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Recommendations for Treatment of Blood Pressue

...ked and under-emphasized. This new NHBPEP advisory points out the overwhelming evidence that lowering systolic blood pressure can save lives. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a serious condition that affects 50 million Americans i.e, one in four adults. High blood pressure increases the risk of hear...

Want a Healthy brew? Have some Tea!

...d of the drinks healthy attributes. As evidence he points out to studies, which suggest that tea helps prevent cancer and heart disease. Also researchers have found that tea helps women in the menopausal age group by strengthening their bones by increasing their bone density. They say the anti-oxidants foun...

The brain loves a surprise

...er and juice drops was predictable, while at other points the sequence varied. It was at this time of unpredictability that the researchers noticed marked stimulation in the brain's pleasure centers in many, but not all, of the participants. Although this study could not delve into why a surprise dash of ...

Fight arthritic pain with acupuncture

...heory, the human body has thousands of acupuncture points along pathways called meridians. And these pathways conduct energy throughout the body. Acupuncture is believed to keep this energy flow moving smoothly. According to the Arthritis Foundation in Atlanta, there is enough evidence to suggest acupunctu...

Doctors advice early anemia tests

...n less than 95 grams per liter of blood scored six points lower on motor skill tests than babies with higher levels. Hemoglobin levels less than 90 were linked with a 12-points drop on motor skill tests. "In this study we have shown that developmental outcome at 18 months of age, particularly motor developm...

Pharma cos must forge Strategic alliances

... said, while clarifying that one of the major plus points of Indian medicines was their affordability. The country's traditional capability coupled with the modern facilities were making Indian medicines cheaper. Lauding the export performance of the chemical industry, he said it could even exceed the tar...

Smoking spreads Cancer

...lifestyle factors to explain the risk. Murin also points out, however, that it's not completely clear whether smoking affects something in the lungs directly to make breast cancer more likely to spread or whether smoking causes a systemic response in the body that encourages cancers to grow and spread to o...

Big and Bright

...ed to a 4.6 increase in IQ among boys but only 2.8 points in girls. The authors say differences in IQ of this size are trivial and of no clinical importance to individual children.But since seven times as many children are born in the normal weight range compared to the low range, even small shifts in...

Dark skin protects

... humans, suggesting a link between the two.He also points out that darker-skinned people are less likely than people with fair skin to develop serious skin diseases. It also explains why all do not have black skin. Melanin is made from the amino acid tyrosine, which is also needed to build proteins. In p...

Acupuncture provides relief

... the groups. A related commentary in the journal points out that laser acupuncture was a good choice of control when the trial was designed because the patient undergoing treatment still thinks of themselves as receiving a valid form of acupuncture treatment. But the small difference between the acupunct...

What we can learn from dogs?

...ative Medicine at the University of Houston and he points out that collaboration between veterinary and medical scientists can produce exciting new insights into human health. What's more, the study of the dog genome and - maybe - the chimpanzee genome, may be able to pinpoint the handful of genes that coul...

Emphasis on eating pattern

...vegetables, fruit, milk or meat, ten more possible points for dietary limitations - total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium, then ten more points for dietary variety. The total possible is 100. The mean score, for a group of 340 women of average ...

Acupuncture can ease cancer

...olves the insertion of tiny needles at various set points around the body. Although there is evidence that it works for a variety of conditions.// Electroacupuncture also involves inserting needles, but then passing different strengths of electrical current through them.The latest study to back the techni...

Depression disturbs heart rate

...th a high HRV. The fact that depression lowers HRV points to an important mind-body mechanism. Clearly, it may be essential to treat depression as well as heart problems following a heart attack, if the patient is to have the best possible chance of survival....

Detection of Cancer

...munostimulator' nature of this diagnostic molecule points to its use as a potential cancer treatment, but Professor Parish cautions that further research is needed to evaluate this possibility. The second stage, C-Test2, would use a similar technique to identify the type of cancer present."Mass spectrometr...

Genetics helps in attacking cancer

...o ceflatonin and maybe other anti-cancer drugs. It points the way to a new way of treating cancer - based upon a knowledge of how gene activity is changed in people who have the disease....

Exercises reduce risks of cancers

... up all the evidence on the issue, and say that it points more firmly than ever to this conclusion. The research, carried out by the Cancer Research Campaing and Swedish Cancer Foundation, combined and analysed the results of more than 60 separate studies into bowel cancer. It found that people who exercis...

Drink alcohol for intelligence

...40 millilitres of sake or wine a day had an IQ 3.3 points higher than men who did not drink at all. Women drinkers scored 2.5 points higher than teetotallers. Senior researcher Hiroshi Shimokata told New Scientist magazine said: "I...

Shapely sperm-a valuable indicator of fertility

...st half of them are moving around. But the cut-off points for who is fertile// and who is sterile are not particularly clear. According to them, the criteria for the percentage of well-shaped sperm have changed over the years. Guzick and doctors at seven other universities studied sperm from the men in 600...

Alcoholics are prone to disability

...ers. The researchers collected data at four time points over the six year period of the study.This began a few years ago and was concluded that drinking causes the disability. They also found that problem drinkers not disabled at the start of the study tended to become so over time....

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