Hyper in Medical News

Research Shows Successful Physician Engagement in LifeMasters Disease Management Programs

... artery disease and cancer. The most common reasons for the alerts include medication discrepancy, chest pain, generalized pain, shortness of breath, hyper and hypoglycemia, weight gain and edema. LifeMasters found that over the 39-month period, program participants received the following interventions o...

Car Cell Phone Use More Hazardous Than Chat With Passengers

...ack seat driver" is necessarily a good thing. "Probably what you need is someone who is engaged at a medium level," Drews said, not someone who is hyper engaged, pointing out your every error. The message: Talk to a real person, not on the cell phone, while you're steering and shifting. Also, if...

Environmental Tectonics Corporation's BioMedical Systems Division Announces Additional Sales of its Baramed Monoplace Chambers

...MED(R) monoplace hyperbaric chambers exclusively due to their hyperbaric industry leadership. LST owns 18 ETC chambers and is a NASA and U.S. Military hyper / Hypobaric contractor known for their advancing technologies and solid engineering practice. LST are the recognized experts in hyperbaric medicine, c...

An effective strategy for inhibition of cirrhosis

... and AST are indexes to describe liver functions. Most part of ALT is presented in the cytoplasm of liver cell, discharged in blood when degeneration, hyper permeability and necrosis of liver cells occur. So the increase of ALT level in serum reflects the degree of liver cell injury. Our study showed that ...

Virtual Reality Therapy May Help PTSD Patients

... all had recently been involved in the war in Iraq. The veterans suffered from a particular aspect of PSTD known as "acoustic startle" -- a form of hyper arousal that causes an uncontrollable reflexive response provoked by sudden loud sounds. Two-minute video clips were specifically tailored for each...

'Innocent bystanders' can be the cause of tumor development

...h block the digestion and progress to cancer. The cell-type making up the bulk of the polyps and therefore responsible for the adverse effects are the hyper proliferating epithelial cells, which normally line the inner surface of the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore studies addressing the possible mechani...

Don’t Kill Your Skin With Bleachers, Warns Doctor

...irreversible stretch marks, easy bruising and tearing of the skin, rashes, enlarged blood vessels, susceptibility to infection, delayed wound healing, hyper pigmentation, acne and hormonal disturbances. ‘Beauty’ does seem to come at a very high cost. Source-Medindi ANN ...

Certain Gene Mutations Numbs Pain

...nd developmental processes offer cues for better cures. Dr Wood also explained that another mutation of the same gene was earlier identified to cause hyper sensitivity to pain in some hereditary disorders. MST ...

High Testosterone Destroys Nerve Cells

...evels of testosterone in the body can lead to a appalling loss of brain cells. High intake of androgens, or steroids was previously proven to cause hyper excitability, volatile and violent nature, and suicidal tendencies. According to Barbara Enriches, the professor of Pharmacology and physiology, and s...

Not All ADHD Drugs Are Equal

... Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have found that teenage drivers with attention deficit hyper activity disorder (ADHD) drive better when they took// OROS methylphenidate (OROS MPH), a controlled-release stimulant, rather than extended release a...

Infertile Couples Should 'Keep Trying' Naturally

...arry on trying to conceive naturally for the same time period. The fertility treatment, intra-uterine insemination (IUI) with controlled ovarian hyper stimulation, involved using drugs to make the woman's ovaries produce eggs and inserting her partner's sperm directly into her womb. With the fe...

Deadly Kiss - Peanut allergy kills a teenager

... exact cause of the death is being investigated and an autopsy has been planned for Christina Desforges. Allergy Reaction: Allergy occurs due to hyper immune reaction to an Antigenic stimulus. Initial exposure to an antigen causes a stimulation to produce antibodies and subsequent antigenic stimulus ...

Fungal spores in the pillows can trigger an asthma attack

...pillows, which ranged from bread and vine moulds and also fungus which habitats damp walls were also present. Asthma: Asthma occurs due to a hyper responsive reaction to a stimuli or trigger leading to narrowing or blocking of the lung airways. An asthma attack leads to lung infection, tiredness ...

Gene mutation identified for inherited pain syndrome

... DNA samples from 36 members of a same family in which 17 members suffer from the condition. The genetic mutation makes the pain sensing neurons to be hyper excited and trigger rapids signals even at lower than normal stimulating sensations. Primary erythromelalgia is a disorder where the symptoms are...

Bright arctic lights to cause headaches

...for such attacks, suggests the study, may lie with the neurons of the occipital lobe of the brain that is the seat of vision. The neurons here becomes hyper excitable for people with migraines and easily triggers the condition. The lights have not been associated to sleep cycles, sleep patterns etc. ...

Diuretics are better for treating blood pressure problems than newer medicines

...e, cardiovascular disease etc. The results of the study said that diuretics based treatment resulted in the lowest rate of heart failure due to hyper tension in both the groups of African-Americans and Americans. Drug chlorthalidone had more pronounced effect on some conditions of the African-A...

Abstain from sex- the latest mantra of American teens

... are above 19 years of age. But when the matter in question is such a sensitive and personal one, it is very difficult for anyone to be judgmental and hyper critical of the issue. On the other hand some are happy that something has started and if not a revolution, something positive might come out of a...