All About Positive Health

• Cocoa in Chocoles Helps Heart

  Chocolate eaters should cheer. Yet another finding supports the beneficial effects of cocoa found in dark chocolates.But, calorie present in the chocolate is a concern for heavy chocolate eaters.

  tags: cholesterol cocoa flavonoids nicholas garlow

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• Cancer Vaccine on Trial

  Vaccine containing traces of a protein called telomerase is on trial in case of pancreatic cancer.Telomerase is the enzyme responsible to keep up the ends of chromosomes, called telomere intact. Telomere is something like the ends of shoe lace. As telomere shortens by repeated cell division, telomerase tries to keep the length intact; a key to remain always young and cheat death.So, if no telomerase for cancer cells, those will die shortly.

  tags: cancer pancreatic telovac vaccine

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• Early Exercise in a Stable Patient after Heart Attack is Better

  It is typically advised to a patient of heart attack after the recovery to rest for at least for one month. That is also true after interventional therapy in form of stenting.
  Now researchers advise the sooner the exercise the better is the outcome in a stable patient recovering from heart attack. The new study by researchers at the University of Alberta shows that for best results in stable patients after a heart attack, early exercise as well as prolonged exercise is the key to the best outcomes.

  tags: heart attack Rehabilitation exercise

• Office Based Workouts

  Doing something is better than doing nothing. Standing for a while also requires more energy spending than sitting, because muscles have to do this and those will need fuel.

  tags: office workout sedentary life overweight

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• Exercising Mothers Can Expect Stronger Heart in their Child

  Now, new research suggests that the bond may be stronger than had been suspected. In an exercising pregnant mother instead of leading a passive life, the foetus joins in the workout of the mother; thus actively participating in the symbiosis.

  tags: Pregnancy Exercise Strong heart Foetal

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• Dengue Assay Kit gets approved by FDA

  Dengue is usually transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti, and rarely by Aedes albopictus. Dengue is currently endemic in more than 110 countries.It causes high grade fever, headache, severe body pain, rashes and sometimes bleeding from various places in its severest form.It is therefore, called as Break-bone fever or Dengue haemorrhagic fever. There is no approved vaccine or definite treatment. Treatment is symptomatic and supportive only.Antibody to it appears after 4-5days of infection and so a diagnostic blood test using the antibody within that period may be negative.Definitive diagnosis now rests on cell culture and viral isolation

  tags: antibody dengue

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• Knee Pain, Osteoarthrosis (OA) & Management in Short

  Pain in knees may have several causes of academic interest. For practical reasons;

  tags: Knee pain Osteoarthrosis OA

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• Advice on Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine

  Please go through the recommendations of Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on use of Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine (HPV)

  tags: advisory committee Cervical Cancer HPV vaccine

• Melanoma Cases in Rise in UK

  As reported by the BBC , more than two people under 35 in Britain are being diagnosed each day with malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer.
  Scientists blame this trend to increase in use of sunbeds before an age of 35 that may increase the chance of getting melanoma by 75%. Women are twice at risk in comparison to men.

  tags: Skin cancer Melanoma Sunbed

• Clinician On Net: Meditation can Ease Pain and Give Healthy Life

  Meditation has been practised in India time immemorial by the saints. Now is is a research subject in the western countries. Researchers say it can produce pain relief even comparable to opium derived analgesics.

  tags: Meditation Pain management

• Keeping Heart Muscle Healthy

  Exercise preserves the heart muscles through out old age in comparison to the sedentary lifestyle.

  tags: exercise Heart muscle preserves

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• Bioresorable Coronary Stent’s Success Story ~ From A Clinician’s Bioscope

  Recently, Abbot has developed absorable stents whose 30 days examination results in 101 patients are announced. The stents are called Bioresorabable vascular scaffold (BVS). There was no cases of blood clots (thrombosis), no need for repeat procedures (ischemia-driven target lesion revascularization) and a very low rate of major adverse cardiac events (MACE1 rate of 2.0 percent) at 30 days; as reported in a press release.

  tags: CAD IHD Bioresorbable stents Angioplasty PTCA

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