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Liver transplant oversight urged

...his brother. In their proposal, James Trotter and three colleagues at Denver's University of Colorado said an external regulator should carry out the task of certifying such units. They also urged adoption of uniform medical criteria for picking donors and recipients. The number of living-donor liver tran...

Gene variation simulates cholesterol response to oestrogen

...er cent of the women carried it. They had a two to three times greater increase in HDL compared to women who did not have this variant of the gene. Having high HDL should decrease the risk of heart disease although it is not yet known whether the current findings will mean fewer heart attacks for these w...

Hypertensive drugs may cause cough

... found their cough significantly improved, and for three it had virtually disappeared. There was no such improvement in the placebo group. The researchers say that iron decreases levels of nitric oxide, a hormone that is known to irritate the lungs. It is very difficult to state that iron should be re...

Panel suggests selling allergy drugs OTC

...U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended that three popular allergy drugs are safe enough to be used without a prescription. The FDA does not have to follow the advice of its advisory committee, though it usually does. There is no deadline for making a decision. // "Drugs are prescription for a reas...

Spirituality relieves stress

...nd other techniques for dealing with stress. After three months, their psychological distress had more than halved - bringing them into the normal range - while their physical health also improved. There was no change within the control group, who didn't get the training. According to Dr Kimberley Willi...

Avacado protects from liver damage

...mount of liver damage. The Researchers discovered three new compounds that might explain why the avocado is protective. "Besides offering taste and nutrition, avocados seem to improve liver health," said Hirokazu Kawagishi, professor of applied biological chemistry, at Shizuoka University. "I have begun e...

Pulses and grains protect the heart

...,000 women, those who ate the equivalent of two to three slices of whole-grain bread each day were 30% to 40% less likely to have an ischemic (blocked artery)or stroke than women who ate the equivalent of less than half a slice each day.Out of a group of 34,000 adults, those who ate the most whole grains h...

Artificial silicon retina

... Retina (ASR), is being planned to be implanted in three people suffreing from retinal damage.This project ..., who had already done this work an year back over three people who had lost their vision due to a hereditory condition called retinitis pigmentosa,said that...

Sharing injection equipment spreads Hepatitis C

...ction drug users who shared cookers were more than three times more likely to contract HCV. Sharing cotton filters more than doubled a person's risk of contracting HCV, the report indicates. Thorpe and colleagues feel that this study provides enough evidence that sharing of drug injection paraphernalia ot...

Chewing gum found to increase brainpower

...heart rate of the real chewers after the tests was three beats per minute faster than the non-chewers, and 1.5 beats per minute faster than the sham chewers. "What we think is that the mild increase in heart rate may improve the delivery of oxygen and glucose to the brain, enough to improve cognitive func...

Breast cancer risk seen in twins

...h an identical twin who develop breast cancer have three times the average risk of also developing the disease. Professor Julian Peto, a scientist for Cancer Research UK, has been analyzing data from US female twins. These were identical and non-identical twins where one twin already had breast cancer.// T...

Light therapy decreases depression during pregnancy

...rom a light box within 15 minutes of waking up for three to six weeks. The researchers reported that the ...provement of their levels of depression after just three weeks of light treatment. For the seven women who underwent five weeks of light therapy, their avera...

High Altitude ‘Speeds up ageing process

... in both sexes. “Maybe the decline in one of these three hormone levels is key to the ageing process and maybe if you reverse it, you might reverse the ageing process.” ...

DNA of deceased ones stored in Funeral Homes

... D'Esopo since the home began offering the service three months ago, Klett said. Naegele started collecting...pany has stored at least 1,000 samples in the last three years. Although DNA Analysis has been open for business since 1989, DNA collection is only starting...

Healthy snacks improve nutrition of kids

...dents with an 8-ounce portion of healthy ice cream three afternoons per week for 4 weeks. During the 3-month study period, which included a month before and a month after the period when children were given the ice cream, researchers calculated the students' dietary intake by questioning them once a week a...

Patients with testicular cancer dying through unfamiliarity

... Radboud, warn that a treatment delay of more than three months for testicular carcinoma is associated with a (significantly decreased) five-year survival rate. And they say that diagnostic delay is often due to patients' ignorance of the condition, fear or embarrassment. In an accompanying commentary in ...

Pancreatic Cancer may be linked to Diabetes

...kely to be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer within three years following onset of diabetes.In the study, th...ester, between 1970 and 1996 and followed them for three years to see who developed pancreatic cancer. Investigators found 1,050 new diabetes cases in peopl...

Zinc helps in curtailing diarrhea in children

... diarrhea around the world. Researchers who tested three different methods of zinc administration in nearly...rom Texas and India, compared the effectiveness of three different methods of zinc administration to see which method worked best. Around half of the childr...

Care for footwear not required diabetic patients

...lcer rates after two years were equally low in all three groups. The researchers suggest that it's not the footwear, but the quality of foot care that makes the difference in diabetes....

FDA changes rules on testing drugs for children

...ate, which drug makers hated, unnecessary.// But three Democrats complained to President Bush that the action was halting "an important regulation that protects children from potentially unsafe and improperly dosed medications." Adult medications are commonly given to children without studies of their ...

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