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Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

...ead and mercury considered safe for an adult woman might not be safe for her unborn child....

Defence against free radicals

...new therapies could be developed. “For example, we might be able to decrease cellular ageing by using chemicals that switch these proteins on,” he said. “However, we need to do more research to find practical or medical applications of these exciting new findigs.”...

Step Aerobics Increases good cholesterol

...he women were told not to change their diets, they might have done so. In addition to this, many more--such as age, smoking and body composition--contribute to a person's cholesterol levels....

Artificial lenses- Boon to cataract patients

...s are successful, they add, however, some patients might not need to wear glasses at all - unlike most elderly people, who gradually lose the ability to focus at different distances as the natural lens becomes more rigid with age....

Risk for Pregnant Women

...CBPs by using carbon filters. "Pregnant women also might want to switch to non-chlorinated bottled water," Houlihan added. And, also added that they should take shorter showers and baths, since CBPs can be in inhaled or absorbed through the skin....

Butterbur does wonders

... not work - and therefore it is possible that this might react with other medications. It was used in treating hayfever The researchers gave 154 hayfever patients either butterbur extract tablets or the usually used non-sedating antihistamine called cetirizine. After three weeks, the treatments had achie...

Variation in breast cancer

... in Chicago, USA, reveals that dietary differences might explain the geographical variation in breast cancer. Rates are high where the proportion of daily calories from animal products are high. And where vegetable products contribute relatively more to the diet, the rates of cancer tend to be lower. It ...

Magnesium sulfate offers no help in migraine treatment

...olerated. To investigate whether such an infusion might be an effective adjunct to migraine therapy, the researchers conducted a double-blind study of 44 patients seeking emergency department migraine treatment. The subjects, 42 of whom were women, were randomized to receive intravenously 20 mg of metoc...

High vitamin A increases risk of hip fractures

...o, some foods currently fortified with the vitamin might not need to be, or could be fortified with beta ca...wer the risk of other diseases. Instead, consumers might consider a multivitamin that supplies some of its vitamin A from beta carotene....

Hidden influenza virus protein found

...usly long for mere junk.Wondering if this molecule might be a bonafide protein, Dr. Yewdell’s team decided to see how much of it was created in cells infected with the flu virus. If it were junk, there should be only random copies of the peptide. If it were a protein, large quantities of the molecule shou...

Do gardening and be fit

...ushing a mower."She speculated that being outdoors might add to the bone-strengthening effects, since sunlight stimulates production of vitamin D which helps the body absorb dietary calcium. Weight-bearing exercise is any activity that requires the bones to fully support the body's weight, such as jogging...

Particulate matter affects lung development

...suspect that children with decreased lung function might be more susceptible to respiratory disease and more likely to have chronic respiratory problems as adults. Researchers were interested in lung function during adolescence. “When kids hit puberty, their lungs start to grow qquite quickly,” Avol expla...

Babies Need Vaccination

...s of mothers mistakenly thought to be disease-free might be falling through the cracks, said Dr. Julia McMillan, a member of the AAP committee that helped create this year's list.Doctors also worried that some infants were not being vaccinated early because of concerns that some shots had a mercury-contain...

Smoking stripes longevity

...e total number of cigarettes a regular male smoker might consume in a lifetime. The researchers, from the Univeristy of Bristol, took their figures on life expectancy from a major study of the impact of// smoking carried out by leading cancer expert Professor Gary Billiards.They calculated that smokers we...

Risk Of Decongestants In Hypertensive Patients

...work against anti-hypertensive drugs that patients might take for their high blood pressure. There are over-the-counter cold and flu products that claim to be safe for people with high blood pressure, but according to Smaha, they're unlikely to help those looking for a decongestant....

Immune cells halt round in space

...hysical and psychological stresses of space flight might trigger immune-altering hormones, another possibility is that the weightlessness of space might be affecting the immune cells directly. To investigate this, NASA has developed a "rotating bioreact...

Blood test may identify ovarian cancer

...p or family history of the disease. Eventually, it might be extended to other women as well, they said. The experimental test measures the levels of five proteins found in the blood. The combined result in a blood sample is used to indicate the presence of cancer, said Kohn. The test would need further stu...

Diet, Sunlight connected to Breast Cancer Risk

...vitamin D supply. However, the specific foods that might raise or lower breast cancer risk remain far from clear, according to a researcher at the American Cancer Society (ACS) in Atlanta, Georgia.// What's more, he told Reuters Health, the only definite in terms of sun exposure is that too much of it can ...

No link between bad weather and rheumatism

...of some fibromyalgia patients to blame the weather might simply be because it is such a prominent feature of daily life or, they may attribute changes in pain to the weather because an association between the two is widely believe....

Alcohol decreases risk of dementia

...Since blood vessel disease also affects the brain, might alcohol also protect against dementia. According to this study, the report on alcohol is part of the long-running Rotterdam Study, which is following over 5,000 people aged 52 and older. Those who drank alcohol were matched to those who did not and...

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