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Want a Healthy brew? Have some Tea!

...the mushrooming tea cafes and coffee pubs a lot of interest is now shifting to non-alcoholic beverages and suddenly people are more health conscious than ever before. But unless and until it is proved to be really magical the scientific community at least will continue to prefer fruit, vegetables and a diet l...

Crowning glory of 2000!!! Cracking of the genetic code is top of tops

...another major breakthrough of 2000.Other topics of interest are the use of stem cells to treat myocardial tissue damage. In short, the study of human genes and the research in genetics has been the crowning glory of the year 2000 in the field of medicine....

E Merck introduces Livogen Z with zinc sulphate

...h E Merck India, selling all the rights, title and interest in the registered trademark Livogen. This Mumbai based company, E Merck had purchased Livogen from Glaxo India Ltd for Rs 8 crore. The plain Livogen tablet as well as the Livogen Z tablet are available in the market. E Merck had introduced the tonic...

Fingerprinting prostate cancer

... while others were completely new. Of particular interest were two genes - hepsin and pim-1. The highest levels of hepsin were found in pre-cancerous tissue just before cancer develops, and the lowest in benign prostate tissue. Hepsin play a main role in tumour development. Pim-1, a known cancer-causing gen...

Aggressive blood pressure treatment needed

...r treated. This is totally against the patient's interest according to new research from Wake Forest University. They have used a risk assessment tool developed by the American Heart Association to classify the risk of future heart attack, stroke and heart failure in nearly 5,000 adults over 60 in the Systo...

How do patients benefit of clinical trials

...ing to the researchers, doctors have a conflict of interest they want the best for their current patients, but they also have the interests of future patients at heart....

Enzyme may be target for obesity drugs

... of stress hormones and enzymes. One of particular interest was 11-beta HSD-1, which is involved in the formation of glucocorticoids. Alteration in the levels of this enzyme in mice produces not only obesity, but obesity especially of abdominal fat. Since this enzyme is known to be similarly elevated in the...

Knee fat turns into cartilage

... be used to repair knee problems. There is growing interest in the potential of tissue engineering where replacement// or repair tissue is created from a person's own cells. Central to this is the ability of stem cells primitive cells that can go along one of several developmental pathways - to become more sp...

Prototype Detector detects Anthrax Quickly

...e patent-applied-for detector, in which commercial interest has been expressed, would also aid security people making their rounds to locate point sources of the disease. The technique works by preconcentrating airborne particles on a tiny hotplate. The hotplate immediately vaporizes the fatty acids in anth...

Dietary advice for diabetes

...iabetes, because they offer a lot more variety and interest than the old high-carbohydrate/low-fat recommendations (though that's still considered a healthy option too)....

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...pers. "While there is justifiably a great deal of interest in the broader applicability of adult stem cells, our findings illustrate that we are currently very ignorant of their biology," Smith said. "It should be noted that although spontaneous cell fusion has been well documented and this work has been ove...

Liver key to extending life

...used by toxins and fats and that this is where his interest in the liver came from. The liver's role in the body is to process blood coming from the gut by absorbing nutrients, metabolising fats, and processing toxins. "Previous to our research, the liver was not thought to change much during ageing, except...

Identifying bacteria made amiable

... put up on the web. There is an enormous amount of interest in tracking this organism. When there is an outbreak of a disease like meningococcal disease, it is useful to know if people in different locations have been infected by the same strain or by two different strains coincidentally. Comparative techn...

Men happy to take contraception

...ontinent. "We suspect they would have a much lower interest in the male pill or vasectomies," postulated Dr Weston. Those results should be published before the end of the year. But women shouldn't throw away their pill prescriptions just yet. Pharmaceutical companies are not rushing to put a product on the ...

Vacuum device increase breasts

...an independent study. While many women expressed interest in the device, only eight women ended up in the study.Some women couldn't commit to the time involved, others had breasts that were too large or chests that were too narrow. Some felt the system was not worth the relatively small gain (one cup size) ...

Sweet corn releases antioxidants on cooking

..., the higher its antioxidant level. Of especial interest was the release of ferulic acid, an antioxidant found mainly in grains, but generally in a form bound to the cell wall. Cooking sweet corn releases a lot of ferulic acid which, like other antioxidants, mops up free radicals which might otherwise dama...

Fat Substitutes

... was just five years ago, there is still plenty of interest in eating lower fat foods. There are more than 5,000 reduced fat food products available, with the most popular being fat-free or low-fat milk// products and salad dressings. But processed foods can contain a variety of fat replacers made from star...

Diet and Lung Function

An area that has receive only a little scientific interest and virtually none from the news media is the connection between diet and respiratory health. A study of over 2,000 children aged 11-19// in southern California was done to examine this issue. The study appeared in the January 15, 2002 edition of t...

Brain damage affects artistic skill

...onal and amateur artists, as well as those with no interest in visual art, fared when they suffered some kind of damage to their brain. For professional artists, it's still possible for some of them to produce work of high quality after brain damage. The style may change and whether the work is better or wo...

China tells officials not to hide SARS damage

...ue sectors battered by SARS by offering subsidised interest payments on loans to airlines and travel agencies and a cut in taxes for other hard-hit sectors such as hotels and restaurants....

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