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 Impair Information - November 19, 2008
| According to Dutch researchers, home-based training routine aimed at the muscles used for breathing can help people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) such as emphysema. Dr. Ralph J. H. Koppers of Medical Center Leeuwarden and colleagues note COPD patients often face a impaired exercise capacity. Respiratory muscle endurance training based on increasing the level of carbon dioxide breathed can be helpful but requires complicated and expensive equipment | | It's possible that you may soon be able to get pleasantly tipsy without having to fear that by the end of the night you'll have stumbled into a coffee table or two, lost all sense of inhibition, and knelt before a toilet bowl. Drugs called partial agonists, or PAs, are capable of mimicking the pleasurable effects of alcohol while avoiding the negative ones, according to David Nutt, a professor of pharmacology at Bristol University in the UK | | New York, New York (AHN)-A new study reveals that taking the drug Ecstasy can impair memory and learning. However, for heavy Ecstasy users, the effects on memory may persist even after they quit using the drug | | New York, New York (AHN)-Investigators with the Women and Infants Transmission Study Group report that early diagnosis of an AIDS-defining illness in children, who acquired HIV infection from their mothers, is associated with impaired cognitive development | | New research released on Tuesday finds that in 2005, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drug usage spiked sharply among younger adults, while children's overall usage grew at a much slower rate. Currently the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing cardiovascular and psychiatric side effects of medications for ADHD. According to the analysis by Medco Health Solutions, Inc. the number of younger adults aged 20 to 44 prescribed ADHD medications skyrocketed more than 139 percent from 2000 to 2005, outpacing increases in children 19 and younger by 82 percent | |
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