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Risk Factors For Stroke Studied

...ious study results were observational in nature. A standard scientific approach was used to weed out confounding factors by looking at data on the link between homocysteine and gene variations that cause people to have higher or lower levels of the amino acid in their blood. Researchers also compared risks fr...

Aerobic Exercise Beneficial In Treating Depression

... as good at beating mild to moderate depression as standard antidepressant medications. // In a study comparing five different exercise programs for people with mild to moderate depression, there was a 50-percent reduction in depressive symptoms among those taking part in aerobic exercises like walking on a ...

Understanding The Link Between Movement And Metabolism

...genesis , creates a more effective metabolism than standard organized exercise. Researchers say calories people burn during everyday activities are more important than previously thought. They say obese people sit, on average, about 150 minutes more each day and burn 350 fewer calories than lean people do. 2...

Cooling Can Reduce The Risk Of Brain Damage In Oxygen Deprived Newborns

... suitable for treatment before cooling becomes the standard of care for oxygen-deprived babies....

Blood Thinning Medication Could Prevent Strokes

...fectiveness and safety of ximelagatran compared to standard treatment with the anticoagulants enoxaparin (Lovenox) and warfarin (Coumadin). Current therapy for patients with acute venous thromboembolism consists of about a week of the anticoagulant heparin (Calciparine or Liquaemin) overlapped with and follow...

Fetal Cell Transplant Found To Improve Movement In Patients With Parkinson’s Disease

...ovement. Levodopa (Dopar or Larodopa) is the gold standard treatment for Parkinson’s disease. While the drug offers substantial relief, research shows it tends to lose its effectiveness after five to 10 years of use. Researchers say after one year, the transplant is equivalent to about 30-percent of the levo...

New treatment for Cancer by injecting heated drugs

...e was applied. These people were also treated with standard medication for treatment of cancer as well. The ra...re for patients with IPHC than patients undergoing standard course of treatment only. The procedure is showing promise for treatment of ovarian cancer and can...

Understanding The Link Between Celiac Disease And Osteoporosis

...tpacing that which would normally be expected with standard osteoporosis drugs. Researchers say their study raises the question of who should be screened for celiac disease and when, hence they suggest that further study be done inorder to more clearly define the population at risk....

Freedom From Nagging Pricks For Diabetic Kids ?

...des detected by the GW2B, 33 were confirmed by the standard finger prick test. However, about 35 percent of the children dropped out of the study after six weeks due to irritation from the device or because they were unduly disturbed by the alarms. In conclusion additional studies might be needed before this ...

A New Addition Could Help Patients With Parkinson’s Disease

Researchers say by adding the drug rasagiline to standard treatment with levodopa can reduce the amount of time Parkinson’s disease // patients spend suffering from motor fluctuations they experience during the day . For the study researchers compared once-daily oral rasagiline to the drug entacapone, whic...

Angioplasty death risk reduced by doubling drug dose

...g. In this new study, patients received either the standard dose of 300 milligrams or received a dose of 600 m...n in heart attack risk compared to those given the standard dose. Additionally, a subgroup of patients taking the higher dose as well as the cholesterol-lowerin...

Test to help detect Alzheimer's disease early

Researchers have fine-tuned the standard test to detect dementia so that it can be used to detect disease and related diseases early. The test called National Institute //of Ageing's Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's disease's 10-word list (CWL) needs only ten minutes to a...

Angioplasty death risk reduced by doubling drug dose

...g. In this new study, patients received either the standard dose of 300 milligrams or received a dose of 600 m...n in heart attack risk compared to those given the standard dose. Additionally, a subgroup of patients taking the higher dose as well as the cholesterol-lowerin...

Relieving Pelvic Pain In Pregnant Women

... divided 386 women into three groups. One received standard treatment, another received standard treatment plus acupuncture, and the third underwent standard treatment plus stabilizing exercise tha...

Aspirin For Treating Blocked Brain Arteries

...eceive either aspirin or warfarin. Warfarin is the standard drug prescribed in these procedures. In a following up process that took 1.8 yrs, warfarin treatment had an increased number of adverse events like myocardial infarction or sudden death, death from vascular causes, and death from nonvascular causes....

Study suggests symptom driven therapy for adults with asthma

...n lung function as those who were treated with the standard treatment of daily long-term control medication. Asthma is considered mild when the symptoms exist as wheezing, coughing, or chest tightness more than twice a week and less than daily. Individuals suffering from mild asthmatic attacks do not have a ...

Music to help schizophrenic patients

...to find out the effect of music therapy along with standard medical care administered to patients suffering fr... emotional well being than those who received only standard medical care. When added to standard care, music therapy helps people with schizophrenia improve th...

Risk of breast cancer may be lowered by diet

...e years. All type women in the study had undergone standard breast cancer management procedures like mastectomy or lumpectomy plus radiation, tamoxifen for ER positive, chemotherapy for ER negative, and optional chemotherapy for ER positive cases The results of the study shows that reduction of dietary fat c...

New diseases require holistic outlook to treatment

...nd controlling disease outbreaks, and establishing standard regulations across the world regarding animal trade that will stop the spread of the infection across the countries....

PET Scanner detects more Vaginal cancer than CT scans

...logy, Physics’ and this may change the future gold standard for early detection of cancers of this region. According to study author Perry W. Grigsby, M.D., professor of radiation oncology and radiology, ‘The results of this study suggest that the use of PET, or positron emission tomography, would make diagn...

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