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Kick Smoking with Nicotine Drink

..., your peach Snapple ice tea or soda, whatever you like to drink, Eric C. Westman, an assistant professor at the Duke University Medical Center who has headed the study, said. Attempts to quit smoking have always increased every time a new product is available to help addicts kick the habit. In 1998, th...

Indian Doctor granted US patent on organ regeneration

...que. Dr. Matapurkar was able to regenerate organs like the uterus, urethra and ureter in animals and experiments are on to regenerate organs like kidneys and parts of the intestine. Certain large tendons in humans have also been regenerated. On...

New antiperspirant in action - Botox does the difference

...p excessive sweating, but it can have side effects like dry mouth. For a small number of patients, these options to not work. That's why we've started using Botox to treat people who don't respond to other medications." It can stop sweat glands from over producing when nothing else works - when surgery i...

Noise tampers hearing

...earing loss from continued exposure to loud noises like music, power generators, drilling machines and fir...lem of hearing consonants and distinguishing words like 'fish' and 'fist' would be even more noticeable. In severe noise-induced hearing loss, kids may have...

Hormone replacement Therapy a headache

...dvised for women to reduce menopausal side effects like hot flushes and night sweats, and to protect them from osteoporosis and heart disease.// Research has shown the drugs, which replace natural hormones that decrease with menopause, cause a slightly increased risk of cancer of the breast and endometri...

The big brain in suicides

...n women, but can drop in weight with some diseases like Alzheimers, Schizophrenia, Parkinson’s and alcoholism.// Emad Salid from Liverpool University and George Tadros from the Northern Birmingham Mental Health Trust were the first to report on this unusual weight increase in sucide victims. A comparati...

Surgery made simple

...rt of the food pipe.This will result in conditions like septicimia and pneumonia say the Scientists.Such anomalies can cause contamination of the lungs by contents of the food pipe and may prove fatal. The Tracheostomy kit minimizes the risk as it has a dilation scale which allows physicians to kno...

Depression and heart failure

...d with anti-depressants. Maybe non-drug approaches like therapy would be useful.Thus, the mechanism by which depression worsens heart failure still has to be established....

Dark skin protects

...er skin. Mackintosh suggests melanosomes might act like lysosomes in the immune system, which engulf invading microorganisms and use enzymes to kill them. "Melanin is a sticky molecule. The bacteria and fungi get tangled up, and it stops them from proliferating." Also, a protein called attractin is know...

Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage

...aking strong non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like indomethacin (ibuprofen). Researchers used prescription //records to identify a study group of pregnant women who had taken NSAIDs and followed them through to see what happened to their pregnancy. And they compared this group to one which had taken...

Gene HPA-2 Met linked to cardiac arrest

...ority of men in this study had other risk factors, like smoking or diabetes. But it does not mean that this gene variant is a caution for death. Till now there is no screen for HPA-2 Met, but if a test were developed, those at risk could perhaps be helped by preventive anti-clotting drugs....

Tea drinkers have lower rates of heart disease

...ft unchecked, free radicals damage cell components like DNA and protein molecules, causing cancer. Black, green and oolong tea all come from the same bush - known as Camellia sinensis - which is known to carry a high level of flavonoids, one of the most potent types of antioxidants....

'Sweaty palms syndrome' can be cured by surgery

...e sweating of the hands and feet.These people look like they have just run their hands under a faucet and have not dried them.These people look like they have just run their hands under a faucet and have not dried them. One person in 500 suffers fr...

B Vitamin Supplementatoin Saves Money and Lives

... supplements promoted for heart disease prevention like garlic and vitamin E."...

Increased Heart Attack Risk From Celebrex,Vioxx

...ebrex can help you through the day with activities like standing, walking or climbing stairs, and through the night while sitting or lying in bed. Since their introduction in 1999, the drugs, which are known technically as COX-2 inhibitors, have been among // America's best-selling prescription pharmace...

Herbs for Rememberance

...s they are called, include indigenous Indian herbs like Brahmi (Bacopa Monnieri), which is taken by millions of people in India to promote good memory and circulation. Recent extensive clinical and experimental trials in postgraduate medical and drug research institutes in Lucknow, Benares and Madras sh...

Dental exam reveals stroke risk

...their histories revealed a number of risk factors, like obesity, smoking and high cholesterol. Dental examination are an easy way of detecting the problem.These patients are at a higher risk of stroke....

Novartis files application with FDA for Zometa

...rious complications called skeletal related events like fractures, compression of the spinal cord, severe bone pain and hypercalcemia.// Zometa is a new generation intravenous bisphosphonate that was approved by the FDA just two weeks ago (20 August 2001) for the treatment of hypercalcemia of malignanc...

Ecstasy shrinks brain!!-researchers unveil the secrets of MDMA.

...es is that MDMA does change the brain and it looks like there are functional consequences to these changes".Dr.Frascella in his research in which he compared the brains of MMDA user verses non users using PET scan identified that there is a lasting reduction of serotonin transporters occurred throughout t...

Grains do good

... and vegetables especially cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage - can reduce stroke risk by about 32%. According to a study of a group of 65,000 women, those who ate the equivalent of two to three slices of whole-grain bread each day were 30% to 40% less likely to have an isch...

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