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Vibrating Insoles could Help Balance

...soles to help people maintain better balance. They proved most effective in elderly people -- a group who can benefit most from better balance and reduce the number of falls and bone fractures. Researchers tested the insoles on 15 young people and 12 older people. The theory is small vibrations should stim...

Exercise to Prevent Early Breast Cancer

Previous research proved exercise reduces the risk of breast cancer, and now a new study adds to that finding. Researchers say exercise may lower a woman’s risk of developing breast carcinoma in situ -- a cluster of abnormal cells //that can develop into invasive breast canc...

Brain Scans Help Predict Alzheimer's Disease

...g the disease in its earliest stages, but that has proved difficult. However, recent research suggests Alzheimer's affects metabolism of glucose in the brain, and PET scans are capable of detecting this effect. That might make PET scans useful in uncovering early disease. Researchers from UCLA began screen...

Accuracy of Some Natural Family Planning Methods Questioned .

...lanning] that relies on a woman’s own observations proved to be the most effective of the natural family planning methods. The temperature computers scored the upper range of reliability and the hormonal computer in the medium range. But, the mini-microscopes had a very low estimated efficacy. Hence there ...

Viagra Also Found To Be Effective For Treatment of Lung Diseases

...s about this use of Viagra, saying it has not been proved effective in rigorous clinical trials, whereas other drugs have. Patients with pulmonary hypertension use the drug every day and in higher doses than men who use it before sex, potentially raising new risks. Though only about 100,000 people in the...

Pollution can cause damage to fetus in womb

...New York, air pollution due to combustion has been proved to cause damage to the DNA of the fetus in the womb.// The research was done by Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, part of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, US. The researchers had observed the effect of ...

New study questions consumption of milk for bone growth

...fic search, there were no significant relationship proved between milk or any other dairy intake to measures of bone health. Wherever there were even a slight positive relationship, results showed very small amount of change, or dairy products being fortified with vitamin D. Hence, the researchers are of th...

Mouth Infection better handled with new discovery

Research has proved that a new drug named histatin, a naturally occurring antifungal agent in saliva kills the fungus- Candida albicans,// which is responsible for most HIV-related oral infections. It is known that candidiasis, also known as thrush, is a disease charac...

Early rising from sleep can run in families

... that make up the circadian clock and research had proved that each of these components might have evolved independently to set up the unique circadian rhythm for the organism. The researchers have also showed that transgenic Drosophila that carried human gene CKI -T44A showed the same but lengthy circadia...

New study questions consumption of milk for bone growth

...fic search, there were no significant relationship proved between milk or any other dairy intake to measures of bone health. Wherever there were even a slight positive relationship, results showed very small amount of change, or dairy products being fortified with vitamin D. Hence, the researchers are of th...

Excess physical activity can induce stress fracture in adolescent girls

...e form of rigorous activities than many others, as proved by the research. Reference: Journal Pediatrics, issue April 2005...

Waistline can be a good predictor of diabetes

...s to determine insulin sensitivity. The results proved that waistline might be taken as a strong marker for insulin sensitivity. People with a waistline of 102cms in men and 88cms in women show very little risk of heart disease, while people with waistline, which are more, had an increasing tendency of h...

Exercise can improve functional limitation of arthritis patients

...vercome limited motor abilities. The study results proved that by pursuing vigorous exercise routines could lessen the disability due to restricted movements. The results of the study were published in the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism....

Processed meats can cause cancer

...ut this is the first time processed meat have been proved to enhance carcinogenic growth in the pancreas. Scientist have said that it is not the meat itself, but the chemical agents that process the meat for long time preservation that causes cancer of the pancreas. The study was conducted across multipl...

Compound from cottonseed for neck and head cancers

...tant to chemotherapy. Surgeries on such cases have proved to affect the ability of the patient to talk, swallow or breathe. The newly effective compound from the cottonseed oil has been able to kill carcinogenic cells to a success rate of 70% to 90%. The treated cell cultures of head and neck squamous cell...

Cancer diagnosis easier from microRNA

...gins were unknown. The microRNA classification had proved unique for the kind of tumor and its presence and thus the procedure could accurately compare the expression patterns of the messenger microRNAs. Reference: Nature, June 2005...

Lower risk of cardiovascular disease from tight glucose control

Research has proved that tight glucose control can lower the risk of cardiovascular disease in people// with diabetes type 1. Keeping a tight glucose control on the blood sugar levels mean that for patients with diabetes is to keep their blood sugar as close to the nor...

New Race –Specific drug

...a drug combination for treating heart failure, has proved three times more effective in black patients than ... turn, this reduces overallstrain on the heart. It proved more effective in African-American patients because they have naturally lower levels of nitrous oxid...

Weight Loss Relieves Osteoarthritis Pain

...ty problem has a weight loss solution and has been proved to be highly beneficial for OA patients....

Pomegranate juice delays prostate cancer

...tate cancer. The results obtained after the trails proved encouraging and can be useful in treating this form of cancer. Pomegranate juice was administered to men whose average PSA doubling time was 15 months. The data collected after treatment showed that in the same men the PSA doubling time had increas...

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