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Antibiotics losing their power against acne

...reatments have side effects. Vitamin A therapy in particular has been linked to birth defects, so must be presc...hey treat individual patients. If resistance to a particular drug develops, the physician should consider switching the patient to an alternate antibiotic or an ...

Researchers Scale to assess the Severity of Epilepsy in Kids

...also found that children who had "focal slowing" a particular abnormality on their electroencephalogram (EEG) tests, were also at increased risk for intractable epilepsy. These three factors would help the doctors to predict which of them will need more aggressive therapy such as surgery, newer drugs or a speci...

Asthma! A new warning for heart disease

...sks - appear to be there even for nonsmokers. This particular research was prompted by the increasing realisatio...ks - appear to be there even for nonsmokers. This particular research was prompted by the increasing realisation of the fact that heart disease is an inflammato...

Protein in urine foresees heart disease

...ga, M.D., Ph.D., co-author of the report. In this particular study which involved around 12000 women, it was found that those in the top group had more than four times higher risk of having died of cardiovascular disease as those in the group for whom no albumin in the urine could be detected."We know from stu...

Focus on DNA transcription

...s then translated ino proteins that must carry out particular functions such as wound healing which is at the end of a complicated cascade of events in the body. Transcription is the process of making RNA chains from DNA.In a series of complicated experiments with the enzyme from the bacteria E.Coli. Erie ...

Doctor samples come under the ambit of advertisement

...ailable in the market in relation to the cure of a particular affliction and therefore to persuade them to prescribe the same in appropriate cases. But the expenditure on physicians samples distributed to doctors by pharmaceutical companies is outside the scope of sub section (3A) of section 37 of the Act. He...

Wrinkle cure

...t and vitamin-related. A nutrition-poor diet, in particular one lacking in vitamins A, C, E and folic acid, is detrimental to skin. One of the most important vitamins to skin is also one of the most common: C.// As one of three anti-oxidants, Vitamin C hinders the production of a chemical called arachidonic a...

Starving leads to obesity

...sed amounts of body fat in the abdominal area.This particular depostion of fat is associated with "metabolic syndrome" which is also linked to high cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.// Women whose mothers were exposed to the famine early in their pregnancies were esp...

Eating disorder... a survey

...14 should be screened for eating disorders, with a particular focus on those who are overweight.The faster somebody with an eating disorder seeks treatment, the better the chances that it will be successful."...

Probiotics can help

... Now a Finnish study has tested the efficacy of a particular strain of probiotic, lactobacillus GG, in preventing childhood diarrhoea and respiratory infections.Lactobacillus GG is already known to reduce the duration of acute diarrhoea in children, but there have been few studies into its possible preventive ...

Menopause considerations

...y predict her age at menopause without knowing the particular genetic factors involved, the researchers say. Menopausal ages between relatives can still vary greatly. day.Lowered fertility is not the only consequence of early menopause, he added. "Often women become depressed, libido is reduced and there is an...

Lemon tea combats cancer

...rs studied 470 people, half of whom had suffered a particular type of skin cancer, and querried them about their tea-drinking habits.// They found that those who developed skin cancer drank significantly less hot tea.Lemon peel in the tea was found to have more than a 70% reduced risk for skin squamous cell c...

Fingerprinting prostate cancer

... in cancer, while others were completely new. Of particular interest were two genes - hepsin and pim-1. The highest levels of hepsin were found in pre-cancerous tissue just before cancer develops, and the lowest in benign prostate tissue. Hepsin play a main role in tumour development. Pim-1, a known cancer-ca...

Treatment for Meniere's disease

...provement. One problem in assessing the value of a particular treatment is that the condition is very unpredictable - it may resolve spontaneously and then suddenly reappear. Researchers in Italy, have surveyed the results of treatment in a group of 300 patients with Meniere's disease, treated over a ten year p...

The patient's voice

...e of Illness) which will record what patients with particular diseases think and feel about their condition, through interviews. These will be put onto a website that everyone can access. The first two groups are patients with high blood pressure and prostate cancer, respectively, and these will be followed by ...

Toxic effects common with AIDS treatments

... and stavudine. However, the reported effects of a particular drug are associated with levels of its actual use, and this is likely to be reflected in the data collected, the researchers warn....

For healthy lungs

... volume" (FEV) of people with a high intake of two particular vitamins - C and E - was better than average.Eating bread was also associated with improved lung health.// Scientists believe this effect is due to antioxidant properties of the vitamins, which help protect the tissues of the lung from damage. The ...

Contraceptives decreases Libido

...in their ability to sense smells, corresponding to particular stages in their monthly cycles. Their sense of smell was found - in common with other studies - to peak around the time of ovulation, when a woman releases an egg and can conceive a baby.// It has long been thought that this increase in sense of sme...

Why running noses are a good thing

...gh, can help show whether anthrax was present in a particular location, but they do not tell doctors anything about an individual's risk. So far, the single most important information is the patient's job. Doctors should be suspicious if patients are postal workers or handle mail, especially in areas where an...

Garlic fights malaria and cancer

...particles when needed.The glutathione system is of particular importance in cells that rapidly reproduce, like cancer cells or malaria-infected cells, because these harmful particles are natural by-products of metabolism.Ajoene, the disulphide that naturally occurs in garlic, is a known inhibitor of glutathione...

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