Chewing gum after bowel surgery may help patients recover more quickly, a new study claims.
A study of 34 patients in the United States found that chewing gum after intestinal surgery can speed up recovery of normal bowel function.
Medical experts have suggested that simply encouraging patients to chew gum after intestinal and colon operations could save hundreds of millions of dollars in lengthy hospital stays.
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Attention chocoholics! Candy makers are working on new heart-healthy sweets that might take the guilt out of the world’s favorite guilty pleasure once and for all.
Mars Inc. is planning dark-chocolate versions of its M&M’s, Snickers and Milky Way candies made with flavanols, which supposedly help reduce blood pressure and lower cholesterol.
“Chocolate … is the No.1 flavor ingredient in the world. Heart health is the No.1 concern,” said Mars official Jimmy Cass. “Putting those two together is automatically a big idea.”
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Last November the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned that the Ortho Evra contraceptive patch by Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc., a J & J unit based in Raritan, N.J. might increase the risk of blood clots because it contains more estrogen than a typical-control pill. The company said it would conduct additional studies and Thursday released the first set of results.
One study that looked at a database of 200,000 women showed that risk of blood-clots among Ortho Evra users was about the same as the risk among women using a typical birth control pill. That study was published on the Web site of the journal Contraception. The study is also looking at heart attack and stroke risks, but that analysis is still ongoing. J & J said, “the currently available data do not show an increase in the risk of the combined endpoint of heart attack and stroke.”
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Post-menopausal estrogen therapy does not appear to protect women in their 60s and older from heart disease, but researchers say it may have some protective effect for women in their 50s.
The Women’s Health Initiative, which conducted the research, stopped the analysis in March 2004 because of a higher risk of stroke among women taking estrogen. But further examination of the data shows that, at least for women between 50 and 59, the hormone may provide a boost to heart health. Researchers did not examine stroke risk.
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Exubera, the first inhaled insulin treatment for diabetes, won approval from US regulatory officials on Friday.
The long-awaited action by the US Food and Drug Administration means millions of people with both type 1 and type 2 diabetes may have the option of avoiding the needles and countless injections that have marked their lives so far.
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