Archive for April, 2008
According to a report of Yale University researchers published in the Journal Nature Genetics, that they have found the rare genetic variants that can be linked with an astonishing lower risk of developing high blood pressure in common population. The perception that this rare change in genetic material may collectively play a pivotal role in the development of general yet complicated diseases like Blood-pressure also has involvement in diagnosis and treatment of diseases like diabetes and schizophrenia.
Richard Lifton, chair of the Department of Genetics and Sterling Professor of Genetics and Internal Medicine at Yale, and Daniel Levy, director National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study led that team of researchers.
The scientists examined DNA samples from 3,125 people who took part in the Framingham Heart Study, an epidemiology survey that led to a latent treasure of information about the causes of heart disease.
WHO study finds consequences resound long after the incidents
World Health Organization study, that comprises 25,000 women in 11 countries, suggests that male partner’s violent attitude be the cause of several physical and mental health problems in women.
The women, aged 15 to 49, came from Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Namibia, Peru, Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand, and the United Republic of Tanzania. The study found that having ever experienced physical or sexual partner violence was associated with poor health overall, and with specific health problems in the four weeks prior to being interviewed: pain, memory loss, dizziness, vaginal discharge and difficulty walking or doing daily activities.
Women aged 15 to 49, from different countries of Asia, Africa and South-America, have been studied under that research. The study suggests women who have ever experienced physical or sexual partner violence is the victim of poor health in general and pain, memory loss, giddiness, leucorrhea, mental and physical tiredness in specific.
Further, the women who have become the victim of their partner’s violence at least once in their lives are more apt to personality disorder and suicidal attempts than the women who were never tortured by their male partners.
Cancer in the phase of Chemotherapy
In one of the famous magazine of all time Reuter’s, it is published that some days fasting could make patients into more pleasing situation of health’. Patient of Cancer could be predicted towards more living years of life due to the technique of fasting. The side effects of all cancer drugs could be vanished by the exploitation of fasting for a few days.
The scientists and pathologists are saying that we could save from the hell of side effects of chemotherapy due to fasting. It abolishes all the mice and worst harms of cancer patient.
Therefore the scientists and researches have claimed one thing about this therapy. They say that chemotherapy must not to be used by a cancer patient without the consultations of his doctor. He should be more persisting with fasting rather focusing on this drug use along with healthy eating.
The researchers at ‘Baylor Institute for Rehabilitation (BIR)’, named among the top rehabilitation hospitals in the US in 2007, are on the way to devise a new way for the rehabilitation of the Stroke Patients. This institute is a non profit organization providing rehabilitation services to the survivors of traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, strokes, or those suffering from other orthopedic and neurological disorders.
There are around 700,000 cases of heart stroke in a year. These patients are unable to retain their ability to walk as they did before the stroke. However the physical therapists have come up with a new way using a specialized kind of treadmill.
The results of the study would soon appear in the April issue of the ‘Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’.
