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Treatment Options For Retinitis Pigmentosa Questioned

...atty acid. But there was no significant difference seen in the progression of the eye disease between those taking vitamin A plus a control and those taking vitamin A plus DHA over four years. In a separate analysis of the same study, researchers investigated the effect of DHA on patients not already tak...

The Side 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...

Reconstituted Blood Better For Young Hearts

...received reconstituted blood. Similar results were seen for the two groups in terms of bleeding, transfusion requirements, complications and mortality rates. But the infants who received the reconstituted blood had significantly shorter stays in both the intensive care unit and the hospital, and spent les...

Stopping The Progression Of Parkinson's Disease

...ion of the disease however these results have been seen only in animal studies involving the administration of huge doses that would not be safe to use in people. This study used a much lower dose -- 0.1 milligram per kilogram administered once a day. Neuron loss was completely averted in mice that receiv...

Weight Reduction Surgery Also Treats Metabolic Syndrome

...lution of the condition a year later. Thus it was seen that excess weight is largely responsible for metabolic syndrome and that losing weight via weight-reduction surgery is an effective treatment....

Tea may prevent Alzheimer's

... the activity of the enzyme butyrylcholinesterase, seen in protein deposits found on the brains of patients with Alzheimer's. More research is needed, though, to find out how the chemistry of the body affects the activity of the tea enzymes. Courtesy : CoABC Science Online...

Shrinking Birthmark’s

...hers say their results were overwhelming as it was seen that under MR imaging the veins were as bright as light bulbs thereby making detecting and delineating of the malformed veins extremely simple. Researchers tested the procedure on 15 adult patients who did not respond to previous treatment and they ...

Loss Of Brain Tissue Linked To Obesity

... of dementia. Significant loss of brain tissue was seen among elderly // women with higher body mass indexes. Researchers say their study indicates that a high BMI is a risk factor for dementia in women and obesity is another factor that should be actively intervened upon to reduce diseases of advanced a...

Common Infections Found To Raise An Individuals Risk Of Having A Heart Attack Or Stroke

...ratory or urinary tract infection. But no link was seen between any of the vaccinations and either heart attack or stroke....

Shorter Radiation Schedules Found To Be More Effective For Patients With Breast Cancer

...han expected and is comparable to the side effects seen in studies of conventional six weeks of radiation. Researchers say they are currently collecting data on tumor recurrence and quality of life in the patients who underwent the four-week course of radiation therapy....

An Increase In Incidence Of Childhood Cancer

...n children. The major changes for adolescents were seen for carcinomas, lymphomas, soft tissue sarcomas, and germ-cell and CNS tumors. In conclusion researchers say their results are clear evidence of an increase of cancer incidence in childhood and adolescence during the past decades, and of an accelera...

Epilepsy Patients Could Benefit From Pacemakers

...sponsible for the higher rate of unexplained death seen in epilepsy patients. Treating the condition with a pacemaker could avert many of these deaths say researchers. All of the patients in the study received an implantable device to monitor their heart rhythms. Researchers followed the group for about ...

WHO hopes to wipe away Iodine deficiency diseases by 2005

...y and impaired work capacity. Iodine deficiency is seen in people who live away from the sea where the soil content is low in Iodine. WHO recommends universal salt iodization, namely the use of iodized salt for human and animal consumption, to prevent and control iodine deficiency. This strategy has bee...

Diabetes A Common Problem In The Elderly

... rose, with the lowest rate of death (9.6 percent) seen for those with glucose levels of 80 to 99 mg/dL. P...rtality rate of 12.2 percent. The highest rate was seen for those with glucose levels above 300 mg/dL. Those patients had a mortality rate of 42.5 percent. ...

Tsunami Survivors Face Pneumonia Threat

... that cause the disease. But although doctors had seen several hundred cases of diarrhoea in the affected...ical teams on the lookout for cholera have instead seen respiratory diseases on the rise. "The biggest killer is pneumonia," says Hakan Sandbladh, health of...

Who Board To Discuss Asian Tsunami Related Health Issues

...hly, with sustained support. Otherwise, as we have seen with other disasters, communities can languish for many years in a state of dependence, with high levels of disease and mortality." WHO has been actively involved in supporting the affected countries in their efforts to help rehabilitating people a...

The Use Of Oral Steroids For Muscular Dystrophy Questioned

...gain to behavioral changes, are worth the benefits seen in muscle force. A recent study done , involved 17 children between ages 5 and 8 with the disease who were randomly assigned to receive six months of treatment with prednisone and another six months of treatment with a placebo. Results of the study...

Drug Reviparin Found To Reduce Death Rate After Heart Attack

...oup a 13-percent lowered risk. Benefits were still seen at 30 days with significant reductions in death rate and significantly lower numbers of additional heart attacks however no significant differences were observed for strokes. In conclusion researchers say Reviparin is considerably less expensive tha...

Aerobic Exercise Beneficial In Treating Depression

... depressive symptoms, which is similar to outcomes seen for people treated with antidepressants or cognitive therapy. Twelve percent of the group had a complete remission of symptoms. The other groups also saw a decline in depressive symptoms, but they were not considered statistically significant. Thus ...

HIV-positive Parents Require More Counseling

...effect of diseases on contact with children it was seen that children of parents with HIV // were less likely to get the kind of affection other kids received. Results also showed about a quarter of HIV-positive parents report avoided certain types of physical contact with their kids out of fear they mig...

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