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Tag: "risks" at medical news

Poor diet among smokers

...e a relatively poor diet, which adds to the health risks of passive smoking. It has been estimated that second-hand smoke accounts for up to 24 per cent of lung cancer cases.// Where people are exposed to passive smoking - usually because they live with a smoker or work in a smoky environment - a healthy d...

Caesarean may aid twins

... 1995 and 1998. They found significantly increased risks of death during labor and neonatal death among sec...echanical problems. Researchers say these absolute risks are high in comparison with similar data for singleton term births in Scotland over the same period....

Prostate cancer and Vitamins

...ike need to be better informed about the potential risks of complementary therapies....

Change in weight not a risk in healthy men

... risk in men with pre-existing disease. The health risks of obesity are now well established to many. But weight, once lost,// is often put on again and some studies have suggested that fluctuating weight may, in itself, predispose to heart disease and other health problems. Researchers in London studied...

Obesity risk for immobilized adults

...ize that patients with disabilities face increased risks for obesity and address their weight concern."....

Women with diabetes could benefit from HRT

...in mind as HRT is thought to slightly increase the risks of both heart disease and breast cancer. Dr Alka K...one health outcome needs to be weighed against the risks for others, such as coronary events and breast cancer. Doctors therefore believe that until further ...

Children exposed to smoke show decreased levels of Vitamin C

...t. Smoking and smoke exposure also pose potential risks for cardiovascular disease, cancer, and pulmonary diseases....

New standards for Human Research Safety

...ff and facilities, whether patients understand the risks of research, and what kinds of ethics education researchers receive. The program would include hospitals, academic medical centers and other facilities who would volunteer to have their research methods evaluated for accreditation by the health care ...

Research on Celiac Disease in children

...d for CD. He also noted that there was significant risks if diabetes and CD are left untreated, such as delayed puberty, growth failure, osteopenia, osteomalacia, anemia and/or gastrointestinal lymphoma. Dr. Butzner also discussed the effect of oats on children with CD. He stated that his clinical experie...

Oxygen helps heal wounds

... patients to receive treatment at home and minimal risks associated with use of the device. They believe that this large case report indicated a role for topical oxygen in the treatment of chronic or acute hard-to-heal wounds....

Risk of early neonatal death high in infants born in the night

...veries in Sweden// between 1991 and 1997. Relative risks of intrapartum (death at the time of labour and delivery) and early neonatal death according to the hour, day and month of delivery was estimated. They found that approximately 1 in 650 infants born during the day died during the first week of life a...

Risk factor high for women who took HRT

...earchers also said that the pills can increase the risks of developing heart disease or having a heart attack. They studied 13,084 women over the age of 45, less than half of whom had taken HRT. They found that women with diabetes who took HRT were up to three times more likely// to die early compared to t...

Hormone Therapy Linked to Dementia

...an early end last year because of increased health risks in women receiving the combined hormone therapy.//...s progestin data reinforce the conclusion that the risks of estrogen plus progestin outweigh the benefits."...

Antidepressant Helps Relieve Hot Flashes

...wing long-term //hormone therapy increases women's risks of cancer, strokes and dementia. The drug paroxetine, sold under the brand name Paxil by GlaxoSmithKline Plc, halved the number of hot flashes suffered by women in the study.Women who took an inert placebo also had fewer hot flashes, though the imp...

Childhood Sunburn Can Lead to Skin Cancer Later

...t protection from the sun, you're increasing their risks of this disease by a generous proportion. "Anytime.... But get that burn before the age of 18, and your risks go up dramatically -- and the more times a child experiences sunburn or even sun damage caused by a ...

Stroke and the Pill

...wise healthy women who do not smoke run few stroke risks from taking oral contraceptives. However, women with conditions known to increase stroke risk, such as high blood pressure, a family history of stroke, and diabetes, should be prescribed the pill with caution...

Alternative Therapy in HIV Patients

...ol over their own health care and the benefits and risks of CAM in HIV care may open channels of communication." Researchers conclude that with one quarter of HIV-infected patients using CAM at the risk of potential side affects, physicians should openly ask their patients about such use. They suggest dis...

Death Among the Homeless

A new study shows death risks among homeless people are dramatically different t...e homeless community face much different mortality risks than those in the same demographic of the general population. For example, researchers found young h...

How to Improve Life Expectancy

...t disease and stroke. Researchers say removing the risks would increase life expectancy by an average of ni...rategy should incorporate the interaction of major risks to health."...

Hormone-replacement therapy could hurt heart

Hormone-replacement therapy could increase the risks of coronary heart disease in healthy women, and it... was called to a halt after five years because the risks were found to outweigh the benefits, according to officials at Harvard Medical School. The research...

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