Category Archives: Health Care News
Sleep Apnea Health Risks: Heart Attack & Deafness?
A sleep disorder that interrupts breathing can raise women’s risk of dying from heart attacks and having other cardiovascular problems in much the same way as it does for men. What’s more, obstructive sleep apnea is also linked with sudden hearing loss, particularly in men.
AICAR Exercise Pill Benefits: It Prevents Heatstroke?
‘Couch potato pill’ may prevent extreme heat sensitivity: Here’s good news for athletes who are raring to compete in, say, Tucson, Arizona on a hot summer day or cocky soldiers wanting to go on this summer’s tour of duty to Afghanistan, but who are barred from doing so because of an extreme heat sensitivity called malignant hyperthermia.
New research shows that the compound dubbed the “exercise pill” or “couch potato pill” because it slows muscle fatigue and improves muscle endurance without exercise may also be used to prevent heatstroke—at least in mice. The findings are found in a paper published by the journal Nature Medicine.
Norovirus: Vaccine for Cruise Ship Virus? Hope For Future Treatment?
Vaccine may prevent “cruise ship virus”, “winter vomiting bug”
Researchers may soon roll out a vaccine to prevent people from catching the norovirus, the “winter vomiting bug” or “cruise ship virus,” blamed worldwide for outbreaks on cruise ships or on planes and in hospitals, schools and prisons during the winter.
That is, if the researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, are able to improve an experimental vaccine developed for the first time against the highly contagious virus that brings sudden cramping, vomiting and diarrhea to three million people across the world every year.
Patient Bar Codes in the UK: Good or Bad? Useful or Scary?
It may seem like a scene straight out of sci-fi movie, but yes, all patients in the United Kingdom will be processed with barcodes by 2013.
The National Health Service announced this week that patients in all four publicly funded health care systems across the U.K. will be given barcoded wristbands. Like product barcodes, these will be read by handheld scanners.
Prozac and Stroke: Anti-Depressant Drug Can Help Patients Regain Mobility?
Did you know that Prozac can help stroke patients recover their mobility? Well, this is what some French researchers are claiming after they conducted a study of some 118 stroke patients from March 2005 to June 2009. During the study, the researchers from Tolouse University Hospital gave the patients — starting from five to ten [...]
