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Vitamins-The answer to Heart Disease?

..Ongoing research is however to confirm the claim. Scientists remain skeptical about the superior benefits of these vitamin supplements over a healthy diet, including fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and fish. In the opinion of the A...

Answer on SARS 3 to 4 weeks away

The World Health Organization said that it should take three to four weeks for it to fully understands about SARS in China. Since mid-February, an international team from WHO has been working with the Beijing government and now WHO are a full partner with China in the investigation of SARS. China has 1,435 cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome - SARS, accounting for about half of the global...

Answers For OCD soon

Researchers have thrown light on how brain processes disgusting images. They say that their research could help people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Scientists made a study on how brain responds to fearful images. Fearful or disgusting images were flashed on a TV screen and people were studied based on their MRI scans. Scientists said that the brain uses different areas for...

The Answer To Prevent Osteoporosis

A pill a day could be the answer for building bone as you age. A new study shows the drug alendronate taken daily for 10 years increases // bone density in postmenopausal women.Osteoporosis is a chronic, progressive disorder where there is a loss of normal bone density. Drugs, such as alendronate, have been used for years to treat osteoporosis. The current research is the result of following pati...

Neurobiology Provides Answers To Block Memory-Related Drug Cravings

Drug addiction can be better handled following discovery of a novel chemical compound that blocks memory-related drug cravings. The finding has all the potential to be the basis of new therapies to aid drug-addiction recovery efforts // according to neurobiologists. ....Because exposure to people, places and objects previously associated with a drug habit can trigger overwhelming memory-based cr...

An answer to obesity: weight control protein

Sometimes the answers to complex problems lies at hand but that is the place no one looks. Same is the case with a new anti obesity drug. A weight control protein with a key role in the brain's ability to monitor body fat content may // yield new approaches for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes...The findings in mice further suggest that particular variants of the protein SH2-B might underlie...

An Answer To Obesity: Weight Control Protein

Sometimes the answers to complex problems lies at hand but that is the place no one looks. Same is the case with a new anti obesity drug//. A weight control protein with a key role in the brain's ability to monitor body fat content may yield new approaches for treating obesity and type 2 diabetes. ....The findings in mice further suggest that particular variants of the protein SH2-B might underli...

Foetal alcohol syndrome: has an answer as a test now!

A dreaded yet common disorder of infants is the foetal alcohol syndrome caused due to consumption of alcohol by pregnant ladies... ..Canadian researchers found a technique for accurately // diagnosing Foetal Alcohol Syndrome based on the pattern of eye-movement, Queen's University reported on Nov. 11, 2005... ..Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS), often caused by pregnant women drinking alcohol, is a c...

Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) Has An Answer Now!

Another plant extract called Forskolin has been found to be helpful in inhibiting the growth of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) cells in cultures and mice by up to 90 percent.// ..Forskolin is prepared from the root of the plant coleus forskohlii, a native of India that is used as an alternative remedy in other countries, and as an ornamental plant in the US... ..CML, a malignant cancer of the...

Synthetic Bone Tissue Could Be the Answer to Disfigurement Caused by Oral Cancer

Oral and pharyngeal cancers are by far the leading cancers in the world today. The problem is that these are not discovered until too late and thus the treatment, which includes radiation and surgery, involves // sacrificing a large amount of tissue leading to disfigurement. ..Now two Virginia Tech researchers are collaborating with the American Dental Association (ADA) to build "a tissue engin...

Emotional Engagement of Husband - A Final Answer To What Women Want

Nothing, not even money, division of household chores or other factors can make your wife happy. No formulas, no shortcuts, the only sole factor that contribute to a woman's marital happiness is the husband's level of emotional engagement// and commitment. The following is the conclusion arrived at W. Bradford Wilcox and Steven L. Nock, from the University of Virginia. ..Women whose husbands ear...

Hot or cold: Chocolate milk is the answer for longetivity

As a whiff of chocolate odour comes the news that a stroll followed by a glass of chocolate milk can do wonders for the musle function of an individual.// ..This is in the direction of efforts by the University of Auckland's Faculty of Science which aims to develop a non-pharmaceutical means to maintain muscle function and quality of life in older individuals. ..The goal of his research is not t...

