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Hypertensive Drug Improves Sexual Dysfunction in Hypertensive Men

...cording to American Journal of Medical sciences, a study evaluated hypertensive men with erectile dysfunction and found that their overall sexual satisfaction rose from about 7.3% before losartan therapy to 58.5 % after losartan treatment. It was also reported that the sexual activity atleast once a week ...

New dimension in the treatment of female sexual dysfunction

...eatment in such sexual dysfunction, according to a study released at the 96th annual meeting of the America... California. This report was the end result of the study done by Irwin Goldstein MD, and colleagues from Boston University School of Medicine who administere...

ZD1839 Proves Effective - A Breakthrough in fighting Lung Cancer

...w York and the principal investigator of the first study said, "It is hoped that our study will be a prelude to better outcomes for NSCLC patients in the near future." No novel toxicities wer...

Smoking spreads Cancer

...tween smoking and the spread of the disease," says study author Susan Murin, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University of California at Davis. Dr. Murin says the research may help explain why breast cancer is more likely to be fatal among smokers as it is common for breast cancer to metastasiz...

Antibiotic induces liver damage in children with E.COLI infections.

...e often caused by eating undercooked meat. A major study shows using antibiotics to treat children with E. ...ildren with diarrhea caused by E. coli 0157," says study co-author, Dr. Phillip Tarr, of the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center and the Universi...

Eat greens to have a ever green heart

...rd University, the cheif investigator of the first study found that just one additional daily serving of fr...lood flow in men with high cholesterol, the second study reveals. "The beneficial effects of dietary intervension are not limited solely to its action on fat...

Vitamin Shields Brittle Bones

...f Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, has shown her study using the animal model that Vitamin E may prevent ...ter menopause as effectively as estrogen. In this study it is shown that female rats that had their ovaries removed and treated with vitamin E had much high...

Sweet Candies replace bitter Pills for Anaemia

...nesia and colleagues. The results of the present study indicate that the iron-fortified candies, which provided 48% of the recommended dietary allowance of iron per week, were acceptable to children aged 4 to 6 years and improved their iron status. It is also noted that these candies increase the iron i...

Ginseng's efficacy debatable

... his colleague, Hermann Engles, PhD, conducted the study and found that there was really no benefit in taki... Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, where he said, "The study is limited due to the population sample". "Many studies done in China have shown ginseng's beneficia...

Asthma! A new warning for heart disease

...barren, MD, MPH, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente, in his study found that non smoking patients with asthma had a ...ular mortality among patients with asthma, the new study reveals that the connection - and the risks - appear to be there even for nonsmokers. This particula...

TIZANIDINE - New solution to chronic headache

...rological Institute in Ann Arbor found it in their study that tizanidine reduced severe headaches by 55%.Dr. Alvin Lake and his colleagues did a study on 92 patients, half of these patients selected randomly and were treated with tizanidine and found ...

Lose stomach for Life....Preventive removal of stomach saves the risk of cancer

... On this basis these members were taken in for the study and after thorough counselling they underwent sur... is by targeting the high risk individuals as this study goes....

Heart disease threat starts early in life for Diabetics

...lifornia and Children's Hospital Los Angeles did a study involving 57 diabetics ages 12 to 21 and a group o...ry, smoking and length of time with diabetes. The study shows that the Diabetics are more prone for developing atherosclerosis, a condition in which fatty p...

Protein in urine foresees heart disease

...h.D., co-author of the report. In this particular study which involved around 12000 women, it was found that those in the top group had more than four times higher risk of having died of cardiovascular disease as those in the group for whom no albumin in the urine could be detected."We know from studying ...

New point scale to ascertain the stroke recovery

...gist at the NINDS. Dr. Warach and collegues did a study on 129 subjects. They have devised a 0-7 point scale to assess the severity of the stroke and thereby the recovery. He said only 6% of patients with a low score of 0-2 recovered, but 47% who had medium scores and 93% with the highest marks recovered....

Acupuncture superseeds massage therapy for short term relief of pain

...Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich has done a study on this basis and found that when it comes to chro...at there were no significant differences among the study groups which employed acupuncture or massage therapy. Hence they concluded that acupuncture to be ef...

Test-tube babies show no emotional problems

...ren, according to new research. The world's first study that followed in-vitro, or test tube, babies to the brink of adolescence showed that youngsters who had been conceived through fertility treatments do not suffer any more psychological problems than other children. Since Louise Brown, the world's fi...

Soluble IL-4 Receptor - A new boon for asthmatics

...n did decline among those receiving placebo. This study is "the first...to demonstrate the potential clinical efficacy of a TH2 inhibitor for the treatment of asthma," the investigators note. This soluble IL-4 receptor, which isn't a corticosteroid, selectivelyinhibits allergic mechanisms will be a new b...

Obesity raises IVF miscarriage risk

...atients who had managed to conceive with IVF. The study looked at the progress of a variety of women and compared this with their body mass index(BMI)- their weight in kilos divided height in metres squared. Women with a BMI of between 30 and 35-obese but not grossly obese had a miscarriage rate after fe...

WORM! WORM! all the way

...ns. Dr. Joel Weinstock and colleagues conducted a study wherein 20 to 30 patients were given a mixture of ...a differs from that seen in normal mice. A recent study of 50 people who had undergone a colostomy, or removal of part of the colon, to treat severe ulcerat...

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