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Aspirin surpasses Modern Anti-clotting Drugs

...duced no significant further reduction in vascular events compared with aspirin alone....

Chemical in Gila monster's saliva yields Alzheimer drug

...egins gradually, causing a person to forget recent events or familiar tasks. The disease eventually leads// to confusion, personality and behavior changes and impaired judgment. Communication becomes more difficult as the disease progresses, leaving those affected struggling to find words, finish thoughts o...

DNA helps in cellular function

...ng which is at the end of a complicated cascade of events in the body. Transcription is the process of making RNA chains from DNA.In a series of complicated experiments with the enzyme from the bacteria E.Coli. Erie and her students found that when the precursor molecule does not occupy the newly disco...

Stem Cells Have Few Mutations

...n frequency as a colony of stem cells ages.``These events accumulate as one maintains these cells in culture,'' he said. Larry Goldstein, a cell biologist at the University of California, San Diego, said the finding that mutations accumulate in a cell culture suggests that it is unlikely that the 78 cell ...

DNA transcription to be focused

...ng which is at the end of a complicated cascade of events in the body. Transcription is the process of making RNA chains from DNA.In a series of complicated experiments with the enzyme from the bacteria E.Coli. Erie and her students found that when the precursor molecule does not occupy the newly disco...

Is acupuncture safe?

...rying out acupuncture agreed to record any adverse events occurring between June 1998 and February 2000. During this time, there were no serious adverse events and 671 minor ones occurring per 1,000 consultations. Some of these were avoidable, and acupuncturis...

Increase in renal problems

...might be possible to link the results with similar events that occur in the nervous system in other disorders, such as in Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease. “However, more studies are needed to determine if this could be useful in humans,” he said. The researchers are hopeful that antioxidants might be ...

A new method to help smokers quit

...d to reduced cravings and withdrawal. Most adverse events were moderate and were considered similar to those experienced by individuals using nicotine gum. Also, in general, those who used more of the active lozenges daily were more likely to remain abstinent over time. According to researchers, the new ni...

A ray of light on Cardiology

...think we can now reduce the risk of cardiovascular events and death by regression of LVH using ECG markers. The ECG is easily applied and relatively inexpensive.” <br...

Sleep disorders can have anomalistic sexual acts

...le remaining asleep. Patients had no memory of the events after they awoke, and if awakened by their partners during an episode would appear confused and disoriented. One 30 year-old man had sexually assaulted his partner between certain hours of the night for at least 6 years, according to the report. Thi...

Jumping genes eliminate sections of DNA

...equences. The researchers found four of 37 jumping events resulted in deletions of genetic material. One of the deletions was nearly as large as an entire gene. Although they once were labeled junk or useless DNA, these jumping elements have been known for some time to affect the genome profoundly. L1 elem...

Comparing heart disease treatments

...eve freedom from angina than stenting, but adverse events occurred more often in the bypass surgery group. The researchers conclude that both procedures are effective and worthwhile but maybe bypass is more successful in the long-term, as stenting is more likely to need repeating....

Mediterranean diet aids Asian masses

A diet rich in alpha-linoleic acid reduced cardiac events in Asian people at risk.Coronary artery disease (C... diet. After two years, there had been35 cardiac events in the Mediterranean diet group, compared to 70 in the control group. There was also a halving of su...

Recognizing heart risk in dialysis patients

... from 1994 to 1999, there were 260 cardiac-related events in the group - ranging from heart attack to leg amputation because of poor circulation. Blood analysis showed that high levels of C-reactive protein (CRP) and low levels of albumin indicated a high risk of such problems. CRP is a marker for inflamm...

Perceived stress decreases vaccine response

...re was no link between exposure to known stressful events and low antibody levels. It was the participants' perception of stress that counted. Previous evidence suggests that such psychological influences are also at work when people have vaccines against hepatitis B, influenza and rubella....

Memories change with age

On an average younger people remember important events in detail, older people recall more about thoughts, feelings and context. It's known that memory changes with age - some researchers believe that it deteriorates,// others that we start to remember in a different way. Psychologists in Toronto have be...

Renal problem increased

...might be possible to link the results with similar events that occur in the nervous system in other disorders, such as in Huntington’s and Alzheimer’s disease. “However, more studies are needed to determine if this could be useful in humans,” he said. The researchers are hopeful that antioxidants might be ...

Women with diabetes could benefit from HRT

...hed against the risks for others, such as coronary events and breast cancer. Doctors therefore believe that until further studies in this area are done to positively confirm the benefits the better way for women to reduce their risk of developing diabetes is to eat healthily and take to regular exercise....

Herbal supplement ephedra posing threat to people's health

...ic. The researchers compared the number of adverse events among ephedra users versus the number of adverse events among users of other herbs and they took into account the volume of sales for each product. They the...

Cardiac events better treated with intense cholesterol-lowering regime

...ces myocardial perfusion abnormalities and cardiac events to a greater extent than usual-care cholesterol lo...titative measurement of perfusion defects. Cardiac events were monitored during an additional five-year follow-up period. The patients who participated in th...

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