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Alcohol in Moderation Could Increase the Life Span

...his issue have looked at cardiovascular disease, a term that includes clinical events of various severity, the study published on the Archives of In-ternal Medicine shows a positive effect of alcohol on an unquestionably hard parameter as overall mortality. Alcohol as a life insurance" Not exactly. The...

Optimum Period is Five Years to Treat Osteoporosis: Study

...ntially hazardous side effects even when used long term for up to a decade. . Professor Dennis Black, the lead researcher opined that the results were quite conclusive in terms of understanding clearly how much time a patient should be put on these drugs for a desired benefit. Professor Black is from th...

Women Faces No Risk on Discontinuation of Osteoporosis Drug

...ews for this group." According to Black, shorter term studies of up to five years duration have shown reductions in fracture risk with alendronate treatment. This was the first study to examine the effects on fracture using the drug longer than five years, he said. "We found that women who discontinu...

Is Workers’ Comp. Settlements for Back Pain Fair

...njuries don’t necessarily fare worse over the long term than those who get lower ratings.// This new study is among the first to examine the relationship between Workers’ Compensation settlements for back pain and long-term functional outcomes. The study, which reinforces previous research showing ‘bla...

Blood Transfusions Raise Heart Patients’ Infection and Death Ris

... professor of internal medicine. Allogeneic is the term for blood from another person. The authors strongly note that blood transfusions can be life-saving, and that the infections observed in this study are not likely due to contamination of the blood. Rather, they may be due to other factors, includin...

Adults Who Go to Bed Lonely Get Stress Hormone Boost Next Morning

...ially harmful to physical health. But in the short term the stress hormone is adaptive and helpful, according to Adam. “Cortisol helps us respond to stressful experiences and do something about them,” she said. “It is necessary for survival -- fluctuations in this hormone assist us in meeting the changi...

Magic Mushrooms Treat Obsessive Compulsion Disorder

...o other drug which shows such effects in a short term of its usage. The use of magic mushrooms is allowed, in spite of being banned by Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970. Source-Eurekalert KOM...

Healthy Potato Chips: A Trans Fat Oil With Health Benefits

For plenty of good reasons, the term “trans fat” leaves a bad taste in the mouths of he... dairy products contain less than 1 percent. The term “trans fatty acids” refers to the manner in which carbon atoms are bound together in the oil molecul...

Scots Demand Best Quality Treatment For COPD As Christmas Gift

...COPD or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease is a term that refers to a number of lung conditions including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. The rate of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is higher in Scotland than the rest of the UK. Around 33,000 Scots are reported to suffer from COPD and...

Durable Critters Provides Better Way to Human Egg Preservation

... line is only about 1-5 percent of eggs develop to term after standard cryopreservation techniques, which include a combination of slow freezing in conjunction with low levels of cryoprotectants such as dimethyl sulfoxide, or rapid freezing with more cryoprotectants. Dr. Eroglu says the sugars, which he...

More Effective Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer Evaluated

...o the affected women ensuring better care and long term survival of the patients. Dr. Margot Burnell who is a breast cancer researcher, pointed out that breast cancer remains as one of the most common cancers diagnosed among women in North America. Almost 40% of all women who are diagnosed with breast can...

Obesity Could Bankrupt the Health System, Warn Doctors

... believe that prevention is the only economic long term solution to the problem and recommend that: The food industry needs to take more responsibility for preventing obesity. And governments, as custodians of public health, should create the conditions for this to happen The advertising of energy dense ...

Asthma Warning As Bushfires Burn

...ughing. 'In healthy adults, the effects of short term exposure to smoke will clear up fairly quickly once the smoke has gone away,' said Dr Yong. 'But if you're asthmatic, the air pollution can be a catalyst for symptoms such as wheezing, coughing and chest tightness. 'Likewise, people with heart an...

Having OCP’s All Year Round to Eliminate Menstrual Cycles Not Unsafe: Says Stud

...ave shown that oral contraceptives taken on a long term basis to do away with menstrual cycle is safe to use.They claim that it is both safe and effective.The study// was published in the journal” Contraception”.There are low dose OCP’s in the market that help to reduce the number of menstrual periods to ...

Limited Calorie Intake Holds the Key to Delay Ageing

...young adult monkeys, between18-23 years, on a long term basis. Results elicited thus far prove a more compatible reaction from the immune system, with improved T-cell production, reflected by better resistance to infectious diseases .28 other monkeys were also part of the study with normal diets. The stud...

Much Ado About Herbicide Sprays?

...raying, and clearing of brush, are exposed to long term health risks, due to the presence of contaminants in the spray. The finding follows a series of scientific reports, communicating potential health risks due to the extensive spraying of chemical herbicides in the military training base in Canada. ...

Mifepristone Reliable For Treating Uterine Fibroids

...bstetrics and Gynecology. Leiomyoma, the medical term for uterine fibroids, affects roughly half of all women aged 35 to 49. The non-cancerous tumors cause iron-deficiency anemia due to excessive menstrual bleeding, and deeply impact the quality of life for women who have this condition. Thousands of wo...

Fears That Connect Cell Phone With Cancer Risk Baseless: Reports Study

...rrent Danish study categorically says that no long term or short term ill effects could be associated with the regular use of cell phones. The study ruled out the possibi...

Creating Memories During Sleep

...ring deep sleep. Thereafter it gets stored as long term memory. Investigations by Thomas Hahn, Mayank Mehta and the Nobel Prize winner Bert Sakmann from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have now shed new light on the mechanisms that create memory. According to their findings,...

Drug Coated Stents Under the Scanner

...clear if the drug, Plavix, is safe to consume long term for stent patients. According to some doctors, the risk is not always detrimental, because an approximate 5 clots are found in every 1000 drug coated stent patients. An FDA panel is due to meet soon, to thrash out existing doubts. Patients with s...

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