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Beware Weight Loss Drugs, Say Canadian Experts

...n estimated 20 per cent of Canadians regularly use natural remedies because they believe they are safer than ...ements are derived from plants, minerals and other natural sources, and range from aloe to licorice, crustacean shells to the mineral chromium picolinate. Alth...

Retinol Lotions Enhances Skin, Reduces Overall Aging

... improves any kind of aging photoaging as well as natural aging, said co-author John J. Voorhees, M.D., the Duncan and Ella Poth Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Dermatology at the U-M Medical School. You can rub it anywhere, and it will help to treat the signs of aging, he added. ...

Researchers Use Gene Therapy to Restore Eyesight in Blind Mice

...s test so fantastic is that it involves an animals natural response, and the results tell us that the animals brains are involved in the process, that they are actually seeing something," he added. The research shows that it is possible to focus and save cone cells which are the vital for visual sharpness ...

Wrinkles can Be Really Ironed Out, Thanks to Vitamin A

...ome thinner and less smooth. It is this inevitable natural process the Michigan team has tried to reverse. ... and effective therapies to reverse the atrophy of natural skin aging do not exist currently," they wrote. This is not the first study though to support the ...

Effectiveness of Hormone Therapy During Menopause

...ers also hope to find that with younger women, the natural form of estrogen therapy can be administered for a much shorter period, with positive gains in cognition later in life. The study also hopes to determine the best way to counteract the adverse effects of estrogen on the lining of the uterus, which ...

FDA Approves Wyeth's Oral Contraceptive Lybrel

... 25% said they were attached to their periods as a natural part of womanhood. Available medical research shows that the side effects of pills that suppress menstruation are similar to those of other birth control pills. The most significant risk of the pills is cardiovascular complications in women who smo...

Delivering Baby, the Natural Way.

...tions have for years been "taking something that's natural and making it into a disease", and now, with freeb...e task is to eliminate the other two factors and a natural birth will be as safe as it can be." Britain's Department of Health frowns on the practice of fre...

Women Urged to Be Wary of Ads Promoting Unwanted Drugs

...menopausal hormones, supported by the depiction of natural menopause as a hormone deficiency disease, was the forerunner to this type of sales pitch, which now permeates the media. Aging, social anxiety disorder, heartburn, restless leg syndrome, and overactive bladder are all examples of symptoms or norm...

Vaccine Hope for Malaria

...entity. Using blood from a group of people with natural immunity to the disease, a team from the School of Biology refined and strengthened the antibodies using a new animal testing system which, for the first time, mimics in mice the way malaria infects humans. When injected into mice, these antibodies p...

Gay Film Festival Begins in Delhi

...out of the thing which is not an issue. It is very natural anybody can be bi-curious It has became an issue because it has been suppressed for a long time. The people were always there, but nobody actually came out to speak on this," claimed Swapanpriya, a visitor to the gay fest. "I can go ahead and con...

Computer Mouse can Cause Arm Pain

... should also be considered. "Stretching exercises, natural arm and hand movements as well as frequent brief breaks help keep the arm musculature relaxed," Bergmann recommends. "If symptoms appear like a pulling in the lower arm or pain when weight is put on, go see a neurologist. The longer the delay in vi...

Genes That Produce 'skimmed Milk' in Cows Identified

...covered that some cows have genes that give them a natural ability to produce skimmed milk and plan to use this information to breed herds of milkers producing only skimmed milk. The researchers also plan to breed commercial herds producing milk with the unique characteristics required to make a butter tha...

Genes may Have a Role in Learning "tonal Languages"

...riants. An enduring mystery is about the role of natural selection. It has been debated that the newer variants of these two genes are positively selected, but until now nobody has been able to explain how they might offer a selective advantage. Dediu and Ladd do not believe that the genes' association w...

Natural Compound in Grapes, Tea and Cocoa Helps to Enhance Memory

A study of mice has shown that a natural compound found in blueberries, tea, grapes, and co...n important advance because it identifies a single natural chemical with memory-enhancing effects, suggesting that it may be possible to optimize brain functio...

Stop TB Partnership Has Provided Treatments for Ten Million People in Six Years

... on short notice in the event of a humanitarian or natural disaster, armed conflict, or other situation where life-saving anti-TB drugs are unavailable. The Stop TB Partnership, which is hosted by WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, is a network of more then 500 international organizations, countries, donors from ...

Detecting Cold, Feeling Pain: Study Reveals Why Menthol Fresh

...ated by chemical cooling agents such as menthol, a natural product of mint, and cool air. They reported their...es pain and irritation. All of these studies use natural products to understand pain mechanisms in the periphery of the body, where they are first sensed, sa...

Climate Change Signal Detected in the Indian Ocean

... features of the ocean that cannot be explained by natural variability',said CSIRO oceanographer Dr Gael Alory. 'These oceanic changes are almost certainly linked to changes in the heat structure of the atmosphere and have led to a rise in water temperatures in the sub-tropical Indian Ocean of around two ...

Global Warming Disaster Closer Than Thought, Says NASA

..., potentially uncontrollable, of emissions of vast natural stores of greenhouse gas," according to Hansen, wh... leading to evermore thawing and thus releases of natural greenhouse gases (including CO2 and methane) in a viciously accelerating circle. The recent IPCC s...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

...ovide a means to use the town's abundant renewable natural resource (spring water) to bring back jobs and economic stability to the community."But the companys contribution to the local economy in McCloud is questioned. For instance, in Mecosta County, Michigan, where Nestl opened a spring water bottling pla...

Americans Optimistic About the War on Cancer

...nhibitors (ABT-263) which restore apoptosis -- the natural process by which damaged or unwanted cells die and are cleared from the body. According to the survey, Americans also recognize that progress in the fight against cancer is already being made. Four out of five (83%) believe the chances of surviving...

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