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Early detection of heart attack

...ss. Using a new test, they have got the assessment time down to six hours. They compared the new way with the traditional method in 292 patients. Those who tested positive for heart damage were admitted, and all others discharged. The results showed the new test is accurate and effective at ruling out h...

Heart Attacks during Menstruation!

... of functions. Research has already shown that the time of the month can profoundly affect the symptoms of...ed the worst exercise performance and the quickest time to angina pain: 290 seconds. This phase is when levels of the sex hormones oestrogen and progesteron...

Reversing heart failure

...used a bridge to transplant - buying patients some time while they wait for that scarce donor organ. Researchers at Dallas, USA, have now shown that the LVAD does more than just keep the patient going - it actually improves the condition of the heart muscle. The researchers looked at heart tissue from t...

Iron supplements proves helpful in dry cough .

...rrous sulfate or placebo for 4 weeks, during which time monitoring of cough severity was continued. At the end of 4 weeks, iron levels in the blood were measured again. It was found that supplementation of iron clearly showed a beneficial effect in most of these subjects.The mechanism of ACE inhibitor-i...

A treatment for blindness

...children were 5.5 years old to 41.4 percent by the time they were 10 years old. Treated eyes remained stable at 22 percent. In addition, when the children were evaluated at 5.5 years old — most eyes that hadn't been treated had a visual acuity of 20/40 or better than those that had been treated. At the te...

Dentist's note for vegetarians

...id, "an adult on a vegetarian diet for a prolonged time can be at risk of periodontal disease. Teeth may soften when there is a shortage of vitamin D, becoming more susceptible to decay."// Deficiencies in vitamin D are rare, because the body produces it during sun exposure, but a diet lacking in calciu...

Quitting smoking stops lung decline

Quitting smoking for a year at a time can keep lungs from deteriorating and reduce the risk of death, according to American researchers. At the University of Ohahio, Dr.Margit Pelkon and collegues investigated the effects of quitting smoking. They studied more than 1,000 Finnish partici...

Coronary stent leads to complications

... given anti-clotting therapy for longer around the time of angioplasty and probably use stent coated with an anti-clotting material in future....

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

... this treatment will also require counselling from time to time. While the framework for guiding a patient through the treatment protocol is well established, the exact duration of the treatment needs to be individualized. Smoquit will be backed by an extensive patient education program, which will outlin...

Alcohol linked to brain activity

...ts brain function, but often goes unnoticed at the time when it actually occurs. White matter lesions are areas of scarring or injury that might affect your voluntary and involuntary actions of the body such as ability to button a shirt or put a key in a lock. It is thought that alcohol exerts benefits ...

Birth weight key factor in heart diseases

...ight birth weight and acheived average size by the time they were a year old, the amount of coronary heart disease would have halved. If a low birth weight baby put on weight rapidly after his first birthday, the risk of adult heart disease increased further. This is because of poor nourishment in the wo...

Zydus Cadila and Kopran in strategic alliance

...e several new products, many of them for the first time in India. While on one hand Aten would grow faster in the hands of Zydus Cadila, Kopran would be able to achieve higher growths through its strategy of launching new products....

Genetics and cholesterol levels

...al. The participants kept a food diary at the same time got their cholesterol measured. In identical twins, who have the same genetic make-up, the differences in dietary intake accounted for differences in cholesterol levels. But their cholesterol levels were more similar than among pairs of non-identical...

Sleep, snoring....stroke

... Buffalo.Among those who reported experiencing day time drowsiness 14% suffered a stroke compared to 4% of those who remained alert during the day, even after classic risk factors which could lead to stroke were ruled out.The Stroke Association said they had found the study "fascinating" and called for mo...

Antidepressant helps obesity

.... They continued for another 16 weeks, after which time those on bupropion lost nearly 10 per cent of their body weight, on average, of which 70 per cent was fat. The benefits were maintained during two years of follow-up. It is not known how bupropion works in weight loss, although it's known to alter br...

Osteoporosis Drugs: right time to take-off

...tes therapies are gradually getting saturated. The time is right for Indian pharmaceutical companies to focus on the osteoporosis medications market. br>...

Drugs disrupt formation of blood vessels

...d vessel formation - have been shown for the first time to be effective. It also provides the first indication that the drugs, known as angiogenesis inhibitors, vary in effectiveness depending on the stage of cancer targeted. // Senior researcher Dr Douglas Hanahan, professor of biochemistry at the Uni...

Sleeping sickness - a silent killer

...n dying from the bite of the Tsetse fly for a long time before that, and are still dying today. Sleeping Sickness has been dubbed as the Silent Killer because its victims are mostly from rural populations where medical screening is rare and cause of death often goes unrecorded. The meeting in Burkina Fa...

Women find difficulty in calling it 'Quits'

...ycle length. Women who smoke have a more difficult time becoming pregnant, and reach menopause on average a year or two younger than women who do not smoke. Most health risks associated with smoking are reduced or eventually eliminated when smoking abstinence is maintained....

Emotional callers hamper speedy ambulance dispatch

...he use of mobile phones often helped to reduce the time taken to notify the emergency services of a problem, this had to be balanced against a high number of communication difficulties compared with landlines....

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