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Liver key to extending life

...m to clog up or disappear as the liver ages. "This means that fats and toxins can't get processed properly," he said. "And it explains a lot of problems." For example, he said, the fats involved in atherosclerosis — the build-up on blood vessel walls — float around in the blood because they are unable to b...

Compressed DNA aids gene patients

...te blueprint for building an entire human.// This means that 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...

Ulcer Surgery connected to danger of Pancreatic Cancer

... of both pancreatic cancer and peptic ulcers. That means that many patients who undergo ulcer surgery may smoke and not quit following surgery. Consequently, "it is important to quit smoking in the first place," Offerhause said. Offerhause added that patients who have previously undergone surgery to remov...

Gene therapy - Aim to improve blood flow

Heart disease often means that areas of the heart muscle become poorly supplied with blood - this can lead to both painful angina attacks, and to heart attacks. If blood vessels could be encouraged to grow to reinforce the supply to the heart muscle,// this could drastically ...

New therapy for PMS

...cycle dosing PMS patients would work. Half-cycling means the medication is started 14 days prior to the start of menstruation. Previous research shows half-cycling is effective when treating premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), a severe form of PMS. A total of 15 women were included in this study. They...

Preventing 'white coat' hypertension

...ite coat hypertension is a well-known problem - it means that your blood pressure //may go up when it's measured by a doctor (the 'white coat') but be lower if a practice nurse measures it, or if you measure it yourself. Researchers in, England, have been looking at the white coat effect in a group of 150 ...

Laser technique assists beard problem

...uch lower than on the untreated control area. This means that laser hair removal might be a better and more complete treatment for PFB than existing options such as topical steroids and exfoliation, which typically only deal with the problem in the short term....

A way to eradicate allergy

...subjects showed true allergic reactions. " This means that two-thirds of the patients were on the wrong kind of medication to start with," Szeinbach said. This led to other problems, such as an increased use of anti-depressants. People with allergies or allergy-like symptoms tend to use antidepressant...

Jumping genes eliminate sections of DNA

...nd not in other cells of the body, he noted, which means any mutation effect they have is already present in our bodies at birth. The L1 elements use a process called reverse transcription to move about and insert themselves into DNA sequences. The researchers found four of 37 jumping events resulted in d...

Oral memory indicates future Alzheimer's patients

...d they seem to work best if they start early. This means early diagnosis is a priority. Researchers at the University of Toronto have been analysing investigations on 1,000 Alzheimer's patients to try to determine the best methods of early diagnosis. They find that those who performed poorly on a test ca...

Conserving the larynx

...he larynx than the other two approaches. The study means that those with laryngeal cancer may be offered a treatment regime that avoids radical surgery and so offers a better quality of life....

Identifying brain lesions with impaired consciousness

...ions in patients with impaired consciousness. This means doctors may now have a better way// to estimate patients, as opposed to using expensive and time-consuming imaging technology. Researchers studied the vital signs of 450 patients who were admitted to an emergency room with impaired consciousness. Of...

Specialist care convalesces intensive care survival

...uggests that figure is as large as 30 per cent. It means that the potential lives saved each year by employing such experts could be 162,000. Patients in hospitals where there are intensivists have both reduced ICU and hospital deaths and a reduced length of stay in the ICU. But at present, only one hospit...

Wine drinkers may have reasons to cheer

...ch reduce the occurrence of dementia. This in turn means that potential treatment and prevention methods could be developed from these substances. The study tracked the drinking pattern of 1700 people in Copenhagen in the 1970s and then assessed them in the 1990s when they were 65 years or more. Over the ...

Stroke also in list of common childhood ailments

...tively as children's brain are very plastic, which means they have a great capacity to learn to compensate for the damage....

Caffeine is not the only culprit in coffee!

...le for coffee lovers to stick to moderation, which means only 2 to 3 cups a day!...

The elderly can sleep better now!

...ular therapy using magnetic pearls is an effective means of improving the quantity and quality of sleep in the elderly as the results showed that those individuals who had the auricular therapy had significant improvement in their sleep....

Genetic mutation to the 'fountain of youth' discovered

...ssed from cell to cell only by cell division. This means that a person's mitochondia come only from their mother. And this makes them a valuable marker for human migration studies. Dr. Guiseppe Attardi, Caltech professor of molecular biology and an author of the study said that this key mutation shifts th...

Leptin is "new breast cancer indicator"

...at assessing leptin levels may be a more effective means of cancer prognosis than measuring body mass index...ion of fat over the years and offer an alternative means of testing for breast cancer risk. The amount of leptin found in a woman’s bloodstream can indicate ...

Use of sunbed is harmful

...olet exposure. A tan, even without burning, always means that the skin has been damaged.// A suntan is not nature's own sunscreen, it does not protect you from ultra-violet radiation. There are some harmful effects like skin cancer particularly in young people, premature ageing, including leathery, wrinkle...

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