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Diabetic risk reduced by whole grains

...at occurs in the body after eating. The fiber also makes people feel full sooner, leading to a reduction in food intake. Researchers followed male health care professionals for 10 years. All were between 45 and 70 years old when the study began and were free of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. During ...

Red hair connected with anaesthesia

...nts with other hair colors. The genetic quirk that makes red hair red may also make carrot-tops harder to knock out -- in the operating room. People with red hair need more anaesthesia// to make them lose consciousness. Although anaesthetics have been in use for well over a century, we understand surprisin...

Tear-free Onions

...y have also found that the chemical in onions that makes you cry is not related to flavour. Researchers at the House Foods Corporation, University of Tokyo and Kyoto University,//tested the theory that the crying response to onions was caused by an enzyme called alliinase. Alliinase plays a part in the che...

Fight against Fungus - A new ray of hope

...it needs to be injected intravenously. This aspect makes it difficult to use the drug outside a hospital set-up. The drug, which has not yet been approved for use in candidiasis patients, due to its high cost will be reserved for the sickest kinds of patients who are in the hospital and for one reason or ...

No heart attack risk for women taking birth control pills

...tion oral contraceptives with cardiac events which makes the study insufficient to deny women birth control pills. However, Bluementhal also adds that birth control pills are not given to women who fall in the high risk category for a heart attack, such as smokers or some with elevated blood pressure....

Protein acts as "Master Switch" that cuts off cells' Cancer-Growth machinery

...cytidine-uridine-guanosine binding protein) - that makes cancer cells self-destruct. The findings that were published// apply only to cancer cells grown in a test tube. Human studies aren't yet on the drawing board. However, lead researcher Anant said that the protein works across the board for many cancer...

Primates reveal a new dimension to human genome

...d humans since they shared common ancestors, which makes it difficult to compare them. But primates were comparatively recent in sharing common ancestors, and hence it is more easier to make a comparative study. Consequently, non-human primates have been largely ignored in the effort to interpret the huma...

Metapneumovirus - a common cause of adults' colds, kids' illness

...ying to assess how often -- and how severely -- it makes people sick through life. In other studies: ? Researchers from McGill University looked at elderly patients hospitalized with pneumonia or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The metapneumovirus was found in 2 percent, which was the same as influ...

New birth control to limit women's periods

...which is really responsible for what fundamentally makes a woman a woman." The failure rate for traditional birth control pills is around 1 to 2 percent with perfect use, according to the FDA.Some women should not use birth control pills, including those who smoke cigarettes, particularly if they're older...

Pill might be able to reduce the damage loud noise does to your hearing

...r cells die off, hearing erodes permanently. So it makes sense to try to build up the ear's antioxidant def...ts are cautious about the antioxidant approach. It makes sense the substances could reduce hearing loss if given before noise exposure, but the animal studie...

New !! “Designer” Gene Theray

...gn bodies and washes them out of the blood.// That makes it difficult to deliver enough of the new genes to the part of the body that needs assistance. New research shows a form of gene therapy capable of entering the bloodstream and traveling directly to the part of the body that needs treatment may be ...

Scientists Have Traced How The SARS Virus evolved

...at's not proof a civet infected the man, rather it makes the continual looking for a reservoir host important .”...

Scientists Have Traced How The SARS Virus evolved

...at's not proof a civet infected the man, rather it makes the continual looking for a reservoir host important .”...

Using Stem Cells To Treat Incontinence In Women

...nt women with their own stem cells, which they say makes the treatment especially promising. The procedure involves removing stem cells from a patient's arm, culture them for six weeks, thereby yielding 50 million new muscle cells, and then injecting them into the patient's urethra wall. Researchers teste...

Treating Leukemia With Natural Cells

... and both groups received a protein substance that makes infection-fighting cells multiply and mature. This substance artificially stimulated the natural killer cells obtained from a patient’s family member and infused into the patient. The infused natural killer cells expanded in the AML patients with th...

Predicting The Risk Of Osteoarthritis

...at birth. It is marked by a shallow hip pocket and makes the hip unstable. In some extreme cases, it can make the hip prone to dislocation.// A new study reveals the condition acetabular dysplasia is a strong independent indicator for the development of osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip. Osteoarthritis of t...

New advance in prostate cancer management

... processed this way retain the antigenicity, which makes it ideal to be tested for tumour progression. The Institute of Cancer Research was founded in 1909 to carry out research into causes of cancer. The institute aims at developing new strategies for prevention, diagnosis and treatment Of cancer. The i...

Influence of Celebrities on Breast Cancer Awareness

...ancer Society's latest report on cancer prevention makes no mention of environmental factors? Final remarks: No one knows whether the endorsements increase cancer testing among the people who stand to benefit most, the researchers cautioned. Screening has both advantages and disadvantages as early diagn...

Scientists Developed Map For Brain Molecular Communities

...ve only four degrees of separation. This closeness makes it essential to understand how these molecules function as a community to maintain a healthy state. The study built a model to see how molecules within a brain cell interact with one another and communicates in order to respond to external stimuli. ...

A Cheap Device to Stop Snoring from New Zealand

...h, users say the device is like using a dummy that makes them sleep like a baby. The beauty of Robertson's invention is it costs a fraction of expensive sleep masks and can be prescribed by a doctor without the need to visit a specialist or dentist for fitting. Robertson said using the device was simil...

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