New food guide for people fighting excess weight
... these ingredients the person should take daily in order to reach the normal weight category. Even the vegetables are categorized as dark green veggies, orange veggies, dry beans & peas, starchy veggies, and other veggies for easy understanding and identification with the vegetable group for common man. ...Antibiotics not to reduce rate of cardiac diseases
...reating C. pneumoniae bacteria with antibiotics in order to avoid a cardiac arrest. This was true for the people in the study who had doses of Azithromycin, irrespective of their ages, gender, smoking habit or the presence of antibody of the bacteria. There were no effects of antibiotics on stroke, or tota...Breast cancer survivors can now exercise for better health
...recommended by the relevant government agencies in order to increase their chances of survival. Reference: Journal Of American Medical Association, Press Release, May 2005...Teenagers may become violent after watching aggressive acts
...uthorities, families, and various other sources in order to find out what turns children to resort to violence or aggression as means of problem solving. These children were taken as a part of a follow up study after two years. Then they were asked as to how many had witnessed a gun shooting. Finally after...Canada helps in giving birth to world first baby from frozen egg
...re frozen rapidly in liquid nitrogen at –1960 C in order to avoid the formation of ice crystals. At this temperature eggs can be successfully stored for long durations till the time they are required. Then they can be extracted out of their protective casings, thawed and fertilized. The new process will b...Joint replacement surgery outcomes may be affected by obesity and diabetes
...evaluate the patients for these at risk factors in order to reduce the after surgery complications. Researchers feel that ways to control blood sugar levels and blood pressure levels during surgery need to be evaluated for patients having diabetes or hypertension. Also administration of blood thinning med...Injury to knee may result in arthritis, but it is possible to prevent it
...ion had happened to a knee after a knee injury, in order to find out whether the injury may be a risk factor for arthritis. Although knee injury is considered to be a risk factor for arthritis, it was not known whether changes in lubrication can positively or negatively damage the cartilages. The research...Oral cancer screenings to reduce the mortality rates
...sible to visually screen people for oral cancer in order to provide early medical intervention to save lives of thousands of oral cancer patients. Oral cancer is the growth of malignant tissues or cells in the oral cavity. This can happen as a lesion on he lips, tongue or on he walls of moth. Heavy use of......ls are chemical compounds that are found in higher order plants. Those identified in the raisins are oleanolic acid, oleanolic aldehyde, betulin, betulinic acid and 5-(hydroxymethyl)-2-furfural. Of them oleanolic acid, oleanolic aldehyde and 5-(hydroxymethyl)-2-furfural inhibit the growth of the bacteria c...Exercising is good for you at all ages
...people must be encouraged to take up exercising in order to avoid having// difficulty in climbing stairs or walking. People in the age group of 70 years and above should go for physical activities if it is possible for their body to do so. This may help them in preventing problems of movement settling in ...Risk of deep vein thrombosis less in people who were flight stockings when flying
...eg movements in spite of carrying bulky baggage in order to avoid deep vein thrombosis that can affect them. Deep-vein thrombosis or the formation of a blood clot inside a blood vessel is often a condition that affects people who has been dehydrated, or sitting or lying in the same position for long, like...Placebo for relief from emotions
...g (fMRI) to measure the blood flow in the brain in order to maintain brain activity. The results of the study showed that subjects reduced ratings of unpleasantness by about 29%. This reduction in rating unpleasant experiences as seen by subjects in photographs correlated with the fMRI scan reports that sh...Diabetes diagnosis may be the signal for psychiatric illness in children
...d be compulsorily screened for mental illnesses in order to treat them early. Also children who have been diagnosed with mental illnesses and developmental problems must be screened for incidence of diabetes type 2 disease. Reference: Pediatric Diabetes, June 2005...Virus that does not cause disease can kill cancer cells
...ssly in the human body and needs a helper virus in order to infect the host. In general this virus tends to check the growth of human papillomavirus (HPV) associated with cervical cancer. However, in cases where the AAV2 virus do finds a helper virus like HPV, the AAV2 virus can destroy the cells through a...Sleep more to improve your memory
...wever these memories may be only short term and in order to make them long term, they need to be embedded in the memory system. This happens when the brain cell connections between different regions are strengthened. It was previously believed that this is established over the years. The current study emph...Detecting DNA Damage With In-Vivo Alkaline Comet Assay
...validated protocols for different cell types. In order to make a comparison with an acknowledged test system, the Comet assay experiments were run in parallel with an in vivo UDS test on the same hepatocyte suspensions. The results have shown that the in vivo Comet assay is a sensitive assay to detect DN...Hospital asked to Compensate Victim – Judgment by Delhi High Cour
...Court’ on Tuesday Justice Vikramjit Sen passed the order and asked Safdarjung // Hospital to compensate Manju a 12 year old for the wrong treatment administered by Dr Yadu Lal of the hospital. He wanted to be informed in the next few days how much compensation was the hospital ready to pay to the victim. ...Help teenagers eat healthy by giving nutritional information along with food.
...ds to display information about the food served in order to help teenagers decide better. For most of the foods, it is not very difficult to find the nutritional information as more and more packaged foods are providing the information on the packaging itself. These can be used in displaying information, ...Treatment of postpartum depression needs to be personalized
In order to provide quick relief from post pregnancy depres...o the mother must be made flexible to her needs in order to prevent post partum depression often works out as the most effective strategy. The medical profes......y Foundation of America offices in Harrisburg. In order to drill this new concept and concretise it Anderson has revised hi classic “The Cancer Conqueror” to address this phenomenal health-faith chained relation. This has been done in conjugation with United Methodist Pastor Michael Gingerich. With the ...