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Viagra Also Found To Be Effective For Treatment of Lung Diseases

... The authors said that was greater than the effect seen with other drugs in different trials. Although the trial involved only 22 patients, it was the first randomized test to compare Viagra against a placebo for pulmonary hypertension. The drug is even being given to babies, surprising but true . Some ...

A Drug That Might Relieve Chronic Cough

Cough is the fifth most common complaint seen in the medical office accounting for 30 million office visits annually. Chronic cough is considered a disease of the lungs, organs and tissues of the respiratory tract and upper // part of the digestive tract, or even psychiatric in nature. The commo...

Prediction Of Disease In The Future Questioned

...ad diabetes. Thus based on the above studies it is seen that population-based screening for diabetes is effective. Several large trials are now underway in which individuals with two or more diabetes-associated autoantibodies receive immune-modulating therapy. Researchers conclude saying that even if dis...

The Size Of The Heart Does Matter

...plain the higher rates of heart disease and stroke seen in them and thus pave the way for therapies that can minimize ethnic disparities in the future....

Education Levels Found To Predict Stress

...y, "If something happens every day, maybe it's not seen as a stressor -- maybe it is just life." Lower status individuals may become desensitized to daily hassles due to their cumulative disadvantages and hardships, while this persistent stress negatively affects their health. Thus researchers say there ...

Aspirin Found To Be Effective In Reducing Breast Cancer Rates

...s a week). However, the reduction in risk was only seen among women with hormone receptor-positive tumors and not for women with hormone receptor-negative tumors.The risk-reduction results for ibuprofen were generally weaker, and use of acetaminophen, like Tylenol, was not associated with a reduction in t...

Regeneration of muscle

... muscle cell formation in injured tissue. It was seen that stem cells taken from regenerating muscle in mice lacking the Pax7 gene could not become muscle cells, and that by putting Pax7 back into stem cells taken from uninjured muscle, they can generate a population of cells that readily differentiate ...

Risks Of An Enlarged Heart

...tion, known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, can be seen on an electrocardiogram, but formal diagnosis requires more specialized imaging. Treatment to correct this abnormal heart condition includes medication, surgery or a defibrillator, a tool that automatically delivers an electric shock when an abnorma...

Diabetics Can Now Be Able To Control Both Blood Sugar And Their Weight

...ciation -- without increasing insulin. It was also seen that patients who used insulin and metformin followed by the thiazolidinedione actually showed a slight decrease in weight along with lowering blood sugar.Also, almost 60 percent of participants, regardless of what order the drugs were taken, reduced...

Hope For Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

...CAM than those who did not. Lower levels were also seen in tumors from patients whose cancer spread or recurred. Researchers say their data clearly suggest that decreased ALCAM expression in the primary tumor is of clinical significance in breast cancer and that reduced expression indicates a more aggre...

Solutions Being Sought For Prevention Of Rickets

...gh levels of calcium and phosphate. Rickets may be seen in young children 6 to 24 months old. Doctors say rickets is increasing for two main reasons. They say more babies are being breastfed longer, with no vitamin D supplementation and children and mothers get less sun exposure because of concerns about...

Lycopene Can Help In Preventing Prostate Cancer

... cell growth of prostate cancer and results can be seen within six week. A patient called Lofgren was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year. He had surgery to remove his prostate, but not before helping scientists study lycopene's effect on cancer cells. While waiting six weeks before surgery, Lofgre...

Survival Of Colon Cancer Patients

... years later. This new research finds the benefits seen at the five-year mark no longer exist after 10 years. However, the three chemotherapy drugs that were used during this study are no longer used for colon cancer patients. Thus researchers say because the study focuses on drugs no longer used for can...

Mentally Demanding Jobs Found To Reduce The Risk Of Alzheimer’

...ore physical demands. However, no differences were seen in social and motor demands of the jobs held by the two groups. Researchers say they are not clear what the link is between mentally demanding occupations and Alzheimer’s disease, however they have several theories. Researchers say the disease coul...

Environment and Diet Found To Precipitate Asthma

... diet may be the reason for higher rates of asthma seen in developed countries, according to a new study. In the study involving more than 10,000 primary-school children from three cities in China, the children from Hong Kong had a significantly higher prevalence of wheezing in the past year than those f...

Predicting The Risk Of A Heart Attack

...r rate of non-fatal heart attacks or death. It was seen that, patients with elevated levels were more than three-times more likely to experience these cardiac events than patients without elevated levels. In patients with acute chest pains, those with high PIGF levels were also at significantly increased ...

Food Supplements Can Prevent Alzheimer’

... on to develop the kind of brain changes typically seen in Alzheimer’s patients. Those that received DHA s...ene. After adjusting all possible variables it was seen that, DHA was the only factor remaining that protected the mice against the synaptic damage and memo...

Hormone Leptin Found To Be Effective In Treating Women With Infertility Problems

...ensity markers in the blood. However no change was seen in the control group. However researchers say that more study is required to confirm these findings and to establish the best dose of leptin for women suffering from infertility and other problems related to low body weight....

The Adverse Effects Of Asthma Medication

...udy finds the increased airway hyperresponsiveness seen in some regular users of beta-2 agonists may be due to increased expression of a substance called phospholipase C-beta (PLC-beta) in the smooth airway muscle that occurs with persistent high-level activation of the beta2AR. The finding may lead to ne...

The Risks Of Vitamin D Deficiency

...g to the study, the worst vitamin D deficiency was seen in young persons -- especially women of childbearing age.The risks involved with vitamin D deficiency include women giving birth to children with adverse fetal effects or neonatal illnesses, young adults not developing optimal bone mass, and older ad...

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