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Allergies: A major health problem

... “outdoor allergens” Dust mites, animal dander and similar other substances which we come across under carpet...ile billions of particles of pollen and other such similar substances present in gardens constitute the latter. Allergic reaction may also be due to insect bi...

Smoking may be influenced by Parents

...ting" behaviors. The students' parents completed a similar questionnaire. Researchers compared data from 242 smoking parents and their children. Results show only 9 percent of parents said they asked their children to clean ashtrays, but 45.2 percent of children said they were asked to complete that task. R...

Staying agile reduces hip fracture risk

... decrease in hip fracture risk. Three hours MET is similar to one hour of walking a week. Women with at least 20 MET a week had a 50 per cent lower risk of hip fracture, compared to those reporting less than three MET a week. Among women who did no other exercise, four hours of walking a week nearly halved...

Life anticipation differences identified

... those who did not complete //high school are at a similar disadvantage compared to high school graduates. Now, for the first time, a study has identified the major health factors underpinning these differences. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, in a survey of around 650,000 adults,...

Latest device for cardiac revival under test

...diac arrest. These animals have hearts which are a similar size to the human heart, so act as a good model. The device is like an eight-inch wide seat belt and compresses more of the chest than is possible using the manual method. In this experiment, the belt was four times better at restoring the blood flow...

Renal problem increased

...that it might be possible to link the results with similar events that occur in the nervous system in other disorders, such as in Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease. “However, more studies are needed to determine if this could be useful in humans,” he said. The researchers are hopeful that antioxidants mi...

Memory deprivation after operations

...there is a genetic factor involved. Brain changes, similar to those that occur in dementia, have been found on anaesthetic exposure in animal studies. Further study into the genetic susceptibility of some people to anaesthetics is ongoing at the University of Leicester, UK....

Caffeine fights Gallstones

...drink coffee. Previous studies// on men have shown similar results. Women are twice as likely to be affected with gallstones than men, and those women who are overweight or have experienced rapid weight loss ran a higher risk. 80,900 women were tracked over a period of two decades to compare their coffee c...

New AIDS vaccine may be in the offing

...n reaction that starts a powerful immune attack on similar substances. In the study, the researchers injected these cells (i.e. DCs) that were loaded with a 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 ...

Myostatin gene could hold the key to treatment for DMD

... of muscle by fat and connective tissue). Another similar study was carried out by Tejvir S. Khurana of the University of Pennsylvania who used antimyostatin antibody, developed by scientists from Wyeth Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, and studied its effect on mice with DMD. He injected the antibody into the ...

Women with diabetes could benefit from HRT

..."impaired fasting glucose" - a condition with some similar traits to diabetes but not severe enough to be called diabetes. The women were given either estrogen and progestin HRT, or a dummy pill, and followed up for four years. It was found that in the dummy pill group, there were 98 new diagnoses of diabete...

Antidepressants could pose grave implications

...ad a 5.2-times higher risk. The increased risk was similar for different brands and types of drugs and people taking older types of antidepressants showed no increased risk of upper GI bleeding. Scientists said that though they are not clear as to how the drug causes bleeding, they believe that it might be ...

Stroke risk factors:how informed are we?

...g signs and risk factors. This was compared with a similar survey conducted in 1995 to study the changes in public awareness. It was found that 70 percent of respondents correctly named at least one established stroke warning sign vs. 57 percent in 1995 and 72 percent correctly named at least one established...

New cure for TPP - a rare blood disease

...d using a strategy called plasmapheresis, which is similar to kidney dialysis where the blood is replaced with healthy blood. However, the patient who underwent the new treatment did not respond to the standard treatment and was subjected to immune suppression with two drugs - rituximab and cyclophosphamide....

Human wasting disease linked to a gene

...scle wasting. They concluded that there might be a similar effect in humans which may help those at risk of cachexia, by leading to development of new drugs that can moderate cytokine production....

Heart disease in women being under-treated

...hest pain is often detected with heart burn, while similar symptoms in men might prompt doctors to think about coronary artery disease first. In an accompanying editorial, Drs. Andrew Miller and Suzanne Oparil of the University of Alabama added that the research highlighted the terrible discrepancy between w...

Adult COPD or asthma could be effectively treated with Xopenex

...e comparison of the treatment of 231 patients with similar background and disease conditions over two separate six-month periods. The first group had been treated with the previous standard treatment, the second group with Xopenex. It was found that the subjects showed significant symptom improvement and a c...

The elderly can sleep better now!

... sleep. Auricular therapy is an ancient treatment, similar to acupuncture, which is intended to stimulate certain nerve endings, particularly in the ear. The treatment is done by placing magnetic pearls on various points on the ear.// One hundred and twenty individuals over age 60, who were having trouble s...

Less sleep:more risk for heart attack in women

...added that previous studies in men have also shown similar results and that the reason for an increased heart attack risk could be because sleep deprivation can cause physiological changes -- such as boosting blood pressure -- that, in turn, up heart disease risk. Dr. Najib concluded that while eight hours o...

Stem cells - New and richer source found

...n umbilical cord matrix cells, which also produced similar exciting findings - human umbilical cord matrix cells also differentiated into neurons....

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