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The Fight Against Hepatitis

...ere are other causes such as bacterial infections, excess alcohol intake, consumption of certain drugs and poisons. Depending on the duration of hepatitis infection it is classified as acute and chronic hepatitis. What makes hepatitis a life threatening disease is that it can sometimes cause permanent liv...

Genes Identified To Protect Heart Muscles

...smooth muscle cells due to cell death caused by an excess hydrogen peroxide. In the study, funded by CIHR and the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, investigators used a harmless virus to express the HO-1 protein in the cells. The cells were then exposed to high levels of hydrogen peroxide and their ...

Test for Esophageal Reflux Licensed to Bayer by University

... the test. “Most people associate heartburn with excess stomach acid, but it is the digestive enzyme pepsin (and not acid) bathing the lower area of the esophagus that causes the damage,” said Koufman. “For patients with severe esophagitis, the tissue in the esophagus is literally being self-digested.” ...

Risk Of Premature Death In Obese Adolescents

...ompared with girls who had a normal BMI. Hu says excess weight during adolescence can increase the risk for such diseases as heart disease and diabetes, both of which can lead to complications and death in adulthood. "The link between childhood obesity and premature death is an important public health i...

Treatment of Endometriosis in the Pipeline

...tient with iron chelaters. Scientists suggest that excess iron which accumulates in the body as a result of the breaks down of red blood cells (RBCs) from the monthly internal bleed is the cause of endometriosis. But further studies are essential to understand the cause of endometriosis among the high risk ...

Weight-Loss Surgeries Changing Lives

...ight while growing up in Tijuana but began to gain excess weight in their teens after they moved with their ... will usually lose about 60 to 70 percent of their excess weight in about one year. “The hunger sensation is gone for most patients after gastric bypass sur...

Active Life Decelerates Alzheimer's

...dation pathways provides another means of removing excess A?. Finally, changes in cholesterol homeostasis, elements of which have been shown to correlate with A? deposition, may exert beneficial effects by preventing plaque formation in the first place. These data provide strong evidence that an environmen...

Breast Milk: The Mother of All Milk for Infants

...mother in maintaining optimum weight by losing the excess fat gained during pregnancy. Also ovarian, uterine and breast cancers seem to occur more with women who did not breast feed. Apart from the nutritive and protective benefits, there is an intangible blessing of breast milk. The branch of psycho-neur...

A Major Break Through in Treatment for Metabolic Syndrome

...lesterol and lipids should be turned off, however, excess intake of foods, coupled with lack of exercise, appear to disturb the normal checks and balances that control SREBPs, resulting in overproduction of cholesterol and lipids. In the Nature paper, the HMS and MGH Cancer Center team has shown that a pr...

Ill Effects Of Caffeine

... pointed out to the fact that caffeine resulted in excess stimulation which eventually resulted in anxiety, bad moods and problems at work. Hence coffee shops use various color to indicate the level of caffeine in a drink. Red indicated that the drink has more than 200 mg of caffeine, yellow shows that ...

Ultraviolet B (UVB) Radiation Reduces Risk of 16 Types of Cancer in U.S.

...ce and vitamin D costs society about 10 times what excess solar UVB does, and excess UVB irradiance is not required for optimal vitamin D production.” Cedric Garland said “vitamin D in ...

UK Recommendations On Painkillers Flaunted

... legislation was introduced to limit the impact of excess doses of paracetamol, which were responsible for 200 deaths in England and Wales. The drug is highly toxic to the liver in large amounts. The legislation restricted the size of paracetamol packs available to a maximum of 32 tablets of 500 mg each in...

Discovery In "Bubble Boy" Disease Gene Therapy

...is study. "If we could find a way to eliminate the excess cells, and the ability of gamma C to insert into oncogenes and turn them on, we could substantially reduce the risk of gene therapy for XSCID as well," Sorrentino said. He and his colleagues at St. Jude are currently studying ways to "insulate" genes...

Exercise Important in Reducing Size of Abdominal Fat Cells

...The results – from 45 obese, middle-age women with excess abdominal fat – are part of an ongoing study of up... shape) are at a higher risk than people who store excess fat in their hips and thighs (a pear shape). Abdominal fat is associated with metabolic syndrome, ...

"DES Daughters" Have High Risk Of Breast Cancer

... provide direct evidence that prenatal exposure to excess estrogen may be a risk factor for development of b...ncer risk, Palmer said some scientists believe the excess estrogen increases the number of breast tissue stem cells available at birth − cells which cou...

Study finds Babies In America Getting Fatter

...said, “Even our very youngest children are gaining excess weight, not just adults and adolescents.” Explaining that there were several factors that probably play a key role, he said that right now there are more babies who are large for their gestational age at birth than a quarter-century ago, and this was...

Bariatric Surgery: A New Hope for Treating Obesity

... be visible in six months. About 80 percent of the excess fat would be gone," Ramana added. "Obesity is the other extreme of malnutrition," said Ramana, adding that at least 70 to 80 percent of fat adolescents grow up to be obese adults. (Source: IANS)...

Bisphosphonates to Treat Multiple Myeloma

...s bone resorption and aids the body in eliminating excess calcium. These drugs reduce other bony complications related to MM as well. Unfortunately, along with the positive effects of bisphosphonates comes the possibility of adverse reactions, including kidney function impairment and damage to the jaw bon...

Aging Critical For Alzheimer's Disease

...occurs in all brains, but healthy cells clear away excess amounts. Brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, on the other hand, are unable to control beta amyloid accumulation. For years, scientists have scrambled to find out why. To answer this vexing question, Dillin analyzed protein aggregation in the...

Food Packaging Containing Latex May Trigger an Allergic Reaction

...ere designed to avoid restriction of choice due to excess use of warning labels. 'Advisory labeling should only be used when, following a thorough risk assessment, there is a real risk of allergic reactions,' they said.The Leatherhead study is the first attempt to quantify the latex allergens present in foo...

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