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Pollution could be a risk

...ttack victims from Asia were interviewed and asked when they first started feeling the symptoms. The risk of heart attack was higher among those who had experienced a higher level of small pollution particles called PM2.5s in the two hours before the attack. These fine particles are mainly produced by c...

Sleeping sickness - a silent killer

...ing Sickness first came to international attention when colonial explorers like Livingstone and Stanley noticed that their horses could not survive in parts of Africa. But people had been dying from the bite of the Tsetse fly for a long time before that, and are still dying today. Sleeping Sickness has b...

UV Radiation induces Melanoma

... melanomas are the result of genetic damage caused when the UV radiation strikes these pigment cells. Babies and young children are thought to be more vulnerable. // A team of scientists at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland exposed mice, whose skin had been genetically engineered to ...

Vitamin C for the heart

...dicals can also deplete antioxidants from the body when overall levels are low. The investigators found that patients with PAD had vitamin C blood levels nearly twice as low as those in people without PAD....

Women find difficulty in calling it 'Quits'

... with smoking are reduced or eventually eliminated when smoking abstinence is maintained....

Antidepressants increase gastric bleeding

...c ulcer. It's something doctors should be aware of when treating depression in older patients....

New spray gel heals surgical wounds

...s the US. The gel is made up of two liquids which, when sprayed together, solidify to form a bright blue material which breaks down gradually over about a week. The company which has developed the gel, Confluent Surgical in Massachusetts, says that 60 patients have so far been treated with it. In open s...

Vitamin B for Hepatitis

...ally high to normal levels; these levels increased when thiamine was subsequently withdrawn. And in subsequent liver biopsies after thiamine treatment, HBV DNA was undetectable.This is the first study to investigate thiamine for treating hepatitis B infection....

Complementary and Alternative medicine

...10 of those born pre-1945 had ever used CAM. But when people had tried a therapy, they tended to stay with it. Almost 50 per cent were still using the therapy 11 to 20 years on. There were, however, some dramatic shifts in the popularity of various therapies. In the 1960s, diet-based programmes and self...

Decrease in testosterone levels lead to Alzheimer's

...team from North Carolina University has found that when circulating testosterone levels go down, a high rise in levels of amyloid – the protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease – occurs. They suggest that this phenomenon might explain why Alzheimer’s develops later in life and that hormonal treatments fo...

Hormone contraceptives lead to bone problems

...acetate or DMPA -- can cause significant bone loss when used long term. The younger you are when you begin using this contraceptive, the greater your risk of bone-related problems later in life. /...

Diet Can Influence Allergic Skin Reactions

...atitis experience inflamed, red, itchy, scaly skin when they come in contact with substances they are allergic to. The reaction is usually associated with an allergen that touches the skin, and many people may not realize foods can also trigger it. In the study, the team asked patients who had previou...

New Drug ALT-711 decreases blood vessel stiffness

...osslinks created in the arteries and other tissues when glucose attaches to the protein collagen. // Crosslinks are cable-like structures that inhibit the natural flexibility of collagen strands. They tend to proliferate with age. Crosslinks appear to toughen tissues and may contribute to some of the ...

Omega-3 fatty acids impair immunity

... studied how mice responded to bacterial infection when given diets containing either fish oil or no fish oil. Those on fish oil were slower to respond to the infection and more likely to die. This doesn't mean you should throw away your supplements, but be aware that very large doses may compromise your ...

Wound healing made faster

...erstand why this is the case, but he believes that when the hormones are assembled in the complex they are more easily recognised by the body's repairing cells.While the wound-healing complex exists in nature, it probably doesn't last in that form for very long. To help maintain it, the researchers plan t...

Aggressive blood pressure treatment needed

...reluctant to treat people with high blood pressure when they have other risk factors, like high cholestero...or diabetes. Maybe they believe little can be done when matters have reached the 'multiple risk factor' stage, or they may worry about lowering blood pressu...

Cost-effective antibiotics for sinusitis treatment

...antibiotics by the latest and most expensive drugs when treating acute, uncomplicated sinusitis, according to US researchers. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine set out to determine whether the symptoms could be treated with older and less expensive (first-line) antibiotics or new...

Dangers of heat

...ke. Vulnerable people can begin to suffer problems when the temperature rises into the thirties. By the ti...y feel disoriented. Heatstroke or sunstroke occurs when the body's thermoregulatory system stops working and body temperature rises to approximately 42C. ...

Suicide risk in panic disorder

...recent studies suggest that suicide is a real risk when people suffer from panic disorder. It's been assum...gests that other mental health factors are at work when people with panic disorder think of suicide, or attempt it. The overall level of anxiety, a fear of ...

Radiotherapy helps in colon cancer

...rence. Generally the timing of radiotherapy varies when it comes to practice. In Scandinavia and the Netherlands, the therapy is given before surgery while doctors in the UK and the US wait until afterwards.// An analysis of 8000 patients, led by doctors at the University of Birmingham in England, shows...

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