What are the medical and life style measures for preventing a stroke?
• Neurology • Mar 20 05
Diet
A healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in salt and saturated fats may significantly lower the risk for…
What are the initial steps in managing a stroke?
• Neurology • Mar 19 05
Until recently, the treatment of Stroke was restricted to basic life support at the time of the stroke and rehabilitation later. Now, however, treatments…
What are the drugs used to treat stroke patients?
• Neurology • Mar 19 05
Drugs for Initial Treatment of Ischemic Stroke
Intravenous Thrombolytics. Clot-busting, or thrombolytic, drugs, normally used for breaking up existing clots in people who…
How serious are strokes?
• Neurology • Mar 19 05
A stroke is always serious. Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the US. About 160,000 Americans die of stroke each year.…
How are stroke and transient ischemic attackes diagnosed?
• Neurology • Mar 19 05
Diagnosing Transient Ischemic Attacks (TIAs) and Determining Risk for Stroke
In people who experience transient ischemic attacks or small strokes,…
Overdoses kill 70,000 Russians every year
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
Some 70,000 Russians - close to 200 people a day - die from drug overdoses, a top official said on Friday.
The figures illustrate…
Hostility more common in young heart patients
• Heart • Mar 18 05
People under age 50 with heart disease are significantly more hostile than older patients, which perhaps places an extra burden on their heart,…
Florida judge lifts stay blocking feeding tube removal
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
A Florida court on Friday cleared the way for the feeding tube to be removed from a brain-damaged Florida woman, a court official said.
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Medical abnormalities common in anorexia patients
• Neurology • Mar 18 05
Community-dwelling women with anorexia nervosa have a high prevalence of medical abnormalities, including problems with the metabolism, blood and skeleton, Harvard Medical School in…
Caffeine impairs sugar metabolism
• Food & Nutrition • Mar 18 05
Caffeine intake makes insulin more resistant to changes in blood sugar levels, Canadian researchers report. This effect was observed both in patients with and…
Sleep apnea raises cardiac risk in men
• Heart • Mar 18 05
The risk of fatal or non-fatal cardiovascular events, such as heart attacks, is increased in men with severe obstructive sleep apnea, a condition in…
Bird flu infects 5-year-old Vietnamese boy
• Infections • Mar 18 05
A 5-year-old Vietnamese boy has been infected by the bird flu virus that has killed 47 people in Asia, but is recovering, doctors…
Testing key to curbing AIDS pandemic - Holbrooke
• AIDS/HIV • Mar 18 05
Better testing is the key to fighting the global AIDS pandemic, Richard Holbrooke said on Friday in Beijing, where he was in town…
Newly identified gene mutation raises Alzheimer risk
• Neurology • Mar 18 05
Mutations in a region of the gene that codes for VEGF, a protein that stimulates blood vessel growth, are associated with to a heightened…
Angola says at least 77 die in acute fever outbreak
• Infections • Mar 18 05
At least 77 people, most of them children, have died in northern Angola after an outbreak of a disease the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Baths linked to rare headache in older Asian women
• Headaches • Mar 18 05
A long, hot bath should be a soothing indulgence, but in rare cases it may instead spur excruciating headaches, according to researchers.
Reporting in…
US Senate rejects Democratic abortion amendment
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
Senate Democrats, saying they are seeking common ground in the nation’s divisive abortion debate, offered a pregnancy prevention measure in the Senate Thursday night…
Perdue recalls 230,700 pounds of chicken strips
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
Privately held Perdue Farms on Thursday recalled 230,700 pounds of cooked chicken breast strips due to possible underprocessing, the U.S. Agriculture Department said.
The…
Obesity raises diabetes risk up to 80 times
• Weight Loss • Mar 18 05
People who are obese are up to 80 times more likely to develop diabetes, a leading health charity said on Friday.
In Britain,…
Supervised facilities reduce syringe sharing
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
The findings from a Canadian study suggest that medically supervised drug injection facilities can help cut syringe sharing among injection drug users, and subsequently…
Senate adds $500 mln for global AIDS fund
• Public Health • Mar 18 05
The U.S. Senate on Thursday backed a $500 million increase in funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Folate does not appear to increase chance of twins
• Fertility and pregnancy • Mar 18 05
Despite some evidence to the contrary, the folate supplements women are advised to take before getting pregnant do not appear to significantly boost the…
Acupuncture shown to relieve pelvic pregnancy pain
• Alternative Medicine • Mar 17 05
Acupuncture and exercise can help relieve pelvic pain during pregnancy, Swedish researchers said on Friday.
About 30 percent of pregnant women suffer pelvic pain,…
Sleep breathing problem raises heart attack risk
• Respiratory Problems • Mar 17 05
People who suffer from an illness that disrupts their breathing during sleep are more likely to suffer a fatal Heart attack or…
High cholesterol drives prostate cancer - study
• Cancer: Prostate • Mar 17 05
High blood cholesterol can make prostate tumors grow faster, researchers said on Thursday in another study linking high-fat diets with Prostate cancer.
The tests…