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Eat Vitamin C and stay young

...y of healthy young women, however, the vitamin did not change the level of isoprostanes, compounds that m...s and other highly reactive molecules. That does not mean that the vitamin isn't important in less healthy people, including smokers, who tend to have hi...

Increased Heart Attack Risk From Celebrex,Vioxx

...(which is involved in pain and inflammation) while not affecting the first (which is involved in protecting lining of the stomach). Celebrex, was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration, FDA. The popular pain-killers Celebrex and Vioxx may slightly increase a person's risk of having...

Herbs for Rememberance

...ember these days, wonder premature memory loss is not uncommon. Many people find prolonged stress and too much work causing lack of concentration, memory loss and even personality changes. Dramatic alterations in memory and neurotransmitters are found in senile dementia, Parkinson's disease and Alzhei...

Prevention of cataracts

...to 77 from the Nurses' Health Study. The women did not have diabetes nor did they have previously diagnosed cataracts. During a 15-year period, the women answered questionnaires about their food intake.// They were also questioned on whether they took vitamin supplements and were given eye examinations d...

Minor mutations in HIV virus

...m mutations has already arisen, the children could not target the virus effectively....

Uncontrolled blood pressure

...ood pressure (hypertension) yet these measures are not being taken by a majority of those who have the condition. At the Baylor School of Medicine, Houston, Texas, doctors have surveyed over 16,000 adults over 25 and found that 27 per cent had hypertension.// Of this group, only 23 per cent were takin...

A treatment for blindness

...vessels along the surface of the retina.If this is not treated , the condition can lead to legal blindnes...ther received treatment in the affected eye or did not receive any treatment. Results after 10 years showed that total retinal detachments continued to o...

Genetic influence in menopause

...ut the link between the menopause and genetics has not been established by scientific evidence till now. Researchers in Utrecht and Wageningen in the Netherlands have collected data from 243 non-twin sisters in 118 families already participating in a breast cancer screening project.// They also collect...

Flaxseed fights cancer risk

...ificant decreases in oestrogen levels. This does not show that flaxseed prevents cancer, the researchers caution. Further studies are needed to work out how the supplement lowers oestrogen and also to see if there is a link between flaxseed and cancer itself. Besides lignans, the fibre and omega-3 fatt...

Is acupuncture safe?

...fe as routine drug treatment. But the research has not yet proved that whether acupuncture actually works. Source- Medical Journal...

Air pollution affects the heart

...verse effects of pollution may affect everyone and not only older people.// They studied the impact of particles called PM2.5s - with diameters less than 2.5 micrometres - on a group of apparently healthy boiler makers. This group of men with an average age of 38 were exposed to levels of pollution simi...

Meditation relieves stress

...t to repeat the study with a control group (who do not do the meditation) to confirm that this is not just a placebo effect....

Avacado a day

...oduced as a drug or a supplement. However, this is not the best way to get these nutrients. It is nearly always better to get them by using the whole food, since there are likely many beneficial substances working synergistically. Watermelon, which was also found to be protective of the liver, is also a...

Radiation before surgery cuts cancer recurrence

...iation to surgical treatment for rectal cancer may not make much difference in the survival of patients. But the findings suggest that the radiation treatments given before surgery may help improve the patient's quality of life by reducing the rate of cancer recurrence at or near the original tumor site ...

A height problem

...andard way of predicting the height of children is not as accurate as first thought, says research. Their survey of more than 4,200 children found that while the system worked reasonably well for children whose parents were of average height, when applied to more extreme cases, the system was "misleading...

Nitric oxide involved in high blood pressure

... If high blood pressure is left untreated, it does not stay at one elevated level, but tends to spiral out of control. According to the researchers at the University of Texas, this study was conducted on rats and found that nitric oxide, which helps control blood pressure by dilating blood vessels, is in...

Quality of life after cancer

... that their cancer would recur - although 140 were not concerned about this. A quarter did not reveal information about their sex life but, of those that did, well over half said it was the same ...

A non-stick danger

...cetic acid (TFA) which is toxic to plants and does not break down in the environment, a study in today's ...CFCs), but present environmental levels of TFA are not accounted for.// "By measuring TFA levels in rainwater over the last three to four years, researche...

Acupuncture provides relief

...ated pain compared with massage, but surprisingly, not with the "sham" acupuncture group. However, after ...itute might still be stimulating the nerves and so not controlling properly for the effect of needle insertion....

Doctors not to accept gifts from drug companies

...ending a lot of drug-company money to tell doctors not to accept large gifts from drug companies. The AMA...ncourage doctors to prescribe medications that may not be in patients' best interests. "Overall they spend billions of dollars trying to influence physici...

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