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Severe Gum Disease Triples Heart Disease Risk

RICHMOND, Virginia - Researchers at the Virginia Commonwealth University have found that increased levels of plasma lipoprotein in patients with advanced periodontitis may be responsible for increasing the risk of heart disease in these patients. // Periodontitis is the inflammation of the supporting tissue that surrounds the teeth. Previous studies have already linked its presence wit...

Surgeons being paid triple the amount to cut waiting lists

In Scotland new measures are being undertaken by the health officials to reduce the waiting list of patients who have been referred by their General Practioner. // Hence new methods are being adopted by increasing the wages of the Surgeons three times their normal wages. Consultants receive more than ￡1,500 a day from officials to cut on the waiting list. In the near future pa...

MMR Triple Vaccine Caught In the Eye of a Storm

MMR Triple Vaccine has found prominence again, for the wrong reasons. Blaming the government of apathy over the MMR vaccine, Dr Peter Fletcher, who // held the post of Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health, has accused the government of not examining the risks of MMR triple vaccine adequately, despite a lurking fear of autism, as a probable side effect. According to him, if thi...

Triple Therapy Shows Better Improvement of Brain Functions

According to a study done on 179 stroke patients, it was found that triple drug therapy helped people suffer less brain damage when they had stroke. The three drug// a clot-preventing drug such as aspirin, an ACE inhibitor for blood pressure control, and a cholesterol-lowering statin. It is thought that these drugs work synergistically to reduce the amount of brain tissue that is damaged. <br...

Chinese Parents Warned Of Triple Health Scare

Chinese parents have been warned to be on the lookout for 'poisonous baby bottles, toxic children's clothes and unsafe toys' by health authorities, //according to a report in the Shanghai Daily. This alert was issued after health officials were reportedly scouring supermarkets for baby bottles 'that may have been made from recycled compact discs.' Two years ago at least 13 babies died...

Analysis: Bowel Diseases Triples Infertility Risks In Women

In the Journal Gut, a research published says major surgery of all inflammatory bowel diseases (such as ulcerative colitis), triples the infertility risks// in women, which was concluded from analysis of many research archives and 8 published studies. Infertility was defined as a failure to conceive after 12 months of trying. Ulcerative colitis is a condition in which sores and inflamm...

World’s First Triple Transplant Performed by Australian Surgeon

Australian surgeons claimed to have performed the world's first triple-transplant operation involving the liver, kidney and pancreas of a patient// , said a report Monday. Surgeons at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital carried out the procedures on Leanne Myles of Cowra in central-eastern New South Wales, reported the online edition of Radio Australia. Leanne, 33, was su...

Australian Surgeons Successfully Conduct Worlds First Triple Organ Transplant

It has been reported that towards the end of last year, surgeons from Australia had performed the first ever-triple organ transplant//. Surgeons at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital had carried out the surgery on a 33-year-old woman, Leanne Myles of Cowra in central-eastern New South Wales. Leanne Myles was reported to be on her deathbed due to the failure of her liver, kidneys, a...

Mother Of Triplets Gives Birth To Quadruplets

Angela Magdaleno, the lady who gave birth to triplets through IVF procedure three years ago, has now given birth to quadruplets without any infertility treatments. She gave birth to two girls and two boys on July 6.// "I'm happy because they're healthy and so am I," Magdaleno said on Wednesday. But then reality took over and she confessed that she was worried about the future. "I don't...

CHEK 2 Gene Mutation Triples Breast Cancer Risk

A study carried out on approximately 9,000 Danish residents revealed that a specific mutation in the CHEK2 gene might increase three-fold// a woman's risk of developing breast cancer in her lifetime. The study, which was the first to examine the prevalence of the CHEK2 mutation and the cancer risk associated with it, in the general population, will be published in the July 31 edition of the Journ...

Triple-Monitoring System To Monitor Heart Viability During Surgery

A new triple-monitoring system that gives vital information to the surgeon on the extent of tissue damage during heart surgery and the time available to complete the procedure// has been developed by VIACORTIS. The technique will enable surgeons to work on actively beating heart, while having a real-time indication of how the heart is reacting during surgery, making the surgical interventions on...

Triple ARV Prophylaxis Reduces Viral Load in Breast Milk

A combination of AZT, lamivudine, and nevirapine (AZT/3TC/NVP) taken from week 28 of pregnancy and up to one month after delivery resulted in significantly reduced HIV levels in breast milk// as compared to the HIV levels found in the breast milk of women who were not treated prophylactically. The DREAM programme (Drug Resource Enhancement Against AIDS and Malnutrition) in Mozambique...

'Triple Negative' Breast Cancers Seem to Affect the Young, Minority

Breast cancers of the “triple negative” type are destructive and lethal, and tend to strike the young, poor minority women, according to a novel// study Published in the May 1, 2007 issue of CANCER. The study has indicated that these tumors occur commonly among women who are African American and Hispanic, below 40 years old, and who belong to the lower socioeconomic status (SES). The...

Orissa Woman Gave Birth to Identical Triplets

A 24-year-old woman in Orissa Saturday delivered identical triplets, a rarity that occurs once in approximately one million births, a doctor said . Rajalakhi Das gave birth to three girls in Kendrapada town, about 100 km from Bhubaneswar. The babies were born without any medical complications two weeks prior to the full term of the pregnancy, hospital paediatrician Nak...

Suicide Bids Tripled Among Denmark Asylum Seekers Since 2001

The number of suicide attempts among asylum seekers in Denmark has proportionally tripled since 2001 in what is a "desperate cry of despair," according to a study published Thursday . Sixty-seven asylum seekers of the 10,797 refugees living in camps -- or 0.6 percent of the total -- tried to end their lives in 2001, according to a study by the Danish Association to Help Refugees sai...

National TV Promotion Triples Calls to Smoking Cessation Hotline

Want to help people quit smoking? Get a national TV network to publicize your toll-free number. That is the message of a new study that found calls to a national smoking-cessation hotline more than tripled in the wake of news anchor Peter Jennings death from lung cancer. Its not enough just to build a (smoking cessation) service. You also have to advertise it, said Erik Augustson,...