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Teenagers may become violent after watching aggressive acts

... done by the researchers of Harvard Medical School involving over 1500 children and teenagers have found these starling results. The researchers for the study had studied the tens, their guardians and supervisors, collected inputs about the behavior of each one of them from school records, school authorities,...

Water pills for diabetic with high blood pressure

...e trials were conducted in a cross-cultural milieu involving afro-Americans and other people. In an earlier research report the ALLHAT studies reported that diuretics were better than any other first-step anti-hypertensive medications in preventing adverse cardiovascular disease outcomes. In the current findi...

Low dose Radiation Exposure May Cause Cancer

...s the largest study ever conducted in 15 countries involving 407,000 nuclear industry workers. It was estimated that the chronic exposure could lead to a 10 percent raised risk of death from all types of cancer and a 19 percent increase from leukemia. Dr Elisabeth Cardis, head of the radiation group at the I...

Pulmonary rehabilitation program effective for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

...ructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are lung diseases involving restricted airflow and conditions like lung tissue destruction, airway inflammation, air sac enlargement etc. some common forms of COPD are emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Pulmonary rehabilitation programs involve exercise training to improve func...

Vitamin E May Not Reduce Risk Of Death Due To Heart Disease In Women

...els of this essential vitamin.” However the study involving almost 40,000 American women confirms that Vitamin E does not prevent heart disease or cancer. What does the vitamin do then if taken regularly. The study found that those women who were taking high dose natural alpha-tocopherol supplements did hav...

Gene responsible for immune deficiency discovered

...f IgA. TACI affects dual sides of immune response involving the maturation of B cells. B cells are the white blood cells that function as antibodies and help fight the infections. The discovery of the gene expressions open new doors to prepare diagnostic tests for these conditions, and help clinical practiti...

Cancer risk among nuclear industry workers

A cohort multinational study was done involving 598 068 nuclear industry workers from 15 countries.// The study was done to estimate the risk of cancer after administrating low doses of radiation. This study is an international collaborative study to estimate the cancer risk among radiation worke...

Grapefruit extract effective in stomach ulcer healing

...ents showed that GSE accelerated healing of ulcers involving COX-1 and COX-2 activity. Being acidic in nature people might assume that grapefruit will be harmful to ulcers bu the study proves the exact opposite. Source: American Gastroenterological Association...

Junk Food Causes High Level Of Insulin Resistance In Children

Research involving 3,189 school children from Denmark, Estonia and Portugal// reported that children from poor families don’t necessarily have worse health compared to children from children’s of rich and better-educated parents. The results of the study were published...

Heart Disease In Women Can Be Reduced By Eating Grapes

...se in pre- and post-menopausal women. In a study involving 24 pre-menopausal women and 20 post-menopausal women researchers assigned to one of two groups the lyophilized grape powder. For the first four-week period, one group consumed 36g of lyophilized grape powder, and the other received a placebo with an ...

Girls Who Undergo Genital Mutilation Can Become Infertile

...f having undergone the most extensive form of FGM, involving the labia majora (female external genitalia), than controls. The incidence of sexually transmitted infections was low in both groups. The researchers conclude that their findings show a strong positive association between the anatomical extent of FG...

Research Fraud By Doctor – Probe Demanded

...t scientist to publish over 20 scientific articles involving thousands of patients with heart attacks and other related diseases from a small private hospital with no research facilities except through inventive journalism. Indo-Asian News Service...

FDA Diminish Hopes On ‘Female Viagra

... the FDA wants extensive five-year clinical trials involving thousands of women. Even two recent studies that indicated that Intrinsa significantly helped women and led to an increase in "satisfying sexual events" is unlikely to change the mind of the FDA as it is set for a review of the drug, according to t...

Vitamin Supplements During Pregnancy to Boost Fetal Development

... of pregnancy, to reduce the risk of birth defects involving the nervous system like spina bifida etc. An examination of the serum folate levels examined revealed that higher folate levels in women were associated with increased birth weight for their babies -- a marker for good health in infancy and later in...

Sympathy and brain function

...d a consistent pattern of increased brain activity involving the superior temporal gyrus, as well as differential activity in the two hemispheres within the inferior parietal cortex when imitation was involved. The left inferior parietal cortex showed increased activity when the subjects were imitating another...

Antibiotic, Gene Therapy Help Treat Angina

...ng from Angina may have some new treatment options involving either gene therapy or doses of antibiotics. Angina, a common cardiovascular disorder affecting millions of people all over the world, is severe chest pain caused by blood vessels too clogged to get oxygen-rich blood to the heart during// physical ac...

Heart valve surgery may be replaced by new heart therapy

...mmon heart problems among the old people are those involving the mitral valve(that which controls the flow of blood between the two left chambers of the heart) and the aortic valve(that which controls the flow of blood into the heart). Until now, surgeons surgically replaced the damaged valve in these patients...

When it comes to health, all chocolates not the same.

...known as the "bad cholesterol." A study was done involving adults with untreated mild hypertension who ate 3-ounce chocolate bars daily for two weeks. Half of the patients got white chocolate, half got dark chocolate. Blood pressure remained pretty much unchanged in the group that ate white chocolate, which...

Peaceful Slumber said to Restore Memories

... incorporated into treatments for mental illnesses involving memories, such as post-traumatic stress disorder.// However, other scientists who were not involved in the experiments said additional research is needed into the sleep-memory connection. In separate studies, scientists trained college-age people t...

Valporic Acid Blocks Latent HIV Replication

...cy of the virus in latent phase. A clinical study involving 4 HIV patients undergoing HAART therapy where administered Valporic acid for three months, twice daily and the researchers found a reduction of 75% in latent HIV infection in three of the four patients during the Valporic acid treatment. If a larger ...

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