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Butterbur does wonders

...ork - and therefore it is possible that this might react with other medications. It was used in treating hayfever The researchers gave 154 hayfever patients either butterbur extract tablets or the usually used non-sedating antihistamine called cetirizine. After three weeks, the treatments had achieved si...

Researchers trick Alzheimer's Enzyme

...me active sites are also highly specific, so drugs react only with the sites and nowhere else. A major problem of current drugs is that they are 'dirty', that is, they have side effects -- often untoward -- because they interact with proteins or enzymes other than the ones planned for. According to him, i...

Control of anger disorder connected to Brain Dysfunction

...lar to patients' everyday situations in which they react to problems with aggression, despite the possible consequences. "In that sense," they write, "patients show an inability to learn from social cues." When asked to gauge emotions in photos of people's faces, IED patients showed problems in recognizi...

Old theory of adaptation confirmed by new study

...ion theory that came up in 1971 argued that people react to good and bad events in their life, but they eve...al and this depended upon the degree to which they react to the initial event. The stronger the reaction to the initial event, the longer it takes to get bac...

Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle

...d immune response generates immune cells that only react weakly to the new virus. And the duration of the disease is also much longer because the body fails to clear the infection quickly. The discovery could hamper efforts to find an effective dengue vaccine. The risk, is that if the vaccine does not "hi...

Meditation Works Medically

...rs theorize this area is related to the ability to react to negative or stressful events. In response to the influenza vaccine, study participants showed an increase in the number of antibodies during the study. The authors of this study recommend future studies be done using functional magnetic resonance...

Stroke Prevention

...on by revealing how blood vessels in // the brain react to high blood pressure, a major risk factor for stroke . A new study finds the drug candesartan cilexetil, also known as Atacand, improves blood flow in the eye, which can be slowed from the result of high blood pressure.The endothelium is the linin...

An Increase In Number Of Lung Cancer Deaths in Women

...ormonal factors are all important to the way women react to carcinogens and lung cancer . Researchers also say evidence suggests these differences are partly due to estrogen. Studies have shown an association between estrogen replacement therapy and adenocarcinoma. In addition, lung cancer cells have been...

Pain Relief For Osteoarthritis Patients

...ications often have painful side effects or do not react well with other medications. A new study shows the addition of menthol to topical creams provides significant pain relief and improvements in physical performance for people with osteoarthritis. One proven alternative treatment is the use of oral a...

The Harmful Effects Of Stress in Young Adults

...high blood pressure in middle age.Young adults who react to // psychological stress with spikes in blood pressure are more likely to have high blood pressure when they are in their 40s. Specialists say assessing blood pressure changes in response to stress may be a useful tool for determining a person’s f...

Dyslexia may slow a driver's reaction time as much as moderate drinking!!

...ity found that Dyslexic drivers took 30% longer to react then the other drivers. Research at the Norwegia...rs had on an average taken, 0.13 seconds longer to react during the rural drive and 0.19 seconds longer to react during the urban drive when compared to the ...

Herbal remedies can have harmful interaction when taken with drugs for rheumatic arthritis

...s and over the counter alternative medicines// may react badly when taken along with medication for rheumatic arthritis. The study points out that herbal preparations and alternate medicines are widely used by people suffering from rheumatic arthritis. Most of these preparations are exempted from the gove...

Differing reactions to anti clotting drugs may be due to genetic variation.

...ple who take anti clotting drugs like warfarin may react differently to the drug because of their genetic makeup.// A sizable population of the world takes anti clotting medications in the event of heart attacks, stroke or major surgery to check harmful clotting of blood. However the difference in the rea...

Genetics linked to leukemia treatment success rate in children

Genes may be at the root of how children react to cancer treatments.// A new study by the researchers funded by American Society of Hematology says that personalized medicine based on the genetic makeup of children may yield better results in treating childhood leukemia. Researchers had looked i...

Arsenic poisoning reactions can be traced to genes

...children with a mutation of the gene variety CYT19 react to arsenic in a different manner than the adults. The results of the research can be important as arsenic is often used as a drug to treat cancer. The researchers are hopeful that the new study will lead to new dosages of cancer drugs that will be t...

Smokers may differ in their cravings for smoking

...ests that people may differ in their tendencies to react to drugs, as their brain views the sensory cues differently. The researchers feel that this discovery may lead to differential use of quitting procedures for smokers depending on their brain responses. Reference: Neuropsychopharmacology, online edit...

Burning energy and its impact on health during exercise can be of genetic origin

...to their // genetic predisposition. How our bodies react to exercise programs is genetic in origin and may decide lot of reactions to exercising like the level of blood glucose in the body etc. According to the research paper publishing the works of scientists from Washington University School of Medicine...

Gender difference in Pain Experience - Women feel More Pain than men

...n Management Unit also looked at how men and women react to chest pain in 150 patients referred to the hospital “Chest pain is associated with coronary heart disease, angina and heart attacks, so it is understandable that chest pain is a cause of great anxiety for patients and that anxiety has an importa...

Effect of cholesterol on health may be genetic

How the people’s body react to cholesterol increase depends on their genetic makeup, says a new study.// Bad cholesterol of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) may affect twins in the same way even if they live a lifestyle totally different from each other. Researchers of Departmen...

Knowledge Of Infertility Gets New Inputs

... lack a gene called estrogen receptor beta and not react to medications that can cure infertility.// In a research funded by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences reported that the gene called estrogen receptor beta plays an important role in moving the egg outside the ovary to be fertilized...

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