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New back support device can improve balance for older people

...specially weighed back support device can not only decrease the back pain but can also cause extensive improvements in strength for the women who had suffered the disease. Elderly population remains at a larger risk from falling and sustain bone fractures due to their age related osteoporosis that can cause ...

Low-Dose Oral Contraceptives May Increase Risk For Heart Attack Or Stroke

...mple, insulin-sensitizing drugs have been shown to decrease progression to Type 2 diabetes, and there is evidence suggesting that they also may lower the risk of cardiovascular disease and have beneficial effects on cardiovascular risk factors," he said. Polycystic ovary disease is a condition that can affe...

Dark chocolate benefits the heart

...ientists found that these subjects exhibited a 7 % decrease in aortic stiffness in three hours following consumption. An artery in the arm also dilated significantly more in response to an increase in blood flow. “Aortic stiffness and elasticity are determinants of cardiovascular performance and are predicto...

Risk of prostate cancer lowered by soyabean

A 30% decrease in the risk of developing prostate cancer was observed in people// on a high intake of soy. This increase intake is also beneficial in lower death rate amongst prostate cancer patients. The analysis is based on the data from eight population stu...

Grape fruit seed extracts can heal stomach ulcers

...stric secretion reduced by 50% and the progressive decrease in ulcer was found in the area of the ulcer in rats treated at a concentration of 10 mg/kg. The treated rats had a significant rise in the flow of blood in the ulcer site, which leads to early healing of the ulcer at this site. It was also found th...

New Supplement Found To Be Effective Against Sunburn

...once burning had occurred, the redness was seen to decrease more quickly in the GliSODin group. Some of the other common supplements marketed for skin protection include Cyanotech’s BioAstin natural astaxanthin as well as vitamin E, the most common antioxidant in sun care formulations.However a study done i...

New Discovery to Increase Survival of Breast cancer Patients

...hat expression of high levels of TRAIL-R2 causes a decrease in survival rates of breast cancer patients. TRAIL receptors are cell surface receptors that triggers cell death, the study has found that TRAIL-R1 expression was not associated with survival, high TRAIL-R2 expression strongly correlated with decre...

Vitamin C – Supplementation A Boon For Asthmatics

... foods could be a relatively easy strategy to help decrease the morbidity and socioeconomic burden associated with severe asthma said the researchers. Medindia on Asthma: Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world. Perhaps the most commonly discussed respiratory disease after the comm...

Obesity better handled with gastric bypass surgery

...round the middle portion of the small intestine to decrease the amount of calories absorbed. The weight-loss operation was also found to offer cure to obesity-related health problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, serious stomach problems due to gastroesophageal reflux disease and sleep apnea. Ind...

Drinking Coffee Might Have Another Benefit ...

Latest research shows that drinking coffee could decrease the risk of liver cancer.Researchers from Japan// pooled data from two cohort studies that showed self-reported frequency of coffee consumption among more than 60,000 people. After adjustment for potential confounders, researchers say they found th...

Gene enchances radiation therapy - A novel approach to fight cancer

...d received the gene therapy had a nearly threefold decrease in activation of the EGFR repair system. They also found that tumor cells in the mice treated with the mutant gene were 46% less likely to survive than those in untreated mice. The study shows that disrupting the EGFR system in cancer cells "can en...

Insomniacs have increased activity of stress hormones

...ow refocus their therapeutic goals and now work to decrease the levels of physiologic arousal in insomniacs, i...ld be recommended to insomniac patients which will decrease the activity of the strees system, instead of hypnotic drugs. SOURCE: Clinical Endocrinology & M...

Gene causes moles to become cancerous

...s the cancer grows, researchers reason, Id1 levels decrease because it is no longer needed to block the suppressor gene. According to Alani a larger study of several hundred patients will be conducted in order to verify the Id1 gene's role in melanoma before designing a method to test for it. This is import...

New contact lens materials

...very after six months with all soft lenses, with a decrease in bacterial binding to the corneal surface. Lastly, 30-night wear produced no significant increases in bacteria binding after one year. An unexpected finding of the study was that rigid contact lenses appear better for the eye than soft because th...

Fat Cell Protein Hits Type-2 Diabetes

...und a very clear mechanism by which an increase or decrease in fat cell size, as happens in obese humans, might cause severe hepatic (liver) insulin resistance because less of a hormone-like protein, Acrp30, is secreted by the fat cell. The researchers used a genetic approach in cells to generate an exact co...

Moles become cancerous due to genes

...s the cancer grows, researchers reason, Id1 levels decrease because it is no longer needed to block the suppressor gene. According to Alani a larger study of several hundred patients will be conducted in order to verify the Id1 gene's role in melanoma before designing a method to test for it. This is import...

Cholesterol in low levels are good

...// of a similar medication, but they also showed a decrease in thickness in the main neck arteries supplying b...ter one year, while those on atorvastatin showed a decrease in thickening. Doctors typically recommend lowering LDL to below 100 for people with heart disease a...

Arsenic in drinking water

...rilling programme has contributed to a significant decrease in the incidence of diarrhoeal diseases. It has been suggested that there are between 8-12 million shallow tube-wells in Bangladesh. Up to 90% of the Bangladesh population of 130 million prefer to drink well water. Piped water supplies are available ...

When it comes to health, all chocolates not the same.

...s may reduce harmful blood clotting properties and decrease low-density-lipoprotein (LDL), known as the "bad cholesterol." A study was done involving adults with untreated mild hypertension who ate 3-ounce chocolate bars daily for two weeks. Half of the patients got white chocolate, half got dark chocolate....

New Vaccine Found To Be Effective In Reducing Childhood Pneumonia

... childhood pneumonia and meningitis and has helped decrease the racial unevenness of the diseases, according to a government report.The vaccine, called 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, also caused the rates to drop in children under 2. Researchers conclude saying that while the cause of excess pneum...

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