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Are antibiotics useful in case of acute sinusitis?
Still, many doctors rashly prescribe for acute sinusitis antibiotics. A new study now shows, that the drug therapy has little advantage over placebo. Although the guidelines for restraint ask doctors prescribe in an inflammation of the paranasal sinuses is still quite fast antibiotics. In a randomized clinical trial the researcher Jane Garbutt of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the antibiotic amoxicillin, however, has made no clinically relevant effect. The study included 166 patients participated with acute...
Read MoreGood intent beginning of the year – healthy without cigarettes
Many take the start in the new year the good intention to live smoke-free from now on. In order to succeed, it is important to tune soon enough for the time without cigarettes. Smoking is not healthy. The really knows everyone and yet many people catch a variety of reasons to smoking. Once you are addicted of this addiction, it is hard to escape it again. The alleged promise, the consumption of cigarettes would, inter alia, be helpful in...
Read MoreToo much work causes depression
Who works in the long term more than two hours a day, doubled his risk of suffering from severe depression. This is the result of a study by American scientists. Burn out, stress at work, more and more days of absence – People seem increasingly to suffer from work-related stress. Experts estimate that about 30 percent of the working population are at risk of chronic fatigue. Now an American study has found: Three or more work hours overtime a...
Read MoreWith hot drinks against freezing
On cold days, the cold creeps downright through the body. What feels uncomfortable, is also unhealthy. Hot drinks help. What few people know is that there appear the hot drinks also different. Hot drinks are the best help against the freezing cold. Above all, parents are asked if they return with their children from the fresh air in the warm room and the cold feeling just will not go soft. But adults also suffer from low temperatures and want...
Read MoreGood resolutions for the new year: Remove few extra pounds
Among the most common New Year’s resolutions taken at all include the famous “Few Extra” that want to be sure to get rid motivated next year forever. So how do you manage to resist temptation and to remain permanently slim? “Next year I renounce completely on candy, go jogging every day and eat after 16 clock in the afternoon nothing more.” Who holds such lofty intentions, fails either very quickly or lose the pleasure of eating. For this reason,...
Read MoreHDL Cholesterol: “The Good Cholesterol” but no heart protector?
In contrast to LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol is considered to be cardioprotective. But a new gene study about its cardioprotective effects causes doubt. Cholesterol are lipids intended to transported to different parts of the body to be able to bind certain proteins. These compounds are called lipoproteins of lipids and proteins. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) transports cholesterol in to the tissues where it is needed as a building block of membranes, but also deposit in the vessel walls and can...
Read MoreWith motion fit and health in the new year
At the end of each year we like to look back on the past. What was it, what can you do better? We usually start with good intentions in the new year. Reason enough to continue to pay attention to more exercise. We all know the drill: The duties of everyday life often leave little time for other things. The day’s work is done at the end of a long day, you fall into bed tired. At most, remains...
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