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Animal Fat Enhances Risk Of Stomach

.../ Total fat intake and intake of saturated fat each doubled the risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma, the investigators found. Saturated fat also raised the risk of gastric cardia, which affects the upper part of the stomach, and another type of cancer of the esophagus--esophageal squamous cell carcinoma...

Contraceptives have dual effects

...against the disease that kills 46 people in the US each day....

The phenomenon of sexual attraction

... by water and the men's reactions were studied. In each case, the men were asked to grade the women's attractiveness. They were more likely to think the women were attractive when they were exposed to the pheromones and the testosterone in their saliva increased. There were also fewer differences in per...

Detection of Cancer

...e us to identify a molecular 'signature' unique to each cancer and therefore give us a way of distinguishing between them," said Professor Pat.Preliminary studies on both animals and humans using C-Test1 have provided promising results, and studies are underway to develop C-Test2, he said....

Over-The-Counter Drugs May Prevent Alzheimer's

...res with the ability of nerves to communicate with each other. The study showed that ibuprofen, indomethacin and sulindac sulphide lowered the production of the amyloid-beta 42 (AB42) protein, which helps to form the plaque believed to cause Alzheimer's. The three drugs reduced AB42 levels nearly 80 per...

Exercises reduce risks of cancers

...l activity doesn't have to mean running a marathon each week. "A brisk walk for half an hour, five times a week, is as good a way as any of getting the exercise we need." Exercise is also well recognised as protective against other illnesses such as heart disease....

Quit coffee and help your heart

...d 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 st...

New therapy for pimples

...ll with moderate or mild acne, used for 15 minutes each day. At the end of a 12 week period, these patients on average showed a 78% decrease in the number of visible spots on the area treated. Dr Tony Chu, who led the trial, claimed that the combination of lights both attacked bacteria contributing to t...

Smallpox Vaccine May Help Fight Cervical Cancer

...vical cancer affects about 465,000 women worldwide each year and causes 300,000 deaths. If it is diagnosed and treated in its earliest stages there is a high survival rate. // Doctors at Britain's Cancer Research Campaign hope the vaccine will boost the immune system's response to the human papilloma vi...

The alarm clock in you

... rhythms which can help them wake at regular times each day, but - says Professor Born - this is the first real evidence of an internal "mechanism which quickly adapts the sleep-wake rhythm to environmental challenges." Fifteen healthy volunteers with an average age of 25 and regular sleep patterns took...

Too much coffee is too bad

...eased bone loss.Until it is practical to determine each person’s VDR genotype, physicians should recommend both adequate dietary calcium and moderate caffeine comsumption for their elderly patients. ...

Safe for people with asthma

...fferent pattern.// Every day for two weeks after each injection, the patients were monitored for peak expiratory flow, asthma symptoms and time off school or work, all as a measure of asthma exacerbation. There was no significant difference - 20 per cent had exacerbations after flu injection, compared t...

Cut down on fries

...er.Scientists found that women who eat fried food each morning are at twice the risk of the most common f...their lifestyles. Women who ate a cooked breakfast each morning were at more than twice the risk of developing oesophageal cancer as those who began the day...

Too much fibre can aggrevate cancer

...patients with a history of polyps, roughly a third each were given extra fibre, extra calcium, or nothing at all.// Three years later, the patients were given a second colonoscopy to see if any new polyps had appeared. In the group given no supplements, 36 out of 178 had new polyps, while 58 out of 198 ...

Low-radiation treatment for brain tumours

...children are diagnosed with this curable condition each year. In the early 1990s, the standard treatment was to apply a dose of 3,600 cGy or rads (units of radiation) to the whole brain and spine, with higher doses to the cerebellum. However, most patients suffered severe neurological impairment in additi...

FDA attacks American Red Cross for blood violations

...ower to levy fines of $10,000 a day as well as for each future safety violation inspectors discover....

Cure for sleepless nights

... 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), the researchers said: "Our results indicate that chronic insomnia can be effectively treated in late life with structured and sleep-f...

DNA biochip for genetic screening

...erns-less than the diameter of a human hair - onto each postage stamp-sized DNA chip. Each micromirror c... computer keeps track of information such as where each DNA strand is on the chip. The strands of DNA affixed on the surface of Gao’s chip act as probes, e...

New HIV cases resist drugs

.... There are four classes of these drugs available, each of which attacks HIV at a different point, and a mixture is required to make it work. The timing and composition of this cocktail is an art for AIDS doctors....

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

...ead rapidly at first, infecting 6 to 12 people for each individual already infected. As steps were taken to hinder the spread of the disease--including mass vaccination campaigns, restriction of infected individuals' movement and quarantines--the rate of disease spread would fall. Nonetheless, signific...

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