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Drugs Taken During Pregnancy Found To Affect Unborn Babies

...rs studied 17 full-term newborns whose mothers had taken an SSRI during pregnancy and 17 similar infants whose mothers had not taken one of the drugs, assessing them for more subtle neurobehavioral differences. They found infants exp...

Possibility of Link Diabetes with Iron

... iron.// In this research the blood samples were taken in 1989-90 from women with no history of diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer. 700 women ten years post sample who had shown an average iron concentration of 109 nanograms/milliliter manifested with diabetes whereas those with levels of 71.5 ...

Latest Findings On The Deadly Disease - SARS

...of Hong Kong conducted laboratory studies on blood taken from healthy people who donated blood during the outbreak, patients who were in the hospital at the time but didn’t have pneumonia, and health care workers who were also on duty during the epidemic but never developed any symptoms of the disease. T...

The Answer To Prevent Osteoporosis

...as you age. A new study shows the drug alendronate taken daily for 10 years increases // bone density in po...esearchers say women who were on the drug and then taken off of it had a gradual loss of their improvements in their bone density. Researchers say continuo...

The Effectiveness Of The Breast Cancer Drug By Pfizer

...nd name Nolvadex by AstraZeneca Plc and is usually taken for five years. Tamoxifen works by blocking the hormone estrogen, which can stimulate and feed the growth of breast cancer. By contrast, exemestane was the first approved oral therapy that binds to an enzyme known as aromatase, which normally conve...

The Link Between Breast Cancer and Aborted Pregnancy Questioned

...nformation was available from 44,000 women who had taken part in studies where any history of abortion had been recorded long before breast cancer was diagnosed. Data on 39,000 women with breast cancer, where women were asked after breast cancer diagnoses about any previous abortions, gave misleading resul...

DNA Testing For More Accurate Results

...rier transform-infrared spectroscopy to assess DNA taken from a small amount of the patient’s blood. The DNA test for MDS is highly predictive and most promising ,say researchers and they believe that a study with a larger number of samples will validate their initial findings and thus pave the way for c...

Antidepressants Late In Pregnancy Harmful to Unborn Baby

Researchers looked at what effect antidepressants taken late in pregnancy have on the birth of the baby. The study included 997 infants.// All of the babies’ moms took antidepressants during their third trimester.Researchers found that maternal use of antidepressants late in pregnancy causes an increased ...

Zinc Supplements Found To Be Effective In Treating Children With ADHD

...ecently been diagnosed with ADHD but who had never taken any medication for their condition. For six weeks, half of the children were given the standard treatment of stimulants along with zinc supplements and half were given stimulants along with a placebo. Researchers say the children taking zinc improved...

Continuation Of Medication After Heart Surgery Very Important

...ions, or atrial fibrillation, in patients who were taken off their medicine. After studying nearly 4,700 heart surgery patients and tracking their atrial fibrillation episodes, researchers found a strong correlation between the incidents and the discontinuation of heart medicine.Not only did beta blockers...

Genetic Pills A Future Thought

...out that approach. When the lipid/DNA globule is taken up by a cell, it's moved to an acid-filled compartment called the endosome. A key step here, is to engineer lipids that can get the DNA out of the endosome and into the cell nucleus where most of the genetic material resides.Thus researchers conclude...

Hope for Patients With HIV

...f AIDS in patients with HIV.The drug prednisolone, taken without any antiviral therapy, postponed the loss of T-cells that leads to AIDS for two to 10 years in 50 percent of HIV patients. Patients were found to have T-cell counts higher than they did at the start of the trial. Only 5 percent of patients wh...

Your Wheezing Could be Due To Your Bed

...diately adjacent to the nose and mouth needs to be taken care of as it may provoke respiratory disorders....

Blood Pressure Checks To Be Done For Children As Young As Age 3

...nce it is very important that clinical measures be taken to reduce risks and to optimize positive health outcomes....

Regeneration of muscle

...n in injured tissue. It was seen that stem cells taken from regenerating muscle in mice lacking the Pax7 ...lls, and that by putting Pax7 back into stem cells taken from uninjured muscle, they can generate a population of cells that readily differentiate into muscl...

Life Quality For Patients With Multiple Sclerosis

...from the MS patients were then compared to results taken from a sample of people in the general population. Multiple sclerosis patients in the quality of life survey did report more problems in the areas of physical functioning, vitality, and overall health, they were no more likely than people in the gen...

A Word Of Caution For Tampon Users

...decade when the highest absorbency tampons were // taken off the market. The number of cases are once again climbing putting the latest toxic shock syndrome statistics at 5 per 100,000 women. Toxic shock syndrome is often associated with improper tampon use. It is an illness brought on by Staphylococcus a...

Blood Pressure An Early Warning Sign Of Alzheimer’s Disease

...y started the study. They had their blood pressure taken and physical examinations at the start of the study and again three and six years later. Results showed that 147 of the patients were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and 39 with dementia at the three-year follow up. At six years, another 91 peop...

The Dangers Of Herb-Drugs Evaluated

St. Johns wort is a popular herb taken by many Americans. While some research suggests St... in blood concentration of conventional drugs when taken with St. Johh’s wort. Research shows St. John’s wort has the potential to affect the way the body r...

The Uses Of Soy Protein

...g with an increase in cholesterol. Some women have taken hormone therapy to offset these effects of menopause, yet recent studies have shown many risks associated with hormone therapy. Isoflavones, which are estrogen-like compounds naturally occurring in soy protein, have been suggested as an alternative f...

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