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Antidepressant Medication Leading To Suicidal Thoughts

...ture that has been built up about the benefits and risks of paroxetine in adults through an extensive clinical trials programme involving 24,000 patients, or through the use of this medicine in tens of millions of people around the world....

First-Born Children Are Not At Increased Risk From Multiple Sclerosis

...ips. The data presented suggest that environmental risks for MS must be accounted for by factors that do not affect birth-order position. Source: Newswise, The Lancet...

Merck to pay $ 253.5 million to Vioxx victim family

...al found irrefutable evidence that Vioxx had heart risks compared with a placebo. Mrs. Ernst’s lawyers sa...at Merck was long aware of Vioxx’s potential heart risks but hid those risks from patients. Merck’s stock price fell almost 8%, although Texas rules on punit...

Fat Consumption Could Play A Vital Role In Affecting A Child’s Memory

...ncrease in energy intake was associated with lower risks of poor performance on the digit span test and for each 100mg intake of cholesterol, poor performance increased by 25 per cent. Researchers also say that the associations were independent of socioeconomic status, maternal education, marital status, a...

Radio-guided Neurosurgery for treatment of Brain cancer

...moval of brain tumors surgically leads to enormous risks and the success of the tumor removal entirely depends on the surgeon’s skill. By using the new technology the effectiveness of tumor removal is highly successful. The new procedure is done by inserting intravenously, an isotope called technetium-99...

Study Unveils New Insight To The Madness Of King George III

...them gain, and fasting in order to lose the weight risks provoking attacks. Hopefully, the researchers say, it might be possible to develop more specific treatments now that the mechanism underlying the symptoms of porphyria is better understood. Source: Newwise...

Obesity, diabetes in pregnant women affects babies

... chronic and gestational diabetes were significant risks for a primary caesarean and pre-term birth in all women, reports the online edition of American Journal of Public Health. Diabetes as a risk for low weight of babies also varies. Chronic diabetes increased the risk for low birth weight among Asian...

Patient Choice Cesarean Section on The Rise

...lieve that patients can never fully understand the risks involved, and should never choose major surgery wh...ble as long as the patient aware of the associated risks and benefits over vaginal delivery. <br...

Heart Patients More At Risk Get Fewer Medicines

...searchers had said that the predicted and observed risks of death in patients with heart failure were inversely associated with discharge and post discharge administration of potentially life-saving drug therapies. This finding is particularly important because patients at highest risk of death have great ...

Exercises Should Be Recommended During Pregnancy

...issue that could significantly reduce the lifetime risks of obesity, chronic hypertension and diabetes – not only for patients, but for their families as well. The article recommends that pregnant women engage in moderate exercise – such as brisk walking, which allows them to carry a normal conversation –...

Aspirin Might Counter Side Effects of Cox-2 Painkillers

...al found irrefutable evidence that Vioxx had heart risks compared with a placebo. Due to the high toxic and side effects of pain killers like Vioxx, the researchers were in search of pain killers with no toxic effects and they found that the Age old still world wide used Aspirin was found to have no toxic...

Late Pregnancy Women Face The Risk Of Heartbreak, Fertility Problems

...no guarantees - with a high failure rate and extra risks of multiple pregnancies where it is successful. For men, there are also risks in waiting until they are older to father children as semen counts deteriorate with age, they say. ...

Air Pollution Can Even Increase Death Rates

...results show that ischemic heart disease mortality risks rose by 25 to 39 percent for the 10 μg/m3increase in air pollution. Earlier studies took one or two pollution measures from several cities and compared health effects among cities. This study digs more deeply, taking pollution measures at 23 sites w...

Early treatment of stuttering can help children

...ool age, while delaying treatment until school age risks exposing children to the serious social and psychological effects of stuttering at this age, they conclude. Source: Newswise...

Stressful Work Can Put Men At Risk Of Having Blocked Arteries

...articipants were screened for other cardiovascular risks such as smoking, alcohol use, level of physical ac...ity, body mass index and cholesterol levels. Those risks were taken into account along with job stress factors. Standard questions were used to assess job co...

A call to epileptic mothers to help reduce birth defects

... fifth most prescribed class of medications. The risks to the fetus from anticonvulsant drug use occurs v...ted the action plan to empower women to reduce the risks associated with anticonvulsant drugs, and establish a more successful partnership with their healthc...

Athletes Are More Prone To Environmental Pollutants Due To Choice Of Diet

...able concern in foodstuffs, while the human health risks for general populations through the dietary intake of these pollutants have been also assessed. Athletes, and in general, sportsmen and sportswomen have been detected as population groups with specific nutritional requirements, and markedly differen...

Hazards of Electromagnetic Fields for children

... chemotherapeutic drugs, and some chemicals, poses risks for the induction or progression of cancer during embryonic and childhood development. Ionizing radiation given at large doses is one of the few known risk factors for childhood leukemia and brain cancer. Radio and television broadcasts, mobile phone...

Lawmakers alerted on new tobacco control policies by research team

...people. 7. Improve community education about the risks of adolescent smoking, and urge the public to adopt polices that prevent the sharing of tobacco products with minor....

NSAIDS, Reduces The Risk Of Oral Cancer But Causes Heart Attacks

...ious work has suggested that these drugs can lower risks for other malignancies, such as colon cancer," explained co-researcher Dr. Scott M. Lippman, Ellen F. Knisely Distinguished Chair and Chairman of the Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. Adults who were prescribe...

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