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Drinking wine beneficial in dementia

...dict the healthy substances in wine may one day be identified and made into medications to treat the disease. They speculate it is the flavenoids in the wine that offer the protective effect. Doctors studied 1,567 people and determined their drinking patterns from the 1975s. Then they looked for signs of demen...

Life anticipation differences identified

...ol graduates. Now, for the first time, a study has identified the major health factors underpinning these differences. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, in a survey of around 650,000 adults, found that high blood pressure is a major factor, accounting for 16 per cent of the gap in life...

Stroke risk factors:how informed are we?

...le about warning signs and risk factors. They also identified mass media, including television (32 percent), magazines (24 percent), and newspapers (22 percent) as the most frequently cited sources of knowledge about stroke. The authors of the article concluded that public education efforts must continue and s...

Association of depression and diabetes

A new study by researchers in Charleston has identified independent factors that are associated with major depressive disorder in individuals with diabetes. For the study, information was gathered from the 1999 National Health Interview Survey, which was used to evaluate common factors in 1,810 diabetic A...

H.Pylori testing recommended in patients with peptic ulcer

...only 36 percent. For the study, the investigators identified 3,317 patients clinically diagnosed with peptic ulcers from 1984 through 1997. Out of this, a stratified random sample of 720 was chosen from the complete medical records of age, sex and calendar year. In this sample, there were 298(41%), who had con...

Cancer gene mystery to be cracked!

...nd leave others unaffected. This process was first identified as taking place in the nematode worm. It was discovered that the worm used tiny pieces of double-stranded RNA to switch off rogue genes that would otherwise harm it. Subsequently, researchers found that synthetically produced RNA sequences could be u...

Genetic mutation to the 'fountain of youth' discovered

Scientists from Caltech have identified a common genetic mutation called C150T transition in people over 100 years old, a possible key to discovering a "fountain of youth". This genetic mutation was found in the mitochondrial DNA of white blood cells, in a study of a group of 52 Italian ce...

New fertility drug development techniques by Organon

...to its high molecular weight. Now, scientists have identified through high-throughput screening, compounds similar to hCG, but with lower molecular weight. These compounds have been optimized with respect to potency, selectivity and safety. The new compound, an LH/hCG agonistic agent, interacts with the human L...

Scientists locate key hormone involved in appetite control

...lved in appetite control, called ghrelin, has been identified by researchers from the Oregon Health & Science University(OHSU). Scientists have demonstrated the effect of the hormone on the brain and have shown that the hormone activated the specialized neurons in the hypothalamus involved in weight regulation....

Lower chance of bone fracture with Vitamin D supplementation

...than expected. The researchers from Cambridge, UK, identified a group of 2,686 people aged 65 to 85 living in the community. They sent either one capsule of Vitamin D3 or a placebo every four months for five years. They asked the participants to provide them with information on bone fractures// and any major il...

Miscarriage during pregnancy and heart disease linked

... infant in Scotland during the years 1981-85, were identified as eligible for the study. Nearly 12,000 had suffered a miscarriage or repeated miscarriages. Then, during 1981 to 1999, the researchers used hospital discharge and death data to determine the risk of death// or hospital admission due to heart diseas...

Severe Acute respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

.... At present according to WHO 1485 cases have been identified worldwide with more than 50 reported deaths mostly in Asia. More dramatically the Italian doctor who discovered this illness recently succumbed to the disease in Thailand.// Dr.Carlo Urbani (46) a an expert on communicable diseases woking for WHO wa...

Risk of hemorrhagic stroke increased in smoking individuals

...y bleeding into the brain. Researchers had already identified a link between ischemic stroke - caused by a clot in a blood vessel serving the brain - and smoking. The new study that covered 22,022 male US physicians followed for nearly 18 years has shown that compared to those who// had never smoked, men who sm...

Obesity linked to cancer death

...cer free. By the end of the study, researchers had identified more than 57,000 cancer deaths. They looked at weight while controlling for factors such as smoking. Overweight and obese men and women had a higher risk of death //from most types of cancers, including cancer of the esophagus, colon, liver, pancreas...

Electrocardiograms plays a limited role

...nts with chest pain. Even though negative findings identified those at low risk, positive findings could not distinguish levels of risk. The research also indicated that pharmacological stress echocardiography yielded diagnostic and prognostic information with stronger predictive power than clinical or exercise...

Missing Protein In Cancer Development

...re other factors involved in this process. What is identified an just an regulator....

Enzyme help destroy cancer cell

...hen experiments were conducted on mice researchers identified an cell suicide enzyme, getting activated when struck by radiation. This enzyme destroys tumor nourishing blood vessels to die. Tumors cannot survive without oxygen and nutrient supply. While it was thought that damage to the DNA in the nuclei of tum...

New Gene Identification Help Asthma Treatments

...ith combined efforts internationally, doctors have identified about half of these genes. This new gene, PHF11, was found on chromosome 13, a chromosome that was known to contain an asthma-related gene that had until now gone unidentified.// Scientists say that the asthma variant of PHF11 is found to be most com...

Scientists review SARS

... treatment of suspected cases as soon//as they are identified and then quarantining theircontacts. Timely public...a global health risk on March12. The teams quickly identified the virus that W.H.O.believes causes SARS and the ways it can be spread. Yesterday, the agency added...

Hope for 11 million children facing death from illnesses

...lth of future generations. Seven areas have been identified as priorities for future action: Health of mothers and new borns the health and survival of the child, especially in early infancy, is intricately linked with the health of the mother, her nutritional status, and the reproductive health care she r...

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