Major Depression Often Follows Brain Injury

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Major Depression Often Follows Brain Injury

 People who are hospitalized for a traumatic brain injury face an almost eight-fold higher risk of also suffering major depression. That’s the finding of a team led by Charles H. Bombardier, professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and first author of a study published in the May 19 [...]
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Quick Weight Loss May Be Best for Long-Term Success

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Quick Weight Loss May Be Best for Long-Term Success

When it comes to weight-loss patterns, the old adage proclaims that “slow and steady” wins the race, but recent research suggests otherwise. A new study found that obese women who started out losing 1.5 pounds a week or more on average and kept it up lost more weight over time than women who lost more slowly. [...]
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Nuts in your diet can cut cholesterol: study

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Nuts in your diet can cut cholesterol: study

Going nuts in your diet can be good for your health, according to a study published Monday, which showed that eating nuts helps to lower blood cholesterol levels. People who ate an average of 67 grams (2.4 ounces) of nuts a day saw a 5.1 percent fall in total cholesterol concentration and a 7.4 percent [...]
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Life Insurance Benefits.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Life Insurance Benefits.

Life insurance is a type of policy that seeks to make financial provisions to beneficiaries upon the death of a sole provider. However, many people seek life insurance for a multiplicity of reasons. Most people will want to die with the notion that their family will be well taken care of economically. It could be [...]
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Gene scan shows man’s risk for heart attack, cancer

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Gene scan shows man’s risk for heart attack, cancer

A California college professor who sequenced his own genome has had it analyzed — and discovered he has a high risk of dropping dead of a sudden heart attack, as well as a high prostate cancer risk. The analysis, published in the Lancet medical journal, illustrates the challenges facing doctors, patients and healthcare systems as such [...]
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Olive oil good for health

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Olive oil good for health

The heart-healthy effects of the famous “Mediterranean diet” may have something to do with components of virgin olive oil that repress genes that advance inflammation, a new study reports. “These findings strengthen the relationship between inflammation, obesity and diet and provide evidence at the most basic level of healthy effects derived from virgin olive oil use [...]
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Green Tea Good for eyes

Monday, April 26, 2010

Green Tea Good for eyes

A new study says that  beneficial ingredients in green tea penetrate into the tissues of the eye and may help protect against glaucoma and other eye diseases. Researchers analyzed eye tissue from rats that drank green tea and found that the lens, retina and other tissues absorbed significant amounts of green tea catechins, which are antioxidants [...]
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New Gene ID’d in Brittle Bone Disease

Saturday, April 24, 2010

New Gene ID’d in Brittle Bone Disease

The study is published in the Jan. 20 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. A new gene involved in a recessive form of weak bone disease has been pinpointed by researchers. The gene is the third to be identified in a sequence of genes involved in previously unexplained forms of osteogenesis imperfecta, a sometimes fatal [...]
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Added Suger : Heart Thereat

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Added Suger : Heart Thereat

The added sugars in prepared and processed foods are threatening Americans’ cardiovascular health, lowering levels of protective HDL cholesterol, raising levels of potentially dangerous triglcerides and possibly making people fatter, a new study finds. “We looked at a group of people representative of the U.S. population and found a very strong correlation between cardiovascular risk factors [...]
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Circumcision may lower risk of HIV Aids

Monday, April 19, 2010

Circumcision may lower risk of HIV Aids

The findings, from two studies in Uganda, suggest there may be additional benefits to offering circumcision to men in countries with high rates of heterosexual HIV transmission Circumcision has been found to lower men’s risk of Contracting HIV through heterosexual sex, and now new findings suggest that it also cuts the risk of infection with the human [...]
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Ordinary antifungal drug may fight cancer: study

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Ordinary antifungal drug may fight cancer: study

A ordinary antifungal medicine can slow tumors growing in mice and should be investigated as a potentially cheap and easy way to fight cancer in people, researchers reported on Monday. Although it did not completely clean out the tumors, the drug called itraconazole may boost the effects of other drugs, the researchers reported in the journal [...]
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Fake Drugs on Web:Big Health Risk

