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Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure

...ardening of the arteries among smokers, and it has more antioxidants per gram than red wine, green tea or ...oa rich food for quite some years, found eating no more than 30 calories a day of dark chocolate was associated with a lowering of blood pressure in healthy...

Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

...vaccine. According to the researchers, it may be more helpful to think of the effectiveness of a vaccine...emotherapy, they are less capable of measuring the more subtle systemic effects of immune response, Schlom said. While there is no conclusive evidence to ...

In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash

...ive multi-player online games in his dormitory but more often goes with friends to Internet cafes, and say...anghai to collect virtual currency and assets from more than 1,000 Chinese suppliers and sell them to American players at fat prices. On the website of an...

Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

... lung tissue leads to cancer, Engels said. Knowing more about the downstream effects of these polymorphism...fferences in genes related to inflammation between more than 1,500 lung cancer patients and 1,700 controls at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas...

Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile

... program and those who weren't. Teachers who spent more hours on nutrition education had no greater impact...lly at risk, because unhealthy food is cheaper and more easily available than healthy food. Parents are often working, leaving children unsupervised to get ...

Patients Find Healthy Vein in Old Austrian Mine

... Bad Gastein used to be a gold mine, and produced more than 800 kilos (1,760 pounds) of the precious meta.... "The 50-odd mine staff are subject to 20 times more exposure than patients, but we remain below official exposure levels," said Rieser. Depending on t...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

People diagnosed with epilepsy are five times more likely than their peers to commit suicide in the s...ish researchers report. Epileptics are three times more likely to commit suicide than people who don't have the disorder. Researchers at Aarhus University ...

Variation in Genes Related to Inflammation Increase Lung Cancer Risk

...fferences in genes related to inflammation between more than 1,500 lung cancer patients and 1,700 controls...ead to greater expression of the protein, which is more likely to turn on the cascade and sustain the damaging effects of inflammation. Over time, the const...

A Drug That Helps Cut Alcohol Craving

... on harm reduction in the short term is often much more feasible than complete abstinence....

Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks

...hildren and adolescents. The warning recommended more intense therapeutic monitoring to mitigate these risks but did not suggest avoiding the pediatric use of antidepressants. Benji T. Kurian, M.D., M.P.H., and colleagues at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn., examined monthly ...

War Trauma-hit UK Veteran Population Set to Increase

...n sight for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, more and more veterans will return home suffering the effects of war trauma. The condition covers a variety of p...

People With Higher IQs are More Patient in Financial Matters

...of Labour has revealed that intelligent people are more patient in financial matters. In the study of 10...me for it to be worth waiting longer for. "The more intelligent the test subjects were, the more patient and tolerant of risk they were," is how the Bon...

Pfizer Says Nigerian Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Drug Case

...t. Kano government's lawyer Aliyu Umar asked for more time to enable him prepare his response to Pfizer'... Of the 200 children affected, 11 died while many more -- reportedly 181 -- suffered from deafness, paralysis, brain damage and blindness, according to the...

Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation

...rofessional," she said. Chang, who has surveyed more than 300 diabetics in Taiwan, also observed that people feared that doctors would not be interested in discussing alternative medicines, or that they might 'get into trouble' for taking them. "The evidence is that patients are using these products...

New Diagnostic Test for Mad Cow Disease Developed

...und, as a result of which the prions break up into more numerous, smaller particles. The researchers, however, concede that further study is needed to determine whether the technique that has been applied to brain tissue can be applied to other tissues like the ones taken from blood, which may be used ...

EU Aims to Shake Up Wine Industry With Root-and-branch Reform

... the infamous wine lakes and of course make things more simple," she said. EU attempts to turn around so...llowing the companies and the European wines to be more competitive both in the internal market and in the external markets," said CEEV head Lamberto Vallar...

Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis

...we found that from 1985-2005 society hasn't become more litigious, at least not vis vis pediatricians," s...,000. Both figures are in 2005 dollars. Slightly more than a quarter of all claims against pediatricians were settled for the plaintiff before going to tr...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

... committed to their own carbon trading scheme, and more than 400 mayors have pledged their cities to reduc...to veto the global warming bill unless it was made more business-friendly, said a critic. Although the governor says he wants to hold polluters more accou...

Dietary Counseling Leads to Weight Loss

...lved in formal weight loss programs. Programs with more frequent meetings and greater calorie restrictions tended to produce greater weight losses over time. Approximately half the weight loss remained at three years, but almost none of the weight loss remained at five years. Obesity-related problems ar...

Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?

...el the schedule was filled with 460 weddings, with more possible. "We can't make any more reservations but we will take walk-ins and drive-ups, and fit them in when we can," owner Richards s...

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