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Young womens woes

...nnals of Internal Medicine this week. Researchers from Emory, Yale and Massachusetts Universities followe... patients for two years after they were discharged from hospital after a heart attack. They found that 28.9 per cent of the female patients had // died with...

Garlic a day keeps cancer away

...clove of garlic can do wonders say the researchers from Boston University. Garlic is best known for staying off heart disease and it also has powerful anti-cancer properties.A substance called diallyl disulfide in garlic is known to make the gut produce enzymes that clear out cancer-causing particles. N...

Young women's woes

...nnals of Internal Medicine this week. Researchers from Emory, Yale and Massachusetts Universities followe... patients for two years after they were discharged from hospital after a heart attack. They found that 28.9 per cent of the female patients had died// withi...

Focus on DNA transcription

... 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 th...

Male infertility in relation to cancer

Researhers from Britain examining the relationship between increas... analysed the sperm quality of semen samples taken from over 32,000 men in England between 1960 and 1989. Sperm count, motility, and shape were assessed. Ca...

Ear infection- a new treatment

...ead of Streptococcus pneumoniae and other bacteria from the throat into the middle ear cavity. Swedish me...cteria, such as alpha steptococci,protect the body from such infections. However children who get a lot of ear infections have been found to have a lower th...

Bayer Voluntarily Withdraws BAYCOL - A Drug Associated With 50 Deaths

...eutical Division is voluntarily withdrawing Baycol from the U.S. market. Patients who are taking Baycol should discontinue Baycol and consult their physicians about switching to alternate medications to control their cholesterol levels. ...

Depression and heart failure

...ted States, depression increases the risk of dying from heart failure. The link between depression and cor...s in 35.3%,with 13.9% being classed as// suffering from major depression. Patients who were not depressed had a mortality rate of 5.7%at three months and 13...

Say "no" to x-rays

Medical researchers from the University of Chapel Hill have found that giving x-rays to people with lower back pain can appear to worsen the outcome. The study tracked two groups of patients - 421 in all - who had had lower back pain for over six weeks. One group was given...

Dark skin protects

...in darker skin protects against cancer and sunburn from ultraviolet radiation. But, New Scientist reports,...teria and fungi get tangled up, and it stops them from proliferating." Also, a protein called attractin is known to regulate both melanisation and immunity...

Early detection of heart attack

...within six hours in patients who are not suffering from a heart attack. Thereby allowing ealry discharge of these patients and also allowing beds and resources to be devoted to those who have had a heart attack....

Increase in tobacco deaths

Around one third of men in China will die from smoking, unless they give up now.A survey of death...oung men in China smoke, and half of them will die from their habit, this means that a third of the male population will be killed by tobacco. This shcok is...

Chaste plant a boon

...ioners as a therapeutic option for women suffering from PMS. ...

Gene HPA-2 Met linked to cardiac arrest

Men who die early from heart disease are more likely to have a specific variant of a blood clotting gene.Researchers in Finland carried out tests on 500 men who had died suddenly, many of whom had had a cardiac arrest. They found that, in men younger than 55, a gene vari...

Ovarian cancer in relationship with Hormone therapy

...y years after therapy is discontinued, researchers from the American Cancer Society report// in the Journa...on.The study followed 201,681 postmenopausal women from 1982 to 1996 and found ERT (oestrogen replacement therapy) increased the risk and this persisted for...

Breast milk is essential

... for less than three months may be preventing them from reaching their full intellectual potential. The r... Science and Technology, Trondheim, and scientists from the Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, followed 345 randomly select...

Vaccination reminder for anyone over 65..

...pneumococcal vaccination.// The jab protects you from pneumonia, meningitis, and various other serious i... Some people with health problems may even benefit from the vaccine at a younger age. And if you had this vaccine when you were younger than 65 and this wa...

Tea drinkers have lower rates of heart disease

...using cancer. Black, green and oolong tea all come from the same bush - known as Camellia sinensis - which is known to carry a high level of flavonoids, one of the most potent types of antioxidants....

Doctor samples come under the ambit of advertisement

...ose of such distribution was to obtain a feed back from medical profession as to the efficacy of the distributed drugs. The Supreme Court observed that the object of distribution of samples of the drugs to the doctors is to make them aware that such drugs are available in the market in relation to the c...

Action of nerve cells

...d neurotransmitters. In a new study, biologists from Utah showed how a single protein plays an importna...tein so it can aid the release of neurotransmitter from one nerve cell to another. When a human or other animal has any sensation- from feeling pain to he...

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