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Blocking the Y2 Receptors can Prevent Obesity

...high sugar diet, which is what many do as a way to reduce their stress, they will become obese. Until now, the pharmaceutical industry has focused on appetite suppressants with only moderate success. Our hope is that in the near future pharmaceutical companies, using the results of our research, will deve...

Hearts Saved As Doctors Put Cutting Edge Discoveries to Use

...in or more potent blood thinners; beta blockers to reduce the damaged heart's oxygen needs, statins to lower cholesterol, ACE inhibitors to relax blood vessels, and angioplasty to open blocked vessels soon after hospital arrival. It was seen that use of each of these treatments climbed during the study a...

Good News for Sufferers of Heart Attack, Chest Pain

...tests and procedures that have been proven to help reduce the immediate and long-term impact of acute heart problems. The results suggest that concerted efforts to standardize heart care are working. But, the authors caution, there are clouds in this sunny sky. Many patients who could benefit from all of ...

Taking Low-calorie Soup Before Meal Will Help Cut Calories at Meals

...ies about consuming lower-calorie soup as a way to reduce food intake," says co-author Dr. Barbara Rolls, who holds the Guthrie Chair of Nutrition at Penn State. "Earlier work suggests that chunky soup may be the most filling type of soup, so the purpose of this study was to determine whether different form...

Risk of Dementia Increased With Secondhand Smoke

...ovide additional support for policies that seek to reduce the publics exposure to tobacco smoke....

Junior Doctors Facing More Misery Because of Contract Deadlock: BMA

...ctors will have been working hard to meet targets, reduce waiting lists and ensure the efficient delivery of good quality patient care and will feel betrayed by the government. For a government intent on modernising the NHS and driving up standards, creating thousands of disaffected demoralised doctors does...

DBT And IAVI Forge Partnership To Develop Next Generation Vaccine Candidates

... block HIV from entering healthy cells, as well as reduce the amount of viral dissemination through a cell-mediated immune response to HIV-infected cells. Yet today, virtually all current vaccine candidates in the pipeline are based on cell-mediated immune responses alone, failing to target the second criti...

Caffeinated Sunflower Seeds To Hit The Market

...inc as well as phytosterols, which are believed to reduce levels of cholesterol....

UN Agencys Checklist on Health Care Error

...hat's really what this program is about, trying to reduce risk for health care everywhere for everyone." K...s in the past simple steps and closer scrutiny can reduce them to quite an extent....

Why Humans Fail to Act on Climate Change

...crews" incrementally to increase energy prices and reduce emission tolerance levels, he said. In addition, the human tragedy and economic losses that resulted from Kyrill, the cyclone that formed over Newfoundland and blasted damage and death across Europe in January, and Hurricane Katrina, which levelled...

Climate Talks Reach Consensus in Bangkok

..., which seeks an international consensus on how to reduce greenhouse gases and, perhaps more importantly, how much it would cost. Political acceptance that it is economically and technologically possible to slow global warming is deemed an important stepping stone toward action....

New Health DrinkCoffee

...cid, which has been shown in animal experiments to reduce glucose concentrations. It contains tannin which is good for heart and arteries. Dr. Rob van Dam of the Harvard School of Public Health, who has conducted studies on coffee consumption and diabetes, and participated in a "controversy session" on c...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Health Threat

...are some of the cleaner fuel that could be used to reduce the air pollution....

Should Menstrual Suppression Be a Lifestyle Choice?

...st in this weeks BMJ? Birth control options that reduce or eliminate periods are being developed, she writes. The oral contraceptive Seasonale, for example, combines 84 days of active pills with seven days of placebo, reducing the number of pill-induced periods from 13 to four annually. Seasonale has be...

The DNA That Spells Double Risk of Heart Attack

... genes. Whatever our genetic make-up, we can all reduce our chances of heart disease by improving our lifestyle."...

Spouse may "drive You to Drink" but also can Protect You from Alcohol

...onal influence of the partner's behavior tended to reduce the likelihood of problem drinking. Grant says tha... begins to abuse alcohol, the other might actually reduce alcohol intake. "We don't really know how this works," she explains. "It is possible that an indiv...

New Clues for Treatment of Disease That Causes Accelerated Aging

...nd cell biology and physiology. "If physicians can reduce production of bad lamin A by as little as half in ...rk for progeria patients may one day be adapted to reduce the effects of aging. The results are published online in the journal Human Mutation. Science st...

Cancer Risk High Among Obese People

...re their waist and look at implementing changes to reduce their cancer risk if they have the above waist mea...han you need for your level of activity. To help reduce the risk, the council recommends that people eat a balanced diet. "Replace fatty foods with lots ...

Some High Blood Pressure Drugs may Help Reduce Dementia Risk

...ally those types that reach the brain and may help reduce the inflammation that might contribute to Alzheimer's disease. "For older adults who are going to take an ACE inhibitor drug for blood pressure control, it makes sense for their doctors to prescribe one that goes into the brain," said Kaycee Sink,...

Disease Outbreak Claims Trout From Idaho Hatchery

...o avoid future outbreaks, he suggests, might be to reduce the number of fish raised at the Nampa hatchery and increase it elsewhere. Says Frew:"The parasite multiplies very rapidly. By the time we see symptoms, the disease has a pretty strong hold on the animal." In all, the state produces about 3 mill...

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