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New drug helps allergies

...ic versions for even less than $15. Clarinex is a slightly altered form of Claritin. Within one hour of taking Claritin, the body turns its active ingredient, loratadine, into the active ingredient of Clarinex, desloratadine. Claritin works for between 18 hours and 24 hours. Indeed, Claritin's recommended do...

Possible benefits of Hormone Replacement Therapy

...bo group, Viscoli says. And non-fatal strokes were slightly more debilitating in the estradiol group. The WEST study parallels another study called the Heart and Estrogen Replacement Study, or HERS, the first randomized hormone replacement therapy trial. HERS used Premarin, the most commonly prescribed estro...

Approaching through Telemedicine benefits patients

...d using a telemedicine approach to care. Although slightly more of the practical outreach patients were offered a follow up appointment with the specialist after the initial consultation, fewer of these patients underwent additional tests and investigations than did their standard care counterparts. On avera...

A new way to exercise

...powerful new fitness tool. //They suggest to use a slightly deflated ball of 55 to 65 centimetres diameter. The balls work by constantly changing your body's stability base - so you have to work your muscles to keep your balance. A workout using the ball will challenge your trunk muscles - that is, the musc...

Indian Cherry: Richest Source of Vitiamin C

...processing industries. The ripe fruit has sour and slightly sweet taste. Apart from West Indian Cherry, other cherries are also nutritionally and medicinally rich. The day may not be far off when the doctor says “Take ten cherries and call me in the morning”....

Less exercise doesn't help prevent osteoporosis

...e higher bone density. So, too, did those who were slightly overweight, with a concentration of fat around the abdomen. Having this kind of fat is generally thought to be a risk for heart disease -so it is intriguing to find that it has its healthy side, by protecting bone density. The researchers obviously...

Women with diabetes could benefit from HRT

...HRT with this benefit in mind as HRT is thought to slightly increase the risks of both heart disease and breast cancer. Dr Alka Kanaya, who led the research said that the potential benefit to patients for one health outcome needs to be weighed against the risks for others, such as coronary events and breast c...

Survival rates in breast cancer patients improved with "Dose Dense Chemotherapy"

...also found that sequential administration produced slightly fewer side effects than the concurrent regimens, with equal efficacy. Larry Norton, M.D., of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Senior investigator of the study believed that this study which showed an improvement due to dose dense chemotherapy...

Good news for moderate alcohol drinkers!

...o consumed alcohol five to seven days per week had slightly less (63%) risk. However, study data suggested that there was no additional cardiac benefit to those who drank more than two drinks per day. The article though raising the morale of many alcohol consumers, included a warning from Claude Lenfant, MD,...

Safety of soy under suspicion

...ound that the male rats exposed to genistein had a slightly large thymus gland, an organ that produces immune cells. They also found that moderate levels of genistein had an even bigger effect on male rats than large doses. Researchers concluded that the findings of the study has caused concern and urologist...

Children’s Cholesterol Matter

... 10 percent at the end of the study. Children with slightly elevated cholesterol levels (levels measuring about 164 milligrams per deciliter) were five-times more likely to have high cholesterol by the time they reached 8 years old. Authors of the study say their findings prove good eating habits aimed to lo...

Endometriosis Linked to Cancer

... of the study show women with endometriosis have a slightly increased risk of developing certain types of cancer. A women’s risk of developing ovarian cancer increased by nearly one half after being diagnosed with endometriosis. The risk of developing endocrine tumors increased by about a third, and the risk ...

Anthrax hammers immune system

...ood count, a sign of bacterial infection, was only slightly elevated. That suggests the anthrax bacteria were able to fly under the watchful radar of his immune system and proliferate. As the 2001 anthrax crisis spread, physicians wondered how the weaponized bug was working. In the new study using mice,...

AIDS vaccine falls short but shows some promise

...itional work.In Africa, where the strain of HIV is slightly different, it would take time to do simple modifications that could make it work there as well. The company says it planned to continue developing a vaccine and will examine more closely why it worked better in blacks and Asians than whites and Hisp...

Twins Less Prone to Suicide Than Others

...ecause other studies have suggested that twins are slightly more prone to mental health problems than other people. "This should lead to a higher proportion of twins committing suicide compared to the general population," the researchers reported in this week's edition of the British Medical Journal."But our...

Preventing Colorectal Cancer

...ients who consume red meat and alcohol also have a slightly higher risk of developing the cancer. David Lieberman, M.D., from Portland VA Medical Center and Oregon Health & Science University, says, “The finding that may surprise the scientific community is the vitamin D data ... There have been some studies...

New Medication May Decrease The Frequency Of Angina Attacks

...acebo results, the decrease in angina attacks were slightly less than one per week for those in the 750 mg group and somewhat more than one per week in the 1,000 mg group. They also found exercise duration increased by nearly two minutes for those in the ranolazine therapy group compared with 90 seconds for t...

Breast Implants May Interfere With The Interpretation Of Mammogram Results

.... Researchers say women with breast implants had a slightly higher specificity. Specificity is defined as the proportion of negative mammograms among women without cancer. However, researchers say breast implants did not affect prognostic factors such as tumor stage and size. Based on their study researcher...

Study On Self Measurement Of Blood Pressure

...e may lead to fewer blood pressure medications and slightly lower costs. Researchers compared self-measurement at patients’ homes to conventional doctors’ office measurements of blood pressure for patients with high blood pressure. The study included 400 patients with a diastolic blood pressure reading of 95 ...

A Slight Increase In BP Can Mean big Risks

...ho have already had a heart attack or stroke, even slightly raised blood pressure levels can give a higher ris...holds true even in the case of women who have only slightly elevated blood pressure to begin with say researchers. The increased risk kicked in when the systol...

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