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Ingredient in turmeric protects skin

...ake the therapy more effective. It is too early to know if this would work in humans, but curcumin could turn out to be a safe and natural way of protecting the skin from radiotherapy....

Risk of heart disease prediction needs updating

...tack or is at risk of having one what they want to know most of all is what the future might hold. Doctors can use the prediction tools and use to counsel them. The team compared two commonly used heart disease prediction models - one is called TIMI, and it's based upon clinical trial data. The other, k...

Regular exercise linked to extended menstrual cycles

...esearchers. They stress, however, that they do not know whether the possible hormonal effects seen in exercisers in this study may translate into any "meaningful" health effects....

An insight about Schizophrenia

...ides of the brain. This part of the brain helps us know who we are seeing and also what they may be thinking or feeling through their facial expressions. Other research has suggested schizophrenics may have problems recognizing faces and facial expressions, and this may be related to many of the social pr...

Laser may stop macular degeneration

...more rapid vision loss. Dr. Friberg felt that they know the laser is effective at getting rid of the drusen and in some cases, vision improves. They hope to answer the other questions which arises from this study.. Dr. Friberg says it's also important to note that researchers are using a "soft" laser, be...

Novel test for bowel cancer

... a molecule found only in cancer cells. We already know that bowel cancer is highly curable if caught early. Screening with sigmoidoscopy - an internal exam// of the bowel can reduce the incidence of the disease. Now researchers in the find that a reliable test can also be done on samples of feces. The ...

Swelling increases stroke risk with high B.P.

...ke among men with high blood pressure. Although we know that high blood pressure is a risk factor for stroke, //it's still the case that not everyone with hypertension actually suffers a stroke. Researchers at Malmo University, Sweden, believe that inflammation could be the key to understanding this quest...

Genetic indicates memory

... of learning. This research is still too early to know how it will affect learning in the future, however, the researchers speculate it may one day help doctors develop treatments to improve memory and possibly even help Alzheimer's patients....

Anxiety and Peptic ulcers may be linked

...hey were to report ulcers. The researchers don't know why such a link exists. It may be that stress undermines the immune response to H. pylori , or that ulcers cause anxiety - rather than the other way round. It is possible that treating anxiety, as well as H. pylori may be a more powerful way of heali...

Nurses competing with junior doctors in some assessments

... a doctor's career development. But it's useful to know that a nurse can perform as well as a doctor in this role....

Discovering cholesterol-absorbing genes

...e cholesterol into their body than others. Did you know that if you eat a fatty meal or snack - a fried eg...sorb is strongly influenced by your genes. Experts know that high cholesterol is linked to heart disease, and that a high fat diet is bad for you. But littl...

Help Quit Smoking

...than merely forbid them from doing so. For all you know there might be kids who smoke though they hate smoking and want to quit but are addicted to smoking....

Unhappy relationships could result in more than just heart breaks!

...hips can make for happy living. But how many of us know that the continuous //tension of a distressed intimate relationship can raise blood pressure, continuously over a 24 hour period? According to a new study by researchers in Canada, when intimate relationships become strained, there may be long-term e...

Wash your hands to keep healthy!

We all know the importance of keeping a clean environment and self to lead healthy, disease free lives. However, many of us are not aware that just a simple habit of hand washing could help us reduce the risk of many infections. Everyday life does not involve/...

Melanoma caused by low DNA repair capacity

... of a new screening test that would help people to know if they are at a risk of skin cancer....

More information sought by patients on medical errors

... errors. Researchers found that patients wanted to know if a mistake occurred during their treatment, why it happened, and how it might be prevented in the future. Also, unsuprisingly, they wanted to have an apology. Doctors, on the other hand revealed many barriers, which prevented them from giving full...

Germs to blame for bad breath

... populate all human tongues, researchers currently know the names of only about 300. The recent study, which is part of an ongoing effort to determine genetic sequences for all species of bacteria in the oral cavity, researchers reported finding just 92 species of bacteria, 29 of which had never before be...

Moderate Exercise may not help prevent Heart Disease

...e at the start of the study, so there is no way to know if they have changed their habits over the 10 years the study was conducted. The researchers found that those who did the most exercise were 40 per cent less likely to die than those who did the least....

Liver diseases: The enemy with an accomplice

...ral hepatitis. However, 65% of the patients got to know that they are ill with hepatitis only during their...This probably testifies to the fact that we do not know yet all the viruses that affect liver. Having defined the virus, the physicians found out how it is ...

Canada stunned as mad cow discovery leads to beef ban

... contracted so-called// mad cow disease, otherwise know as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. A decade ago, Canada found one animal with BSE, but it had been imported from Britain. The fear this time is that the disease was contracted on Canadian soil. If that is proven, it will be the first indige...

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