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Pure Pomegranate Juice Helps Reverse Erectile Dysfunction Function

...ng meal or shortly after. After a two-week washout period during which the subjects did not consume any study beverage nor utilize any ED treatment, they were assigned to drink 8 oz. of the opposite study beverage every evening for another four weeks. At the end of each four-week period, efficacy was ass...

Adult Stem Cells Show Promise for Peripheral Vascular Disease

...ly. A second study was completed during the same period comparing the relative improvement of lower limb ischemia (lack of blood supply) between transplantation of autologous peripheral blood stem cells and transplantation of bone marrow stem cells. The study is awaiting publication in a peer- reviewed jo...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

...battoir workers in 1935. Q fever has an incubation period of one to four weeks in other words, it can take up to four weeks between exposure and the first symptoms. Usually it starts with a sudden high fever with muscle pain and severe headache symptoms similar to influenza. There may be chills, sweats, c...

Lost Sleep can Never Be Compensated for

...uences when this pattern is maintained over a long period of time, said Turek. This brings us back to the idea that repeated partial sleep restriction in humans has been linked to metabolic dysfunction and cardiovascular disease, added the researcher....

Complementary Therapy may Reduce Pregnancy Chances in Women

...rchers is to study the same group over a five year period and see how many become pregnant in the longer term. It is important to do this because we are concerned that, with persistent treatment failure, women might become more and more susceptible to deceptive advertising about ineffective CATs or other un...

Chemical Injections for Fat Removal

...such as exposure for an hour a day over a two-week period to standing in a puddle of cold water or to an aggressive alpha mouse, and they conducted the experiments in combination with a regular diet or with a high-fat, high-sugar diet. Stressed animals fed a normal diet did not gain weight, but stressed ...

Cognitive Test Takers and Score Variation

...ing. It appears that repeating tests over a short period may give a more accurate range of scores, improving diagnostic workups. Salthouse gave 16 common cognitive and neuropsychological tests to evenly divided participants (90 in the first, 1600 in the second) into groups of ages 18-39, 50-59 and 60-97 ...

Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks

...he study months were divided into two periods. The period before the regulatory warnings included the 24 mon...s qualified for the study each month. During the period before the regulatory warnings, there was little change from month to month in the rate of new antid...

India's Share in Global Diabetes Research is One Percent

...ublished a total of 3068 papers during the 30 year period (1976-2006), or about 1.04 per cent of total global output on diabetes (2,77,781)". It is estimated that the number of diabetics in India is likely to increase from the present 49.8 million to 69.9 million by 2025. But, no clear picture of the prev...

Stem Cell Treatment may Prolong Lives of Children With Brittle Bone Disease

...that injections of stem cells during the gestation period may help prolong the lives of children with brittle bone disease , osteogenesis imperfecta (OI). The genetic defect, detected in human foetuses by DNA testing or ultrasound, disrupts collagen production, leading to weak bones and stunted growth. Th...

CCEA Extends National TB Control Project for Five Years

...eatment of 4.4 lakh TB patients during the project period of whom at least 3.74 lakh patients would be cured. This will result in averting at least 80,000 deaths of whom 40,000 would be adults....

Chinese Mayor Urges Residents to Stop Buying Cars

...s would be taken off the road for a two-week trial period in August in an effort to temporarily clean the city's notoriously polluted air. The experiment is a test run for next year's Beijing Olympics, when the partial car ban and other measures will be employed to ensure athletes do not experience the po...

DNA Sample Suggests Greenland was Much Warmer During Last Ice Age

... accurate environmental reconstruction of the time period from which these samples were taken, and what we've learned is that this part of the world was significantly warmer than most people thought,' said Martin Sharp, a glaciologist at the University of Alberta and a co-author of the paper appearing in th...

Women are the Real Bosses at Home

...e as possible. We just came back at the end of the period of time, and asked them to talk about the other topic," Vogel said. The researchers reviewed and coded the videotapes of couples' interactions using a widely-accepted interaction rating system. The system consists of five dimensions to calculate de...

Irish Outsourcing of Smear Test may Result in Cervical Cancer Being Undetected

... 37,000 cervical smear tests taken over a 4.5-year period from 2002. It found that 84.3 per cent of smears taken from women between 25 and 40 years of age produced a normal result. Significantly, the report concluded that women from poorer social and economic backgrounds were more likely to have abnorm...

Napo Obtains Special Protocol Assessment Agreement From FDA for Crofelemer

...cts per group complete the initial efficacy dosing period (28 days), an interim analysis will be conducted to select an optimal single dose of crofelemer for Stage II. Stage II will continue until an additional 75 subjects are randomized both to this dose of crofelemer and the placebo, providing for 125 pat...

New Heart Disease Risk Score Will Help Minimise Health Inequalities

... women, registered at 318 general practices over a period of 12 years to April 2007, recording first diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. All the participants were aged between 35 and 74 at the start of the study. They found that the QRISK score was more accurate than either Framingham or ASSIGN. In patie...

Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

...ying expired blood test kits in West Bengal over a period of two years. Health workers fear that thousands of people across the state might have received contaminated blood, which was tested with kits whose expiry dates had been tampered with. Saha is known for his ongoing legal battle against several emi...

Dengue Fever Cases Up 36 Percent in Thailand: Report

...the elderly, had risen by 36 percent from the same period in 2006. The newspaper did not say how many people...e rainy season, which brought forward the hatching period of the dengue mosquito," Vichai Stimai, a doctor at the health ministry, told the Nation. Dengue f...

Star Health Grants Boon To India's HIV-Affected

... cover even pre-existing diseases with a look-back period of 12 months....

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