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Doctor Failed To Treat Asthma Properly

...deficiencies may also have been exacerbated by his slightly compromised English skills," she added. Dr Jeyaprakash had failed to apply proper principles in treating asthma, Ms Sheppard said. A specialist respiratory physician who was asked to review the case said Jessica could have been saved. "Overall, I...

Alcohol affects quality of sleep in young women

...ge 4 sleep (the deep sleep early in the night) was slightly increased. Researchers found few, but noteworth...age 4sleep (the deep sleep early in the night) was slightly increased. Spectral analysis of the EEG revealed signs of increased sleep intensity during non-REM (...

Pakistan Assures of Providing Best Medical Care to Abdul Qader Khan

...lowed to meet his family members. Tests revealed slightly raised level of serum prostrate specific atigen (PSA), an official spokesman said. Immediately, a detailed examination was conducted at KRL Hospital to ensure an accurate diagnosis, including ultrasound and guided biopsy. The test results were also...

People Exposed To Lead Likely To Die From Brain Cancer

...n Wijngaarden said. Other trends that emerged were slightly higher death rates among less educated and married individuals. Scientists have suspected for years that lead is a carcinogen, which passes through the blood-brain barrier, making the brain especially sensitive to the toxic effects of lead. Van Wij...

Sunscreen creams – use them appropriately

...netration of sunscreen filters into the skin might slightly increase sunlight induced damage, if no further sunscreen is applied and the skin is exposed to UV light. But we already warn against not re-applying sunscreen regularly, since ordinary sun damage would be occurring”. “High factor sunscreens can be...

Rural Canadians, Take Care Of Your Health

...id,"The key results point to rural Canadians being slightly less healthy than urban Canadians, and that's reflected in a higher mortality rate. Higher overall mortality rates among rural communities seem to be driven by higher death rates from causes such as circulatory diseases and injuries. Our analysis sho...

Eating Soy Protein Helps Control Cholesterol

...ity lipid “bad” cholesterol and triglycerides, and slightly raises high-density lipid “good” cholesterol//, according to a Tulane University study published in the Sept. 1, 2006 issue of The American Journal of Cardiology. The Tulane study gives strong support to the notion that soy protein should be part o...

Insight Into Tanning Process Suggests Novel Way to Prevent Skin Cancer

...vels were raised slightly; but when they increased slightly more, the animals got skin sunburns. "These animals couldn't tan," Fisher remarks, who is also a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. "We'd proven in a rigorous genetic system what people have known for hundreds of years: Redheads don...

For Super-Obese Patients, Duodenal Switch Beats Gastric Bypass

...bariatric procedures performed nationwide—leaves a slightly larger stomach pouch but makes even more drastic a...nal incisions. The duodenal-switch patients were slightly heavier. Their average weight before surgery was 368 pounds, compared to 346 for gastric-bypass pati...

Early Statin Therapy for Patients Reduces Death, Cardiovascular Events

...d for two years. During these two years, there was slightly less than a 20 percent reduction in the risk of ex...rs, known as rhabdomyolysis; some studies showed a slightly higher risk of hepatitis among individuals taking statins. “Use of intensive statin therapy is often...

Women More Prone to Anxiety Disorders than Men

...(fear of being in public places). They also face a slightly higher risk for specific phobia (fear of a particular object or situation). About 10%–14% of women will have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in their lives, compared with 5%–6% of men. And 6.6% in women will have generalized anxiety disorder, b...

Tune Your Brain to Hear Another in a Noisy Ambience

...wo ears, and each detects an individual sound at a slightly different time (a sound coming from the left will reach the left ear slightly faster than it reaches the right ear). This is known as binaural or "spatial" hearing because it hel...

GSK Seeks Permission to Market Breast Cancer Pill Tykerb

...ows a similar move in the US last month, and comes slightly earlier than some commentators were expecting. The drug is foreseen to be one of GSK's most promising pipeline drugs as well as a potential blockbuster. According to analysts at Nomura Code the sales of the drug could cross 2 bln used by 2010. GSK,...

Ethnic Variations in Hormone Levels May Cause Differences in Breast Cancer Risk

...hites, while women who had recently immigrated had slightly lower levels, but which were not statistically sig...ng findings was that African-American women have a slightly lower post-menopausal breast cancer risk than whites, despite having comparatively higher post-menop...

Human Stem Cells Delay Start of Lou Gehrig’s Disease in Rat

... of nerve// cell damage typical of the disease and slightly prolongs life. The grafted stem cells develop into nerve cells that make substantial connections with existing nerves and do not themselves succumb to Lou Gehrig’s, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study is published in this wee...

Latest Weight-Loss Pill Offers Modest Results, Blocks 'Munchies'

... "The weight loss associated with rimonabant was slightly greater compared to that related to silbutramine use, with more positive impact on cardiometabolic risk. The effects compared with orlistat appear to be greater weight loss and less frequent adverse effects." No head-to-head comparisons had been do...

Mammograms Reduce Breast Cancer Deaths, But Increase Overdiagnosis

... After seven years, the relative risk of death was slightly higher in the screened population; after 13 years, it was slightly lower. At neither time was the difference statistically significant. “We believe more in the good ...

Moderate drinking Beneficial to Heart Health

...le those who drank three units a day or more had a slightly reduced risk. Most impressive was the protection from heart attack that was seen in men who drank moderately. An average of 0.5 to 1.5 units a day nearly halved the risk compared with abstainers, while those who drank between 1.5 and 3 units a day ...

Fewer Women Having Inpatient Breast Cancer Surgery

...breast cancer dropped from 90 per 100,000 women to slightly fewer than 61 per every 100,000 women during the period, and the number of hospital stays for the disease declined from about 125,000 to 90,000. The study also found that: * In 2004, mastectomies – the removal of the entire breast and some of the...

Radioprotective effect of Heat Shock Proteins

...damage, and cell death (apoptosis), but HSP70i was slightly less effective. Finally, HSP25 and HSP70i preserved expression of aquaporin 5, which is important for water transport in salivary glands. It is interesting to note that the results with HSP25 were similar to those observed with amifostine, an FDA-a...

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