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DNA damage and cancer risk, increased due to red meat diet

... were on a vegetarian diet and others eating large quantities of meat and over a period of two weeks. Profess... The researcher advises a balanced diet with large quantities of fibre and less of red meat as the digestion becomes easier which may help repair damage done to t...

Cancer Risk Not Connected To Fish Diet

... witnessed in the case of people who consume large quantities of omega-3 fatty acid. Several trials have attempted to assess the effects of omega-3 fatty acids on cancer treatment by adding it to the diet either as omega-3 fatty acid–rich foods or as dietary supplements. Because of the results of some studie...

Gene Linked To Type 2 Diabetes Identified

...Diabetes where in the body does not produce enough quantities of the hormone insulin. In type 2 Diabetes the hormone is produced in proper amounts but the cells don’t respond to insulin. But the major type of diabetes, which is extensively prevalent, is that of type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes in general can lead...

FDA approves Phase 0 trial which tests experimental drugs on humans

... researchers has FDA has approved testing of small quantities of experimental drugs in human beings. Approval of... efficacy if the drug is proved effective in small quantities researchers can proceed with a phase I clinical trial. Researchers feel that easing the rules for...

Therapy inducing self-repair of nerves to help Alzheimer’

...'s disease, glutamate, an amino acid found in high quantities in the brain, is thought to accumulate. Glutamate, which acts as a neurotransmitter that nerves use to communicate at normal concentrations, becomes toxic at excessive levels, resulting in over stimulation of nerve cells, known as excitotoxicity, and...

Sunflowers Could Hold the Key to New Class of AIDS Drugs

...f AIDS drugs. But this is available in very minute quantities and naturally is pretty costly. The researchers from Bonn worked in collaboration with the Caesar research centre to make this substance available at a fraction of the earlier costs. The attempt to find the substance in sunflowers started with a moul...

Tamiflu substrate produced from Bioengineered Bacteria

...s increased which has lead to stockpiling of large quantities of Tamiflu, antiviral bird flu drug by many countries//. U.S. has stocked more than 4 million Tamiflu drugs and many countries have started producing the generic version of the drug Tamiflu manufactured by the Swiss pharmaceuticals Roche. Due to th...

A strategic study: Soy diet makes heart disease to worsen in male mice

...ty in recent years regarding the ingestion of huge quantities of dietary supplements, including soy phytoestrogens."...

Nutritionists give helpful advice to loose weight and say hello to 2006 with a smile

... dieters do not realize that they are losing large quantities of water rather than fat. The diet, which has long been controversial among health professionals, has been linked to health problems ranging from kidney damage to heart disease and osteoporosis.” "Suppose you don't eat breakfast," said RD Davis. "Y...

New protein diet program questioned.

... on the other hand the Atkins diet says that large quantities of fruits and vegetables and less amount of carbohydrates included in a person’s diet. The high protein diet conducted a study in which there were 100 overweight subjects (women). 50% of them were put on the high protein diet and the other half on ...

Food labels to include information on trans fats in US

... trans fats. Though trans fats are found in small quantities naturally in dairy products, most Americans get their trans fats through heavily processed foods such as vegetable shortening, margarine, and snack foods like deep-fried chips and packaged breads, cookies and crackers. Dieticians recommend that it ...

Proper Diet Can Counter Macular Degeneration

...nal supplements to those who already consumed high quantities of these nutrients made no difference. The less than the average consumption of these nutrients resulted in the risk factor rising by 20%. Vegetables like kale, carrots, and spinach contain beta carotene, while zinc in meat, poultry, eggs and nuts, v...

Muscular Dystrophy May Be Cured By Gene Therapy

...e must produce healthy dystrophin protein in large quantities in order to repair the entire muscle cell. Previous muscular dystrophy gene therapy studies did not look at whether the introduced dystrophin spread along the entire length of the muscle cell, which can be many millimeters long in mice or inches long...

Canada Introduces Mandatory Nutrition Labeling

...l. The Mediterranean diet involves consuming large quantities of fruits and cereals, vegetables, fish, and a low... fats. Alcohol should also be consumed in moderate quantities only, according to this diet. A genuine Mediterranean diet is followed in countries like Greece and ...

Roche confirms Tamiflu production talks in US

... Tamiflu, but rather to meet an emergency need for quantities of this drug that Roche itself simply cannot do alone." "Roche has made the right decision," Schumer said. "Instead of closely holding their patent rights and production techniques, in the face of a global health risk, they've moved swiftly to part...

Link Between Hepatitis C And Liver Cancer Unraveled By Scientists

...loping either cirrhosis or liver cancer. Reduced quantities of the protein product of the retinoblastoma gene have been found in cells that harbor the Hepatitis C ‘replicon’. A replicon is nothing but a part of the genetic material of the hepatitis C virus that has the intrinsic property of self-replication a...

Caffeine Boosts Memory, Improves Attention Span

...tivity. Caffeine is normally found in acceptable quantities in coffee, tea, soft drinks and chocolate. The researchers tested 15 subjects who had just consumed the amount of caffeine equivalent to two cups of coffee by performing Functional magnetic resonance imaging scans. They found increased activity in th...

Tall Children Have An Higher IQ

...s influenced by the child's diet. Consuming larger quantities of dairy produce and milk during early childhood results in higher levels of IGF. This naturally means that hormone levels can be increased through a proper diet. There are other experts who contend that hormone levels play a relatively small role in...

Ranbaxy Laboratories All Set To Export Bird Flu Vaccines

...major Roche would be invalid. We have sent small quantities of the avian flu drug to a government, where Roche has no patent on the drug', said Dr Brian Tempest, CEO of Ranbaxy and managing director of Ranbaxy. The company has already developed the chemistry to produce the drug and scaled it up to a certain l...

Cipla In India Can Manufacture Drug For Bird Flu

...nt’s dilemma is whether to import Tamiflu in large quantities from Roche or to license a domestic generic manufacturer to make it here at a tenth of the price and stock it. The raw material for Tamiflu - shikimic acid is currently selling at $1,000 a kilo from the usual $40 a kilo due to the huge demand in the ...

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