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Asthma may actually be prevented by Dust and Dirt

...ly exposure to environmental endotoxin may provide protection against developing asthma later in life. "These findings suggest that one common thread in these communities, where allergies and asthma are uncommon, may be early childhood exposure to environmental endotoxin. This may be an important clue in the de...

Negligent doctors asked to cough up 3 lakhs for death of patient

...e of doctors coming under the umbrella of consumer protection act has been a very controversial one with legal luminaries having diametrically opposite views on this. However these days doctors are being pulled up for negligence and this latest episode in Attingal, Kerala will serve as a grim warning to errant ...

Cats to protect children from asthma

...dren with raised IgG4 clearly aren't getting their protection from stimulated Th1 system, instead the protection is from a modified version of the Th2 response--without the risk of asthma or other allergic reactio...

Obesity a risk for pancreatic cancer

...cose and insulin responses and may also offer some protection to the pancreas....

FDA's control is inherently weak

...pants in those countries receive the same level of protection as those in the United States. The FDA has little idea where research takes place overseas, what level of ethics review exists, how foreign researchers recruit participants or how many patients are taking experimental medicines....

Relating heart protection and antihypertensive drugs

...ckers and ACE inhibitors provided the same overall protection against cardiovascular complications as diuretics or ?-blockers. However, calcium-channel blockers were found to be more protective against stroke than against myocardial infarction – resulting in an overall cardiovascular benefit similar to that o...

Smoker's are prone to Alzheimer's

...he disease. Indeed, they believe smoking may offer protection against the disease for people with the gene - APOE epsilon 4. The Dutch researchers said this could be because smoking altered the chemistry of the brain and defused some of the effects of Alzheimer's. Another reason could be the fact that many smo...

Contraceptives have dual effects

...ies of the Pill." The results also indicated that protection was stronger for women who had stopped using oral contraceptives within the last 10 years of the research period, compared to those who had stopped taking the Pill for longer. The Cancer Research Campaign's Director General, Prof Gordon Vickie, said:...

Cinnamon combats Diabetes

...eport that an extract of cinnamon could offer some protection against adult-onset diabetes.An expert behind the trials has even issued the recommendation that people could benefit now by adding the spice to their food.// Adult-onset, or type II diabetes is far more prevalent than insulin-dependent diabetes, w...

Andhra Pradesh to set up 'Pharma City'

...neric drugs. Pharma City will take all environment protection measures following global standards. It will also provide single window clearance to entrepreneurs who wish to set up a manufacturing base. The state has the potential to become the main manufacturing base for various bulk drugs and generics. What ...

Progestin protects against ovarian cancer

...ceptive pills that provides the highest// level of protection against ovarian cancer. Analysis by the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center of a 20-year-old study showed that the pill can help prevent ovarian cancer. The study is based on examination of the medical and oral contraceptive histories of more than 3,20...

Exposure to EMF may cause leukemia

... inhaled. ICNIRP sets international guidelines for protection against the electromagnetic fields associated with the transmission, generation and use of electricity.The new study is published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives....

New Dietary Approach To Manage Kidney Stones

...ned with a normal calcium intake, provides greater protection than the traditional low-calcium diet. A diet that restricts animal protein and salt is thought to reduce the urinary excretion of oxalate, a compound that combines with calcium and other compounds to form the deposits commonly known as kidney stone...

Inherited gene important in ovarian cancer

...only takes one copy of BRCA1 to be lost for cancer protection to be reduced. It's possible for genes to be lost due to a malfunctioning when cells divide - this can happen even if you inherit two normal copies. The study shows that BRCA1 is more significant in ovarian cancer than previously realised. This ope...

Diet plays a role in kidney stones

...e, there needs to be good evidence for its role in protection against kidney stones. Researchers at the University of Texas, now report upon a comparison of two diets against kidney stones. It involved 100 men with recurrent stones. Half were put on a diet with a normal amount of calcium (15 mmol a day) but r...

Creams may not reverse aging

...kin in the form of L-selenomethionine, it provided protection against both everyday and excessive UV damage....

Calcium reduces colon cancer risk

...the left side of the colon, but had no significant protection for other types of colon cancer. The left side of the colon includes the last segment of the large intestine. The right side is higher up the gut and attached to the small intestine. The results of the study need to be confirmed by other research b...

Further support for use of statins in Alzheimer’s disease

... 80%. Statins have been proved to offer// powerful protection against heart disease for people with high blood c...r study had suggested these drugs might offer some protection against Alzheimer's disease. Green and his colleagues decided to do a large study that included 988 ...

How trees affect sun exposure

...assume that standing under a tree affords complete protection from the sun, say researchers at Hopkins Universit...canopy coverage is 90 per cent, you can expect sun protection ten times normal - the equivalent of wearing a sunblock of Sun Protection Factor 10. The greatest ...

Beer guards against Colon Cancer

...ents in beer, not the alcohol content, that offers protection against colon cancer. // Hajime Nozawa, a researcher with the Kirin Brewery Co. in Yokohama, Japan, said that researchers fed rats a diet that contained either water, hops, malt or beer -- Kirin pilsner -- and also gave the animals azoxymethane, a p...

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