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Food Preparation may Play a Bigger Role in Chronic Disease

...n age-related inflammation and oxidative stress by measuring AGE levels in both young and older individuals. The study involved 172 healthy men and women who were divided into two age groups—those between the ages of 18 and 45 and those between the ages of 60 and 80. Dr. Vlassara and her team also wanted to as...

NRI Brings to India Effective Pain Relief Therapy

...e is measured only on one arm. ABPI is computed by measuring blood pressure at the ankle and arm on both sides of the body." "Blood pressure readings only indicate cardiac risk, but ABPI indicates blood flow disorders through the overall condition of arteries and veins of the limbs. It is a much more advance...

Study Challenges Conventional Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury

...te than at any other time. They discovered this by measuring the levels of lactate in blood entering and leaving the brain. To determine if lactate was being used by the brain, the researchers, in collaboration with George Brooks, a professor in the department of integrative biology at the University of Califo...

Study Shows Hope for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's

...bling us to take EEG, an 80-year-old technique for measuring brain activity, and turn it into a cutting-edge tool for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease," Kounios added. The team members hope that eventually they or other researchers will develop a hand-held device that can be used to conduct similar evaluations...

Lithium Increases Gray Matter in Bipolar Brains

...yses of gray matter distribution were conducted by measuring local volumes of gray matter at thousands of locations in the brain. While the brains of lithium-treated bipolar patients did not differ from those of the control subjects in total white-matter volume, their overall gray-matter volume was signific...

New Guidelines to Address Growing Obesity Epidemic

...ty and its consequences." The recommendation for measuring the waist circumference of all adults is the resul...'s just as important as taking blood pressure, and measuring lipid and blood sugar levels." The guidelines also recommend that: First-line treatment for over...

Anti-aging Treatment Becoming Popular in US, but Experts Skeptical

...ional advice, say critics. The A4M doctors talk of measuring a physiological age -- as opposed to a chronological age, but the concept is considered dubious. "The only way I can tell your age is by looking at your birth certificate," says Dr. Nir Barzilai, Director of the Institute of Aging at Albert Einste...

A Sweet Step Toward New Cancer Therapies

... work is in very early stages, but we hope that by measuring unique sugars it may be possible to develop diagnostic tools or therapeutic agents to specifically target them," Hakansson said. Source-Eurekalert RM...

Gene Test Shown to Measure Heart Function After Transplant

...vasive alternative that provides a molecular score measuring the body’s immune response to the heart transplant. A below-threshold test score identifies transplant patients who are at very low risk for rejecting their transplanted hearts and who can be monitored and managed using noninvasive methods such as th...

Breakthrough in MRI Scanning in the Near Future

...ially, cancer", he added. Non-clinical uses like measuring protein changes during food processing, are also foreseeable, according to the scientists. AN...

Women – watch Your Fat and Sugar Intakes to Keep Cancer at Ba

...earch Fund (WCRF), put the participants to test by measuring fasting glucose levels as well as sugar levels after glucose infusions. During the study period ,2,478 cases of cancer of the pancreas, breast, womb, and skin were discovered. It was seen that women in the top 25 per cent for blood sugar leve...

Energy Supplement Under Study for Parkinson's Disease

... Following disease progression over many years and measuring endpoints such as falling, nursing home placement, dementia and death is the only way to effectively assess treatment for a disease that typically progresses slowly, Dr. Sethi says. In fact, the study may be extended five more years, based on prelimi...

Computer Imaging Assists With Facial Reconstructive Surgery

A new calibration technique that involves measuring the distance between the upper ear and chin in photographs could help facial plastic surgeons// use computer imaging software, according to a report. “The importance of balanced facial proportions has been studied for centuries by architects, artis...

Race Affects Tobacco Absorption in Children

... into cotinine,” said Dr. Wilson, “and, currently, measuring cotinine in various biologic specimens is a widely...s also avoided reporting parental bias by actively measuring levels of tobacco smoke in the home. Each study participant had a nicotine dosimeter placed in his o...

Experiments on Mount Everest to Study Oxygen Deprivation Effect

...,300 metres) at Kathmandu. The tests range from measuring subjects' blood flow speed and monitoring the impact of altitude on their mental functions. They would also be working on an exercise bike during the experiments. Comparing the sea and altitude level reactions will help the team find out what phys...

No Carrier Necessary: This Drug Delivers Itself

...rug. The system involves the use of nanocrystals measuring about 100 nanometers of pure HPPH, (2-devinyl-2-(1'-hexyloxyethyl) pyropheophorbide), a photosensitizer currently in Phase I/II human clinical trials at RPCI for treating various types of cancer. The UB researchers found that the nanocrystals of HP...

Spain Launches Movement Against Skinny Fashion Models

... height-weight ratio - for models at 18. A model measuring 1.75 metres, for instance, must thus weigh at least 56 kg. That corresponds to the minimum level set by the World Health Organization (WHO) for a person to be considered healthy. The Pasarela Cibeles repeated the move in February. A very slim perso...

Moderate Quake Injures 35 in Iran

... bulidings were destroyed when a moderate// quake measuring 4.8 on Richter scale hit Iran's Lorestan province ... were killed and 1,200 injured when a strong quake measuring 6 on the Richter scale hit Daroud. Source-IANS...

Body Mass Index may Not Reflect Fat Accurately

...rch. BMI was long considered as the standard for measuring the amount of fat in a person's body. It is defined as the individual's body weight divided by the square of their height. Generally, a BMI of 25 or above indicates a person is overweight; 30 or above indicates obesity. A person with a higher BMI i...

Pilates-new Age Gimmick or More?

...core" muscle often worsens back pain. It was by measuring how different loads and forces affect the way the spine functions, that McGill found that the transversus abdominus muscle does not play as pivotal a role in protecting the back as was once thought. "If you hollow in, you bring the muscles closer t...

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