endurance of the participants had also improved. The researchers thus concluded that high-intensity, interval-based training is feasible and effective for patients with COPD....

Resistant tumors could be treated with the discovery of a new molecule within cancer cells

...search study published in the journal, Cancer Cell reported that scientists have discovered why some tumors respond less well to drug treatment as compared to others. Researchers have found that high levels of a specific molecule within cancer cells seem to block the effect of drugs such as Taxol, which are u...

Untreated Scoliosis patients found to lead productive and active lives

...trol group. About 66 scoliosis patients out of 109 reported chronic back pain compared to 22 out of 62 control...sis patients and 12 out of 17 control participants reported only little or moderate back pain. Patients with a Cobb angle greater than 80 degrees showed an incr...

Migraine & Juvenile stroke could be associated

The February issue of Headache reported a study that confirms the findings of previous studies that there is a significant association between juvenile stroke and migraine in women. The researchers involved 160 consecutive patients, less than 46years of age with first-ever ischaemic stroke...

Treatment for cholesterol-related illnesses likely with the discovery of receptor in mice

Researchers have reported in the February issue of PNAS that understanding and treating cholesterol-related illnesses in humans may now be easier with the discovery of a receptor in the cells of mice that protects them from toxins. Researchers discovered the receptor during a...

Women who care for sick spouse risk heart disease

... risk of coronary heart disease. The findings were reported from a long-running Nurses' Health Study, which had collected data on caregiving and coronary heart disease from 54,412 women aged between 46 and 71. They found that those who devoted nine or// more hours a week caring for a spouse had an increased r...

Marijuana 'gateway' theory strengthened by study of twins

...that about 46 percent of the early marijuana users reported that they later abused or became dependent on mari...nt had become dependent on alcohol. The study also reported that among 48 per cent of the early marijuana users, the most commonly used harder drugs were cocain...

Risk of DVT for those spending long hours in front of computers

...f New Zealand-based doctors led by Richard Beasley reported in the February issue of the European Respiratory Journal, the case of a 32-year-old patient developing a life-threatening blood clot because he spent over 12 hours a day seated at his personal computer, rarely standing up in between. The condition s...

Yet another plus for breast feeding!

...archers at the University of Durham in England has reported a discovery, that adds one more benefit to the long list of already existing ones, for breast feeding of babies. Babies who are breast-fed in bed are at much less risk of being smothered than babies who are bottle-fed in bed. The study included 40 co...

Miscarriage during pregnancy and heart disease linked

... February issue of the British Medical Journal has reported that women who had had a miscarriage were more at risk of heart disease later in life than those who had not. 129,290 women, who delivered their first live infant in Scotland during the years 1981-85, were identified as eligible for the study. Nearly...

New lung cancer vaccine on the anvil

...er Cancer Institute, led by Glenn Dranoff, MD,have reported in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology that vaccines made from patients' own tumors are safe and future enhancements could make them a powerful new treatment for deadly cancers. Researchers claim that the tumors grow out of control...

Hypertensives could benefit regular alcohol consumption

A recent study reported by researchers in the Journal of Hypertension indicates that hypertensive patients could reduce their cardiovascular morbidity and improve their atherosclerotic risk profile by consuming alcohol on a regular basis. The researchers indicated that seru...

More risks connected with live-donor liver transplants

...ecently in the New England Journal of Medicine has reported that the risk of complications for the donor in a live-donor liver transplant is more than expected, while the risk of death for the donor is less than what doctors thought. The study indicated that donors in adult live-donor liver transplants had a ...

Obesity risk can be reduced by eating breakfast regularly

...s, 47 per cent of whites and 22 per cent of blacks reported that they had breakfast daily. Lead researcher Mark Pereira said that eating breakfast may have a beneficial effect on appetite, insulin resistance and energy metabolism as filling the stomach in the morning might help people control their hunger thr...

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