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Environmental Toxin Causes Heritable Adult-Onset Diseases

...rmally present in the environment, but their study raises concerns about the long-term impacts of such toxin...ions in the DNA. The work by Skinner and his group raises the possibility that environmental factors may play a much larger role in evolution than has been re...

Eating Soy Protein Helps Control Cholesterol

... “bad” cholesterol and triglycerides, and slightly raises high-density lipid “good” cholesterol//, according to a Tulane University study published in the Sept. 1, 2006 issue of The American Journal of Cardiology. The Tulane study gives strong support to the notion that soy protein should be part of a com...

Using Multiphoton Microscopy to See Chromosomes in Action

...thought before being replaced with new HSFs, which raises new questions about the mechanisms of gene transcription. The technique also may offer a new tool for researchers across the biological sciences. Webb says it marks the success of an interdisciplinary trend that offers new potential for researchers...

Herpes Infects Cornea, Evades Immune Cells

...e sac undamaged and able to infect the cell. "This raises the interesting possibility that herpes may be able to evade the immune system defenses in the same way," he said. "Understanding herpes' unusual pathway for infecting the stroma cells opens up new strategies for developing therapies against this p...

New Angiogenesis Finding May Help Fight Cancer Growth

...cells, which is necessary to form new vessels, and raises the level of a newly discovered angiogenesis inhibitor. "It's premature to call it a master switch, but intriguingly, it regulates at least four different processes, each of which individually would be anti-angiogenic," says Bresnick. Angiogenesi...

Most Suicide Rates Decline, but Findings Are Puzzling

...sibilities why those suicide rates have fallen and raises questions about why suicide rates among the middle groups -- those 25 to 64 -- have not declined. 'In our medical-literature searches, we began finding international studies that suggested a correlation of declining suicide rates with an increase i...

Canadians Unaware Of Heart Risks Of Abdominal Fat

... Canadians are not aware that excess abdominal fat raises the risk of heart disease This was the main finding in the Shape // of the Nations survey, which quizzed more than 11,000 people in 27 countries. The survey found that only about 20 percent of the people are aware of the term known as “cardiometabo...

Unscientific Depression Drugs aplenty in Health Stores

...interactions and adverse side-effects. "This study raises concerns about the virtually complete separation and independence of complementary and alternative medicine services from the National Health Service and pharmaceutical agencies." According to the authors many herbal remedies may have beneficial pr...

NHS Will Do Well to Curb Use Of Umbilical Cord Blood For Treatment of Cancers

... merits or demerits, commercial blood banking also raises serious resource, legal, and ethical issues for NHS maternity units, warns the author. Taking the arguments for and against into consideration, the balance is tilted strongly against NHS trusts collecting cord blood for commercial banking. It should...

Breeding success by delving into the honey bee sex gene

...ed bees to select desirable traits, but inbreeding raises the odds of producing fertilized eggs with two copies of the same csd allele. If too many sterile males result, the colony may die out. "If we know more details about how many alleles there are and what their frequencies are, bee breeders can design...

Chemo drugs cause cognitive decline in breast cancer patients

...effects of the drugs. This is important because it raises the possibility that at longer treatment intervals there might have been some recovery of cognitive function, notes Dr. Winocur. Source-Eurekalert GYT...

Fast food giant KFC to switch to trans fat free menus

...erts warn that excessive consumption of trans fat, raises Low Density Lipoproteins (LDL), or "bad" cholesterol, and lowers HDL, the "good" cholesterol thus increasing the chances of clogging arteries of the heart. Its understood that New York's Board of Health this December proposes to take a vote to de...

New Device May Help Heal A Failing Heart

...medical director of the BHF. He added: "The study raises several important questions which will need answering in future clinical studies - we need to know exactly what part of this treatment regimen is responsible for the recovery of heart function, and which patients can benefit from it." Source-IANS...

Lives of Diabetics Transformed

...e been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes that usually raises its head in childhood or young adulthood. Finger-prick method was the only available method for sufferers to monitor their blood sugar levels so that they can inject insulin accordingly. The latest device uses a computer to monitor the patient’...

Botox – The 'Celebrity' Dru

...sential to repeat the treatment periodically. This raises the potential of Botox as an addiction-inducing substance that a user might become heavily dependant on, in order to 'feel good'. Moderation, as they say, holds the key. After all, as Voltaire said, 'Beauty pleases the eyes only, sweetness of dis...

A Novel Technique That Detects "Cancer Genes" From The Breath Of Smokers

...chers at the University of Pittsburgh. The advance raises hopes that a test can be developed to screen for the aggressive cancer in time to treat it, they say. "Early detection of pancreatic cancer is crucial to survival, but there has been no way to diagnose it early before symptoms occur," said the lead...

Red alert to women against red meat consumption

...ting more than one and a half servings of red meat raises the risk of developing hormone related breast canc...r. Previous studies have also shown that red meat raises the chances of incidence of colo rectal cancer. MS...

Dartmouth researchers zero-in on a gene that heightens muscle performance

...fitness without having to exercise, which in turn, raises many questions about possible modes of exercise performance enhancement, including the development of drugs that could do the same thing as we have done genetically," he says. "This also might raise to some the specter of 'gene doping,' something ser...

Men are from Mars and Women from Venus, but why on Earth are Women so Woefully Wronged?

...n National Crime Records. Violence against women raises its ugly head in many forms – infanticide, elimination of female foetuses, domestic violence, sexual harassment, molestation, rape, trafficking and dowry murders. Even Nations that boast of development and affluence, like the United States, report di...

Doctors in Scotland Prescribe Homeopathic or Herbal Remedies

...cine and Therapeutics. This level of prescribing raises important questions about homeopathic and herbal p...vidence on prescribing patterns within the NHS and raises a number of important issues, particularly about prescribing homeopathic and herbal remedies to chil...

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