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FDA attacks American Red Cross for blood violations

...is acting today to ensure that the Red Cross takes much more seriously its role as guardian of the safety of the nation's blood supply, which is essential to the public health. // Despite a promise made by the Red Cross in a 1993 consent decree to make substantial improvements in the quality control of ...

Cure for sleepless nights

...me time in the morning each day, regardless of how much sleep they had had. Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the researchers said: "Our results indicate that chronic insomnia can be effectively treated in late life with structured and sleep-focused interventions aimed a...

Sniff out flatulence

...y the Toot Trapper may be too unwieldly to provide much comfort to regular fans of pinto beans, broccoli and nuts, but they hope that a less cumbersome device can be developed in the future....

Genetic disorder related with sleep patterns

...niversity of Utah say people who cannot stay awake much after 8.30pm and who wake up around 5.30am may be suffering from a disorder called "familial advanced sleep-phase syndrome". This means the person's body clock is three to four hours faster than normal. Writing in Nature Medicine, the scientists, l...

Miraculous Salads

...r Muhlbauer said. They also said that eating too much salt can raise the blood pressure and that this, in turn, speeds up the body's loss of calcium that could then lead to osteoporosis...

Caffeine can induce epilepsy in newborns

A research has found that if women drink too much coffee during pregnancy can increase the risk of their babies developing epileptic seizures or fits.//Studies have found that caffeine may be linked to the development of epileptic discharges in cells from newborn mammals that have been briefly starv...

New Drug, Pleconaril speeds recovery from common cold

...l to market the drug. The company has not said how much it will charge for the medicine, which would be so...icovir, but officials said it is likely to cost as much as antibiotics....

Depression linked to mortality

...s other men. But depressed and anxious men are not much more likely to have non-fatal strokes. Researcher...men with depression or similar mental illness were much more likely to have fatal strokes, while the men who did not die from their strokes were very slight...

Antenatal kerosene exposure endangers child's sight

...ound that if pregnant women whose jobs require too much exposure to solvents like kerosene, gasoline,glues etc may be more likely to have chilren with defective eyesight. Head researcher Dr. Gideon Koren and colleagues//, from Toronto published this in Jornal of Occupational health. They found that poor...

Body can reshape heart damage

...tion that the body works to repair a damaged heart much as it does other organs came after Dr. Federico Quaini and his colleagues examined tissue from eight men who had received heart transplants from women. Because female cells lack the Y chromosome that carries the genetic code for male characteristics,...

Keys to good bone health

...or high-impact aerobics. These exercises cause too much jarring of the spine and can increase the risk of vertebral fractures. Resistance exercises are also part of a good osteoporosis prevention program, and should be performed two to three times per week. They strengthen the muscles and stimulate the ...

Control of inflammation

...attention from immunologists, says Sitkovsky. This much is known: when tissue damage mounts due to prolonged inflammation oxygen levels in the damaged area fall. This leads to increased amounts of adenosine outside cells. Dr. Sitkovsky theorised that the excess adenosine binds to the adenosine receptors, ...

Excess vitamin A increases fracture risk

...nts carefully to ensure they are not taking in too much retinol....

Breast screening among diabetic women

...chers wonder whether managing diabetes takes up so much time and attention that there is little room for other aspects of health care. Since women with diabetes run the same risk of breast cancer as the rest of the population, it's important they don't miss out when it comes to screening....

Smoking Linked To Low Infant Birth Weight

... 13.3 ounces (377 grams). But the reduction was as much as two pounds, 12 ounces (1,285 grams) among women with certain variant genotypes. Low birth weight is a very complex entity and many environmental and genetic factors may be involved. This study is the first step to understand how genetic suscepti...

High vitamin A increases risk of hip fractures

Too much vitamin A may increase the risk of hip fractures i...n with the lowest intake. One theory is that too much vitamin A inhibits the ability of Vitamin D to help the body absorb calcium, said lead author, Diane...

Hidden influenza virus protein found

...ide protein, Dr. Yewdell’s team decided to see how much of it was created in cells infected with the flu v..., which makes the molecule glow green, to show how much of it infected cells contained. “The cells we looked at just lit up.Researchers saw large amounts of...

Water regulation in humans

...esed in water because they absorbed the the liquid much faster than normal....

Do gardening and be fit

...een found to be effective in other studies, but is much less popular than gardening, said Dr Fenn. Nearly half the women in the study said they gardened on a weekly basis....

Moderate alcohol consumption protects against dementia

...ementia. Everyone was categorized according to how much they drank. Four or more glasses of alcohol per day was considered heavy drinking. By the end of the study in 1999, 197 of the participants had developed Alzheimer's or another form of dementia. Those who fared best were people who drank between one...

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