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Pre-packed Sandwiches Saltier Than Crisps

...co's Healthy Living Chicken Salad. CASH said its research would help consumers make a healthy choice. 'Many of us buy a sandwich for our lunch most days of the week, but we need to know how much salt is in those sandwiches,' said CASH's Carrie Bolt. 'Choosing a high-salt version may take us over the daily l...

Scientists Discover Key to Manipulating Fat

In what they call a "stunning research advance," investigators at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use non-toxic chemical injections to add and remove fat in targeted areas on the bodies of laboratory animals. They say the discovery, published online in Nature Medic...

Scientists Find Single Circuit Channeling Depression in Rats

...way to focus on for treatment, according to a new research study released Thursday. Studying the brains of ...said in a summary of the study. Deisseroth led a research team to see if they could demonstrate how malfunctions in brain circuitry could be at the root of de...

Australian Research Reveals AIDS, Cancer Link

...ation of developing a range of cancers, Australian research released Friday has found. A new study, publish...New South Wales, Professor Andrew Grulich said the research looked at two groups -- those infected with HIV/AIDS and kidney transplant patients. "Immune suppr...

Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber

...those kinds of products out there," he said. The research was carried out by Alavi's graduate student, Hyma ...grain science. Other K-Staters contributing to the research include Koushik Adhikari, assistant professor of human nutrition; Tom Herald, professor of food scie...

New Strategy to Counter Problem Drinking

... the Finnish study, but he has conducted nalmefene research in the United States. The Finnish researchers note some side effects among people in the nalmefene group, including nausea, abdominal discomfort, as well as energy and sleep difficulties. However, most study participants remained in the trial and c...

Fibrinogen may Inhibit Spinal Cord Regeneration

...f the National Academy of Sciences on July 2. The research team studied three types of spinal cord injuries in mice and rats which resulted in cellular and vascular damage, and leakage of fibrinogen from the blood vessels. Once injured, neurons cannot be repaired because of various inhibitors that are pres...

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

...ric IBD centers in the North America that conducts research activities and provides education and treatment all at one campus. Dubinsky explained that Cedars-Sinai wants to ensure that patients referred to the center have access to the most advanced technologies and therapies as soon as they are shown to be...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...as taken on added importance in recent months. A research institute at the University of Kentucky, though, h...aking plastics. "Weve been doing Fischer-Tropsch research for 15 years. In the last five years, interest in general has picked up," particularly by private co...

Chickens also Use Earth's Magnetic Field to Sense Direction

A new research by a Frankfurt University team has successfully demonstrated that domestic fowl, like many other animals and birds, also use the Earth's magnetic field to sense direction . As part of their experiment, the team of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wiltschko and R...

New Blood Vessels can Be Created from Bone Marrow Stem Cells: Study

...heep. The researchers are now conducting further research to make these vessels stronger, and to study the differences between stem cells taken from older versus younger individuals....

The Hospital Superbugs

...hree times as many people every year as MRSA. A research group led by Professor Nigel Minton in the Centre ...ative which has acknowledged a lack of funding for research in the field of microbiology and infectious diseases. As antibiotics become increasingly ineffec...

Prescription Costs More for Older Men Than Women

...improve the governance of prescribing funds. The research found that the mean annual prescription cost per i...counted for 56% of total prescribing costs. This research is able to pinpoint the future resources required by the Italian Regional Health Authorities accordi...

A New Therapy to Protect Cancer Patients Against Infertility

...the medical profession, more support is needed for research in this important area....

Organically Grown Food More Healthier

...e. Alyson Mitchell, a food chemist, who led the research at the University of California, believes that fla...toes than in the conventionally grown fruit.Recent research in Europe found that organic tomatoes contained more vitamin C, B-carotene and flavonoids than conve...

Autism Children can Be Diagnosed Within One Year of Age

...s in autism diagnosis is that ongoing intervention research leads us to believe it is most effective and least costly when provided to younger children," said Dr. Gary Goldstein, President and CEO of the Kennedy Krieger Institute. "When a child goes undiagnosed until five or six years old, there is a tremen...

NanoSensors Provides Update on Its Biosensor to Detect E.coli and Salmonella

...ter jejuni, e.coli and streptococcus. The Company' research indicates that there is not a product out on the market that is easy to use and provides timely results. The current process to detect for e.coli is through a bio-chemical method and colony counts to determine the level of contamination and takes up ...

New Insights into Prion Propogation

...ing proteins found in baker's yeast, while Saupe's research looked at prion protein in another fungus. A key... not necessarily host-specific. Liebman said the research emphasizes the need to look for new prions."How many more are there" Are there lots that we haven't ...

Role of MicroRNA in Cancer Suppression Identified

...s Ltd, a leading microRNA company, announced today research published in the journal Molecular Cell by scienti...used as a cancer therapy. We strongly believe this research continues to validate the opportunities for microRNA-based therapeutics." "Demonstrating how p53 u...

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

...Jong wrote in the British Medical Journal that his research on the potential risks of cholesterol-lowering margarines and yoghurts did not augur well for some users of the products. "These products could trigger reactions in people taking statins - drugs that do the same job but act more powerfully - which ...

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