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Keys to good bone health

...ength regimen, these exercises should be performed three to five times per week, and the goal is to work up...prevention program, and should be performed two to three times per week. They strengthen the muscles and stimulate the bones to grow stronger. Exercising wit...

Drug Combinations May Boost Stroke Risk

...asing their risk of stroke. //The study reports on three patients who developed ischemic strokes related to the use of serotonin-enhancing medications, which include certain antidepressants, anti-migraine drugs, decongestants and diet pills. Ischemic strokes occur when a blockage or extreme narrowing of an...

Get, set, go...

...circuit training programme lasting 15 minutes just three times a week. Children in this group were to skip and do box jumps, side-to-side jumps and other high-impact exercises.Other children spend the same amount of time doing stretches and warm ups.After a year, the girls doing circuit training had amas...

Beverage protect against bladder cancer

...lar coffee drinkers. Smokers who drank coffee were three times as likely to develop bladder cancer as non-smoking coffee drinkers. But smokers who didn't drink coffee were seven times as likely to develop the disease as non-smokers. The authors conclude that the results show that smoking may be an even g...

Butterbur does wonders

...on-sedating antihistamine called cetirizine. After three weeks, the treatments had achieved similar effects. Butterbur is a perennial shrub, found throughout Europe as well as parts of Asia and North America, that has been used medicinally for centuries. During the Middle Ages it was used to treat plague...

Immunisation to prevent cot deaths

...he live babies had taken part. Among children of three or more months old, 68% of cot death victims had received the vaccines, compared with 95% of the surviving children. Report author Peter Fleming said "Our data suggest that immunisation does not contribute to the risk of sudden infant death syndrome ...

Magnesium sulfate offers no help in migraine treatment

...rvals. The infusion was stopped after a maximum of three doses or when pain relief was obtained. Examination of visual analogue pain scores demonstrated that those in the placebo group showed greater pain reduction than those in the magnesium group.// Commenting on this unexpected finding, Dr. Corbo told ...

Early menopause- The cause

... They found the inhibin alpha gene was mutated in three out of 34 of the women they studied, compared with only one out of 100 in an ethnically matched control group. Lead researcher Dr Andrew Shelling, from Auckland's National Women's Hospital, said the findings could lead to changes in women's reproduct...

Moderate alcohol consumption protects against dementia

...s say moderate alcohol consumption between one and three drinks a day may protect against dementia. The ad...o fared best were people who drank between one and three drinks a day. They had a 42 percent lower risk of developing dementia than the nondrinkers. Resear...

Particulate matter affects lung development

...rend seemed strongest for those who had moved away three years or more before they were tested. Particulate matter is just one ingredient of the hazy cocktail of airborne pollutants that come from the burning of fossil fuels (exhaust from a car or truck), and from emissions from factories or other sources...

Rubella nearly wiped out

...ams, though most have been in effect for less than three years....

Early menopause- The cause

... They found the inhibin alpha gene was mutated in three out of 34 of the women they studied, compared with only one out of 100 in an ethnically matched control group. Lead researcher Dr Andrew Shelling, from Auckland's National Women's Hospital, said the findings could lead to changes in women's reproduct...

Cooling treatment for newborn asphyxia

...will have their temperature cooled for a period of three days before being slowly returned to normal. The cooling procedure will involve a water-filled bed and be carried out by a nurse. It will not cause the babies any discomfort, and the infants will be closely monitored at all times....

Cure for osteoporosis in prostate cancer patients

...follow-up. Three separate morning urine samples on three separate months were collected from each patient and analysed for N-telopeptides. Patients on androgen deprivation therapy who were not treated with diethylstilbesterol had a higher level of urinary creatinine than patients treated with the synthet...

GlaxoSmithKline To Cultivate Non-Smoking Environment

...-mg tablet. The dosage is once a day for the first three days and from the fourth day, two tablets for seven weeks....

Science of swooning

...on another day after the subjects had drunk two to three beers. During the alcohol-free tests, vessels constricted normally and blood pressure did not significantly change, except with extreme negative pressure. After drinking alcohol, blood pressure dropped substantially, proving the theory....

Drugs control and industry departments to share a common e-platform

... 2600 web pages. The portal is being developed in three phases namely, the information phase, the interactive phase and the payment phase. The completion of the final phase would see all the taxes being remitted online by the key industrial sectors in the state. If the departments are already having onlin...

Broccoli's role against cancer

...oraphane, helps cells defend themselves for two or three days against highly reactive and toxic molecules called oxidants.// Unlike standard anti-oxidants that use the molecular equivalent of hand to hand combat, broccoli’s compound is a covert operative that works indirectly.Oxidants are like molecular ...

New Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise

...ne system to destroy the tumor. Patients received three doses of the vaccine at increased levels each time. Vieweg said four men developed flu-like symptoms and fever and four men experienced inflammation at the injection site, but overall, the vaccine was well tolerated. Vieweg points out this vaccine co...

Breast feeding can alter hormones

...pads under their noses four times a day for two to three months. The results showed that the length of women's menstrual cycles moved towards extremes after taking in the pheromones - short cycles became significantly shorter, long cycles significantly longer.And she added that the time from the start of ...

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