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Cyclosporin A Treats Leukemia Complications

...rcent of the patients with thrombocytopenia had an increase in the number of platelets. Also, more than 60 percent of the patients with anemia had an increase in red blood cells in their blood. Most of the patients responded to the drug within three weeks of ...

An effective way to treat angina

...part and reported reduced chest pain alongside the increase in growth factors. EECP is non-invasive and safe and, if larger studies prove its effectiveness, offers new hope for people with angina who are not responding to current therapies....

Beer does good

...ted cells in the eye which, if damaged, lead to an increase in cataracts. Scientists have identified that high glucose levels damage key elements of cells called the mitochondria. These are mini-organs which are responsible for converting glucose// into the energy needed by cells to function properly. When ...

Breast cancer evidence

...y's// natural rhythms. This in turn may lead to an increase in levels of the female sex hormone oestrogen, which has been linked to breast cancer. The results of the latest study were based on the work history of 822 women with breast cancer and 671 without. Scott Davis, an epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchin...

Deprived sleep leads to ageing

...r impact on the body to the ageing process and may increase the severity of age-related chronic disorders such... in their blood. Sleep deprivation also led to an increase in the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, which controls many of the body's "involuntary" f...

Heart disease starts early

...ked to a decrease of "good" HDL cholesterol and an increase of triglycerides. In addition, the correlation between high blood pressure and insulin resistance was directly affected by levels of obesity....

The alarm clock in you

...ature magazine, the researchers concluded that the increase in hormones indicates that anticipation, which is widely thought to be a characteristic unique to conscious action, also pervades sleep and may facilitate spontaneous waking....

Cardiac diseases develop early

...ked to a decrease of "good" HDL cholesterol and an increase of triglycerides. In addition, the correlation between high blood pressure and insulin resistance was directly affected by levels of obesity. While researchers were unable to determine the reason why the boys' data differed from the girls', they spe...

Altering genes through calories

...ic dieting’s effects. Cutting calories is known to increase lifespan and reduce age-related disease in experimental mammals. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside probed how gene activity changes when an elderly mouse diets.Over half the changes that usually occur with aging were absent from...

High-protein diets may pose health risks

...the American Heart Association. Some of the diets increase fat intake and reduce nutritionally rich foods suc... when people follow a nutritionally sound diet and increase physical activity to burn more calories than they consume, says Eckel, professor of medicine at the ...

Cut down on fries

...th a heavy breakfast and a steaming cup of tea may increase a woman's risk of throat cancer.Scientists found t...fee - particularly when piping hot - also seems to increase risk, perhaps because of the burning effect of the liquid as it passes down the food pipe.// Conce...

Too much fibre can aggrevate cancer

...h a history of growths in their colon may actually increase rather than reduce the problem. Many doctors believe that most colorectal cancer develop out of polyps, or adenomas, which grow on the wall of the bowel. However, the latest research, conducted in France, Denmark, Italy and Germany, suggests that n...

Night borns' risk

... the 1990s. Between 1990 and 1995, there was a 60% increase in the risk of mortality related to asphyxia in preterm infants born at night, compared to preterm infants born during the day. The Hong Kong study, based on data from the Swedish birth register, analysed more than two million births from 1973-95. ...

IVF technique May Increase The Risk Of Birth Defects

...hnique intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) may increase the risk of babies being born with abnormalities such as ambiguous genitalia. Researchers from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, say that men whose infertility is genetic are likely to have other, more serious genetic faults that can be passed ...

Cirrhosis on the rise

...g 35 to 44-year-olds, there has been an eight-fold increase in deaths among men, and seven-fold among women. C... - more than cervical cancer. While some of this increase can be blamed on the side-effects of long-term infection with hepatitis B and C, Professor Donaldson...

Cure for sleepless nights

... impaired functioning, reduced quality of life and increase the risk of suffering from clinical depression or being admitted to a hospital. The study, led by Charles Morin of the Université Laval in Quebec and funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, examined 78 adults with an average age of 65 wh...

Strokes increased during squatting

Squatting may increase the risk of stroke, particularly if a person is defecating, researchers suggest.Doctors in Calcutta, India found a third of stroke deaths occurred while people were squatting.// Results presented to the World Congress of Neurology in London showed ho...

Caffeine can induce epilepsy in newborns

...f women drink too much coffee during pregnancy can increase the risk of their babies developing epileptic seizures or fits.//Studies have found that caffeine may be linked to the development of epileptic discharges in cells from newborn mammals that have been briefly starved of oxygen. A research team from t...

Weight-Loss Drinks Can Make You Gassy

...fficulty digesting milk products may experience an increase in gas if they consume milk-based powder supplemen...d the high-lactose preparation experienced a large increase in intestinal gas. The women passed gas three times as frequently--from about 10 times a day to 30 t...

Olive oil does good

...sed risk. This is because a high meat intake can increase the amount of a bile acid called deoxycyclic acid,...il seemed to reduce the amount of bile acid and to increase DAO levels, thus protecting against abnormal cell growth and cancer. Dr Michael Goldacre, one of the...

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