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Cancer-virus Vaccine Targets Wrong Age Group

... won't work." Merck & Co. is still studying the longevity of Gardasil, the lone HPV vaccine on the market, which won approval from the Food and Drug Administration in June. But that hadn't impeded its lobbying efforts. Legislators in at least 20 states and cities, including Virginia and the District of Colu...

Food Odors Linked With Lifespan in Fruit Flies

...at the smell of food can have a negative effect on longevity in the fruit flies. Scientists have known for de...ect on lifespan. They found that in all cases, the longevity of the mutant flies was considerably greater than their wild-type controls. The paper will be pub...

Sensible Diet and Good Exercise is the Key to Lose Weight

...sed this study to find out if dieting is linked to longevity of life. Though this was shown to be true in worms and dogs, human study takes a very long time to arrive at a result. Ravussin’s team had divided their volunteers into two groups –one group consumed a caloried diet and the other group exercised fi...

Nobel Prize and Lifespan

... analyzed. Only male laureates were studied as the longevity differs between sexes. 528 male scientists with ...of actual prize money won by the winners and their longevity were not related. The fame and the status conferred on a scientist somehow acts like a health booste...

Social Status may Affect Lifespan

...ng winners and nominees from the same country, the longevity gap widened by about another eight months on avera... with time, the actual amount had no effect on the longevity of the recipient. 'Actually winning the prize was what counted,' he added. Source-IANS...

Military College to Set Up Stem Cell Research Centre

...eases and India could not lag behind. He said the longevity of humans could also be increased through stem cell treatment. "Stem cells are one of the most fascinating areas of the study of biology. Stem cells have the potential to develop into many different cell types in the body with a more specialised func...

Limited Calorie Intake Holds the Key to Delay Ageing

...perts are quite confident hat the key to extending longevity lies in imbibing strength and vitality to the immune system. MST...

Win-Win with Red Wine!

...ratings of the famous spirit, known to benefit the longevity of obese-mice //on fat laden diets in much the same way as mice on a normal healthy diet. This finding was established by an earlier study conducted by Harvard Scientists. Delving more into the health benefits of this compound, resveratrol, scienti...

Botox Shots May Even Help In Reducing Knee Osteoarthritis Pain

...vements at the three-month evaluation. However the longevity of the effect would be determined only after the six-month evaluation.' One to three injections per year may be needed to control knee pain, but these injections may obviate the need for knee surgery – She added. When Botox was used in the treatmen...

Even 6 months or more of hormone therapy treatment does not impact longevity of prostate cancer patients

... that goes above a 6 month period, does not impact longevity when compared// to patients who have received the treatment for a shorter duration, a recent study has revealed. "Many patients with high risk prostate cancer are treated with two or more years of hormone therapy based on studies performed over a d...

Lose Weight To Reduce Risk Of Diabetes – Says A New Researc

...o is currently involved in new research, a part of longevity study funded by NIH, examining whether a calorie-restrictive diet can extend lifespan of people who are under the mercy of diabetes. "Both diet and exercise provide profound benefits to reduce the risk of diabetes. Both those who restrict calories ...

Wants To Live Longer? Stay Cool!

...evealed how change in body temperature impacts the longevity of warm-blooded animals, including humans. // Bruno Conti of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and other researchers were conducting studies on how to prolong life and found that the lifespan of warm-blooded animals could be le...

Fat or old - Swig red wine to live long says study

...n with calories and may significantly affect the longevity of individuals. A report, published online , the scientific journal Nature, explains that a daily intake of resveratrol in generous quantity could make up for the detrimental, high-calorie diet often linked to obesity which is rampant globally ....

Lesser Calories for Longer Life

...for a healthier and wealthier country, a so-called longevity dividend. Dr. S. Jay Olshansky, an epidemiologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and one of the paper’s authors said “The demographic wave entering their 60s is enormous, and that is likely to greatly increase the prevalence of diseases l...

Popular Antiaging Supplement Has No Beneficial Effects

...ause high levels of DHEA have been associated with longevity in humans and nonhuman primates. But studies involving rodents aren’t applicable to humans, as rodents have very low levels of DHEA, the authors say. The study also involved administering low-dose testosterone to elderly men who had low testosteron...

Rising numbers indicate looming cocaine epidemic

...this is a chronic problem without a cure and their longevity is at question," he said. Source-Eurekalert GYT...

Longer-Lived Rodents Have Lower Levels of Thyroid Hormone

...e explained. 'Mice strains that exhibit extended longevity tend to have lower thyroid hormone concentrations than shorter living strains,' the authors wrote. 'Significant declines in thyroid hormone correlate well with enhanced maximum lifespan.' The study compared the levels of these thyroid hormones amon...

Levels of Thyroid Hormone Forecasts Life Span

...ence longevity. Mice strains that exhibit extended longevity tend to have lower thyroid hormone concentrations than shorter living strains. Significant declines in thyroid hormone correlate well with enhanced maximum lifespan."...

Bypass Surgery, a Better Option than Angioplasty for Severe Heart Patients

...d that surgery provided significant improvement in longevity for patients with severe disease." The findings appear in the October 2006 issue of the journal Annals of Thoracic Surgery. The study was supported by the Duke Clinical Research Institute and Duke's Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. The researc...

Calorie Restriction May Prevent, Reduce Alzheimer’s Neuropatholog

...d AD type neuropathology correlated with increased longevity of related protein SIRT1, located in the same brai...e important relationship between the expression of longevity genes like SIRT1 in calorie restriction dietary regimens and mechanisms associated with the preventi...

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