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Before Weight Loss Surgery One Should Get Tested for Bacteria

...are baffled as to how this bacteria impacts people undergoing gastric bypass surgery a weight loss operation in which food is directed past most of the intestinal tract . Researchers assessed 99 patients evaluated for gastric bypass surgery to determine if they carried the bacteria. Results showed about a quar...

Circadian Rhythm Could Determine Lung Function

... the five-year study, which tracked 4,835 patients undergoing breathing tests at various times of the day, showed lung function was at its lowest at 12:00 p.m. and at its best between 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. According to researchers, these results help determine the best times to exercise and can even affect h...

Improving Fertility In Patients With Cervical Cancer

...e upper arm to preserve hormonal function in women undergoing treatment for cervical cancer. Researchers say the new technique does not require developing a donor site with an implant over several months Instead it uses a donor site that is easily accessible to noninvasive monitoring and has adequate blood fl...

Umbilical Cord Blood Offers Hope For Patients Who Require Bone Marrow Transplants

...lts of more than 500 adults with leukemia who were undergoing a transplant to treat the most severe form of the disease. None were able to receive the transplant from a matched sibling. Some of the patients received stem cell transplants from cord blood while the remainder received fully matched transplants fro...

Catheter Ablation Helpful For Patients With Congestive Heart Failure

...58 patients with congestive heart failure who were undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation were eva...tients without congestive heart failure ) who were undergoing ablation for atrial fibrillation. Results showed after about one year, 78 percent of the patients w...

Shorter Radiation Schedules Found To Be More Effective For Patients With Breast Cancer

...volves six or seven weeks of radiation daily after undergoing surgery , however for most women the length of time for radiation treatment is a major inconvenience leading them to choose mastectomy instead of breast conservation. Researchers studied women who received a four-week course of radiation therapy, wi...

Reducing The Rate Of Amputations Among Diabetics

...ascular changes in the retinal vessels and risk of undergoing [an amputation] in people with younger-onset diabetes ,thus researchers believe changes in the retina may provide a good way to predict which diabetic patients are most at risk for amputation....

Risk Of Developing Infections High In Patients Who Suffer From Abdominal Trauma

Patients undergoing surgery for abdominal trauma, especially from gunshot wounds or blunt force are at risk for developing infections // in the abdomen after surgery show results of a recent study. The records of 762 patients with abdominal trauma who underwent surgery...

Hypnosis Found To Reduce Stress In Children During Medical Procedures

...chers say that hypnosis is beneficial for children undergoing a VCUG and may also be beneficial for children who undergo other invasive medical procedures....

Androgen Deprivation Therapy For Prostate Cancer Found To Increase The Risk Of Fractures

...h cancer that is confined to the prostate. The men undergoing treatment were found to have a much lower risk of death or spread of the cancer, and treatment with the therapy has not been proven to improve their outcomes. Since the treatment was linked to a loss of bone mineral density (BMD), researchers wanted ...

Rejection Rate for Liver Transplants Patient Reduced

...jection happens in at least 40 percent of patients undergoing a liver transplant.A new medical breakthrough has shown that the combination of certain drugs has been able to reduce the chances of rejection among liver transplant. Dr. Marino and a team of researchers studied the effect of two anti-rejection d...

Weight Training Found To Be Effective In Treating MS

... led to a follow-up study that will track patients undergoing more intensive strength training for 16 weeks. Based on their findings researchers say, MS patients are capable of adapting to resistance training favorably and hence may be able to tolerate more intensive training....

New treatment for Cancer by injecting heated drugs

...he new treatment for cancer patients. The patients undergoing this treatment are connected to a series of tubes ...ival was more for patients with IPHC than patients undergoing standard course of treatment only. The procedure is showing promise for treatment of ovarian cance...

Angioplasty death risk reduced by doubling drug dose

...and heart attack can be reduced for heart patients undergoing an angioplasty. It was found that doubling the usual dose of an anti-clotting drug before the procedure is the answer.// Angioplasty is a procedure in which a balloon-tipped catheter is threaded into an artery. The balloon is inflated to compress p...

Pomegranate Juice May Be The Next Best Thing For People With Heart Disease

...te juice. This will in future help a lot of people undergoing treatment of atherosclerosis or something similar. The study was published in the march 2005 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2005...

Angioplasty death risk reduced by doubling drug dose

...and heart attack can be reduced for heart patients undergoing an angioplasty.// It was found that doubling the usual dose of an anti-clotting drug before the procedure is the answer. Angioplasty is a procedure in which a balloon-tipped catheter is threaded into an artery. The balloon is inflated to compress pl...

Does disparity exists between women and men victims of stroke?

... difference between men and women in terms of them undergoing brain MRI and EKG. However, only 60% of the female patients get a carotid ultrasound as compared to 71 percent of men. As for echocardiography, only 48% of women underwent it as compared to 57% of the men who went through the test. Studies have sug...

Cocaine may cause aneurysms for the coronart artery

...use on the health of the heart. In cocaine users undergoing coronary angiography, there was evidence of heart aneurysms. Aneurysm is a ballooning of a portion of the artery that happens due to waekness in the wall of the blood vessels. This condition may be congenital or acquired. Often high blood preassure ...

Small lumps in breast if not treated may cause long-term harm

...u and were diagnosed as having benign tumors after undergoing biopsy, had gone to have invasive breast cancer within 15 years after the diagnosis. The low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ had evolved as invasive breast cancer in the same breast for 11 of the 28 women whose biopsy and health report were followed...

Aspirin may reduce he risk of colon cancer

...se of aspirin among patients of colon cancer after undergoing surgery can reduce the risk of recurrence// of cancer or death. In a study which was presented at the annual meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology said that the risk of recurrence reduces by about 50% for the patients who took regular asp...

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