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Daily Dose of Dark Chocolate Helps the Heart: Study

...published Tuesday in the United States. Previous research has shown that eating chocolate can lower blood pressure, but doctors have worried that any benefit could be offset by high doses of sugar, fat and calories. The study conducted by German researchers at the University of Cologne sought to examine t...

Complementary Therapy may Reduce Pregnancy Chances in Women

..., Cardiff University, Wales, UK, will say that her research had also shown that women who used complementary t...his were the case it would be important for future research to establish whether CATs achieve this goal more effectively than conventional psychological therapi...

Prions Prevent Alzheimers Disease

...n others we dont know yet. The next step for our research will be to look in more detail at how the prion protein controls beta amyloid, knowledge that could be used to design anti-Alzheimers drugs. Theoretically, if we can find a way of mimicking the prions function we should be able to halt the progress o...

UK Uneasy Over Involvement of Doctors in Terror Attacks, but Not Panicking Over Non European Medics

... Royal United Services Institute, a private policy research body, said that she found it plausible that doctors could become terrorists. In the end, these people are attracted to the U.K., to the medical profession, because they are dedicated and bright, she said in an interview. That not only makes them at...

Too Much of Videogames Hampers Study Time in Children

...time reading or doing homework, according to a new research on video games and children. Teenagers who play videogames spent 30 percent less time reading and 34 percent less time doing homework, said the study by researchers at the University of Michigan and University of Texas published in the Archives of ...

Ambitious Gastric Cancer Research Project Proposed in Singapore

A S$25 million research project, described as the largest ever in Singapor...sortium achieves results through its new five-year research project. It is bringing together clinicians and researchers from four public hospitals, two univer...

Chemical Injections for Fat Removal

...ted by the findings, although she agrees that more research is needed to find out how the animal findings translate in humans. Providing a long lasting, natural wrinkle filler and a scientifically studied, non-surgical method for melting fat could revolutionize growing old gracefully, she said. This discove...

Harnessing Immune System Power Heralds Next Era of Cancer Treatment

...ow working to accelerate the ongoing immune system research through a new Cancer Immunotherapy Program, being ... Institute of Canada (NCIC). "This immune system research has enormous potential and is one of the top cancer research projects in Canada. We eagerly anticipa...

Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure

A new research suggest that eating a small amount of dark chocolate each day could lower blood pressure and cut the risk of stroke. Dark chocolate is not only good for your heart , it may also stave off hardening of the arteries among smokers, and it has more antio...

Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

...ngs will provide the basis for further lung cancer research as well as a model for examining the nature of inflammation in other types of cancer. While smoking is still the greatest risk factor, we still do not understand how other factors play a role, Engels said. A better understanding of the risks involv...

People With Higher IQs are More Patient in Financial Matters

...isk and more patient -- two character traits which research shows contribute additionally to success at the workplace....

India's Share in Global Diabetes Research is One Percent

Not enough work is being done on diabetes research in India, even though the country remains one of t... scientists have published only one percent of the research works published globally. The editorial in the Indian Journal of Medical Research, in an assessmen...

Malaysian Astronaut to Conduct Cancer Research in Space

... dollar space programme, will carry out scientific research including a study on the growth of cancer cells in...rts said Wednesday. The astronaut would conduct research on cells, bacteria and the crystallisation of protein, said Abdul Rahman Abdul Jamal, director of th...

For Bangladeshis, a Nutritious Diet Would Cost 1,700 Pounds Per Week

New research by the British charity Save the Children, shows th...700 pound bill at the supermarket each week. The research calculated how much a healthy diet, based on local produce and allowing for seasonal factors such as...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

... GHGs. Given the quality and quantity of empirical research demonstrating that near-term targets and timetables for CO2 emissions reductions will negatively impact California without materially slowing the growth of global emissions, policymakers in California should consider carefully whether they want to pr...

Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness

...CRHS. This study supports and clarifies previous research that has found that asthma is strongly related to indoor allergens and that patients with specific sensitizations exhibit greater BR in response to exposure to the allergens to which they are sensitized. However, the interaction between sensitization...

Influenza Virus Samples of 1918

...places this discovery in the context of decades of research into the cause of pandemic influenza, and the authors detail the strange convergence of events that allowed them to recover and sequence the virus in the first place. Its genetic material is so fragile that it should not have survived for days, let a...

Aboriginal People Less Likely to Use Methadone Therapy

A new research from British Columbia found that aboriginal people who use heroin are less likely than their non-Aboriginal counterparts to use methadone maintenance therapy for treatment of their addiction. Dr. Evan Wood and colleagues evaluated factors associa...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...ees C (2.7-8.1 degrees F). In the 1980s, further research added intriguing new pieces to the global warming puzzle. But scientists fretted over the many remaining blanks and debated fiercely over what the picture actually meant. Although some saw a looming threat, no action was taken politically, given th...

Skin Cancer can Be Triggered by P53 Mutation

Two separate studies by research teams at Glasgow University and Baylor College of Medicine uncover 2 previously unidentified regulators of SCC development, providing insights into the development of this potentially lethal disease. Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a form of nonm...

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