A simple answer to teen weight loss: Reducing sugary drinks

According to a study published in March issue of Paediatrics, Children's Hospital Boston report that a novel intervention to limit consumption of sugary drinks –home deliveries of noncaloric beverages – had a beneficial effect on weight loss. // ....Cara Ebbeling, PhD, and David Ludwig, MD, PhD, in the hospital's Division of Endocrinology, led the randomized, controlled trial; enrolled 103 childr...

US Preparing To Answer Japan's Queries On Beef Exports

WASHINGTON - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said that the department officials are working on answers to the questions posed by Japan over the exports of banned cattle // parts to that country. Johanns said that the information would soon be intimated to the Japanese officials. .."We have received the questions from Japan about the report that we submitted a few weeks ago," Johanns told...

7,500 Cancer Cases Misdiagnosed in NSW

The NSW Department of Health in Australia has said that many cancer patients might have been misdiagnosed some five years ago. It is reported that 7,500 medical samples// analyzed in a Tamworth laboratory are involve in this case of wrong diagnosis. ..An overseas-trained doctor was thought to have wrongly diagnosed the samples leading to some patients receiving unnecessary chemotherapy and som...

Running Alone Might Not Be The Answer

New research by scientists from Princeton University says that running or exercising alone may not provide the benefits of exercising. The reserachers led by Elizabeth Gould at Princeton University // say in Nature Neuroscience that running alone does not seem to generate new brain cells, which are found in abundance after running or exercising in pairs or in groups. The reserachers conducted a s...

Cancer Vaccine Could Serve As an Answer to Prevent Most of the Cancer

Cancer in the majority of the cases is caused by viral infections. In UK about one in ten cases of cancer could be prevented by vaccination. // Cancer of cervix, liver, nasal passages, certain types of lymphoma and rare forms of leukemia are thought to be caused by viruses. Stomach cancer is also linked to a bacterial infection. The Cancer Research Campaign said that viruses can trigger the disea...

Possibility Of A Meningococcal Outbreak In NSW

A baby and man in central-western NSW, both suspected to have contacted meningococcal disease are being treated at the Dubbo Base Hospital //. The man and the baby, who hail from Cobar and Mudgee respectively, are showing signs of improvement following treatment. ....It has not been possible to relate both the cases, based on the evidence obtained, said Dr.Tony Brown of the Greater Western Ar...

Tiny Easy Fitting Pump May Be The Answer For Major Open Heart Surgery

Experts say that they have developed a tiny device that could relieve the need for open-heart surgery for thousands of patients//. Scientists at Brunel University’s Institute have developed the new pump, measuring 4mm wide and 10cm long, for Bioengineering and doctors at London's. ....They claim that the dual-purpose pump would be fed into an artery in the groin area and pushed up inside the bod...

Irish Doctors to Be Made More Answerable

New proposals are being introduced in the health care system to make doctors more accountable for their work. .. The Tánaiste and Minister for Health, Mary Harney said that the proposal includes various action plans such as increasing the number of commoners //on the Medical Council to 7 out of a total of 25 members. Various procedures are being introduced which would make it easy for the common...

Serotonin the Answer for Anti-Obesity Treatment

According to a new research conducted at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center it was found that increased serotonin aids to curb appetite.// .. Serotonin is a brain chemical which can be stimulated by various drugs such Fen-phen and other diet drugs. That knowledge could aid in the design of safer anti-obesity drugs nearly a decade after Fen-phen was banned for causing harmful si...

NRT Still The Best Answer To Stop Smoking

According to the researchers at the University of Geneva it was found that Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) had a very moderate effect on smokers. // ..NRT is mainly to wean smokers off tobacco completely, or for a sufficient time till they gain their normal health. But according to these researchers they have found that the effectiveness of NRT fell from 10.7% to 7.2% among smokers for a perio...

Gestational Diabetes On The Rise In NSW Women

The rate of diabetes in pregnancy has increased four times among Australian women in the past few years, raising concerns that gestational diabetes// may cause problems for babies. In NSW the rate has jumped 400 percent in the last five years. ....Diabetes Australia NSW president Neville Howard said it was a dangerous precedent. "In just five years we have experienced a change so dramatic that r...

Producing More Drugs For Lethal Diseases Is Not The Answer

A fresh report shows that diseases like HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, Chagas and Sleeping Sickness have more and more drugs available to treat them these days.// This increase in drug production is happening despite the fact that most diseases affect poor countries, which cannot afford costly medicines. Researchers say that some incentives must be put into place so that poor can access these drugs. .......

