Archive for June, 2010
Epilepsy is no doubt a very common disorder found in the young children and many times it has been seen that the actual causes remains hidden or we can say that the origin of this disorder remains unknown.
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A latest study has found that those children who have epilepsy with unknown origin have got higher rates of remission as compared to those with symptomatic epilepsy.
The study was actually carried a group of researchers in Netherland and they analyzed the passage and results of child epilepsy in 413 children over period of 15 years. The ages of children were ranging from 1 year to 16 years, they were followed for 5 years and then they were again contacted after 10 years.
We all know that its time of World cup fever which is nowadays at its peak and every football lover is highly concerned about its team, the scientists have shown a very positive result of this much craze of world cup.
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According to them the football fans that personally invest themselves into the teams and who attend games and cheer along with light-minded fans are getting some great mental health benefits from this activity.
Edward Hirt, a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University while discussing about these new findings said that “Sharing a common allegiance with others bonds people together in a special way. We can relate to others who share fan ship with our team and feel a camaraderie with them that transcends ourselves”.
This thing is known to almost everyone that the strong doses of drugs are mostly followed by some after effects but we mostly don’t know what effects the drug is bringing.
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Recently a review of certain data has shown the negative effects of some drugs that are most common in usage along the whole world; the researchers have told that the usage of drugs for blood pressure and heart diseases is linked to the slight boost in the cancer risks.
Basically the researchers had focused on five different trails that were involving 60,000 patients in which cancer was the pre-specified end point. The medicines which were proved responsible for the increase of cancer includes: telmisartan (Micardis), losartan (Cozaar, Hyzaar), valsartan (Diovan) and candesartan (Atacand) which most of blood pressure patients uses in their daily routine.
The Vitamin D deficiency is a very common problem nowadays and almost everyone knows that this problem is caused by inadequate exposure to right kind of sunlight or some kind of liver/kidney disorders but the modern science has shown some new and different results regarding this deficiency.
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According to new study the genetics could help us in determining a person’s risks of getting vitamin deficiency.
The overall analysis on this issue was carried by a team of researchers who focused on group of people who were specifically the white men and women of European descendant.The findings of the team were revealed online in advance of publication in an upcoming print issue of The Lancet. The researchers actually conducted quite a high tech genetic analysis of the participants and thus locate some specific points on their genome that were linked to the Vitamin D deficiency.
Ataxia
Ataxia is not a disease. Ataxia is a symptom. A symptom of clumsiness in movements, symptom of loss of coordination of body parts and mal-functioning of motor nerves and ‘Ataxia’ means ‘lack of order’
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Ataxia mainly affects limbs’ movements and slowly it captures whole body and victim becomes totally dependent. The other problems associated with the progress of ataxia are slurred speech,involuntary eye movements, vision problem, swallowing problems, cardiomyopathy diabetes, etc . The ataxia symptoms may be caused by different medical or neurological conditions.
Broadly ataxia has no known treatment. Now a days many researches are going on and treatment for some types of ataxia have been found out. Therefore it is necessary for an ataxia sufferer to know cause and type of ataxia for getting proper medical advice . Read the rest of this entry
