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With More Appearance Conscious Consumers The Need For Slimming Products Is Rapidly Rising

...up 16 per cent to €8 million during 2004. Almost a third of these sales come from thermogenics, or fat burners, while a quarter are generated by fat or carb blockers. Appetite suppressants were responsible for 16 per cent of all tablet sales. But other slimming products really emerged in 2004, under the ...

Arthritis risk reduced by exercise

... of nine exercises, most of them for the legs. The third did no exercise and served as a comparison group. After 15 months, 50 percent of the non-exercise group reported they had lost some or all ability to transfer from a bed to a chair, bathe, use the toilet or dress. In comparison, about 30 percent of ...

Mechanical forces drive early heart development

...uring the second day, blood flow starts and by the third day the tube is beginning to look like a heart, with septums later forming in two different regions to create left and right ventricles on one side, and right and left atria on the other, says Taber. It appears that regional stiffness plays a role i...

First telesurgery

...o led the team, said the operation ushered in "the third revolution we've seen in the field of surgery in the past 10 years". "It lays the foundations for the globalisation of surgical procedures, making it possible to imagine that a surgeon could perform an operation on a patient anywhere in the world," h...

Heart Patients Use Alternative Medicine

...se some kind of alternative medicine, and almost a third take dietary supplements that could thwart their prescription medications. Kline-Rogers, at the University of Michigan Health System, found that heart patients seem to be turning to alternative therapies even more than the general population, even wh...

First telesurgery

...o led the team, said the operation ushered in "the third revolution we've seen in the field of surgery in the past 10 years". "It lays the foundations for the globalisation of surgical procedures, making it possible to imagine that a surgeon could perform an operation on a patient anywhere in the world," h...

Vaginal Vaccine may prevent periodic infections

...tudy and then one at weeks 1, 2, 6, 10 and 14. The third group received three active and three placebo treatments over a similar time frame. The entire group of women were followed for 4 months to record side effects and to see whether their UTIs returned. The researchers found that 30% of patients in the...

No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

... The study found that one in 100,000 women taking third generation birth control pills had a heart attack ...pills. Spitzer points out that controversies about third generation oral contraceptives have focused on blood clots in the veins, while neglecting to illumin...

Peaceful Slumber said to Restore Memories

...uence suffered when they tried to repeat it on the third day. But they performed the second exercise reliably -- suggesting that "not all memories are equal," and the order in which they are learned may be important .Researchers thus concluded that further experiments are needed to assess a number of fact...

New Blood Thinner Pill - First Potential Alternative to Warfarin in 50 years

... was no significant difference in bleeding. In a third study in the journal, researchers reported that a daily injection of the blood thinner Arixtra works as well as standard intravenous heparin in treating blood clots in the lung. Arixtra, also known as fondaparinux, does not require monitoring like he...

Getting A Suntan The Easy Way

... was given to the volunteers’ buttocks. And in the third study, eight volunteers were randomized into two g...in cells darkened at a higher dose of MT-1. In the third study, the tanning was greater in those on the drug, and it was maintained for three weeks longer th...

Cholesterol Drug Also Beneficial for Patients With Diabetes

... had a reduced risk of a heart attack by about one third compared to those on the placebo. The stroke risk was reduced by 48 percent. The study also found the statin drug, atorvastatin (Lipitor), reduced the death rate by 27 percent compared with placebo. Study authors say statin therapy is safe and effec...

Pregnancy Complications Could Be Prevented With A Urine Test

...abnormal levels of protein in the urine during the third trimester of pregnancy. Researchers now say they have found that they could detect certain proteins in the urine indicative of preeclampsia, suggesting a simple urine test could potentially serve as a less expensive and less invasive screening tool. ...

Surgeons Presented Guidelines For Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation

...control of ventricular rate and rhythm. Over one third of patients suffer from AF after cardiac surgery, which is associated with a higher risk of operative morbidity, increased hospital stay, and increased hospital cost. Although previous guidelines have focused on the management of chronic AF, the new ...

Spread Of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Is A Probability, Say Experts

...rcent of those who contract it, has peaked for the third known time this century, with more than 1,800 cases reported nationally in 2003 and 2004. However, scientists believe the number of unreported cases is much greater. Growing awareness among physicians about the disease’s early signs and symptoms may...

Need for early screening and effective cancer treatment in India

...verse as most seek treatment only in the second or third stage. This reduces the chances of a cure. Though colon and rectum cancer is so far not among the top five cancers in India, this may not remain the case as Indians increasingly switch to a western lifestyle and non-vegetarian diets. Most patients...

Gene Decides How Much Exercise In Needed For The Elderly People

...nts who were followed for up to 4.1 years. About a third (31.3 percent) of the group was active, burning mo...ty problems than the non-exercisers. More than a third of adults in the USA in the age group of 70 and older report having difficulty walking a quarter-mil...

Trained Counselors Counseling Pregnant Smokers To Quit May Not Work

...ovement in the smoking habits of the mothers//. A third of pregnant women smoke and current guidelines recommend that they should be offered intensive support to help them quit. Motivational interviewing - a one to one counseling style designed for treating addictions - is widely taught on smoking cessati...

Arthiritis: Brightly-coloured fruit and vegetables offer protection

...und to be an important factor and those in the top third for beta-cryptoxanthin intake were only half as likely to develop IP as those in the lowest third. The findings appear to confirm previous evidence that a modest increase in fruit and vegetables containing beta-cryptoxanthin and vitamin C, equivalen...

Ranbaxy opens Drug discovery centre in Gurgaon

Ranbaxy, Pharmaceutical Company has opened up its third state of the art drug discovery research centre in...ug discovery and development systems”. This is the third R&D centre which has been set up by Ranbaxy for Drug discovery, all the three modern research facili...

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