Hormone Could Be Answer To Atkins' Diet Success

Researchers have probably found why the protein rich Atkins diet is so successful in reducing weight. Rachel Batterham from the University College of London and colleagues// found that a hormone called PYY is responsible for signaling the brain that hunger has been overcome after a meal rich in proteins. ...."People on the Atkins diet don't feel as hungry - that's how it works," Batterham said. T...

Improved Breast Cancer Survival Rates in NSW

According to new data, there is a drastic improvement in the survival rates of breast cancer in New South Wales since the mid 1990s//. ..According to a report from the Cancer Institute, after 5 years of diagnosis, 88% of the breast cancer victims are still alive whereas 10 years back the survival rate was 77%. ..The Assistant Health Minister, Frank Sartor, says, "Greater awareness and screening...

Heavy weight truths about NSW residents

Latest statistics reveal that more than half the population in New South Wales is suffering from obesity.More than 51% of the 30,000 people who were interviewed// this year have confessed that they are overweight. This reflects that there is almost 10%increase in obesity in NSW over the last decade. ..This year’s population survey also brings to light that most of the obese people in NSW are be...

Diabetes Rates Soar High in NSW

In the past two decades the incidence of diabetes in NSW has grown two-fold, according to a recent study. // ....Obesity which is one of the major contributing factors is also on the increase and presently 50% of the adult and 25% of the child population is on the overweight or obese side. ....In 1997 the incidence of diabetics in NSW was 4.3% for women and 5.2% for men which has hiked up to 6.9...

Skin-Destroying Ulcer Appears in NSW as New Treatment Guidelines Emerge

Infectious disease specialists have revealed the skin- and flesh-destroying Bairnsdale ulcer has struck a man in NSW for the first time, as experts publish new recommendations for treating the tropical infection. // ....Also known as the Buruli or Daintree ulcer, Bairnsdale ulcers are caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans infection, and result in the destruction of skin, soft tissue, and sometimes b...

New South Wales (NSW) Government Plans to Bring Down HIV Infection

The NSW government has sketched out an action plan to bring down the HIV infection by a quarter by 2009. A sum of $300,000 will be allotted to implement a series of programmes towards AIDS awareness and treatment. // ....As a part of this campaign, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community would be educated about HIV infection. In corroboration with the general practitioners, informatio...

Is Presumed Consent the Answer to Organ Shortages?

The supply of organ donors cannot keep up with demand. Two experts in this weeks BMJ debate whether presumed consent assuming people want to donate unless there is evidence to the contrary is the answer. ......Surveys show that 90% of the UK population support organ donation, yet only 23% have registered their wish to donate, writes Veronica English, Deputy Head of Medical Ethics at the Briti...

SMS Help-line to Provide Answers for HIV/AIDS Queries

A newly devised SMS help-line in this megalopolis is becoming hugely popular with those grappling with the stigma of HIV/AIDS, having received// over 25,000 texts since its launch last month. ....A national initiative of the NGO Heroes Project founded by Hollywood icon Richard Gere and Mumbai socialite Parmeshwar Godrej, the help-line offers specific advice on HIV/AIDS by a panel of qualified co...

Yale Cancer Center Answers: A New Weekly Radio Progam on WNPR

New Haven, Conn. Yale Cancer Center is proud to announce the launch of a weekly program, Yale Cancer Center Answers on WNPR Connecticut Public Radio. Beginning on National Cancer Survivors Day , June 3, the radio program will air from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. on Sunday evenings and feature the latest information on cancer care. ......Co-hosts Edward Chu, M.D. and Ken Miller, M.D. ... ...Cancer Answers...

Stem Cell Answer to Infertility in Five Years, Says Scientist

Research on stem cells as a cure for infertility has made considerable progress. In five years it should be possible to grow mature sperm from adult stem cells, says Dr.Karim Nayerina, noted Iranian-born biomedical scientist. ......In July 2006, Dr. Nayernia, a professor of stem biology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne reported that he and his team had successfully coaxed the embryonic...

Toxicology Test Will Give Me Answers-Benoits Dad

The father of pro wrestler Chris Benoit said Friday that he was eager to see whether chemical tests can help explain why Benoit killed his wife and son and committed suicide. ......The bodies of the bodies of Chris, Nancy, and seven-year-old Daniel was found in their home in Atlanta, Georgia. ......Lead investigator Lt. Tommy Pope of the Fayette County Sheriffs Department has confirmed that the...