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Anti-smoking Drug Could Help Treat Alcoholism: Study

...in Europe -- on laboratory rats which had consumed high amounts of ethanol over a long period. Rats were trained to drink ethanol in consistent amounts over five months before they were given varenicline. After the drug was administered steadily, the rats consistently showed less interest in the ethanol...

Experts Need to Include Children in Research

...ooking at preventing allergies using prebiotics in high risk infants; a unique treatment for Duchenne dystrophy, which has hitherto been incurable; a study looking at the use of a helium oxygen mixture in intensive care and to treat acute bronchiolitis; and studies into the impact of various allergic prob...

Online Counterfeit Pills Kills Woman

...rry Clarke said further tests found "significantly high levels" of metals in Bergeron's liver, including 15 times the normal level of aluminum. "Together, the overall load of metals in Mrs. Bergeron's liver sample would be considered highly toxic, and would have resulted in the numerous physical symptoms...

A Break Through Energy Bill by the US Government

...g $100 rebate checks for citizens to help with the high cost of gas, and one Democrat is proposing a 60-da... Democrat, announced a plan in late June to reduce high energy costs in the state within the next three years through conservation measures. And Ne...

Sugary Diet can Be Helpful in Shedding Off Pounds

...new study has challenged the popular notion that a high carbohydrate, low fat slimming plan only works if ... was low in fat (35 percent of calorie intake) and high in carbohydrates (55 percent of calorie intake) that one tenth of their total calorie intake include...

A Spoonful of Sugar can Melt Away the Pounds

...new study has challenged the popular notion that a high carbohydrate, low fat slimming plan only works if ... was low in fat (35 percent of calorie intake) and high in carbohydrates (55 percent of calorie intake) that one tenth of their total calorie intake include...

FDAs Gesture for Firm Manufacturing Drug for Cushings Syndrome

...sed by prolonged exposure of the body's tissues to high levels of the hormone cortisol. Symptoms vary, but most people have high blood sugar, high blood pressure, upper body obesity, rounded face, increased fat around the neck, t...

Air Pollution in India Causes 527,700 Deaths a Year

...ially susceptible to suffering severe effects from high pollution levels. The total number of Chinese whose lives are cut short by pollution-triggered diseases aligns closely with the figures that were reportedly left out of a recent World Bank study. China's State Environmental Protection Agency en...

Selenium Supplements may Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk

...s that selenium seems to offer few benefits and at high levels, may be deadly. Dr. Guallar said that most people have adequate selenium in their diet. "Moreover, taking selenium supplements on top of an adequate dietary intake may cause diabetes."...

Now, 'virtual' Mouse Brains Available on the Net

...nsortium that includes Duke University has created high resolution, three-dimentional microscopic images ...d in a standardized fashion and made available via high speed web connections. "The specimen is still actually in the skull. It hasn't been cut by a knife...

Medical Science Strides-No Guarantee For Pre-Mature Babies

...ten because their mothers had pregnancy-associated high blood pressure. A normal-size fetus at just 20 weeks' gestation weighs 11 ounces, at which point the organs would be too immature for survival outside the womb. Another fact remains that doctors can never predict which tiny babies will do well and ...

Penguins Altered Diet When Humans Began Hunting Whales and Seals

...l is an attractive food for penguins because it is high in protein and tends to travel in swarms. "The birds can capture lots of high-energy prey in a short time," says Emslie. Ernslie and Patterson analysed over 220 fossilised eggshells, ranging from 100 to 38,000 years old, and compared them with samp...

Folicacid Fortification Very Beneficial

... of scientific evidence suggesting that habitually high intakes of dietary folate are protective against colorectal cancer. Mason explains, however, that There are several reasons why we may have inadvertently created the opposite effect with folic acid fortification. First, folates pivotal role in DNA ...

Electronic Health Records Shows No Improvement in Quality of Outpatient Care

...n it came to prescribing statins for patients with high cholesterol, physicians using electronic systems did worse. Electronic health record systems have become a centerpiece in the quest to improve the quality of health care. By storing a patient's medical history in electronic form, such systems can e...

Armani to Launch First Spa in Tokyo

...in Japan, a nation beloved of both hot springs and high fashion. The Armani Group is opening its giant Armani/Ginza Tower in Ginza, one of Tokyo's ritziest districts, as part of its strategy to lure customers in Japan, already the company's largest market. The 6,000 square-meter (65,000 square-foot) ...

Milk and Dairy Products Protect Against metabolic Syndrome

...Caerphilly Prospective Study. Two or more out of high blood glucose, insulin, blood fats, body fat, and blood pressure defined the presence of the metabolic syndrome in the men studied. The mens health was tracked over 20 years, during which time data from food questionnaires and weekly food diaries w...

Fat Tax Could Avoid Considerable Amount of Heart Attack and Stroke Deaths Annually

...first applied the tax to dairy products containing high levels of saturated fats, such as whole butter and...alculations showed that applying VAT to foodstuffs high in saturated fats would increase salt intake instead, and could actually increase deaths from heart ...

Dotted All Over? - Count Yourself Lucky

...ared the twins and found that participants with high numbers of moles - more than 100 - had longer telomeres than those with fewer than 25 moles.The difference between the two groups was equivalent to six to seven years of normal ageing, and this was estimated by looking at the average rate of telomere...

Analysis of Hemoglobin Level Control in Dialysis Patients

...ntroversy regarding its apt clinical usage and the high cost of ESAs. An August study in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) presents a detailed analysis of patterns of change in hemoglobin levels, lending new insights into the factors that control hemoglobin levels and variations in pat...

Cane Sugar,corn Syrup Have Similar Effects on Hunger

Cane sugar and high fructose corn syrup have similar effects on hunger, fullness, and food consumption at lunch. this may be because sucrose (table sugar) in beverages splits into glucose and fructose molecules, such as are present in high-fructose corn syrup. The r...

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