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Menopause considerations

...east four years before menopause, so women who are still menstruating may still have problems getting pregnant. The study compared 22 pairs of identical twins, 37 pairs of non-ide...

New therapy better at increasing bone density

...e-medication therapy. It may be best for women who still lose bone on a single drug, or who present with multiple fractures....

Is Obesity a risk factor?

...t for coronary heart disease - here, overweight is still a risk factor that needs addressing....

Sleeping sickness - a silent killer

...he Tsetse fly for a long time before that, and are still dying today. Sleeping Sickness has been dubbed as the Silent Killer because its victims are mostly from rural populations where medical screening is rare and cause of death often goes unrecorded. The meeting in Burkina Faso, which over 300 scientis...

Cigerettes unsafe during pregnancy

... per cent since 1989, however last year 158 babies still died from SIDS," said Dorothy Ford from SIDS Australia."There could be a significant further reduction in deaths if all women stopped smoking."Dr Walsh and colleagues found that while health care givers were "well placed to inform and influence pregn...

Complementary and Alternative medicine

...ey tended to stay with it. Almost 50 per cent were still using the therapy 11 to 20 years on. There were, however, some dramatic shifts in the popularity of various therapies. In the 1960s, diet-based programmes and self-help were in the ascendant, in the '70s it was biofeedback, energy healing and herbs. ...

Diet Can Influence Allergic Skin Reactions

...es, skin care products and cleaners, patients who still did not see a reduction in symptoms were asked to eliminate foods that contain BOP-related chemicals. Such foods include chocolate, citrus fruits, ice cream, cola and tomatoes--in short dozens of foods that people most like to eat. Study participants...

Fish for the lungs

...ypes of lung cancer. But experts stress that it is still better to quit smoking. A recent study from the Imperial Cancer Research Fund reveals that four food products - tomato sauce, carrots, multi-vitamin pills, and fish oil supplements - were associated with a significantly lower risk of lung cancer in...

Dopamine helps stroke survivors

... end of this time, recovery of motor function was still better in the levodopa group. Another recent trial has suggested that amphetamines, which boost levels of another neurotransmitter - noradrenaline (norepinephrine) - helps stroke survivors. Till now, physiotherapy has been the only treatment given ...

Smallpox as Biological Weapons?

...ed so it could be administered to more people, and still be effective. // “Anthrax is not easily transferred, so to develop it as weapon is difficult, and in most cases it responds quite well to antibiotics,” Matthews said. . “What I would be a lot more fearful and wary of is an outbreak of smallpox, ca...

For healthy lungs

... The precise mechanism by which this may occur is still to be unravelled, but scientists believe that antioxidants work by attaching themselves to, and rendering harmless, particles called "free radicals". These circulate in the body and are thought to cause cell damage which can trigger cancer developm...

Drugs to stop burgeon of HIV

...ll reduce the spread of the virus. "The virus will still replicate, but eventually the cell dies and the viruses, defenceless without surface membranes, are eaten up by macrophages," he explained. At present there are two types of anti-HIV drugs available – reverse transcriptase inhibitors such as AZT and...

Biotechnology on the lead

... fragment of the molecule and produce a safer, but still very effective vaccine that has no toxicity in and of itself."...

Slightly High BP Poses Health Risk

...ssure levels that tend to be slightly elevated but still considered to be within normal ranges--called high-normal--are at increased risk for suffering from heart disease. Blood pressure readings are taken in two numbers. The systolic value i.e., the first number in a blood pressure measurement, represents...

Ranbaxy gets US FDA approval for Lisinopril

... Ranbaxy, for Lisinopril and Hydrochlorithizide is still outstanding and pending approval from the US FDA. The tentative US FDA approval has been given for Lisinopril tablets USP 2.5 mg, 5 mg, 10 mg 20 mg and 40 mg. Based on kinetic studies, it has been deemed to be a bio-equivalent and therapeutically e...

Gene Treatment for Heart Disease

...other problem. This latest treatment option is still in early testing, but relies on the use of genes to produce proteins called growth factors that stimulate the heart to grow new vessels. The treatment with the growth factor called VEGF-2 worked better, says researcher Douglas Losordo, MD, of St. Eli...

Research of Ritalin

...es appear to be safe when used properly, but it is still important to ask what it is doing in the brain."said Dr Walker. Mice were used in the experiment. One group was given sweetened milk containing Ritalin, and their brains were compared to those of another group given just sweetened milk.According to ...

Simvastatin Plus Niacin May Lower Heart Risks

...ent with such vitamins could be expected to confer still more protection. In the study, patients took either a combination of simvastatin (Zocor) and niacin alone, antioxidants alone, simvastatin-niacin plus antioxidants, or placebo. The antioxidant treatment included vitamins E, C, beta-carotene and sel...

MSI puts on hold plans for operations in Chennai

...st decision of the company means that Chennai will still continue to have the existing five corporate retailers, viz, Apollo Pharmacy, Subiksha Trading Company, TruValue, Health & Glow and Vitan, which have been offering discounts to attract customers. Subiksha, the first and the largest player in the segm...

Early delivery can prevent cancer

... in people. In young women, whose breast tissue is still developing, this appears to have life-long effects. The effect is most marked in women who give birth before they are 20, said Professor O'Malley. The research is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

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