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Conserving the larynx

...rapy. In the second, patients got cisplatin at the same time as radiotherapy, and in the third, they recei...ombination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy at the same time was a far more effective way of preserving the larynx than the other two approaches. The study ...

Clean air protects lives

...ascular deaths. In a second study reported in the same medical journal, researchers from the Netherlands observed the link between traffic-related air pollution and death. Between 1984 and 1995, they studied 4,500 people and found 15 percent of the study population died during the follow-up. Of those, pe...

Stretching the muscles doesn't make them more resilient

...etching,” he says. Experiments on rabbits give the same result, says Thomas Best of the University of Wilsconsin, Madison. “We think that when we stretch we’re changing the tissues in some way that’ll prevent injury,” he says. “But in an animal model, stretching doesn’t seem to affect muscle damage. “Stre...

Caesarean may aid twins

...ata for singleton term births in Scotland over the same period. Researchers say planned caesarean delivery may offer some protection. Previous studies show second twins are vulnerable to complications during labor and delivery....

How to arrest cough

...reath, or fever, you need urgent medical help. The same applies if you start to bring up blood-coloured sputum. Yellow-coloured sputum may indicate a serious bacterial infection - another indicator for a doctor's care....

Lifetime risk of heart failure increases

...hout heart attack was one in nine, and overall the same as women - one in five. This suggests that previous heart attack does raise the risk of heart failure. Similar trends were also found for those who have high blood pressure - which roughly doubles the risk of heart failure for both men and women. T...

Drinking wine beneficial in dementia

...looked for signs of dementia or Alzheimer's in the same group in the 1992s. They were able to document 75 people who developed dementia. Researchers then went back and compared alcohol intake of those individuals to those without dementia. Authors of the study write, "Monthly and weekly intake of wine wa...

Causes of weakness in the aged

...ly to die than their non-frail counterparts of the same age. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Medical School have made one of the first attempts to define the condition. They report from the Cardiovascular Health Study, involving nearly 6,050 people aged 67 or older. This shows that those who are frail ...

Oxygen Treatment may be injurious

...en to 25 healthy volunteers for 30 minutes, in the same way as it is given to hospital patients. Imaging studies showed a high level of oxidative stress - sufficient to cause toxic damage to cells. The study supports what some physicians have long suspected - oxygen therapy is not without hazard, and shou...

Nurses competing with junior doctors in some assessments

...rry out pre-surgery assessments of patients to the same degree of competence.There's a shortage of junior doctors in the UK// and it's been suggested that appropriately trained nurses might be able to take over some of their roles. Researchers in Ireland, UK, have compared the way in which junior doctors ...

Restless Legs Syndrome - Help at hand

...t. Patients until now have been treated with// the same medications used to treat Parkinson's disease. Though patients reported relief with these drugs, there are often significant side effects and long-term complications. Researchers in Spain have now discovered that medication commonly used to treat sei...

Spurt in hospital admissions following football shoot-outs

...e days. Examinations of the admisssions around the same date in the previous and following years showed no excess hospital admissions for any other cause. The viewers however, only have a choice of finding some positive ways of dealing with the stress, considering that the football authorities are not li...

Myth of 'female impotence' created to boost sales

...hich may happen after childbirth or being with the same partner for many years. The article says that a group of researchers in close conjunction with pharma companies sponsoring meetings are defining a new category of illness to boost the sales of these companies. Doctors caution that the danger in crea...

New AIDS vaccine may be in the offing

... killed AIDS virus into monkeys, infected with the same virus. The monkeys which would quickly die in normal conditions, were alive and did not get sick - at least for the 34-week study period, when they were given the vaccine treatment. Most vaccines make the immune system do one of two things: make ant...

A new and surprising insight on AIDS

...archers could reach different conclusions from the same data....

Children exposed to smoke show decreased levels of Vitamin C

...en. Both these groups of children had consumed the same amount of Vitamin C and researchers found that even with very low exposure, this reduction occurred. Smoke can reduce concentrations of ascorbate, an important blood antioxidant. Vitamin C, ascorbic acid, is one of the strongest determinants of tota...

Stroke also in list of common childhood ailments

...fants is identified, it would help in tackling the same problem in adults. They added that strokes in infants are a common cause of cerebral palsy, and that nearly 6 percent of children who have a stroke die, while about 25 percent of children have another stroke and about two-thirds have lasting neurolog...

Televisions ruling baby's world!

...s aged 10 months or 12 months were later given the same objects to play with. They observed that the 12 month olds played happily with the objects if the actor had acted neutrally or positively to an object, while the infants would avoid the objects if the actor has seemed afraid or disgusted. However thi...

H.Pylori testing recommended in patients with peptic ulcer

...r cent in 1997, while the prevalence remained the same at 36.4 versus 36.5 per cent. Also, an increase of 95 per cent from zero was seen, in the rate of treatment for those with H.Pylori....

Osteoporosis and kidney stones gene marker identified

... people. They found six different mutations in the same gene and having at least one of these was found to increase the risk of having AH by two to three times and having five, increased the risk by a factor of 11.5. The researchers claimed that this discovery may lead to insights into the cause of both ...

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