Monday, February 22, 2010

Fake Drugs on Web:Big Health Risk

People who buy prescription medications over the Internet, especially drugs purporting to treat erectile dysfunction, are playing Russian roulette with their lives, a new study contends.     At best the drugs won’t help you and at worst they could kill you, the review article said.     “You may be wasting your money or you may actually be hurting yourself,” [...]
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US Teen Pregnancy Rate Up Since 1990

Monday, February 22, 2010

US Teen Pregnancy Rate Up Since 1990

The US teen pregnancy rate rose in 2006 for the first time in 16 years, an report showed Tuesday, as experts speculated that the increase was due to abstinence-only sex education in schools. Three percent more girls between the ages of 15 and 19 became pregnant in 2006 than in 2005, four percent more gave birth, [...]
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Mother’s Diet May Lower Risk of Baby Allergies

Monday, February 22, 2010

Mother’s Diet May Lower Risk of Baby Allergies

Eating much of vegetables and fruits during pregnancy may lesser the chance of having a baby with certain allergies, hint study findings from Japan.   Greater intake of green and yellow vegetables, citrus fruit, and veggies and fruits high in beta carotene (generally those colored red and orange) may lessen the risk of having a baby with [...]
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Red Meat Increse Risk of Diabetes in Older women.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Red Meat Increse Risk of Diabetes in Older women.

Middle age and elderly women whose diets include a lot of red meat appear to have an increased risk of developing diabetes, according to a report in the medical journal Diabetes Care. Dr. Simin Liu, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues examined the association between red meat consumption and the risk of type [...]
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Poor Blood Pressure Control Ups Stroke Risk

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Poor Blood Pressure Control Ups Stroke Risk

About half of all first-time strokes in patients being treated for high blood pressure result from the pressure not being adequately controlled, Swedish researchers report. Older age, diabetes, and smoking also raise the risk of stroke in these patients. The study, published in the medical journal Stroke, included nearly 28,000 men and women aged 45 to [...]
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Low-Fat Dairy May Lower Risk of Diabetes

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Low-Fat Dairy May Lower Risk of Diabetes

Eating low-fat dairy products may help slightly lower the risk of developing diabetes, a new study of more than 40,000 middle-aged men suggests. Each additional serving of low-fat dairy per day resulted in a 9 percent drop in risk. The link could be due to whey proteins or magnesium, ingredients thought to enhance the action of [...]
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Third-hand smoke also dangerous for you: study

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Third-hand smoke also dangerous for you: study

Smoking is dangerous for you. You know inhaling someone else’s smoke is dangerous for you. Now a US study says third-hand smoke — tobacco remains clinging to surfaces — is also dangerous for you. When a cigarette burns, nicotine is released in the form of a vapor that collects and condenses on indoor surfaces such as [...]
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Excessive Internet Use And Depression

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Excessive Internet Use And Depression

People who spend a lot of time browsing the net are more probable to show depressive symptoms, according to the first large-scale study of its kind in the West by University of Leeds psychologists. Researchers found striking evidence that some users have developed a compulsive internet habit, whereby they replace real-life social interaction with online chat [...]
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Cat that can Predict Death

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Cat that can Predict Death

When doctors and staff realized that a cat living in a U.S. nursing home could sense when someone was going to die, the feline, Oscar, was portrayed as a furry grim reaper or four-legged angel of death. But Dr. David Dosa, who broke the news of Oscar’s abilities in a paper in the New England Journal [...]
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Archive for the 'Fitness' Category

Fast way for Kids to Lose Weight.

Posted on February 3 2010 by admin

About 15 percent of children in the United States are categorized as overweight. Children who are overweight tend to want to lose their excess pounds as quickly as possible. Crash diets are very unhealthy for children and can stunt their growth and cause chronic illness. If a child wants to lose weight as quickly as [...]

Tips for Lose Weight after Child Birth.

Posted on February 3 2010 by admin

Losing weight after childbirth is not hard if you prepare yourself with the following tips. It takes dedication, and it definitely takes time. Remember the old adage: If it took 9 months to put on the weight, it’ll take 9 months to shed it. The truth about losing weight over a long stretch of time [...]

Be Fit Physically and Mentally by Exercise

Posted on February 1 2010 by admin

Taking regular exercise helps you to stay physically healthier and mentally sharper into old age, four studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine .
One of the studies found that women who exercised more during middle age — defined as an average age of 60 by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, Brigham [...]