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Red Wine may Help Reduce Risk of Alzheimer's

...s patients, reported the online edition of science magazine WebMD. The researchers split the mice into three groups. One group of mice got its drinking water spiked with red wine (Cabernet Sauvignon from California-grown grapes). Another group had its drinking water mixed with ethanol that didn't come from ...

Sleep-related Breathing Disorder could Indicate Depression

...ng disorder, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. Compared with sleepers who breathe easily, those with mild sleep-related breathing disorder were twice as likely to become depressed during the study. By the same comparison, those with minimal breathing problems were 60 percent as likely ...

Ukrainian Invents a Musical Condom

... condom that plays music during sex, Korrespondent magazine reported Wednesday.// Scientist Hryhory Chausovsky developed the birth control device as a novelty, and as an aid for more pleasurable love-making, he said. A miniature loudspeaker and motion sensor implanted in the condom's upper cuff provides a ...

Breastfed Babies are Less Likely to be Fat

... to 19 years, reported an online edition of health magazine WebMD. Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis and other researchers in the US studied 15,253 children between the ages of nine and 14 and their mothers. Roughly 6,000 of the studied mothers were overweight or obese without diabetes while 473 had diabetes. They...

Kids are More Prone to Tonsillitis Relapse

...us bacteria, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. The kids were treated at a private medical centre and each received one of nine different antibiotics to cure the infection. However, symptoms of the infection returned in 17 percent of the children within 20 days of completing antibiotic ...

E. Coli's Salad Days

...d Latin American scientists in 1991. In 2003, Time magazine named him one of Canada's top five scientists to have influenced health worldwide. Finlay recently won the Flavelle Medal, the Royal Society of Canada's highest honor. Source-Newswise SRM...

Women at Greater Risk of Inheriting Lung Cancer

...f the study, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. Over the study period, nearly 800 participants developed lung cancer, particularly those who had a family history of the disease. The risk of inherited lung cancer is greater for women (2.65-fold risk) than for men (1.69-fold risk), accord...

Want To Quit Smoking? Exercise Could Help

...ent therapy, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. At the same time, half the would be quitters enrolled in an exercise programme. The nicotine treatment worked pretty well. Just over half the smokers on nicotine replacement alone were able to quit, the researchers said. Exercise plus nicot...

Poor Hygiene in Ulster Hospital Kitchens

...and inadequate kitchen ventilation. Although the magazine has not named the specific hospitals Northern Ireland was included. According to a Which? spokesman of the hospitals surveyed, the facilities in Northern Ireland fared well, but were not the best. Magazine editor Neil Fowler has said that the con...

India, a Hot Destination? Software or Sex, Indians are the Best!

‘Men’s Health’, a mega lifestyle magazine for men with a tall worldwide readership of over 20 million, has published the findings of a survey that queried almost 40,000 men// from 43 countries regarding their private lives, and sexual habits. An exclusive feature titled "World's Best Sex Rig...

Sexual assault cases in mixed-sex psychiatric wards on the high

...women on wards.Based on the recent findings of the magazine Community Care, new strategies for better sexual safety in the NHS is being drafted by the Department of Health, which will be published in spring 2007. Professor Louis Appleby, the Government's mental health tsar, said, "In my opinion, there is s...

Cell Transplants Can Even Help In Restoring Vision

...l suffering from eye damages. Nature, a UK based magazine has pre-empted the research as 'Stunning' Research and also have added that the experts in UK have welcomed the study. It is said that once the cone and rod photoreceptors in the retina gets lost, replacing them becomes impossible. Though there are...

Late-life Pregnancies Risky, but Births are Good: Study

...to late 40s, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. The older women in the study were hospitalised during pregnancy almost three times as often as the 45- to 49-year-old women, and twice as many delivered low-birth-weight babies. The researchers characterised the findings among women 50 and...

Migraine Sufferers More at Risk of Heart Attack

...lar disease, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. In the current study, the researchers did not have information on whether the men had auras. According to Kurth, the findings in women could be applied to men as well. An aura occurs before the onset of a migraine. Aura symptoms can includ...

Men More Bothered By Flu

Nuts magazine conducted a survey on “Man Flu”. "Man flu," is tha..." according to Nuts, a U.K. men's magazine. Nuts magazine discovered that 64 per cent of men had Flu, that forced them to stay at home and miss work last wint...

Pessimistic Attitude Could Lead to Coronary Heart Disease

...of 15 years, reported the online edition of health magazine WebMD. Each of these traits independently predicted heart disease. But the mix of these traits 'was the most powerful predictor of heart disease', said Suarez. Suarez and colleagues are designing a comprehensive intervention programme to help pa...

Onions, Garlic may Reduce the Risk of Cancer

..., ovary, and kidneys, the online edition of health magazine WebMD said. Researchers Carlotta Galeone, of the Istituto di Ricerche Farmocologiche "Mario Negri" in Milan, and colleagues found that moderate consumption of onions appeared to reduce the risk of colorectal (cancer of the colon and rectum), laryng...

Exercise may cut snoring in overweight kids

...roblems, reported the online edition of the health magazine WebMD. The researchers randomly split the kids into three groups. One group got 40 minutes of supervised aerobic exercise - such as tag, basketball, soccer or jump rope - every day for about 13 weeks. Another group got 20 minutes of the same sort o...

Flu Vaccine Shortage In Britain Causes Anxiety

...ces in England and Wales, conducted by the medical magazine Pulse and published today, reveals a dramatic drop in the number of vaccinations. Some primary care trusts were found not to have reported any data on immunisation rates for October because numbers were so low. Elderly people over 65 and people wit...

Survey Reveals Rejection of NHS Database Scheme

...et another obstacle cropped up for the NHS, when a magazine of GPs revealed that a security plan devised by the NHS agency in charge of the database programme, is not really safe as it may have chances to be tampered with and may cause private information to be seen by others as well. MT...

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