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Helping Kids Attain a Healthy Weight

...rance and self-esteem.These results come //from an extensive set of surveys conducted by investigators from the...e, and these researchers decided to undertake this extensive consumer survey as a first step in the development of a research-based communications and education ...

Y chromosome uses trick to repair its own genes

... work reports evidence that the Y chromosome makes extensive use of a process called gene conversion. The chromosome carries backup copies of its important genes, and it can use one copy to fix a flaw in the other. The gene-fixing technique comes at a price. When the chromosome makes a mistake in the procedu...

Overcoming Chronic Fatigue

...nd go,' that I normally have," Cueto says. Through extensive testing, doctors diagnosed her with chronic fatigue syndrome.There is no known cause or cure for CFS. Doctor now think the condition is linked to a decrease in red blood cells. "Because the red blood cell transports oxygen and glucose to the cells, ...

Blood Pressure An Early Warning Sign Of Alzheimer’s Disease

...at poor blood flow in the brain, resulting from an extensive decline in blood pressure, may promote the dementia process ...

Sleep Disorder,The Likely Cause Of Most Road Accidents

...tions and underwent different medical tests. After extensive analysis, researchers found the most accurate test to determine sleep apnea includes questions about the symptoms of sleep apnea, with body weight data plus a test for oxygen concentration in the blood when needed. Researchers say when the questionna...

Report on the Safety and Effectiveness of Melatonin supplements

... most important phase of sleep is characterized by extensive physiological changes such as accelerated breathing, increased brain activity, REM and muscle relaxation. In people with secondary sleep disorders, melatonin supplements do not appear to have an impact on sleep latency in either adults or children—r...

Soluble Ingredient Can Make Fatty Fast Foods Healthier

... like liver, heart, pancreas, where they can cause extensive damage to the cells, may even increase the risk of diabetes. Colorless and odorless, if testing on humans is successful, this could be the chemical that will let fast food lovers live a healthy life. Reference: http://acswebapplications.acs.org/app...

Traffic Smoke May Damage DNA

...m person to person and how to go about it may need extensive study regarding the genetic and nutritional information of the patients....

FDA Approves New Drug For Asthma In Children

... provides topical effect to systematic activity in extensive hepatic metabolism. A maintenance treatment for asthma suffering children in the age group of 12 yrs and above, the drug may also be used for adult patients who require oral corticosteroids. These patients will require lesser doses of corticosteroids...

Antibiotics not to reduce rate of cardiac diseases

...owever the researchers feel that it will take more extensive study to find out the role of the C. pneumoniae bacteria in causing or aiding the progress of cardiac conditions. Reference: New England Journal of Medicine, issue April 2005...

Treat depression and pain separately

...myalgia. This is the condition where patient feels extensive tenderness to touch along with intense pain and depression. The study was carried on to determine if increased sensitivity to touch induced pain can lead to deeper depressive feelings. The patients were asked to discontinue antidepressants 4 weeks ...

Cough medication to cure fibromyalgia

...m fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia syndrome occurs with extensive musculo-skeletal pain and fatigue. There re no known causes of this diseases. More women than men report to be suffering from fibromyalgia, although the condition can affect anybody and at any age. There is no single therapy that can treat the condi...

Hearing loss can happen from regular exposure to carbon monoxide

...ct with the other molecules of the cell, and cause extensive damage to the proteins, membranes and genes. Free radicals are often produced as by products of the body’s constant interaction with the oxygen in producing energy for the cells. Oxidative stress can cause many disease conditions in the body and harm...

Tetanus causing toxin has therapeutic properties

...akes it suitable for being turned into a drug with extensive uses in conditions like depression, anorexia, as well as neuro-degenerative disorders like Parkinson’s disease. Tetanus toxin is a form of neurotoxin belonging o the group of toxins like botulinum neurotoxins. These toxins have currently being used ...

New back support device can improve balance for older people

...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 problems in balancing themselves as well. R...

Brain damage can affect children who stop breathing

...ry responses. The damage to the brain may be quite extensive in the right side, that is responsible for emotions, to the anterior cingulate that regulate cardiovascular functions, and to the basal forebrain that controls amongst other things, sensors for carbon dioxide. Reference: Journal of Comparative Neur...

Yoga Can Be Good For Breast Cancer Patients

...patients. For the last 25 years we have been doing extensive research, findings of which are published in nearly 75 research papers in the top reading journals”. He further added: “What we have been able to show is that yoga is effective by systematic protocols, which are acceptable by international standards....

Can Ajinomoto cause cancer?

...nting that the study were “not consistent with the extensive body of scientific research which already exists on aspartame”. The Ajinomoto Company explained that the four earlier studies using aspartame as found no relationship between the use of aspartame and incidence of cancer. It was also proved that aspar...

Gene-Nanoparticle Gene Transfer Is Better Than Viral Vector Transfer System

...mposition of which allow for the development of an extensive library of tailored nanoparticles to target gene therapies for different tissues and cell types and the therapy can be targeted specifically against the desired cells "This is the first time that a non-viral vector has demonstrated efficacy in vivo a...

Monkeys offer genetic clues to adult blindness

...ration could help doctors treat the disease before extensive vision loss occurs and may even prevent it in some people. The early risks associated with macular degeneration have been difficult for researchers to study in humans and, as a result, doctors know little about this aspect of the disease, Dawson sa...

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