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Resurgence Of Botulism

... refrigerated, and after its expiration date. That same year several people became ill after eating twice-baked potatoes at a Texas restaurant. The botulism organism is destroyed only by heat, freezing or high levels of acidity. It grows quite normally in most people's refrigerators. The appearance in th...

Eyedrops for amblyopia

... to stimulate better vision in the "lazy" eye. The same thing happens with atropine drops, which temporarily blur vision in the unaffected eye. But parents have difficulty getting children to wear eye patches because of inconvenience. The study found children and parents preferred atropine drops and were ...

Eat healthy fat

...d to the omega-6 class. Note this isn't always the same as organic meat - which sometimes comes from animals fed from grain....

Chew to improve memory

... significantly improved by chewing, but not to the same extent as long-term memory....

Contraceptive pill to reduce PMS

...eedolph D Anderson said side effects should be the same as for any birth control pill. He said: "Low and ultra-low doses are used, so the side effects should be minimal. "The main advantages are fewer periods per year - four versus 13 - less blood loss, fewer pads, and less risk of the side effects of m...

Training with weights helps building resistance

...ill make you look and feel better. You can use the same routine as younger people, only you will probably need to work more slowly to allow your body to recover. To gain maximum benefit, the workout should be hard - intense even - with you aiming to add weight and repetitions as you progress. Craig reco...

Lactobacillus Supplements shorten the duration of diarrhoea

...atment. No side effects were observed. Whether the same benefits would result from consumption of store-bo...counter dietary supplements are not subject to the same safety and effectiveness standards that medications face. And children with diarrhoea should see a d...

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

...xpensive newer therapies that do not come with the same risks. Rheumatoid arthritis affects about 2 million Americans, the vast majority of them women. It is not the kind of arthritis that plagues the elderly as their joints essentially wear out. Instead, the immune system goes awry and attacks patients'...

Pig cloning for organs

...ause of the shortage of human organs.// Using the same cloning technique that created the sheep Dolly, sc...kout." The two genes are actually copies of the same gene, know as GATA1. "This is a major, major step in our attempt to be able to come up with an anima...

Pharmaceutical companies are targeting patients

...journal ads - decreased from 91% to 84% during the same period. They analyzed data on media advertising and sales of individual drugs, examining trends since 1996, the year before the Food and Drug Administration issued rules for television ads on prescription drugs. Critics argue that drug ads aimed at ...

Fatty deposits affect the stomach too

...weight. The condition can be treated in much the same way as atherosclerosis in the arteries serving the heart that is, with bypass surgery or with angioplasty, which involves insertion of a balloon-tipped catheter which widens the artery. In fact, mesenteric ischemia should alert those who suffer from ...

Drug dilemma confronts users of painkillers

...risk of ulcers as users of the older naproxen. The same study found Vioxx users had twice the risk of heart attacks or other cardiovascular side effects than naproxen patients. Merck argued that Vioxx isn't bad, but that naproxen offered the added benefit of thinning the blood a little, which Vioxx doesn...

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

...red give an accurate picture. "If this worked the same way in humans, it has the potential to be a predictor on who might develop Alzheimer's later," Holtzman added. M266 is a mouse antibody, Holtzman cautioned, so whether a similar human antibody exists to draw this plaque from the brain into the blood ...

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...m either the bone marrow or the brain grown in the same dish as embryonic stem cells joined to make hybrid cells able to produce muscle, nerve and other cell types. Studies will be required to confirm that such spontaneous cell fusion between donor and host cells can also take place in animals. "We decid...

Breast cancer risk doubles by high sex hormone levels

...ared with the hormones of 1,567 women who were the same age when blood was donated as the women who developed breast cancer. The results are highly statistically significant and were not altered when the researchers adjusted for established risk factors for breast cancer....

New hope for eye cancer

...f Opthalmology, found that survival rates were the same regardless of whether the eye was removed or the patient had instead undergone radiation therapy. Davidorf, Professor of Opthalmology and investigator of COMS, Ohio said that removal of the eye is the only option for bigger tumours. The ...

Pregnancy weight linked to breast cancer

...ancy weight boosts breast cancer risk by about the same amount as being obese after menopause. The study also found that women who fail to drop the added pounds after giving birth are most at risk. Pregnancy weight may impact cancer development because levels of the hormone estrogen, which are already ra...

Prefiguring Alzheimer's disease

...tor of Alzheimer's disease and is connected to the same brain pathology. There has been a lot of controversy over the implications of mild cognitive decline the loss of memory and certain other aspects of mental function,// like problem solving and planning.Some people think it is a normal part of aging, ...

Measles Suppresses AIDS Virus

...s, also known as killer T-cells, were found at the same time the children had suppressed levels of HIV in their blood. After the children recovered from their bouts with measles, viral levels went back up. More research will be needed with a larger study group to fully understand how measles suppresses H...

Smart Plastic As Surigical Thread

...gical thread that can ties itself into a knot. The same substance may also be used for medial implants such as stents or bone screws. The material, made of thermoplastic polymers that an be absorbed by the body, an be engineered// to assume s string-like shape at room temperature and then transform into ...

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