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Vaccine to quit smoking?

...,// a pharmaceutical company, promises new hope in preventing people from relapsing. The vaccine (NicVAX) binds ... control experiments, the vaccine was effective in preventing brain distribution of nicotine. For India? We need a Beedi Vaccine!...

Kidney Stones - Interesting New Research implicates bacteria as its cause

...cs may prove to be effective means of treating and preventing Kidney stones. These findings are exciting and may...ead to new and more effective ways of treating and preventing kidney stones....

New hope for cancer victims – will vaccine cure the deadly bug

...ny. Vaccines are typically thought of as a way of preventing disease. In cancer, however, they are used along with other therapies to fight the disease, says expert Tony Hollingsworth, PhD. All vaccines are designed to encourage the immune system to fight disease, but in the case of cancer, patients are first ...

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

...against FMD on a regular basis is the bestmeans of preventing the spread of the disease," says Dr S M Lal, the jointdirector of the Bangalore-based Indian Veterinary Research Institute (underICAR), which is the only government-aided institution that has been has beenmaking FMD vaccine since 1972. "FMD is preva...

OBESE LIL' GIRLS !! SWEAT IT OUT OR U MIGHT BE ASTHAMATIC !!!

....They advise that "specific interventions aimed at preventing excessive weight gain during school years, especially in girls, may thus be a valuable tool in preventing asthma-related morbidity during adolescence"....

Protein in urine foresees heart disease

...planet. The scientists of the globe are working on preventing the same as by any means, prevention is better than cure. As a result of their hard work they have come out with number of ways to identify and stop the progression when the disease is young. And now the Dutch investigators found that postmenopausal ...

Soluble IL-4 Receptor - A new boon for asthmatics

...-4 antagonist, appears to be safe and effective in preventing a decline in lung function and in preventing asthma symptoms. In their study, Dr. Larry C. Borish, from the University of Virginia Health Scienc...

WORM! WORM! all the way

...on of the organisms once they are in the body, and preventing them from producing too much of the drug or vaccine they are engineered to make...there is no question helminths play an important if not essential role in the maintenance of human health....

New treatment for Osteoporosis

...in bone cells, oestrogen can also trigger a signal preventing the cells from dying thereby prolonging their lives and keeping the bones strong. This signal acts directly, much faster than gene expression, taking minutes rather than hours.The team developed a calss of compounds that produce only the fast signa...

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

... other natural plant nutrients may be effective in preventing prostate cancer and treating the disease in its earliest stages.// Dr. Frederick Khachik, co-author on the study and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Maryland came forward with the explanation that the combination of the...

Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage

...y, low doses of another NSAID, aspirin, is used in preventing miscarriage in a small group of women who have an immune disease which blocks implantation.With this low dose, very little gets into the general circulation. Most of it goes into the liver," said Dr. Illingworth, he suggested a more detailed study on...

Breast milk is essential

...d their children for less than three months may be preventing them from reaching their full intellectual potential. The results of intelligence tests on 13-month-old babies and five- year-old children showed that those who had breast milk for less than three months were not as bright//as those who had been bre...

B Vitamin Supplementatoin Saves Money and Lives

...g supplements of folic acid and cyanocobalamin, in preventing heart disease. It was found that grain fortification alone reduced the number of heart attacks and the other heart attack events to about 8% in women and 13 % in men. Tice also noticed that "the evidence for the beneficial effects of vitamin therap...

Eat Vitamin C and stay young

...er prevention, increasing life span and perhaps in preventing heart disease.// Vitamin C is an anti-oxidant and has been touted as a way to fight off the common cold and cancer. In the study of healthy young women, however, the vitamin did not change the level of isoprostanes, compounds that may play a role i...

Probiotics can help

...rticular strain of probiotic, lactobacillus GG, in preventing childhood diarrhoea and respiratory infections.Lactobacillus GG is already known to reduce the duration of acute diarrhoea in children, but there have been few studies into its possible preventive effects. The latest study in the British Medical Jo...

Aspirin reduces deaths

... are now well known. For aspirin thins the blood - preventing clotting - and also reduces inflammation. A new study from doctors at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the US now reveals that aspirin reduces deaths from all causes in heart patients.// The researchers followed up over 6,000 patients referred to ...

Hormone contraceptives lead to bone problems

..., has the same effect on the bones as menopause -- preventing a woman from making new bone fast enough to keep up with the level of bone loss. The most significant dangers linked to DMPA, say other experts, occur when taken by young women whose skeletons are not yet fully formed. Those problems include a hig...

Omega-3 fatty acids impair immunity

...ystem - and may then be able to figure out ways of preventing this from happening....

Stop smoking and reduce weight

...cerns about weight gain fared the best in terms of preventing weight gain. At one-year follow-up after treatment, they had gained less weight than women in either the weight control or the standard therapy groups. Women in the weight counseling group gained, on average, 5.5 pounds, while women in the weight con...

Misleading anti-malarial drug

...e and proguanil) as being 97 per cent effective at preventing the aggressive falciparum strain of malaria, but the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB) – published by the Consumers’ Association – says the evidence for this is misleading. // DTB says that no study has been published into the drug’s effectivene...

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