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Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...gainst cancer.But the epidemiological studies does not actually prove a cause-and-effect between lycopene...r, people who eat lots of fruits and vegetables do not necessarily have high lycopene levels. A few fruits, such as watermelon, have very low amounts of ly...

How much can exercise improve health?

... who exercise can improve their health or it would not make a diference at all! Consensus stat...ssociations. These articles were not meant to raise a doubt on the value of exercise. Rather they support current federa; minimum of atle...

Starch fights cancer

...,wheat and almost all cereals - so long as you do not chew them too much. They are still trying to find out more about resistant starch - which, in the past, has proved hard to study because it is difficult to measure it. Meanwhile, the healthy message is - keep on eating fibre, but start considerin...

Eye Saver

...ring from a certain form of cancer of the eye need not have to remove their dieased eye, according to a new study. The results of the Collaborative ocular Melanoma Study(COMS), a multi-centre trial released by the Archives of Opthalmology, found that survival rates were the same regardless of wheth...

Iron supplementation for a common side effect

...bitors are troubled by a cough. The side effect is not considered serious by doctors, but it is the most common reason why patients abandon ACE inhibitors.// In Seoul, at the School of Medicine, researchers, have found a way of treating the cough. They gave ten patients on ACE inhibitors, with the cou...

Early detection of prostate cancer

... was found that men with prostate cancer who could not be detected by the PSA test could potentially be p...e cancer: one that would identify cases that would not be detected through a PSA test alone. Low levels of IGFBP-3 might also identify men at high risk of ...

Focus on DNA transcription

...udents found that when the precursor molecule does not occupy the newly discovered site, the enzyme copies the DNA slowly.When the molecule occupies the site, producton of RNA kicks into overdrive.The process than occurs about 10 times faster than it would otherwise. "Such rapid synthesis is essenti...

Headache decreases appetite

...stimuli to rats and discovered that they activated not just brain cells that transmit pain signals, but also those involved in appetite suppression. Headache stimuli lead to an acute fall in food intake during the first four hours after they are applied.This shows that there is an intimate link between t...

Depression and heart failure

...suffering from major depression. Patients who were not depressed had a mortality rate of 5.7%at three months and 13.7% at one year. For the depressed patients, the rates were 13% and 26.1%. Depression also increased the risk of being re-admitted to hospital. While 36.5% of non-depressed patients were r...

Say "no" to x-rays

...nts who had initially received the radiography did not receive any clinical benefit. Indeed they reported...nctioning and overall bad heath status. The group not given radiography also reported being more satisfied with the care they received. The authors sugges...

Dark skin protects

...ious skin diseases. It also explains why all do not have black skin. Melanin is made from the amino acid tyrosine, which is also needed to build proteins. In prehistoric days when food was scarce in cold, dry areas, tyrosine was probably conserved to make essential proteins, Mackintosh says. It was on...

Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage

... The study found that while taking such drugs did not cause more birth defects, low birth weight or preterm births, it did cause a higher rate of miscarriage. Ironically, low doses of another NSAID, aspirin, is used in preventing miscarriage in a small group of women who have an immune disease which blo...

Early detection of heart attack

... rapid diagnosis of a heart attack.Chest pain does not always signify a heart attack. It can be caused by... heart damage within six hours in patients who are not suffering from a heart attack. Thereby allowing ealry discharge of these patients and also allowing ...

Increase in tobacco deaths

...ing peaked about 20 years ago in Hong Kong and has not done so on the mainland. Smoking causes death on a timescale of years - the cigarettes smoked in someone's thirties may cause a cancer to develop quarter of a century later. Since two thirds of all young men in China smoke, and half of them will di...

Gene HPA-2 Met linked to cardiac arrest

...isk factors, like smoking or diabetes. But it does not mean that this gene variant is a caution for death. Till now there is no screen for HPA-2 Met, but if a test were developed, those at risk could perhaps be helped by preventive anti-clotting drugs....

Ovarian cancer in relationship with Hormone therapy

...rs, the risk was 16 percent higher - a slight, but not significant increase. However, women who had used ...postmenopausal oestrogen use on ovarian cancer had not established....

Breast milk is essential

...ho had breast milk for less than three months were not as bright//as those who had been breast-fed for at least six months. However, no difference was found in the development of movement skills, such as those involving co-ordination. Dr Torstein Vik, of the University of Science and Technology, Trondh...

Doctor samples come under the ambit of advertisement

...ality of the article in question. The public would not buy a drug just because // it is advertised repeat...o doctors & therefore the expenditure incurred was not advertisement, publicity or sales promotion. The purpose of such distribution was to obtain a feed b...

'Sweaty palms syndrome' can be cured by surgery

... have just run their hands under a faucet and have not dried them.These people look like they have just run their hands under a faucet and have not dried them. One person in 500 suffers from hyperhidrosis, the cause of which is unknown. Dr. Steve...

Sponging Cattle betters spraying in eradicating Malaria

...t carry malaria in the area feed mostly on cattle, not humans, sponging down cows with insecticide is jus...nimals, and deltamethrin, the insecticide used, is not thought to be a hazard to consumers....

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