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A Glass of Wine can Keep Tooth Decay and a Sore Throat at Bay

... The professor added that it is still necessary to maintain good oral health. "We should still drink wine because it tastes good, goes well with food and is a pleasure to share with company. And we should still brush and floss our teeth the accepted way," she added. The study is published in the American ...

Pure Pomegranate Juice Helps Reverse Erectile Dysfunction Function

...s so many men. For men with ED, it is important to maintain a healthy diet and exercise. Drinking pomegranate juice daily could be an important addition to the diet in the management of this condition,' said study co-author Harin Padma-Nathan, MD, FACS, FRCS, Clinical Professor of Urology at the Keck School o...

Yawning Actually Helps You Keep Awake

...triggered by empathic mechanisms which function to maintain group vigilance, the Daily Mail quoted lead researcher, Dr Gordon Gallup, as saying. For the study, the researchers recruited 44 college students to watch, individually, films of people yawning and recorded the number of contagious yawns each volun...

Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz

...it for the Nimitz CSG. The main objective is to maintain a high level of readiness to respond to any emergency situations, said Captain Michael C Manazir. The hospital corpsmen and healthcare professionals staff six ``battle dressing stations'' throughout the ship during all drills and in case of need. F...

Australian Research Reveals AIDS, Cancer Link

...d with risk of cancer and this suggests we need to maintain people's immune systems at a higher level -- and that might mean putting HIV patients on anti-retroviral drugs earlier than is currently the case," he said. The research comes ahead of a major international conference on HIV/AIDS which will take pl...

Autophagy may Lead to Heart Disease

...ailure an inability of the muscle to function and maintain adequate blood flow, the UT Southwestern researchers reported. In the study, Dr. Hill and his colleagues genetically engineered mice in which the autophagic response was either muted or amplified. Researchers then tested the role of autophagy by ind...

Genaera Discontinues Lomucin in Cystic Fibrosis Studies

... research in respiratory and other diseases and we maintain a strong intellectual property position and library of over 15,000 compounds for this target." The Phase 2 study of squalamine in prostate cancer, another of Genaera's non-core assets, was also discontinued. There had been no recent enrollment in t...

Efforts on to Tackle Health Problems Faced by US Truck Drivers

... she said. Drivers are tested every two years to maintain their licenses, which are issued by states. Waivers can be granted, but generally commercial drivers can't be licensed if they have severe high blood pressure or severe heart conditions. Other aspects of drivers' health, like weight and smoking, aren...

Hospital Rapped For Failing To Combat Superbug Infections

...and Chase hospitals include failing to provide and maintain a clean and appropriate environment, put into place sufficient management systems, assess risk and provide isolation facilities. In addition, the commission said the trust did not provide cleansing alcohol gels at patients wash sinks, lockers or tac...

Apple a Day Keeps Asthma Away

...and physicians should work together to monitor and maintain healthy diets and lifestyles for children of all ages....

WBC Selective About Sugar

...ent reduction in the immune response. Our bodies maintain a fine balance between the immune system and microbes. Antibiotics and antifungals tilt the balance in favor of the immune system by targeting the microbes directly. A substance like beta-1,6-glucan could help tilt this balance further by stimulating...

Insulin Sensitizer- Energy Conserving Signal to Brain

...petite and slow energy expenditure in an effort to maintain adequate fat stores during lean times . A fat-derived protein known for its effects on the liver and skeletal muscle might also serve as an energy-conserving signal to the brain during periods of starvation. Energy homeostasis may be mediated by b...

EPA to Improve Nanotechnology

...ubstancesGeneral Approach, EPA states that it will maintain its practice of determining whether nanoscale substances qualify as new chemicals under TSCA on a case-by-case basis. According to former EPA official and Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) senior advisor J. Clarence Davies, The agencys cur...

Southeast Missouri State Provides High-tech Protection Against Staph Infections

...s a powerful family of treatments that protect and maintain all sports facilities, surfaces and textiles against the risk of microbial contamination. SAS is made up of SportsAide, TurfAide(TM), FabricAide(TM) and SportsClean(TM). "Single celled microorganisms such as bacteria and mold need a few key things ...

Spain Announces Cash-for-kid Payments to Boost Birth Rate

...w the 2.06 children per woman the country needs to maintain its population. Spain's 2006 birth rate was 10.92 births for 1,000 inhabitants. The new measure is set to cost the state some 1.2 billion euros a year based on the 2006 figure for live births of 481,000, according to the INE....

Efficacy of Lyme Disease Vaccination Examined

... of risk compensation a phenomenon in which people maintain a relatively stable level of risk-taking. For example, some studies find that people compensate for risk reduction caused by seatbelt use by driving faster. When you talk about risk compensation, there are two things that could happen, Noel Brewer,...

Suntan Helps to Prevent the Cancerous Effects of Ultraviolet Rays

...ancerous effects of ultraviolet rays.However, they maintain that this finding should not make people discard their sunscreen lotions. They insisted that people should avoid excessive sun or other UV exposure nevertheless. But the researchers revealed that they are also looking for ways to harness the tanning ...

Lindsay Lohan Out of Her Rehab Stint

...don an alcohol monitoring bracelet on her ankle to maintain her sobriety whenever she visits a place where booze is served. On her own, she has also made the decision in support of her sobriety to wear an alcohol monitoring bracelet. In part she is wearing the bracelet so there are no questions about her so...

Shoulder Protection by Throwing Motion in Baseball Players

...t injury. Young baseball players who throw a lot maintain external shoulder rotation as they mature, says principal investigator Scott D. Mair, M.D., associate professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Good external rotation of the shoulder helps athletes throw faster whi...

Boffins Find Evidence for Novel Brain Cell Communication

...is an aspect of normal brain function. But authors maintain that more needs to be learned about the distribution of gap junctions what nerve cells have them, where on the cells are they located, and how are they controlled. Also, more needs to be learned about exactly how gap junctions contribute to the ve...

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