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Routine Dental Check-Ups Should Include Oral Cancer Screening

...ning older patients. Screening by doctors was only slightly more expensive than screening by dentists, despite the doctors’ lack of specific training to identify oral lesions, Speight and colleagues found. They suggest that doctors may catch more cancers because they see a bigger slice of the population than ...

Children Benefited By Moderate Maternal Stress?

...ir pregnancy as more negative than positive showed slightly poorer emotional control and attention capacity. The researchers followed 137 women from mid-pregnancy though their child's second birthday. Self-reported anxiety, pregnancy-specific and nonspecific stress and depressive symptoms were collected fro...

Girls Outshines Boys In CICSE Exam

... percent respectively. "The Class 10 results are slightly better and Class 12 results are at par with 2005 results. Like last year, girls have outshone boys this year too," CISCE deputy secretary Rita Wilson said. "Though the number of boys are more than the number of girls, it is sheer hard work that has...

Study Finds That Migraine Drug Can Ease The Severest Of Facial Pain

...nty patients described their pain as moderately or slightly better after sumatriptan treatment as compared with only one patient after being injected with saline injection. The analgesic effect of sumatriptan lasted for 1 to 20 hours, averaging 7.9 hours overall. Dr Julio Pascual of University Hospital in S...

Children Having An Early Exposure To Cats May Develop Eczema

...ng exposed to two or more dogs at home suggested a slightly protective, but not significant, effect on children's risk of developing eczema, said lead researcher Esmeralda Morales, M.D., Pediatric Pulmonary Fellow at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The study included 486 children who had been followed ...

More Number Of Younger Americans Lack Health Insurance

...e insurance when they have the option, a rate only slightly lower than other age groups. The study suggests that by expanding the safety net for the youths by increasing the maximum age for Medicaid and SCHIP might help the young adults get health insurance and keep it. Some states have recently passed laws...

Moderate Intake of Alcohol Beneficial to Women

... those who drink a moderate amount of alcohol have slightly higher levels of mental function than non-drinkers, particularly in verbal abilities, reported health portal News-Medical. The study, available online in the journal Neuroepidemiology, found that compared to non-drinkers, women who reported drinkin...

After Cancer Treatment Worry Continues – Researchers Find

...er, this study looked at the survivors who average slightly more than 10 years after their last treatment and are over the age of 60. They felt that years after treatment the survivors might have different worries about cancer than those experienced during the disease. While the five-year point is often co...

Crucial to regulate your body pH, key determiner for good health

...The appropriate pH level for good health should be slightly alkaline and within the range of 7.1 and 7.4. A pH 7 is considered to be neutral, while a reading below 7 is acidic. If the pH is extremely low and acidic, then it could lead you to feel down in the dumps. Therefore it is imperative to have normal pH...

Studies Show Combination Drugs As A Poor Substitute For Anti-Coagulants In Stroke

... had a 44 percent higher incidence of stroke and a slightly lower incidence of major bleeding episodes than people taking warfarin. Both the doctors, Furlan and Connolly said they are now prescribing aspirin for people with atrial fibrillation for those who are not suitable for warfarin treatment.But Connol...

High Fiber Diet to Fight Colon Cancer

...he good bacteria which maintains the colon pH in a slightly acidic manner which prevents constipation....

Origin of obesity may be in brain: scientists

...f Nuclear Medicine in San Diego, California, found slightly higher concentrations of the receptor in overweight people. Whether the difference in receptor number is a cause or an effect of being overweight remains uncertain, but twin studies suggest that genes are important in determining its prevalence. "I...

Genetic Link to Adrenal Tumor Revealed

...r PDE11A contains the information needed to make 4 slightly different forms of the enzyme. The form of the enzyme that was mutated in the patients who took part in the study was found in large amounts in normal adrenal glands and in even larger amounts in normal prostate glands, Dr. Stratakis added. Other for...

Treatment of Menopausal Symptoms Without Consulting Doctors

...s, 37 percent reported using hormone therapy while slightly less than that - 31 percent - used herbal products. Soy supplements were used by 13 percent. What interested Ma and her colleagues was that three-quarters of the women who had formerly taken hormone therapy said they stopped primarily because of co...

Basketball Top For Injurious Sports

...etball is: · Feet shoulder-width apart · Knees slightly bent · Buttocks positioned as if one was about t...ittle wider than shoulder-width apart · One foot slightly in front of the other · Hips and knees bent (do not stand upright) · Arms below shoulder-height ...

Cancer Drug to Treat Scleroderma Lung Disease

...suppressive drug used in treatment of cancer could slightly improve lung function as well as the quality of life for people with scleroderma-related lung disease. According to lead author, Dr. Donald Tashkin, a professor of medicine in the pulmonary and critical care division at the David Geffen School of M...

Cherry Juice Could Reduce Muscle Damage Pain

...n those drinking cherry juice. Muscle strength had slightly improved after 96 hours in those drinking cherry juice. The degree of soreness differed little between the two groups, but the average pain score was significantly less in those drinking cherry juice. Pain also peaked at 24 hours for those drin...

Abnormal Abeta - Protein Level in Human Brain Trigger Alzheimer's Risk

... form of the amino acid leucine that has been very slightly altered to label it. Inside the leucine are carbon atoms with 13 neutrons and protons in their nucleus instead of the more common 12 neutrons and protons--in scientific parlance, carbon 13 instead of carbon 12. 'Normally only about 1.1 percent of t...

Fluctuating BP and Stroke Lowered Patient Survival Rate

...e that the group of patients studied represented a slightly higher percentage of more severe strokes. Source: Eurealert...

Money Cannot Buy Happiness

...are associated with no greater happiness, but with slightly higher tension and stress". They add, "This focusing illusion may lead to a misallocation of time, from accepting lengthy commutes (which are among the worst moments of the day) to sacrificing time spent socializing (which are among the best moment...

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