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Diet and Exercise Helps Reduce Weight After Pregnancy

...re-pregnancy weight within six months have a lower risk of being overweight ten years later. As well as helping reduce body weight, exercise has the added advantage of improving the womens cardiovascular fitness and preserves fat-free mass dieting alone reduces fat-free mass, says Amanda Amorim, an epid...

Anticoagulants is Better for Atrial Fibrillation

...sels and cause a stroke. One way of reducing the risk of this occurring is to give drugs that limit the ... are often given to people with AF who are at high risk of strokes, while anti-platelet treatments are offered to people at lower risk. A team of Cochrane ...

Gardasil Could Be Effective, but Aggressive Marketing Raises Ethical Concerns

... I won't have to get my Paps anymore.' I think the risk of that is really very high." The Pap test, also...ver known someone who has had cervical cancer, the risk doesn't seem serious enough to motivate them to get a Pap test regularly, any more. While Dr. Harp...

Less Information on Dietary Treatment in Type2 Diabetes

...showed whether dietary advice did indeed alter the risk of developing long-term complications, affect overall quality of life or the likelihood of dying. We did find 36 published articles that reported work from 18 different trials which included a total of 1467 people with type 2 diabetes, but only a mi...

Chemotherapy Better for Non Small Cell Lung cancer

...e operation, and could therefore leave patients at risk of allowing the tumour to spread. 'The data suggest that the benefits of the chemotherapy outweigh the risks associated with the delay,' says Burdett. A project to collect complete data on all patients included in all trials is ongoing and will b...

Sideeffects of Rosiglitazone in Type2 Diabetes Patients

...ost studies. In addition to confirming the known risk of edema (people taking the treatment are at twice the risk of developing this condition) and an increase in body weight up to 5.0 kg, the authors found evidenc...

Reducing Smoking - Mixed Messages and Latest Findings

... will lead to an equivalent reduction in a persons risk of smoking-related disease. Even so, the team of Cochrane Researchers found that they could glean some useful pointers from the currently published data. Firstly, they found that between 6% and 9% of people using nicotine replacement therapy deliv...

Young Babies at Risk of 'sudden Death' Syndrome While Seated: Study

Very young babies face a small risk of sudden death when seated, and not only when the...ed in seats, most often in car seats. The relative risk was much higher among babies who were less than a month old. The authors, led by Aurore Cote at th...

Gene Variants for Crohn's Disease Identified

...ers have found a gene variant that raises a childs risk of Crohns disease, which is a chronic and painful condition attributed to inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract . The study has reinforced earlier results of a German study that identified the same gene variant associated with the adult form ...

Gene Linked With Restless Leg Syndrome Spotted Out

...d having two copies of the variant increases one's risk of experiencing RLS. According to Dr. Rye, carrying two copies does not guarantee that one will develop RLS symptoms. "There remain yet-to-be-identified medical, environmental or genetic factors that appear necessary to translate genetic susceptib...

Texan Battles Flesh-eating Bacteria Contracted While Swimming

...e everyone who eats seafood should be aware of the risk of infection, healthy swimmers don't need to worry... in the Gulf during the summer." There also is a risk of death in patients whose Vibrio vulnificus infection spreads to the blood, as it has in Gilpatrick...

Intensive Training of Young Tennis Players Causes Spinal Damage

...ning techniques should be modified to minimise the risk of progressive musculoskeletal damage, conclude the authors. Contact:Dr David Connell, The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, Middlesex, UKTel: +44 (0)208 954 2300; mobile: +44 (0)7885 284 378Email: david.connell@rnoh.nhs.uk...

Prison Healthcare Continues to Fail Despite Emergency Measures, Warns BMA

...r prison that are leading to increased and serious risk to their patients health. The BMA will continue to push for extra measures to address the current crisis....

People Living Near Nuke Facilities at Higher Risk of Leukemia

...ts living near nuclear facilities show an elevated risk of leukemia . As part of their study, researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina carried out a sophisticated meta-analysis of 17 research papers covering 136 nuclear sites in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Japan and Spain. F...

HIV Cases Increasing In Australia

...n diagnoses in some states is linked to changes in risk behaviour raises questions about the effectiveness of current prevention strategies, says Prof Kaldor. The publication of the study coincides with the International AIDS Conference to be held in Sydney on 2225 July, the largest scientific gathering...

Chain Smokers Prepared to Lessen Their Daily Cigs Rather Than Quitting

...ill lead to a corresponding reduction in a persons risk of smoking-related disease. Nonetheless, the team of Cochrane Researchers found that they could assemble some useful pointers from the currently published data. Firstly, they found that between 6 percent and 9 percent of people using nicotine re...

Genetic Variation may Increase Premenstrual Depression Risk

...ular genetic variation may be tied to an increased risk for severe premenstrual depression . Known medically as premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, this psychiatric condition affects approximately 8 percent of women in their childbearing years. It's characterized by bouts of major depression and/o...

Obesity, a Risk Factor for Developing Multiple Myeloma

...rchers have found that obese persons are at higher risk as compared to lean person to develop multiple mye...ay is one possible way obesity could influence the risk of developing diseases like cancer or cardiovascular disease, but the answer might also lie in other...

Asia Must Overcome HIV Stigma, Say Research Chiefs

...vid Cooper said HIV remained a major public health risk in Asia. Fauci said predictions HIV would devastate Asia as it had Africa had proved false after local health authorities, which were initially slow to heed warnings, adopted pro-active policies. But he said the potential for an epidemic still ex...

EU Drug Regulator Highlights Depression Danger of Weight-loss Pill

...on or those taking anti-depressants because of the risk of psychiatric side-effects. The agency said that depression was known as the main side-effect of the drug and this had been signalled at the time of its approval in June 2006. However, the Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use ...

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