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Kick Smoking with Nicotine Drink

...a, whatever you like to drink, Eric C. Westman, an assistant professor at the Duke University Medical Center who has headed the study, said. Attempts to quit smoking have always increased every time a new product is available to help addicts kick the habit. In 1998, the nicotine patch accounted for 49 percen...

New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference

...merican Dermatology Center in New York City and an assistant professor at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "There is even an oral drug called Robinul that can be used to stop excessive sweating, but it can have side effects like dry mouth. For a small number of patients, these options to not work. That's wh...

Sleep, snoring....stroke

...stroke than those who slept less. Adnan Qureshi, assistant professor of neurosurgery affiliated with the University of Buffalo's Toshiba Stroke Research Centre and the lead author on the study, said that certain sleep characteristics - such as sleeping for more than eight hours, the tendency to fall asleep d...

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

...omputerized informatics research. Qun-Yong Zhou, assistant professor of pharmacology, and his colleagues found that the prokineticin proteins controlled movement of muscles in the intestines of guinea pigs. These muscles regulate the movement of food through the digestive system. The proteins could hold the ...

Erythromycin and infants’ intestinal disorde

...rincipal investigator, Barbara E. Mahon a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics. Using clinical data extracted from the Regenstrief Medical Record System - a comprehensive electronic medical records system that gathers and stores data including diagnoses, radiology and operative reports, pharmacy records...

The cancer-fighting gene

...ltra-sensitive x-ray crystallography, biochemistry assistant professor Mark Glover has uncovered the three dimensional structure of an important part of the breast cancer-associated protein, BRCA1. Mutations in BRCA1 cause about half of all hereditary breat cancers. The structure may give clinicians the abili...

New Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise

...nnes Vieweg, associate professor of urology and an assistant professor of immunology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, tested the vaccine on 13 men with metastatic prostate cancer.// The vaccine uses the men's own dendritic cells, extracted white blood cells (WBC) that activate the immune system b...

Women benefit from consuming fish

... effects of fish are also tied to women," said Hu, assistant professor of nutrition in the Harvard School of Public Health. The findings add to the rapidly growing evidence of the health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, which are especially plentiful in dark, oily fish such as mackerel, salmon and sardines....

Early Warning System For Breast Cancer

...identify,” says lead author Celina Kleer, M.D., an assistant professor of pathology at the U-M Medical School who specializes in breast cancer. “While more research is needed before clinical testing can begin, we hope it will help identify early-stage cancer that could be vulnerable to aggressive treatment, pe...

Acute Measles Supresses HIV Replication

...ays the study’s lead author William Moss, MD, MPH, assistant research professor of international health and molecular microbiology and immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.For the study, Dr. Moss and his colleagues followed 100 children diagnosed with measles and HIV. The children’...

Leptin linked to Blood Clots

...s led by Dr. Daniel T. Eitzman, a cardiologist and assistant professor of internal medicine, studied varying leptin levels in mice. Eitzman looked at a group of overweight mice that were genetically engineered to lack the gene needed to produce leptin. He found they took an average of 70 minutes to clot, almos...

Ulcer causing bug found in stored food

...ected with fecal matter. Christie Jack, a research assistant at the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research Institute, the bacteria probably contaminated the food products during handling in the store or slaughterhouse. H. pylori infects the stomach lining, causing an inflammatory response that can increase...

Hypertension drugs could lower Disability

...ng for a new clinical trial. Dr. Marjolein Visser, assistant professor of medicine suggested that muscle strength and loss of muscle strength is such an important factor in the development of disability in old age. The next step will be to find out whether the same results are obtained from a non-disabled popu...

Jumping genes eliminate sections of DNA

...ons of DNA, John Moran, an author of the study and assistant professor of human genetics and internal medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School, said in describing the results of the research. These L1 elements technically are classified as transposons -- bits of DNA that can move around to differ...

Televisions ruling baby's world!

...dults around them to make decisions. Donna Mumme, assistant professor of psychology at Tufts University, and her team tested //babies, showing actors reacting on a videotape to objects such as a red spiral letter holder, a blue bumpy ball, and a yellow garden hose attachment. Babies aged 10 months or 12 month...

Less sleep:more risk for heart attack in women

...disease risk by 57 percent. Dr. Najib T. Ayas, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, who conducted the research, added that previous studies in men have also shown similar results and that the reason for an increased heart attack risk could be because sleep deprivation can ...

Some more sensitive to pain

...ts' self-reports of pain," said Robert Coghill, an assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. He led the study published online Monday by the Proceedings //of the National Academy of Sciences. "Now, we have objective evidence that confirm individual diff...

A Tomato a Day Keeps Heart Disease Away

...etty enticing," says study author Howard Sesso, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. "They're encouraging enough for us to do more studies."// Sesso and his colleagues reviewed the diets of approximately 40,000 women from the ongoing Women's...

What Makes Teens take Drugs

...in boys and girls," researcher Judy L. Silberg, an assistant professor of human genetics, says in a news release.// "In girls, there was a significant genetic influence on all substance abuse in adolescence. But, with boys, environmental factors, including a dysfunctional family and peers who use drugs and al...

Snoring May Be Sign of Asthma in Kids

.... James L. Goodwin, an epidemiologist and research assistant professor at the University of Arizona Respiratory Center in Tucson. Nighttime cough, Goodwin explains, is often used to diagnose asthma in children, but the findings suggest that in some cases snoring may be causing the coughing.Although snoring ma...

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