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No vaccination - diabetes link

...cause children to develop diabetes. The conclusion came from a look at 768 diabetes-free children who were...not been taken since 1990 when some newer vaccines came into use. The cause of juvenile diabetes is not known but genetic and environmental factors are beli...

TV drug commercials prompt prescriptions

...ial for an asthma drug, about a quarter of viewers came away with the mistaken impression that there are drugs that can be used to replace an asthma inhaler. The study was conducted by interviewing 1,872 people who watched a series of commercials for prescription drugs and 639 other people. The margin o...

Body can reshape heart damage

...epair a damaged heart much as it does other organs came after Dr. Federico Quaini and his colleagues exami...the researchers were able to determine which cells came from the female donor and which belonged to the male recipient. But the researchers found cells th...

Memory loss associated with microbes

...microscopic creature, a dinoflagellate, could kill came from US fishermen who noted that fish in the Pocomoke River and nearby estuaries were swimming erratically and had strange lesion marks on their skin. Investigators discovered dinoflagellates living in the water, and tests showed that the creatures...

New technique to diagnose heart disease

... disease. The accuracy rose to 70 per cent when it came to looking at three-vessel or left main artery disease. What is more, the MRI technique was 80 per cent accurate in ruling out any form of heart disease and 100 per cent accurate in eliminating three-vessel or left main artery disease. The findings s...

Excess vitamin A increases fracture risk

...ed to those with the lowest intake. The added risk came from an intake greater than 3000 micrograms per day. This suggests that women who already eat a balanced, vitamin-rich diet should think twice before taking a supplement. Certainly they should check the ingredients carefully to ensure they are not ta...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...ika, garlic, curry, chilli and black pepper. Herbs came out on top, she says. Herbs can be consumed in a variety of ways. Some people prefer to dring herb extracts, which can be make by adding herbs to hot water to make potent antioxidant teas.Others use concentrated herbal oils available in some health ...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...ika, garlic, curry, chilli and black pepper. Herbs came out on top, she says. Herbs can be consumed in a variety of ways. Some people prefer to dring herb extracts, which can be make by adding herbs to hot water to make potent antioxidant teas.Others use concentrated herbal oils available in some health ...

Drug Combo Works Better for children with ADHD, Tics

.... About 85 percent showed improvement. And when it came to reducing the severity of a child's tic symptoms, the most effective treatment also appeared to be a combination of Ritalin and clonidin....

Obesity increases health costs

...ity-linked diseases, but obesity was worse when it came to long-term health problems. Being obese increases health care costs 36% and medication costs 77%, while smoking increases those costs 21% and 30%, respectively. Obesity contributed to a fall in quality of life at nearly four time the rate of smoki...

Processed Meat, Diabetes connection Found

.... Hu said the big increase in risk for diabetes 2 came among those who ate processed meats five times or ...can Diabetes Association. The data in the research came from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, a project that began in 1986 by collecting dietary in...

Parasite infections linked to organ transplants

...involving the parasitic disease, all of the organs came from the cadaver of a Central American immigrant who was apparently infected with T. cruzi. The parasite causes Chagas disease, which was previously confined to Latin America. The disease can cause heart irregularities. Federal health officials est...

Fossil teeth and human development

...humans compared with 11 or 12 years for primates — came about more recently in the evolutionary process than previously thought. "Dental development is a good measure of overall growth and development," study author Alan Walker, professor of anthropology and biology at Penn State University, said in a new...

Liver key to extending life

...s and that this is where his interest in the liver came from. The liver's role in the body is to process blood coming from the gut by absorbing nutrients, metabolising fats, and processing toxins. "Previous to our research, the liver was not thought to change much during ageing, except for shrinking in ...

Chemists Discover Cation Considered Too Unstable To Exist

...stable organic cations in the laboratory. When Lin came to Lambert with the crystal structure of a molecule other than the one expected, Lambert quickly recognized the structure as an example of the elusive cyclopentadienyl cation of textbook fame. Lambert and Lin currently are studying the chemistry of t...

Grapes, Melons Implicated in Outbreaks

...Investigation Service, interviewed 23 patients who came down with the S. poona infections in June and July of 2001 and was able to determine an association with eating melons. However, we didn't find any real association until we asked the people if they had eaten precut melons," she said. For example, mo...

Pancreatic Cancer may be linked to Diabetes

... late-onset diabetes. The cases used for the study came from the Rochester Epidemiology Program, funded by the National Institutes of Health. Researchers identified patients with late-onset diabetes in Rochester, between 1970 and 1996 and followed them for three years to see who developed pancreatic cance...

Spiritual views aid after bereavement

...r the first nine months following bereavement, but came to terms with their loss thereafter. This study suggests a new area that those working with the bereaved might be able to venture....

Cell transplants for stroke

... Animals were given injections of the cells, which came from healthy human volunteers. Compared to controls that either did not receive cells, or which received skin cells, those animals that were injected with stromal cells showed improvement. They gained in both motor and sensory functioning. The rese...

Screening bypasses radical breast surgery

...of mastectomy - removal of the breast - for cancer came down by 50 per cent. There has been a lot of such changes happening all round the plave. At the same time, the rate of breast conserving surgery went up by 50 per cent. In this operation, the lump from the breast is removed. Hence this is indicativ...

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