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Dopamine helps stroke survivors

... was stopped and physiotherapy alone continued for another three weeks. At the end of this time, recovery of ...suggested that amphetamines, which boost levels of another neurotransmitter - noradrenaline (norepinephrine) - helps stroke survivors. Till now, physiotherapy ...

Statins reduce heart attacks

... cholesterol, and slightly decrease triglycerides, another fat in the blood. The three biggest-selling brands of statins are Lipitor, Zocor, and Pravachol. For patients needing no more than a 20% reduction in cholesterol levels, any of the statins will be equally effective. For patients with higher cholest...

All the more bad

Scientists have discovered another reason why smoking is bad for health. It seems that smokers have a much lower level of an important chemical that protects against heart disease in their blood. The discovery could help explain why smokers have more than twice the risk of heart attac...

New gene for hairloss

...hown that a malfunctioning hairless gene can cause another hair-loss disorder, called papular atrichia. They investigated the function of the protein that cells normally make with instructions from the hairless gene.Results suggest that it helps regulate genes that are activated by thyroid hormone. The hairl...

Animal Fat Enhances Risk Of Stomach

..., which affects the upper part of the stomach, and another type of cancer of the esophagus--esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Cholesterol, animal protein and vitamin B12, found primarily in animal products, were also associated with a higher risk of these cancers. Intake of fiber, beta-carotene, ...

Nobel laureates in chemistry

...chiral product. This development has been led by another of this year's Laureates in chemistry, Ryoji Noyori. The Japanese scientist Ryoji Noyori has carried out extensive research and developed better general catalysts for hydrogenation. Alongside the advances in chirally catalysed hydrogenation reactions...

Levels Of Blood Proteins May Help Heart Disease Care

...in. In the second study, researchers report that another blood protein associated with immune response called myeloperoxidase (MPO) is associated with CAD. If these findings are confirmed in other populations and prove to be predictive of coronary events, MPO levels may be helpful to identify patients with...

Quit coffee and help your heart

...t into three groups. One group consumed no coffee, another drank between 1 and 3 cups of coffee per day and the third group drank more than 4 cups of coffee each day.The study period lasted for 8 weeks and each participant gave blood samples at the beginning of the study, after 4 weeks and at the end of the ...

Gene Treatment for Heart Disease

...t. But the success of these treatments has created another problem. This latest treatment option is still in early testing, but relies on the use of genes to produce proteins called growth factors that stimulate the heart to grow new vessels. The treatment with the growth factor called VEGF-2 worked bett...

First human clone is near

...uman cloning could effectively create a replica of another living or dead person. Scientists could create the first cloned human before the end of the year. Dr. Panayiotis Zavos, who along with his Italian colleague Dr. Severino Antinori has triggered worldwide alarm with plans to create tailor-made offsprin...

Arterial stiffness prevented by light drinking

...ational Institute on Ageing Gerontology have found another of those U-shaped relationships for alcohol consum...tween alcohol consumption and arterial thickening, another heart disease risk factor....

Protein signals need for heart surgery

...a sign that the patient was at high risk of having another heart attack or recurrent, worsening chest pains," said Christopher Cannon of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. "We were pleased to see that this simple blood test for heart damage can be such a useful tool to pick out the best treatment for ou...

Research of Ritalin

...italin, and their brains were compared to those of another group given just sweetened milk.According to Dr Walker, the dose used was comparable to the high end of the dose used to treat children with ADD and ADHD, after taking into account differences in metabolism between mice and humans. The researchers f...

Lecithin lowers cholesterol absorption in body

...e that the absorption of cholesterol is reduced by another compound in the egg, the lecithin.The research was done by Sund I. Koo, Yonghzhi Jiang and Sang K. Noh. A peer-reviewed research paper by the three researchers, “Egg phosphatidylcholine decreses the lymphatic absorption of cholesterol in rats,” as i...

Cure for sleepless nights

...They were also advised to get out of bed and go to another room if they did not manage to fall asleep within 15 to 20 minutes of going to bed and to get up at the same time in the morning each day, regardless of how much sleep they had had. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),...

Sniff out flatulence

...rotten egg smell by the scientists while dimethyl, another gas isolated in tests, had a "sweet" bouquet. The researchers selected two judges who had proved their ability to distinguish between the array of different gases through a blindfold test. Their job was to hold a syringe of gas three centimetres fro...

Alcoholism Drug Fails To Prevent Drinking Relapses

...which is also used to treat heroin addiction, with another alcoholism drug, acamprosate. Both medications act on the brain's opioid receptors to make drinking less pleasurable. Earlier studies, including the work that led to its FDA approval, showed that when combined with counseling naltrexone could help ...

Red Wine Helps Fight Heart disease

...esearchers to look to the consumption of red wine, another staple of the French diet. //Scientists say they have discovered the key component in red wine. The explanation is pigments known as polyphenols. Polyphenols inhibit the production of a peptide that contributes to hardening of the arteries. Polyph...

Combination therapy to treat breast cancer

... it has been suggested that they interact with one another to ensure cell proliferation and survival. Trastuzumab and ZD1839 have been specifically developed to target these receptors. The agents were tested singly and then in combination. Individually, the drugs inhibited cell growth by between 30 and 55 ...

Moderate alcohol consumption protects against dementia

...7 of the participants had developed Alzheimer's or another form of dementia. Those who fared best were people who drank between one and three drinks a day. They had a 42 percent lower risk of developing dementia than the nondrinkers. Researchers suggested the blood-thinning and cholesterol-lowering propert...

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