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Antidepressant helps obesity

...USA and all over the world. The drug bupropion can help overweight and obese women lose weight in the long-term. It raises the risk of high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. Weight loss diets don't always work in the long term, and there has seen to be a need, now, to develop drugs which...

The tall gene

...ontributors to height in men. These genes may also help explain why men are taller than women.// "If you ...ery short, but the Melbourne study shows they also help determine normal adult height in the general population....

Dementia - a global problem

...increase and a new research programme is trying to help carers to cope. As the world population increases, so does the incidence of chronic disease - including dementia. It is hard enough coping with dementia in the West, where the condition has been common for many years. Imagine trying to cope in a deve...

Psychological consequence of terrorist attacks

...ing more may be early warnings that you might need help in coming to terms with these tragic events....

Gene therapy - Aim to improve blood flow

... take months to do so. // Altering a gene could help doctors grow new, healthy, blood vessels in heart patients and diabetics. A research team from the University of California in San Francisco, found a way to produce mice whose skin cells had high levels of activity of a gene called HIF-1. Researche...

Setting up a new pharmaceutical industry in India

...known quality. The reduced manufacturing cost will help the company to sell the products at very competitive price. The high investment in India is an evidence that company is committed to serve the Indian pharmaceutical industry....

Quit Smoking

...ddictions, quitting is very difficult, and without help only a minority succeed. Even smoking cessation co...dies have shown that despite treatment advances to help people stop smoking, 70% to 80% of smokers who stop relapse within six to 12 months. // But now ...

No allergy at all !

...They're often prescribed antihistamines that don't help the problem." A recent study of 246 patients showed researchers that nearly two out of three patients treated for allergies were not allergic. Sixty-five percent of the patients tested negative for allergies; the blood samples from only 35 percent o...

New spray gel heals surgical wounds

...nal wounds, but there has been little available to help wound healing in keyhole surgery patients. Head of Confluent Surgical, Amarpreet Sawhney told that the gel may also have the potential to halt tumour growth by cutting off its blood supply. Vanessa Jones, senior lecturer at the Wound Healing Resear...

Pressure on spine cause problems

...problems. However, a visit to the chiropractor may help you start to resolve the issue....

Cigerettes unsafe during pregnancy

...quit," and that "high-quality interventions" could help women to quit, only a minority of pregnant smokers were counselled.// However Dr Annabelle Chan of the South Australian Department of Human Services emphasised that the job of getting people to quit was "difficult", pointing out that only 8 per cen...

Hemochromatosis Patients' Blood is Safe

...ections than did other donors. This finding should help guide future decisions on blood donations by these patients. If people with hemochromatosis qualify as donors then that could potentially have a significant impact on the national blood supply," said NHLBI Director Dr. Claude Lenfant. Current FDA re...

Sequencing of the Plague

...", by assembling of genes from other bacteria that help cause human disease. The sequence also reveals new surface molecules, which might provide new ways to attack plague. But "this genome displays unusual fluidity," comment Stewart Cole and Carmen Buchreiser in the magazine Nature, where the genome is ...

Renal problem alleviated

...ric oxide interact to produce oxidative stress and help cause these neurological dysfunctions,” said Dr Nick Vaziri, head of the research. “It also may provide a way to treat these disorders,” he said.// Dr Vaziri suggested that it might be possible to link the results with similar events that occur in ...

Snake venom a treatment for digestive disease

... for a number of digestive diseases and could even help reduce vomiting and other gastrointestinal side effects of cancer chemotherapy....

Emphysema surgery - unbeneficial

Lung reduction surgery for emphysema does not help the sickest patients, according to the latest report.In emphysema, the air sacs of the lungs - the alveoli - are progressively destroyed, leaving the patient so short of breath that they cannot do everyday activities like climbing stairs or carrying ...

Angiotensin-II-receptor blockers - Treat kidney failure

... treat high blood pressure have been found to also help slow the progress of kidney failure. Three separate drug trials reveal that the angiotensin-II-receptor blockers, which include losartan and irbesartan, can be used to treat kidney failure, one of the commonest complications in diabetes. // In t...

Stop smoking and reduce weight

...est approach to fostering smoking cessation was to help them prevent any weight gain after they quit smoki..., rather than the weight gain itself, is what will help these women quit smoking.// The study, by a research team led by Dr. Kenneth A. Perkins and Dr. Ma...

Dopamine helps stroke survivors

...eurotransmitter dopamine in the body, and this may help brain cells involved in controlling movement to function more normally. It's used as a treatment in Parkinson's disease, but a new trial suggests that levodopa is also helpful in alleviating stroke-induced disability. // Researchers at the Bad Aibl...

Statins reduce heart attacks

...s -- with improved diets and more exercise -- will help reduce the close to 1.1 million heart attacks and half a million deaths attributed to heart disease each year. // The aim is to reduce levels of LDL cholesterol, the so-called bad cholesterol, especially in people with heart disease, diabetes, or ...

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