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Testosterone levels could serve as a marker for determining risk of SIDS

...ms and the control group. SIDS is the sudden and unexplained death of an infant. It is the leading cause of death among infants who are 1 month to 1 year old. SIDS should be diagnosed only when all other possible causes of death have been ruled out by a detailed evaluation of the medical history. There is no s...

Ketoacidosis Is The Main Cause On Mortality In Childhood-Onset Type 1 Diabetes

...after onset, part of the excess mortality has been unexplained deaths in bed. Recently, a study was undertaken w...eath with special focus on suicide, accidents, and unexplained deaths. For the study which appears in the October issue of the journal Diabetes Care , a populat...

Boys Suffer More Mathematics Learning Disorder Than Girls

...earning disorder is used to describe the seemingly unexplained difficulty a person of at least average intelligence has in acquiring basic academic skills. These skills are essential for success at school, work and for coping with life in general. For the first time William Barbaresi, a developmental and beha...

Math Learning Disorder Higher In Boys

...D definition. LD is used to describe the seemingly unexplained difficulty a person of at least average intelligence has in acquiring basic academic skills -- skills that are essential for success at school, work and for coping with life in general. The results appear in the September-October issue of Ambulatory ...

Math Learning Disorder Higher in Boys

...D definition. LD is used to describe the seemingly unexplained difficulty a person of at least average intelligence has in acquiring basic academic skills -- skills that are essential for success at school, work and for coping with life in general. The results appear in the September-October issue of Ambulatory ...

Testosterone Therapy can improve sexual function in postmenopausal women

...s and side effects included a sense of well-being, unexplained fatigue, breast cancer, mood changes, acne and increased hair growth; none were significant enough to be linked definitively to the addition of testosterone to hormone replacement therapy. If the reduction in HDL had been associated with an increase ...

Infants must be put to sleep in separate beds to prevent SIDS

SIDS is the sudden and unexplained death of an infant. It is the leading cause of death among infants who are 1 month to 1 year old. SIDS should be diagnosed only when all other possible causes of death have been ruled out by a detailed evaluation of the medical history//. There is n...

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

... about 6 percent of the Exanta group, there was an unexplained increase in liver enzymes, which has been seen in other studies of the drug. Schulman said levels increased in the first four months and then returned to normal without any apparent damage to liver function. However researchers, said the liver prob...

Vitamin Supplements - Good, The Bad And The Ugly

...apsing at a bus stop who was suffering from severe unexplained diarrhoea. Extensive investigations failed to find what was wrong with her. Then it was discovered she had been taking 3.5 gm of vitamin C and 1.5 gm of magnesium each day on the advice of a homeopath. The recommended daily allowance (RDA) for vi...

Fragile X-Associated Tremor /Ataxia Syndrome Need Guidelines For Diagnostic Tests

...ing for FXTAS. Men age 50 and older who develop unexplained ataxia should undergo testing to check if they have the FMR1 gene, said co-author Maureen A. Leehey, MD, of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. ?Also men 50 and older who have tremor, Parkinson?s disease, or dementia, along w...

Asthma and Panic- a vicious cycle

...oups (1) panic disorder as those who had recurrent unexplained panic attacks during the year before the interview, and (2) any panic as those who had panic disorder or panic attacks. The findings over the whole study period showed that asthma was more strongly associated with panic disorder than with any panic....

New guidelines for dealing with post traumatic stress disorder

...ression, suicidal tendencies, addiction, medically unexplained physical symptoms, or dissociative disorders after a month of the disaster happening. In keeping with the past tsunami disaster, the new guidelines may be especially helpful for counselors working in that sector....

Epilepsy Patients Could Benefit From Pacemakers

...izures might be responsible for the higher rate of unexplained death seen in epilepsy patients. Treating the condition with a pacemaker could avert many of these deaths say researchers. All of the patients in the study received an implantable device to monitor their heart rhythms. Researchers followed the group...

A Seizure Late In Life Could be A Stroke Warning

New research suggests having an unexplained epileptic seizure in a person over age 60 as a sign of high risk for a future stroke.// Researchers looked at 4,700 patients who had a seizure after age 60 and 4,700 people around the same age who did not have a seizure. They compared the two groups...

Link between C-section Delivery and Stillbirth

...ir pregnancy. Researchers say the absolute risk of unexplained stillbirth at or after 39 weeks gestation was 1.1 per 1000 women who had had a previous cesarean section and 0.5 per 1000 in those who had not. Researchers say It is possible that intentional or inadvertent ligation of major uterine vessels at the t...

Sudden Cardiac Death due to inherited Heart Disease

...on before death. Researchers investigated if these unexplained deaths could be a result of inherited heart diseas...t-degree relatives of those who died from a sudden unexplained death. But they add further research is needed to better understand the most cost-effective standard...

Chronic Fatigue, Pain Linked to Sinusitis

... of his patients and found that those who reported unexplained chronic fatigue //were nine times more likely to h...rested and well. Also, patients who said they had unexplained body pain were six times more likely than the pain-free patients to have such symptoms of sinusitis ...

Try Iron to overcome fatigue

...nefit non-anemic women between ages 18 and 55 with unexplained fatigue. However, the effect may be restricted to women with low ferritin, a protein that stores iron and is found especially in the liver and spleen.Researchers from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland gave 136 women either 80 milligrams a day...

Fructose may cause uninterpreted abdominal pain

...ale sign of fructose malabsorption. So people with unexplained gastrointestinal symptoms should always be given a fructose breath test, say the researchers....

New cholera strain identified

...behind its spread through sea food was unknown and unexplained till Indians made the discovery. “We received calls from the US asking us to help them identify what was causing a new type of cholera and diarrhoea in coastal areas of the country. The germ was simultaneously active in coastal areas of Japan,” said ...

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