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Kick Smoking with Nicotine Drink

...increasing list is a nicotine solution that can be mixed with drinks, which scientists claim could be useful in over coming the addiction. Researchers at Duke University have tested and patented this nicotine drink and are now looking for a pharmaceutical company to help conduct larger clinical trials. Y...

Common contraception

...alled the zona pellucida. But when the researchers mixed the sperm with eggs that had the covering removed, they fertilised normally. "It might be that this channel is involved in giving the sperm's tail a kind of turbocharge at the last instant, when it needs more power to penetrate the zona pellucida," ...

A new contraceptive

... egg, the zona pellucida. But when the researchers mixed the sperm with eggs that had the covering removed, they fertilised normally. A contraceptive designed to prevent fertilisation would not interfere with the gene but simply inhibit the ion channel protein, so that calcium could not pass through. "If ...

Activated charcoal for poisoning treatment

...bloodstream. Stocked by some pharmacies, it can be mixed at home with water, juice or soft drinks, and also comes pre-mixed with water. Charcoal is considered more effective for a broad range of household items //including certain cough medicines, painkillers and disinfectant cleaners. Home use of activ...

Miraculous Salads

...eeps from the bones making them brittle. And 500mg mixed with garlic, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and parsley had a similar result. On a diet of onions the rats developed stronger bones and suffered less resorption, and the onions' effect on bones could be seen within 12 hours, the scientists said. If thi...

Relief to pregnant women using fertility drugs

...er. Further studies explored the relationship with mixed results: some research showed a link; other studies failing to find one. "We have always believed the drugs were safe, mainly because the original studies were flawed. They looked at only one population of women, those who were infertile. And we kn...

Lactobacillus Supplements shorten the duration of diarrhoea

...y given as a supplement, either in capsule form or mixed into a rehydration drink. The researchers found that supplemental Lactobacillus shortened the duration of diarrhoea by two thirds of a day, when compared with an inactive placebo treatment. No side effects were observed. Whether the same benefits wo...

Juices are Best! but which one?

...lso ascorbic acid. Cereal fortified with iron were mixed to Juices from a supermarket .Iron intake was boosted with pear, apple, grapefruit, orange, and white grape juices. However, iron absorption was inhibited with the red grape juice and prune juice. Researches conclude that people lacking iron should...

New Help for Head and Neck Cancer

... their reactions to injections of a combination of mixed natural cytokines called Multikine. Patients also received treatment with zinc sulfate and other substances thought to help boost the immune system. Patients received the Multikine injections for 10 days. Two patients had a complete regression of th...

Reviving the Immune System

...ring them to the lab. Here, they're multiplied and mixed with beads attached to a protein. When the new cells are put back into the body, they're better able to attack foreign substances, like the cancer.Researchers say, "What we want to do is tilt the balance in favor of the immune system and away from th...

Black tea said to lower cholesterol

...neficial effect if consumed regularly as part of a mixed diet for most people. "We aren't talking about drinking tea over a lifetime, which we really can't study, but we have a short study and indications are very positive," say researchers. Researchers placed 15 participants on a six-week, double-blind ...

New Drug for Diabetes

...he last three months. The drug currently cannot be mixed with insulin, so patients would need to take additional injections. After five additional studies were conducted, the research was submitted again to the FDA in June 2003. The final decision on this drug, which will be marketed as SYMLIN, is expected...

New Drug to Stop Gambling!

...r experts say the drug can cause liver problems if mixed with other drugs, such as over-the-counter painkillers....

SARS vaccine shows promise in Animal Testing

... lungs of some mice. However the results lead to mixed opinions , some researchers say more experiments are needed to determine if it will work in humans. Some scientists not connected with the study said the results were encouraging, but should not be overstated. No DNA vaccine has yet been shown to eff...

Valerian was first epilepsy drug

...not know if valerian can cause a bad reaction when mixed with other medicines. Courtesy : CoABC Science Online...

Preventing A Heart Attack Can Also Prevent Memory Loss

...udies on drugs designed to slow the progression of mixed dementia, vascular dementia, and Alzheimer's. They compared that with information relating to heart-protecting therapy and dementia. They found significant benefits in the latter, while they say the memory-loss prevention drugs may cause a measurable...

The Link Between Hormone Therapy And Urinary Incontinence

... and the severity of symptoms of stress, urge, and mixed UI. Stress incontinence occurs when a patient invo...r. The risk was highest for stress UI, followed by mixed UI. Among women who reported having UI at the beginning of the study, both frequency and amount of U...

Researchers discover receptor cells that can cause epilepsy

...ls in brain behave in an abnormal fashion, sending mixed signals to the person suffering from the disease. The symptoms of the condition may be having inappropriate sensations and emotions, behaving inappropriately, or muscle spasms and loss of consciousness. Epileptic seizures are often related to abnorm...

Limiting sperm motility for contraception

...t mice could still fertilize eggs, the researchers mixed the sperm with eggs whose outer covering, called the zona pellucida, had been removed. They found that the sperm could fertilize the eggs normally, and that the eggs began to develop normally. “So, the only thing that seems to be wrong in the sperm ...

Aerobics- right choice for Cutting Blood Pressure

...benefit of walking, running, and jogging. Both the mixed exercise group and the group that didn't participate in any form of exercise had similar average blood pressures -- about 122/75 mmHg. But the aerobic-only group had an average blood pressure level of only 120/72 mmHg. That 3 mmHg drop in systolic b...

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