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Valium hits 40 years old, anxiety-free

...nd in just a day, he got the results: The compound made animals relaxed and limp.// Sternbach had made the discovery that eventually led to Valium. It was approved for use in 1963 and became the country'...

Mutant sperm beat out healthy brethren in study

...hers. Literally hundreds of millions of sperm are made in each batch, so in most cases there are still many normal sperm available. Because the few mutated sperm are more likely to be used to make a baby than would be expected, the mutation must provide them some competitive advantage over their normal c...

A voice saving surgery

.... Paniello, of Washington University at St. Louis, made a speaking tube using skin tissue, an artery and vein from her arm, and cartilage from her nose. It was his first time performing the surgery, and he says Hancock is the first person in the United States to have it done. "When she first had air goin...

Tea Prevents Skin Cancer

...of Minnesota in Austin have developed a new cream, made of tea, they say could fight skin cancer.// Tea contains polyphenols, which researchers say appear to block skin tumors. Polyphenols are found in both black and green teas and, unlike sunblock, work after the skin is exposed to sunlight. The chemica...

Pasta sauces recalled in cancer scare

...ncluding Bertolli, as well as private-label sauces made for supermarket chains Sainsbury's and Safeway. The alert follows the discovery of a red dye called Sudan 1 in chili powder used in the sauces. The dye -- classified as a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer -- is normally ...

Few Parents Help Kids Fight Acne

... of the parents who had acne as a teenager said it made them feel self-conscious. 79 percent said they are active in helping their teenager treat acne. 73 percent agreed that having acne as a teen can significantly impact a person's self-esteem as he or she gets older. 70 percent said they would like to d...

Treating Stroke Patients in Rural Areas

...diagnosis and subsequent treatment recommendations made by neurologists in person and those made via the REACH system. "We can literally be there at the speed of light," principal author Sam Wang,...

Weight-loss Products Dangerous

...Onshido -- two popular herbal weight-loss products made in China and sold on the Internet. Researchers reviewed the patients’ records to evaluate their medical history and conducted a chemical analysis of the herbal products to determine what ingredients they contained. Although both products were advert...

Hormone Replacement Therapy -- What to do?

...treatment “may be safe and reasonable, but they’re made to feel if they take HRT they are taking cyanide.They say women have to consider their own individual risk, including their risk for breast cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis, and then consider how severe their symptoms are, how great a fear they...

Same molecule found in meat, milk, tumors

...hy tissue. More tests showed that most people had made their own antibodies that recognized Neu5Gc, and thus could potentially initiate an inflammatory immune response. “Meat eating has certainly been a feature of human ancestors for many hundreds of thousands of years," they said. "Thus, it is indeed ...

Black tea said to lower cholesterol

...ded with newer shapes, sizes and flavors that have made their way beyond traditional supermarkets and into drug and convenience stores. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture said they found consumers who drank black tea for three weeks experienced a decrease of between 7 percent and 11 perce...

New Drug for Diabetes

... is a disease in which the hormone insulin is not made by the body (type 1 diabetes) or the body does not effectively use the insulin it does produce (type 2 diabetes). Researchers, are studying another hormone -- amylin -- to aid in the treatment of diabetes. Amylin is a hormone secreted with insulin by...

Breastfeeding not found to have an impact on weight of the child.

...finding that held true even after adjustments were made to take other factors that could have impacted weight of the children into account. Thus researchers conclude, "Promoting breast feeding is important, but evidence for an important beneficial effect on obesity is still equivocal."...

Liquid Drano for Your Arteries

...rol to break down quickly even though their bodies made plenty of it. Researchers then turned this same strain of HDL into an experimental drug and gave it to heart attack patients. Results of the study show after just five weekly infusions of HDL, patients saw a 4-percent reduction in the amount of plaq...

Bone Marrow Cells Help Heart Attack Patients

...hat trial showed a patient treated with stem cells made from his own bone marrow had improved heart functi...pen. Twenty patients were injected with stem cells made from their own bone marrow, and the other 20 patients served as a control group. Stem cells are imma...

New Treatment for Rosacea

...ntains 15 percent azelaic acid and is specifically made for rosacea. Typically it has a different formula and is used to treat acne. Many rosacea patients are generally treated with metronidazole gel, an antibiotic commonly used to treat infections of the small intestines and colon. In a study, researche...

WHO and UNAIDS unveil plan to get 3 million AIDS patients on treatment by 2005

...tiative complements the groundbreaking commitments made by the United States under President Bush's HIV/AIDS Initiatives ($15 billion dollars for an enhanced AIDS response), the pathfinding work of NGOs (like MSF) and faith-based groups, the efforts of pharmaceutical companies to reduce the prices of AIDS...

New Vaccine for SARS Coming Soon

A new study shows a vaccine made from the common cold virus may induce the immune system to help fight the SARS virus.//Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention injected six monkeys with a genetically altered cold virus that is similar to parts of the SARS cor...

Screening For Prostate Cancer in men over 75 Questioned

...llocation of health care resources will have to be made by patients, physicians, and society working together. They say information about how patients and physicians interpret medical data on the PSA screening is critical to understanding the risks and benefits of this test in elderly men....

“ Economy Class Syndrome

...ypical of the economy class section of an aircraft made it harder for people to move around during long flights, thus making it easier for blood clots to develop. This study looked at 878 air travelers who completed at least 10 hours of air travel over six weeks. All took flights lasting at least four ho...

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