Drinking tea daily ”as good as water in keeping you hydrated”

Mar 25, 2011 Posted Under: Health Care Solutions

A new study has found that drinking four to six mugs of tea daily is as good as a litre of water for keeping yourself hydrated.

The finding disproves the idea that regular tea drinking can dehydrate the body because of its caffeine content.

The research also found no negative health effects from drinking that amount of tea.

In the high quality UK clinical trial, 21 volunteers drank either four 240ml mugs of tea over a 12-hour period equivalent to just under one litre of tea in total or a similar amount of plain, boiled water served warm.

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Supreme Court rules against makers of Zicam

Mar 22, 2011 Posted Under: Health Posts

The Supreme Court unanimously sided yesterday with investors suing Matrixx Industries, makers of Zicam, for failing to reveal indications of the over-the-counter cold remedy’s dangerous side effects–including loss of smell.

The shareholders, in a 2004 lawsuit against Matrixx, argued that by withholding reports of adverse events, the company had defrauded investors. The company’s defense was that early reports of Zicam’s side-effects were statistically insignificant.

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Rich, young women ‘more prone to melanoma’

Mar 21, 2011 Posted Under: Health Care Solutions

A new research has found that the incidence of melanoma appears higher in non-Hispanic white adolescent girls and young women living in higher socioeconomic neighborhoods than those living in lower socioeconomic areas.

Melanoma is the most lethal form of skin cancer and represents a substantial cause of productive years of life lost to cancer, especially when occurring in young persons, the authors write as background information in the study.

Among non-Hispanic white girls and women aged 15 to 39 years in the United States, age-adjusted incidence rates of cutaneous melanoma among adolescents have more than doubled during a 3-decade period (1973-2004), with a 2.7 percent increase annually since 1992,” they add.

To assess the relationship between the incidence of melanoma and socioeconomic status and UV-radiation exposure, Amelia K. H

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Does this birth control pill make me look fat?

Mar 20, 2011 Posted Under: Health Vocabulary

Many women believe that oral contraceptives will make them gain weight; doctors disagree, but studies are inconclusive.

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Like a lot of young women, Kelsey Webb, 25, has been off and on birth control pills since she was 18. Every time she started taking them, she gained 5 to 10 pounds. Read full post…

Supplemental estrogen: Some docs say one thing but do another

Mar 19, 2011 Posted Under: Health Posts

A study out this week in the online journal PloS Medicine exposes what might be a common way drug companies try to influence doctors.

The authors, from Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., looked at articles about hormone-replacement therapy in post-menopausal women that were written by doctors with financial relationships with the manufacturers of those hormones. All of the articles were written after 2004, when a large and authoritative study concluded that supplemental estrogen increased the risk of breast cancer and had little benefit.

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How to Get Pregnant With PCOS

Mar 19, 2011 Posted Under: Health Care Solutions

PCOS or Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome affects 5 to 10% women of reproductive age. PCOS is a leading cause of infertility in women. In this disease, women develop cysts on their ovaries which interfere with normal ovulation. Women suffering from this condition develop many follicles at once, which prevent release of a single mature ovum. As a result, these women do not ovulate on a regular basis. As normal ovulation is required for increasing your chances of conception, PCOS can seriously interfere with a woman’s ability to get pregnant. Women with PCOS often need medical help getting pregnant. Read full post…

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