Heart pumps can buy time for people with failing hearts in need of a transplant but implanting heart-assist devices in the elderly as a substitute for a heart transplant benefits only some — and at a high financial cost, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
They said about half of people 65 and older who got the [...]
Just in time for the holidays, some medical advice most people will like: Take a nap. Interrupting sleep seriously disrupts memory-making, compelling new research suggests. But on the flip side, taking a nap may boost a sophisticated kind of memory that helps us see the big picture and get creative.”Not only do we need to [...]
ONE OF the wonders of high-end joint research in cardiology, radiology and medical electronics, the new generation ‘320 slice computed tomography scanner’, that can scan the entire heart in just half-a-second in one rotation, is all set to hit the National capital, New Delhi, after its launch in Chennai. This state-of-the-art imaging equipment “has the [...]
The dietary supplement ginkgo, long promoted as an aid to memory, didn’t help prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in the longest and largest test of the extract in older Americans.”We don’t think it has a future as a powerful anti-dementia drug,” said Dr Steven DeKosky of the University Of Virginia School Of Medicine, who led [...]
Second generation antidepressants are all equally effective, according to a new clinical practice guideline released by the American College of Physicians.
The guideline authors reviewed more than 200 published studies about the benefits and risks of the following second generation drugs: bupropion, citalopram, duloxetine, escitalopram, fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, mirtazapine, nefazodone, paroxetine, sertraline, trazadone [...]
Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. “This technique has great promise,” said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a [...]
Postmenopausal women with low sexual desire levels reported improved sexual function after they were treated with a patch in which the male hormone testosterone was applied through the skin, a clinical study has found. However, more studies are needed to confirm the safety of this treatment.
“Many postmenopausal women continue to be sexually active despite a [...]
South Asians and blacks living in the UK are not benefiting as much as white people from treatments focussed on controlling high blood pressure, according to a new study.
In the study conducted over 8,800 people receiving treatments for hypertension, the researchers found that despite considerable efforts to improve the treatment of high blood pressure, differences [...]
Half of all food allergies are no allergies at all, according to a new study based on 419 patients in Germany.
Extensive testing could confirm food allergy only in 214 patients, said Cornelia S. Seitz, allergologist at Wurzburg University.
Thus,
food allergies are more often suspected than proven. This can clearly impair the patient’s quality of [...]
Emotion and scent create lasting memories even in a sleeping brain, a new study has suggested.
A team at the Duke University has found that the part of the brain that processes scents is indeed a key component of forming long-term memories, especially involving other individuals, a science journal reported.
“We can all relate to the experience [...]