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Painkilling Patch As Effective As Intravenous Delivery Systems

...as shown that an adhesive patch that resembles the size of a credit card and uses a tiny electric current to deliver pain medication through the skin does the job about as well as conventional intravenous devices. // The patch is affixed to the patient's upper arm or chest after surgery. Both the patch an...

Fish Found To Improve Fetal Growth

...he final stages of pregnancy seems to increase the size of the infant, according to a new study. Researchers say a diet rich in fish // may boost the fetal growth rate during pregnancy. They found the more fish a woman ate, the less likely she was to deliver a low birth weight baby. Researchers say that...

Laser Surgery for Allergy

...t injury that, over several weeks, will reduce the size of the turbinate through the body's natural healing process." The procedure is called "Laser sub-mucosal resection" and takes approx. about 15 minutes with immediate results. "People generally feel more alert -- both at home and on the job. People...

A Word Of Caution For Tampon Users

...four to eight hours, choose the correct absorbency size according to menstrual flow, and use pads in the evenings. Researchers are continuing to study the reasons for the increase in incidents, especially since women are becoming immune to the antibiotics that are being prescribed to treat TSS....

Obese Kids Also Prone To Heart Attacks

...responsible for pumping blood.This change in heart size increases the risk of having a heart attack, no matter the age of the individual. Researchers say the thicker a patient's heart, the more likely the patient is to potentially have issues with reduced blood flow, leading to a heart attack. Adverse ge...

Cancer Patients Might Be Able To Actually Help Themselves

...ient’s own body may be effective at reducing tumor size if more studies could be done to confirm the same....

Abnormal Brain Structure One Of The Reasons For Depression in Adolescents

...ith larger numbers of individuals and to study the size of the hippocampus as depression progresses....

Embolization Effective For Uterine Fibroid

...us // growths found in the uterus and can range in size from very small to the size of a cantaloupe or larger. Now, there’s an improvement to uterine fibroid embolization -- a treatmen...

Decrease in Brain Size Linked To Alcohol Consumption

...derate alcohol consumption and a decrease in brain size of middle-aged adults. As alcohol consumption increased, the MRI identified increases in the spaces that do not contain brain tissue -- an indication of brain deterioration. However, no consistent link was found between alcohol intake and infarction...

Women Smokers More Prone To Lung Cancer

...most at risk, these factors were combined with the size and texture of lung nodules found on CT scans. Se...her studied the probability of cancer based on the size and texture of nodules in more than 1,000 participants who had at least one lung nodule. From the st...

Body Weight Found To Affect Breast Cancer Survival

...than 50 studies have examined the relation of body size and breast cancer survival and most of these studies show an increasing likelihood of breast cancer death with increasing body size. However, researchers say the effect can be reversed and there is substantial evidence suggesting that physical activi...

The Benefits Of Soy

...ch is equal to about a 50-percent reduction in the size of fatty deposits in the arteries. Researchers say their results are important because studies have shown heart vessel disease, also known as atherosclerosis, begins in the 30s and 40s for women. Hence the protection provided by soy in the monkeys, ...

Treating Depression In Children Could Lead To Poor Bone Development

...rchers say they found a reduction in bone mass and size in mice given fluoxetine, more commonly known as Prozac. Fluoxetine is the only prescription antidepressant currently approved by the FDA for children and adolescents. Other preliminary studies show the use of selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors...

The Reason For Depression in Adolescents

...e measure of the link between depression and brain size as choosing to study adult patients may have intro...ith larger numbers of individuals and to study the size of the hippocampus as depression progresses....

Being Obese Could Lead To Kidney Stone Formation

... stone formation.//Researchers believe larger body size causes increased urination of calcium and uric acid, resulting in a higher risk for calcium-containing kidney stones. The association between the formation of kidney stones and weight, weight gain, body mass index, and waist circumference was studie...

Dyslexia may slow a driver's reaction time as much as moderate drinking!!

...o a sign when driving. However due to the small size of the sample of the study one cannot make definite conclusions hence more research may actually be needed on a larger scale. After all not to forget in a hurry that Sir Jackie Stewart is a dyslexic and was one of the greatest Formula 1 driver. ...

The Link Between Larger Birth Weight And Cancer Risk

...ween 1960 and 2001. Researchers found larger birth size was associated with an increased risk of certain cancers. Specifically, an increase in birth weight of 450 grams, or about .99 pounds, was associated with a 17-percent increase in lymphatic cancers and a 13-percent increase in digestive cancers inclu...

Crooked teeth may be due to evolution and overcooked meals

...n Washington,// US, chopping of vegetables to bite size pieces and cooking them to into mashed textures may be one of the reasons that our teeth are growing crooked and badly formed. Thus congenital bad shaped teeth may be a direct result of evolution than anything else. Human teeth are in bad shape, wh...

Is Man’s Aggression Linked To His Finger

...ble attributes of man. But can it be linked to the size of the fingers in a man’s hand?A recent study in the current issue of Biological Psychology says just that. Finger length ratio is the ratio of second finger or index finger to the fourth or ring finger. The study says lower finger ratios are thoug...

Epilepsy Drug Valproate and Lamotrigine Linked To Malformed Fetus

.... However the researchers do admit that the sample size of the study was too small to decide on the exact nature of the congenital defects due to the drugs. Yet more researches need to be conducted to find out the exact nature of the birth defects due to these two drugs, feel the researchers. Reference: ...

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