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Reducing The Rate Of Infections

...ive therapies. Now two new therapies are packing a powerful punch against these infections. Researchers say some of the infections are more of an inconvenience, but some of them can actually be fatal. Among those potentially fatal infections are staph infections. About 30 percent of us carry a harmless form ...

Parents Should Look For Signs Of Children Becoming Overweight

...t parents need to realize their weight is the most powerful risk factor for their children becoming overweight. The attributes and behaviors of 150 children were studied from birth up to age 5. These were then used to predict whether the child would be overweight at 9.5 years. Some of the behaviors that were ...

Predicting The Risk Of A Heart Attack

... that, “PIGF plasma levels represent a potentially powerful clinical biomarker of vascular inflammation and adverse outcomes in patients with ACS.” Thus Measuring PIGF levels may extend the predictive and prognostic information gained from traditional inflammatory markers....

Bee Venom Effective In Reducing Inflammation

... on melittin, a major component of bee venom and a powerful anti-inflammatory agent. They say this may hold the key to the anti-arthritic effects of bee venom. Apitherapy, the use of honeybee products was used for curative purposes, since ancient times. Since the last few decades, conventional doctors have j...

Hay fever may be cured by self-hypnosis

...s.//The researchers believe that hypnosis may be a powerful tool for curing allergic reactions. 79 patients of an average age of 34 yrs with moderate to sever allergic rhinitis from grass or pollen were taken in the study. All these people have been sufferers of hay fever for more than two years. Random paral...

Tetanus causing toxin has therapeutic properties

... inhibitors current used, these molecules are more powerful and more effective, and work more specifically. This property of the molecule makes it suitable for being turned into a drug with extensive uses in conditions like depression, anorexia, as well as neuro-degenerative disorders like Parkinson’s disease...

Top Ten Super Food Items That Can Help In Avoiding Cancer

...ancer risk. 6) TEA: Both black and green contain powerful antioxidants and shown in numerous studies to be useful in lowering risk of many cancers of the body. 7) PUMPKIN: contains carotenoids called beta-carotene and alpha-carotene and protects against lung and ovarian cancers. Other food rich in carot...

Anti-fungal drug - Griseofulvin may help treat cancer

...er cells, in a manner that is similar to much more powerful anticancer drugs such as taxol and vinblastine," s...ed for human use and could be used along with more powerful anticancer agents as an adjuvant in cancer chemotherapy." The authors found that the drug works as...

Possible location of lung cancer genes found

...emonstrates that high-resolution SNP technology is powerful enough to identify copy-number alterations that previously hadn't been found in lung cancer cells." Working with 70 specimens of lung cancer tissue and 31 laboratory-grown lines of lung cancer cells, the investigators used high-resolution machinery...

New Race –Specific drug

... number of legal and ethical questions. There is a powerful lobby which is in favour of racial profiling when it comes to drug development, backed by evidence that suggests a degree of truth in the ethnicity theory. The reasons for the difference inresponse to a drug are unclear although it is thought that ge...

Link between Faith, Health and Healing

...mbines body, mind, and spirit in the best sense, a powerful blend of the scientific and what I believe should rightly be called the mystic. Instead of limiting the roles of healthcare providers, I see an expansion, an amalgam of skills, including part scientist, nutritionist, psychologist, and spiritual guide...

New Supplement Found To Be Effective Against Sunburn

... by the cell for defence. It is thought to be more powerful than antioxidant vitamins as it activates the body's productions of its own antioxidants, including catalase and glutathione peroxidase. In a randomized, double-blind study at Center Hospital University in Besan?on, France, researchers induced UV s...

Regular Use Of Cocaine Can Impair Brain Functions

...on Cocaine- Further information Cocaine: It is a powerful illegal drug that is often used for its stimulant and addictive properties. The powdered form of the drug can be inhaled or dissolved in water and taken injected into the body. The rock crystal form is called crack and is often heated to inhale the s...

New Insight Gained For Allergic Reactions

...duce that damage—called “oxidative stress”—new and powerful allergy and asthma therapies may result. The research is published in the recent issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The researchers had worked for nearly four years conducting extensive test-tube and lab-mouse experiments to prove the...

Discovery of World’s smallest laser

...oscope. “Near-field optical microscopy is a very powerful technique, providing a snapshot wiht high spatial resolution and th eoptical signal simultaneously,” Yang said. “It allowed us to characterise the laser and dtermine beam characteristics.” What they found is that the nanowire acts first as a waveguid...

A vaccine for lymphoma

...d into the patient, and is quickly identified as a powerful threat by the immune system, which produces huge numbers of cells to attack and kill the invaders. Head of the research team Professor Freda Stevenson said: "In theory tumour cells should be killed by the immune system because it is programmed to des...

Oral Sex may carry AIDS related Cancer Virus

...' better immune function since the introduction of powerful drug "cocktails" containing protease inhibitors....

Malignant virus in polio vaccine combined to Cancer

...g as research shows that proteins from SV40 have a powerful effect in turning off tumor suppressor genes in humans. Gazdar and the other researchers said that the recent SV40 discoveries also could help lead to effective cancer treatment, by using SV40 as a target for therapies. ``A vaccine targeting SV40 in...

SARS outbreaks contained

...SARS may make a comeback, possibly in an ever more powerful form, with the return of the northern hemisphere winter....

Sudden Rise in PSA Dangerous for men

...locity, before prostate cancer diagnosis is a more powerful indicator of eventual death from prostate cancer than the actual PSA level itself. Researchers found an annual PSA velocity of more than 2 nanograms per milliliter was linked to a significantly increased risk of death even after having a radical pro...

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