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Grape seed extract helps wound healing

...creased levels of a protein called tenascin, which helps build new connective tissue. The human skin cell experiments revealed how the extract increased levels of a growth factor for new blood vessels, whose regeneration is essential to wound healing. Another effect noted was how grape seed extract promo...

Risk of Heart disease reduced by yoga

...se showed that yoga recuperates lipid profiles and helps with weight loss. Yoga also decreases the number of angina episodes, increases exercise tolerance and decreases narrowing of the arteries (coronary stenosis). Researchers feel that Given that yoga is relatively cheap, and acceptable to many people as...

Exercise helps with leg cramps

...a treadmill walking program, for example. Exercise helps in PAD by increasing muscle activity and blood vessel function, as well as improving overall cardiovascular health....

Massage therapy regulates sleep cycle of newborns

...r full-term infants, revealed that massage therapy helps newborns develop a more regular sleep cycle. Dr. ...sage therapy by mothers in the perinatal // period helps infants coordinate their circadian systems with environmental cues. Circadian rhythm is a biological...

Inflammation may help battle infection in gums

...the study is in the discovery of the fact that PAF helps in fighting gum disease and battling infections that are linked to the presence of periodontal bacteria in the blood stream, such as heart disease. This, researchers say, is because PAF promotes the production of high levels of antibodies. Researche...

Bone marrow stem cells may help repair cardiac tissues

...ich is much less controversial than embryo cells// helps patients who have had a heart attack and had undergone conventional bypass therapy. Doctors in eastern Germany found that when patients who had a heart attack were injected with bone marrow stem cells into damaged areas of the heart they showed sign...

Survival rates in breast cancer patients improved with "Dose Dense Chemotherapy"

...erable to patients with the drug filgrastim, which helps prevent neutropenia, a serious complication of che...the granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), helps prevent neutropenia by stimulating the formation of white blood cells called neutrophils. Without it...

Heart failure protection through gene therapy

...o heart failure showed that delivering a gene that helps the heart to contract protects// from heart failure. Researchers said that the animals' heart function improved when they were delivered a modified form of the gene phospholamban. They found that those animals who got the gene were protected against ...

Do you love nuts? Then here's some good news for you!

...tes are bad. Nuts contain monounsaturated fat that helps lower low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, the good kind. Monounsaturated fat does not raise triglyceride levels which is another risk factor// in heart disease. Preliminary evidence shows that even though nuts are high in fat and calories, they hel...

New Cholesterol gene linked to Alzheimer's

...ch is involved in the production of an enzyme that helps break down excess cholesterol in the brain, may re... to variation in another gene called APOE-4, which helps in transporting cholesterol throughout the body. In the new study which involved more than 400 patie...

Immune function could benefit from exercise

.... A new study has now shown that exercise not only helps the elderly in protecting their bones, it also helps boost the immune function, thus reducing the risk of Upper Respiratory Infections(URI). URIs, which ...

Oxygen helps heal wounds

...oxygen, apart from breathing life into lungs, also helps heal wounds. Prior studies have shown that oxygen plays an important role in helping the body heal, after injury. In fact, studies have shown treatment in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber can help wound healing. However, hyperbaric therapy is expensive an...

Way out of winter depression

...l. Researchers have now found that light therapy// helps in countering winter depression. The therapy, which involves exposure to bright light from a specially designed box, helped three out of four of those with SAD. The light has to be as intense as the light outdoors just after dawn or before sunlight. ...

Ways to handle ugly toenails

...oes which avoid wear and tear of the toenails also helps in reducing thickening of the nails....

FDA approves Watson Pharmaceuticals' Oxytrol patch

...plied to the abdomen, hip or buttocks twice a week helps better management of the side effects. The only side effect that the patch produced was itching in 14% to 16.8% of patients during the clinical trials. However, oxytrol is not recommended for patients who are at a risk of urinary retention, gastric r...

New hope for patients with Parkinson's disease

...fe for Parkinson's patients. Thiselectrical device helps stimulate both sides of the brain, thus blocking thesignals that otherwise cause disabling tremor. The researchers ran a trial ofthe device// with 34 patients, ages ranging from 35 to 75 years for an average of21 months. They found that on a standard...

Reducing the risk for type 2 diabetes

...owering blood pressure and cholesterol levels also helps one stay healthy. By making wise food choices, one... exercise tackles several risk factors at once. It helps you lose weight, keeps your cholesterol and blood pressure under control, and helps your body use in...

Enzyme help destroy cancer cell

Researchers have found that radiotherapy helps in natural tumor control process. They said radiotherapy attacks and destroys cancer cells directly. When experiments were conducted on mice researchers identified an cell suicide enzyme, getting activated when struck by radiation. This enzyme destro...

Childhood Sunburn Can Lead to Skin Cancer Later

...ind of biochemical defense mechanism that normally helps an adult's body catch at least some of the cells damaged by the sun and repair them before cancer has a chance to develop."As a result, over time those cells damaged in childhood become an adult skin cancer," Rigel says. Earlier this year, research ...

Study reveals how stress can make you sick

...Exercise reduces IL-6, they said, and normal sleep helps regulate levels of the chemical. Thus it clearly points to the need to control stress better....

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