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Blood Pressure Checks To Be Done For Children As Young As Age 3

...activity, to get blood pressure back to normal. In serious cases, drug therapy is warranted. Some children may also need to be tested for an enlargement of the main pumping chamber of the heart, a key sign high blood pressure is doing damage to the body. Researchers say the long-term health risks for hypert...

Laser Surgery for Allergy

...eople, congestion and post nasal drip lead to more serious problems like chronic sinus infections. Newer treatments are now availble to combat such an allergy problem Rajiv Pandit, M.D. a ENT and Head and Neck Surgeon at , of Methodist Dallas Medical Center, now uses a powerful laser to shrink nasal tissu...

Sugar - Sweetened Drinks Found To Increase Risk of Diabetes

...none of the participants had diabetes or any other serious illnesses. Results show women who drank one or more sodas a day gained more weight and were nearly twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who drank less than one soda a day. Women who reported drinking more soda gained an average of 1...

The Benefits Of Calcium Supplements

...and inexpensive way to reduce the risk of the most serious types of colorectal polyps, which are most strongly associated with invasive colorectal cancer. It was found that supplemental calcium slightly decreased the risk of all types of colorectal polyps, but the greatest effect was on the most advanced c...

Unborn Found To Be More Sensitive to Pollution

...dangerous for pregnant women. These results raise serious concern,say researchers and they caution that fetal susceptibility to DNA damage from air pollution, including motor vehicle emissions and secondhand smoke, has important implications for cancer risk and developmental problems....

Hope For Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer

... breast cancers that will allow them to treat more serious tumors with stronger medicines earlier on in the disease process.The gene can be identified using a test that measures its level of activity in tissue. If the gene is found to be less active in tumor tissue, then the woman can undergo chemotherapy ea...

Mixing Ginseng and Blood Thinners Might Be Dangerous

...he risk of clots increases, but too much can cause serious bleeding. Hence researchers say that a substance, such as ginseng, that alters warfarin’s effects, even slightly, can have significant consequences. Researchers recruited 20 healthy volunteers for four weeks. All participants received five milligram...

Good News for HIV Patients Also Suffering From Hepatitis C Virus

... as people live longer with HIV, HCV is becoming a serious health problem. The multinational study compared treatment with the drugs peginterferon alfa-2a (Pegasys) and ribavirin (Copegus) to treatment with the older treatment of interferon (Roferon-A) and ribavirin. Results showed the Pegasys-ribavirin com...

Side Effects Of Some Common Drugs

...y uncomfortable for patients, but can also lead to serious respiratory problems. Researchers studied 70 patients who came to the hospital with troublesome swelling of their lips and tongues. Results showed the condition was caused by angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-inhibitors or ACEIs) in 45 o...

The Efficacy Of Allergy Shots Questioned

... reactions , allergy shots would lower the risk of serious allergic reactions and provide cover for upto 10 to 20 years after the treatment is stopped....

Sleep Disorder,The Likely Cause Of Most Road Accidents

... could fall asleep at the wheel. Sleep apnea is a serious sleep disorder in which a person pauses in breathing during sleep for 10 seconds or longer and then resumes breathing. It results in excessive daytime sleepiness. Researchers conducted research to come up with a test to identify drivers who suffer fr...

Could Midlife Alcohol Drinking Lead To Dementia ?

...allele -- appeared more likely to actually develop serious mental problems with increased drinking. Researchers say since this is the first population-based study that prospectively evaluated the effects of midlife alcohol drinking on the development of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in old age, tak...

The Adverse Effects Of Asthma Medication

... thus lead to a greater number of attacks and more serious attacks, primarily by causing a desensitization of the beta2-adrenergic receptor (beta2AR) that the drug binds with to achieve its effects. Based on the study researchers suggest an alternative mechanism. Their study finds the increased airway hype...

Fixing the way to a Man’s Heart

...This helps patients to find out before they are in serious trouble whether they have high blood pressure and cholesterol problems or they have coronary disease. Another commonly used method is using cardiac fingerprinting. It works on the principle of breaking down the cholesterol into 12 different compone...

The Side Effects Of Asthma Medication

... thus lead to a greater number of attacks and more serious attacks, primarily by causing a desensitization of the beta2-adrenergic receptor (beta2AR) that the drug binds with to achieve its effects. Based on the study researchers suggest an alternative mechanism. Their study finds the increased airway hype...

Travel in Aircraft can cause Thrombosis

...ours can cause deep-vein thrombosis, a potentially serious condition in which blood clots form in the leg or pelvic veins. The risk is greatest for people with health conditions that promote clotting, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and blood-clotting disorders, according to the World Health Organiz...

The Effectiveness Of NSAIDs Evaluated

...ce long-term use of NSAID drugs has been linked to serious side effects in the elderly, including gastrointes...port long-term use of NSAIDs for this condition as serious adverse effects are associated with oral NSAIDs, they recommend only limited use ....

Reducing Vertebral Fractures In Women

Vertebral fractures are a serious consequence of osteoporosis. Such a break can lead to acute and chronic back pain,// spinal deformity and hip fracture. According to a recent study , it was found that the drug strontium ranelate, for women with osteoporosis appears to be effective ...

Vaginal Birth After C-section Dangerous For Both Mother And Baby

...n researchers say though the magnitude of risk for serious complication is small, women who have had a previous cesarean section and who are considering choices for childbirth should be aware of the level of risk involved....

Epilepsy Patients Could Benefit From Pacemakers

...xceeded 100 beats per minute. Among four patients, serious cardiac inactivity was noted during seizures. These patients received permanent pacemakers to ensure their hearts would be restarted when inactivity occurred during a seizure. Thus researchers believe that cardiac pacemakers may be indicated for man...

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