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Hot Flashes in Men Treated for Prostate Cancer Reduced by Non-hormonal Drug

...heir ovaries stop producing estrogen. Similarly, a sudden loss of testosterone in men, from androgen deprivation therapy, can also result in hot flashes. (Testosterone is part of a class of compounds known as androgens, which are largely steroid hormones. This class of compounds also includes the precursors...

Reduced Oxygen to the Brain Increases Alzheimers Risk in Stroke Victims

...long-term conditions like emphysema and angina, to sudden incidents such as a heart attack, stroke or even head trauma. Even though the patient may outwardly recover, the hidden cell damage may be irreversible, Peers said. It could even be an issue for people who snore heavily, whose sleep patterns are su...

Breakthrough for Treatment of Fatal Heart Condition

... US and can lead to heart failure, arrhythmias and sudden death. The condition varies in its manifestation, ...t fully known. It is also the most common cause of sudden cardiac death in athletes, as hypertrophic hearts are unable to cope with intense physical activity....

Low Serum Potassium Levels Linked to Increased Death Risk in Heart Patients

...ing that most low potassium associated deaths were sudden deaths due to ventricular arrhythmias, he added. The findings of the study were published in the June issue of the European Heart Journal....

Recurrence of SIDS Overestimated: Study

Parents who have lost their first child sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) shouldnt live in constant fear that the same will happen to their second child, for according to a review study , the recurrence of the syndrome has been overestimated in studies so far. The authors studied eight popula...

Anti-Epileptic Drug Intake May Result In Children With Mental Retardation

...anofi-Synthelabo . would urge patients not to make sudden changes to their medication without first discussing them with their doctor." ANN/B...

RFID Use can Avoid Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

...ave around 2,250 babies in US alone who succumb to sudden infant death syndrome each year. Hung Cao, a gr...rsity of Texas has come up with a new solution for sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS. Hung Cao, along with his friends developed a device that can warn...

Animal Model of Disease may Be Helpful for Young Children With Epilepsy

...fancy and early childhood. The disorder involves a sudden bending forward and stiffening of the body, arms, and legs. The seizures typically last one to five seconds and occur in clusters, ranging from two to 100 spasms at a time. There are few available treatments. In two studies, the authors report dev...

Chronically Ill Prisoners Face Great Healthcare Problems

...ding nursing researcher Gill Hek, who died after a sudden illness in November 2006. 'Gill was a great nurse and a great researcher' says Dr Powell. 'This paper is an important part of her considerable legacy to nursing research and its publication would not have been possible without the major contributio...

Teens can Perform CPR as Well as Adults and Should Be Taught from an Early Age

...than doubles the chance of survival for victims of sudden cardiac arrest. Chest compressions are thought to be the most important component of CPR, but they are physically demanding. The ‘Heartstart Schools’ training programme, developed by the British Heart Foundation, introduces chest compression at ag...

Scientists Identify Critical Gene Factor in Heart Development

...beat. Defects in the heart rhythm frequently cause sudden death in humans and are the reason for pacemakers and defibrillators. Loss of miR-1-2 also caused a breakdown of the control of cell division in the heart cells. This is potentially a very important finding. Adult heart cells do not divide. When a...

New Research Shows That Flu is a Trigger of Heart Attacks

... quiescent, stable atherosclerotic plaques undergo sudden changes, mainly due to exaggerated inflammation, leading to rupture of these vulnerable plaques and subsequent formation of clots resulting in heart attacks. "This study shows that flu is an important trigger of heart attacks because flu is a seve...

Can Our Hospitals Cope In A Disaster?

...red hospital system would struggle to cope under a sudden surge of patients in the case of a large-scale emergency, say trauma and emergency specialists.// At present there are no standard preparedness targets for Australasian hospitals, says Dr Anthony Joseph, Director of Trauma at Sydney’s Royal North ...

Denim Lovers Beware, Fertility Could Be in Danger, Says a New Study

...ature than otherwise would be the case. Besides, sudden weight gain leads to increase in abdominal fat, which also leads to high testicular temperature. Stress is another factor that lowers the sperm count, she says. A State University of New York study three years ago had showed how laptops could dama...

Scales Tipping Alarmingly in the U.S.

...isease Control and Prevention say there has been a sudden increase in the count of extremely obese Americans...hes. Experts are voicing their concerns over the sudden increase of people whose BMI are higher than normal, in spite of increased public awareness on the...

A Broken Heart can Break Lifeline

...ould spark off irregular heart rhythms, leading to sudden cardiac death. In the words of the researchers, “We know that stress can increase the risk of sudden death through cardiac arrest and that the brain areas responsible for regulating heart function can ...

Glucose Causes Death of Brain Cells in Rodents Following Hypoglycemic Coma

...chers have identified the cause of the damage: the sudden return of glucose to the brain activates the enzyme NADPH oxidase, which in turn initiates a process of oxidative stress that is fatal to neurons. Oxidative stress occurs when cells are poisoned by highly reactive forms of oxygen. Previously, it ha...

Deflecting Damage: Flexible Electronics Aid Brain Injury Research

...ure microelectrodes that are able to withstand the sudden stretching that is used to simulate severe head trauma. The systems could allow far more nuanced studies of brain injury than previously possible and may lead to better treatments in the minutes and hours immediately following the injury. The work al...

Stress Increases Inflammation in Pregnancy, Putting Women at Risk

...levels. Preeclampsia, symptoms of which include sudden increases in blood pressure, excessive weight gain and severe headaches, can affect the mother’s kidney, liver and brain function. If left untreated, preeclampsia can result in seizures or even coma during pregnancy. Uncontrolled preeclampsia can thr...

Outsourcing Farming, a Chinese Initiative

...till cheap and plentiful, reports say. 'All of a sudden you have a global market for land, a competition between several different products for the same amount of land,' said Sergio Barroso, president for the Brazil operations of Cargill, the biggest grain trader in the world. Brazil’s soybean industry is...

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