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Iron supplementation for a common side effect

... Another nine patients were given a placebo. After four weeks, eight of those on iron found their cough significantly improved, and for three it had virtually disappeared. There was no such improvement in the placebo group. The researchers say that iron decreases levels of nitric oxide, a hormone tha...

Headache decreases appetite

...d to an acute fall in food intake during the first four hours after they are applied.This shows that there is an intimate link between the brain regions and the pain and appetite....

A boost to quit smoking

...e studied 33 people as they gave up smoking over a four month period to see how these risk factors declined. Nine weeks into the study, the subjects had reduced their smoking by an average of 50%. This was accompanied by a 17% reduction in carbon monoxide. Even more dramatic improvements were seen when th...

Tomatoes for the heart

...same amount as onions. The researchers found that four subsequent generations of the tomatoes inherited the higher level of flavonol and that 65 per cent of the compound was retained when the tomatoes were processed into paste.This suggests the possibility of producing tomato-based products with increase...

Eating disorders are hereditary

...81 healthy women, so it was found that bulimia was four times more frequent among the relatives of the first group. And the number multiplies eleven times when it was about anorexia.// These disorders of the eating habits present themselves generally in adolescents who usually self restrict themselves, ...

Is acupuncture safe?

...re Council reported on 34,407 treatments done in a four week period. Again, there were no serious adverse events. The public can be reassured by these studies - it shows acupuncture is at least as safe as routine drug treatment. But the research has not yet proved that whether acupuncture actually works. ...

Quitting smoking stops lung decline

...ey studied more than 1,000 Finnish participants in four groups:// those who had never smoked, those who had quit permanently, those who had quit intermittently, and those who had never quit. To be considered intermittent quitters, smokers had to have quit for at least a year. According to a report perma...

Antioxidants found in chocolates

...hocolate is equivalent to two glasses of red wine, four cups of tea, six apples or 15 glasses of orange juice. She also found that the chocolate antioxidants are well absorbed by the body, and remain active. So one can willingly include chocolate in a healthy diet. The main reason for limiting chocolate...

Hazards of sunlight

...levels of sunlight, or solar radiation, were up to four times more likely to develop cataracts.The researchers, led by Dr Cecile Delcourt, from the Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), said: "It seems that sunlight exposure throughout a lifetime may be important to cataract ...

Eating disorder... a survey

A research suggests that one in four teenage girls may suffer from the symptoms of an eating disorder.In many girls, the problems appear to set in from a very early age. Scientists from Canada surveyed 2,85739 girls aged 12 to 18 about their eating habits.They found that 27% had signi...

Obesity shortens lifespan

...to a research obese heart patients live on average four years less than their slim counterparts.Being seriously overweight also hastens the onset of heart disease by an average of seven years compared to people who stay slim. It has long been known that obesity is linked to heart disease, but researcher...

A non-stick danger

...ing TFA levels in rainwater over the last three to four years, researchers estimated there should be 100 to 120 parts per trillion in the water by the year 2020," says the study's lead author, David Ellis, from the University of Toronto. The heating also produces two other classes of environmentally-dama...

Menopause considerations

...rmonal changes that lower fertility begin at least four years before menopause, so women who are still menstruating may still have problems getting pregnant. The study compared 22 pairs of identical twins, 37 pairs of non-identical twins, and 243 non-twin sisters, to distinguish between genetic and envir...

The right is responsible

...phed images. But after numbing of right hemisphere four out of five patients only remembered seeing the famous person. In a follow-up experiment, 10 people in the neurology department were shown a morphed image of their face with the face of a famous person and a second image of a familiar colleague's fa...

Gel prevents pregnancy

...bbed onto the stomach each day, is being tested in four countries world-wide.For many women, protecting against pregnancy means the daily ritual of popping the contraceptive pill. But now there's a new option under trial.// Dr Edith Weisberg from the Family Planning Association says "The gel is like any ...

Drugs disrupt formation of blood vessels

... half the cases where it should have occurred. All four drugs were effective, impairing growth by between 60% and 88%. Dr Hanahan said: "Our findings are encouraging about the potential value of angiogenesis inhibitors for treating cancer; we believe we can do even better."...

The new born nightmare

...ld be used with great precaution in a baby’s first four weeks of life. br>...

Fish for the lungs

...rom the Imperial Cancer Research Fund reveals that four food products - tomato sauce, carrots, multi-vitamin pills, and fish oil supplements - were associated with a significantly lower risk of lung cancer in smokers. High intake of vitamin A appeared to be associated with a raised risk of the disease....

Aggressive blood pressure treatment needed

...eart attacks. This new study divides patients into four groups, depending on their cardiovascular risk. Treating those in the high risk group is four times more effective than for the low risk group. But the high risk group comprises exactly those pe...

Suicide risk in panic disorder

...ring from agarophobia - fear of going out - one in four admitted suicidal thoughts. But only six per cent of those who did not have agarophobia - whose panic attacks had some other source - were a suicide risk. This is a very useful study. It identifies the factors that doctors and patients need to conc...

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