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Spirituality relieves stress

...rs at West Virginia University in the US have been looking at how a meditation programme called 'mindfulness training' can help people who describe themselves as 'stressed out'. This training programme involved two and a half hour classes once a week for eight weeks, and an eight hour retreat. The 35 peop...

Avacado protects from liver damage

...ado a day. Also, the researchers in this case are looking to identify the active compounds in the fruit so that they can be produced as a drug or a supplement. However, this is not the best way to get these nutrients. It is nearly always better to get them by using the whole food, since there are likely ma...

Prefiguring Alzheimer's disease

...clue comes from the now-famous Nun Study, which is looking at 500 Sisters of Notre Dame. The Sisters agreed to have frequent physical and psychological exams and that their brains could be studied after death. The current study focuses on 120 nuns and shows that those who had neurofibrillary tangles in the...

No explanation on schizophrenia gene

...ying they are having them." More holistic studies, looking at the brain structure, function, and genetics of closely-related people with schizophrenia would help the field go forward, he said. We need to go beyond diagnosis to find biophysical markers." This would enable more targeted, individualised, and e...

Breast cancer risk seen in twins

...risk. It also focuses future research efforts onto looking for the genes underlying breast cancer . Hence a combination of genes is more likely to be responsible for many diseases....

Compressed DNA aids gene patients

...the DNA molecule is long and unwieldy. Doctors are looking for ways to smuggle or slip their modified DNA strands into the cells they want to change. Other methods involve using viruses - which "infect" the cell and pass on the new genes that way, or encasing the DNA in fatty globules called liposomes, wh...

Identifying bacteria made amiable

...ut highly replicable. While the team is currently looking at bacteria only, they anticipate extending the research to viruses in the future....

Surgery beneficial in Meniere's disease

... at the Michigan Ear Institute in the US have been looking at the effects of such surgery for Meniere's disease. They asked 165 patients of average aged 50 years undergoing endolymphatic surgery about their quality of life following the procedure. The vast majority - 85 per cent - said their quality of life ...

Elevating Manganese Levels hold back HIV

... to treating HIV. Boeke said his team currently is looking for drugs that do just that. The higher levels of manganese in yeast were caused by a defective gene called PRM1, which produces a protein that shuttles manganese out of cells. The Hopkins scientists, felt that they human equivalent of PRM1 will be a...

How to repeal male infertility?

...e used to produce offspring. Researchers were also looking at whether or not the alteration would be passed on. Researchers corrected the sperm and used them in a process called assisted fertilization. They found the sperm were then able to go on to generate healthy pups. Researchers say these results sugge...

Boys reduced mother's life expectancy

... scientists, having sons cut mothers' lives short, looking at families 250 years back. They felt that the pattern might still be seen in developing countries today. The team from Toronto looked at church records// for the Sanu people, who lived in Scandinavia between the 18th and 20th centuries. The Sanu d...

Men happy to take contraception

...reference for it. This is probably because men are looking at what their partners are taking, and thinking th...lian men." The team is now doing a follow-up study looking at migrant men born in southeast Asia and the Indian sub-continent. "We suspect they would have a mu...

Antioxidants found in chocolates

... School of Biomedical Sciences in London, has been looking at some less obvious sources of antioxidants. She has found that chocolate contains high levels of antioxidants called catechins. The antioxidant power of a 50 gram bar of chocolate is equivalent to two glasses of red wine, four cups of tea, six appl...

Heart may pull Cells from Body to Self-repair

...ould not be replaced or repaired by the heart. By looking at the Y chromosome, which is found only in men, researchers determined that the female donor hearts had recruited cells from the male recipients in an effort to repair the organ. The findings, from 18 biopsies of 12 hearts given to male transplant p...

Photographs as a parameter

...institute Boston says the study shows the value of looking carefully at the eye. "The eyes are the windows to the world," she says.Hu Ssang studied vascular changes on the micrometer scale - far too small to be seen with the naked eye. He developed a computer program to measure and compare the ratio between ...

Medication recuperates fat distribution in diabetes

.... Researchers at the University of Texas have been looking into the effect that the drug Pioglitazone has on people with type 2 diabetes.// They studied 10 people with the condition, who took the drug for 16 weeks. After this time body weight had, on the whole, increased. But measurements revealed an intere...

Novel computer model for breast cancer

... a computer analyses cell properties. It relies on looking at which cells have extra DNA, the patterns of DNA levels, the number of dividing cells, and the shape of the cell nuclei. The fully tested new system, the most advanced of its kind - could help doctors identify those women who need the most aggressi...

Preventing 'white coat' hypertension

...re it yourself. Researchers in, England, have been looking at the white coat effect in a group of 150 patients with high blood pressure (hypertension). Eight doctors and three practice nurses also took part in the study. More reliable readings were acquired when measurements were made by the nurses, or the...

Time to re-assess lung donation concept

...searchers in San Francisco and Nashville have been looking at the supply of lungs for transplant. They note that currently 80 per cent of lungs are rejected. That's a very high number. Could the criteria for selection be too strict? The researchers checked 30 pairs of lungs that had been rejected for trans...

Benefits in fertility procedures

...rk for Reproductive Health are involved in a study looking at the benefits of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for three distinct groups of women. PGD is a procedure that can be used along with in vitro fertilization. During the procedure, doctors look at the embryo and test it for a number of conditi...

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