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Snacking While Driving Doubles Accident Rates

...increase in the demand for their attention. "The evidence suggests that the physical demands of eating and drinking while driving can increase the risk of a crash,'' the Independent quoted the researchers, as stating. "The results of the present study lend weight to the argument that eating or drinking at...

Experts Need to Include Children in Research

...ediatricians work doesnt have much of a scientific evidence base and we prescribe drugs by extrapolating from what we know about adult bodies. We have a desperate need to understand precisely how childrens bodies work so that we can custom-design therapies for them and their problems. Researchers in the ne...

Sugary Diet can Be Helpful in Shedding Off Pounds

... This research contributes to the growing body of evidence that an effective way to lose weight is by adherin...t and by being physically active. It also provides evidence that the exclusion of sucrose, as is normally advocated in a weight loss diet, is not necessary to a...

Alcohol Does Not Destroy Brain Cells

...rld's top neuroscientists, claims that there is no evidence that drinking alcohol directly leads to the death of cells. "Some of the best studies, done in Italy, show a bottle of wine a night can reduce the risk of dementia in old age," News.com.au quoted Professor Bartlett, as saying. Research also sugge...

Food Colour in Sausages, Burgers Could Trigger Cancer

...n for the EFSA, as saying. "Given new scientific evidence it cannot be excluded that aniline's carcinogenic ...to take. The EFSA is re-assessing the scientific evidence on all food colourings as part of a wider review of a range of food additives presently authorised f...

A Spoonful of Sugar can Melt Away the Pounds

... "This research contributes to the growing body of evidence that an effective way to lose weight is by adherin...t and by being physically active. It also provides evidence that the exclusion of sucrose, as is normally advocated in a weight loss diet, is not necessary to a...

FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients

..., notes that for stroke patients, a large body of evidence now suggests that repeated practice with an impaired limb can foster plastic changes in the brain. In other words, it can help the brain forge new connections between neurons or strengthen existing ones. For patients whose strokes have damaged part o...

FDA Says Tomatoes Unlikely to Cut Cancer Risk

...ing cancer risk. The "analysis found no credible evidence that lycopene, either in food or in a dietary supp...earcher Claudine Kavanaugh. The review "found no evidence that tomatoes reduced the risk of lung, colorectal, breast, cervical or endometrial cancer." Howev...

Selenium Supplements may Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk

...ook a placebo or dummy pill. "At this time, the evidence that people should take selenium supplements is extremely limited. We have observed an increased risk for diabetes over the long term in the group of participants who took selenium supplements," Stranges said. By the end of the study, the relative ...

Medical Science Strides-No Guarantee For Pre-Mature Babies

...e stories, but give a clear picture of what is the evidence in terms of survival. Most neonatologists believe babies born before 23 weeks' gestation have virtually no chance of surviving, no matter how aggressively they're treated. Agrees William Caplan, a neonatologist at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospita...

Ice Bath by Sports Star Questioned

...siotherapists who promote the bath have had little evidence to prove this. Out of 40 exercising volunteers, those who took an icy plunge reported more pain after 24 hours than those who took a tepid bath, the Australian study found. This study challenges the use of ice-water immersion in athletes, the resear...

Folicacid Fortification Very Beneficial

...ues note, there is a compelling body of scientific evidence suggesting that habitually high intakes of dietary folate are protective against colorectal cancer. Mason explains, however, that There are several reasons why we may have inadvertently created the opposite effect with folic acid fortification. Fir...

Hormone Inhibitor in Prostate Cancer Treatment

...docetaxel patients. These results are supported by evidence of tumour shrinkage on scans, drops in circulating tumor cell counts and improvements in symptoms. A Phase III trial of abiraterone is planned for next year....

Clinicians Ordering Inappropriate Prostate Screenings

...e. To our knowledge, there is currently no solid evidence that PSA screening provides any health benefits for these patient populations, the authors write. Rather, it imposes substantial psychological and financial costs and may lead to diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of questionable benefit. Beca...

Study Confirms No HRT Benefit for Older Women

New evidence confirms that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) sh... no longer recommended as the available randomised evidence shows that the negative outcomes outweigh the positive benefits....

Polyclinics Could Threaten NHS Services, Warns BMA

...ly-led, in partnership with patients, and based on evidence that would enhance patient care. Any changes to he...lth services must be safe, based on sound clinical evidence and be in the best interests of patients. We will need to examine the details of Professor Sir Ara D...

Cane Sugar,corn Syrup Have Similar Effects on Hunger

...ie from milk," explained Monsivais. Much of the evidence that linked corn sweeteners with obesity came from animal-based metabolic studies using pure fructose. This study, on the other hand, used beverages sweetened with two types of high-fructose corn syrup: HFCS 55, which contains about 55 percent fructo...

Gallstone Gene Discovered by Research Team

... families. In particular, studies of twins provide evidence of a genetic component that boosts risk levels. "We reckon that environmental influences, like the wrong diet, are 70 to 80 per cent responsible for the disorder," explains Lammert who works in the university hospital's Department I headed by Profess...

WBC Selective About Sugar

...te one pathogen from another. Rubin-Bejerano had evidence that neutrophils respond to beta-glucan. After coating tiny beads with a variety of substances (including beta-1,3-glucan and beta-1,6-glucan), she exposed them to the neutrophils and was surprised to see a striking difference in their response to th...

Kaposi Sarcoma Arise from Multiple Cells

...ontain human herpesvirus 8. The researchers found evidence that nearly 80% of the tumors arose independently from multiple cells. They concluded that few Kaposi sarcoma tumors originate from a single cell and that Kaposi sarcoma, especially in its advanced form, is not true metastatic cancer. In an accompa...

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