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Lean Protein Could Be Key to Obesity Drugs

...otein that lets mice eat more but weigh less could prove the magic ingredient for diet drugs of the future.British scientists from drug giant SmithKline Beecham and the University of Cambridge have created mice with a human protein known as Uncoupling Protein 3 (UCP3) that increases their metabolism.In wha...

El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks

...l as month-by-month records of cholera cases -- to prove the link. Data on cholera incidence, which normally can rise and fall twice each year with local influences such as monsoons and seasonal temperature changes, came from a hospital in Bangladesh that had tested all incoming patients for cholera for 18...

Kidney Stones - Interesting New Research implicates bacteria as its cause

...g Nano bacteria in all of them. So antibiotics may prove to be effective means of treating and preventing Kidney stones. These findings are exciting and may eventually lead to new and more effective ways of treating and preventing kidney stones....

Multi billion-dollar suit filed against cell phone firm for causing brain tumours

...British government funded study recently failed to prove that cell phone usage could cause brain tumours. Analysts are quick to point out that though there is no evidence as yet linking cell phone radiation to brain tumours, a spurt of legal battles are expected as more and more cases are detected. The law...

Antibiotics losing their power against acne

... vaccine to prevent acne. If successful, this can prove to be an effective solution for millions of patients, most of them teenagers, suffering from physical and psychological trauma of severe acne....

Cats to protect children from asthma

...g from asthma by strengthening the Th1 system. To prove this Thomas Platts-Mills and his colleagues from the University of Virginia looked at the immune reactions of 226 children to cat allergens in their hormones. They found that 1 in 5 of the children showed an immune response to cat dandruff without ha...

New scalpel probes into cancer

... computer by optical fibre.This new recovery might prove a boon for the surgeons....

Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

....But the epidemiological studies does not actually prove a cause-and-effect between lycopene and reduced cancer risk. In their study , the researchers followed 30 men with localized prostate cancer and administered 15 milligrams of lycopene daily to half of them ,while the other half received no interven...

Surgery made simple

... of the lungs by contents of the food pipe and may prove fatal. The Tracheostomy kit minimizes the risk as it has a dilation scale which allows physicians to know accurately how big a hole they are making....

Iron supplementation for a common side effect

...soon to come to conclusions. Extensive work should prove effective....

A height problem

... and children of extremely short parents likely to prove slightly taller. Children's heights often give a clue to any underlying health problem they may have. If a child is too short, it may be due to serious underlying disease, malnutrition or even abuse, so it is important that doctors correctly identify...

Acupuncture can ease cancer

...sed by the powerful drugs used to fight cancer can prove extremely debilitating for patients. Doctors offer an arsenal of various anti-emetic drugs to lessen the reaction, but in recent years acupuncture has been joining mainstream medicine as a possible extra help. Acupuncture involves the insertion of ...

Levels Of Blood Proteins May Help Heart Disease Care

...se findings are confirmed in other populations and prove to be predictive of coronary events, MPO levels may be helpful to identify patients with CAD who might otherwise not be identified by routine screening methods. Despite the interesting observations in these studies, major questions need to be resolv...

An effective way to treat angina

...CP is non-invasive and safe and, if larger studies prove its effectiveness, offers new hope for people with angina who are not responding to current therapies....

Mouthwash as a weapon

...ully investigated, particularly as triclosan could prove cheaper to manufacture than many existing antimalarials.// Triclosan is the anti-bacterial ingredient of mouthwashes, and acne medications, but has never been considered as something which could be used in the blood. In tests on animals at the Jawa...

New therapy for pimples

...ne in 18 adults have persistent pimples, which can prove stubbornly resistant to both creams and antibiotics. Some acne does clear up significantly when exposed to UV light. The new treatment, tested by doctors at Hammersmith Hospital in London, uses light, but removes the potentially damaging UV.// Ins...

Music aids in curing dementia

...e planning to carry out a study to see if they can prove that this therapy has long term benefits for dementia sufferers. If their results are positive, the scientists are hopeful that the therapy can be introduced as a treatment for dementia patients.// Dementia is a progressive, degenerative and irrev...

Low-radiation treatment for brain tumours

...The researchers believe that this new method could prove to be a breakthrough in the treatment of medulloblastoma. ...

Predictable genes

...on on Wednesday that gene screening may eventually prove more reliable than using other established risk factors as a guide.Known risk factors include age, age of first period and menopause, high-fat diet, and high alcohol consumption. He said: "The number and type of genes that account for the remainder ...

Link Between Infection And Heart Disease

... at the beginning of the study. Thus, it's hard to prove the exact nature of the association between infection and heart disease. According to the researchres, the infection/heart disease link is probably a result of immune reactions. Exposure to multiple infections causes inflammation of the blood vesse...

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