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Simple Blood Test May Predict Alzheimers Disease

...o that although we have to be cautious because the research needs more testing. It may be a few years before w...patients are needed to get accurate results. "This research could revolutionize practice because a blood test that accurately monitors progression can reduce th...

Contamination of the Environment by Antibiotics Fed to Livestock

...n enhanced with manure containing antibiotics. The research was presented in Indianapolis, IN at the Annual So...s are not formally banned or prohibited. Further research is needed to investigate the presence of antibiotics in edible parts of plants, especially vegetable...

Stem Cells Research in Parkinsons Disease

...orida neuroscientist reports that the cutting-edge research study of human stem cells in primates with Parkins...ing transplant, Dr. Sanberg said the translational research in primates raises questions that need to be addressed before moving to human trials, including dete...

Cane Sugar,corn Syrup Have Similar Effects on Hunger

..." The study is authored by Dr. Pablo Monsivais, research fellow in the UW Nutritional Sciences Program, and co-authored by Drewnowski and UW graduate student Martine Perrigue. The Seattle investigators provided subjects with a beverage mid-morning, then tracked hunger, appetite and thirst for two hours,...

Gallstone Gene Discovered by Research Team

...ee fold risk increase by gene variant A group of research scientist from the University of Bonn along with Romanian colleagues has discovered a gene variant which augments the possibility of developing gallstone considerably (Hepatology No. 46, 11 July 2007, DOI 10.1002/hep.21847). Probably one on ten Europ...

HIV Prevention Programs on a Massive Scale Turn Out Economical

...t UCSFs Institute for Health Policy Studies. The research was conducted by a team from PANCEA and co-authors...site.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=pancea, is an NIH-funded research project designed to provide information to help increase the efficiency of HIV prevention programs. ...

U.S Shows Increased Obesity Rate

...p, making this public health issue complex. More research needs to be completed to look into the underlying ...ed study, the Johns Hopkins co-authors published a research article in the May 7, 2007, issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition that found people pu...

Male Wallflowers-Watch Your Heart

Latest research shows that timid and withdrawn men increase their chances of dying from heart attacks by up to fifty percent, as against their more gregarious peers . The scientists led by Jarett Berry and Philip Greenland of Northwestern University of Chica...

WBC Selective About Sugar

...rgets. This new indication can prove useful in the research for new drugs to battle lethal pathogens. A scientist in the lab of Whitehead Member Gerald Fink has discovered that neutrophils recognize and respond to a specific form of sugar called beta-1, 6-glucan on the surface of fungi. This sugar comprises ...

Milk Thistle Extract Effective in Cancer Treatment

...) published by SAGE, contains a summary of current research on and clinical application of silymarin, the mixt... in milk thistle. The special issue features new research from Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Cen...

Scientists Identified Obesity Control Switch

...se large amounts of energy as heat. If continued research demonstrates that engineering fat precursor cells with PRDM16 and implanting them in mice works as an obesity preventive, the investigators say a similar intervention is theoretically possible in people. "You might not have to implant a large amou...

Anti-malarial Drug may Help Reduce Risk of Diabetes in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

Preliminary research has suggested that use of the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine may help reduce the risk of patients with rheumatoid arthritis developing diabetes . Type 2 diabetes mellitus affects nearly 8 percent of US adults, and its prevalence has been inc...

Scientists Identify "master Switch" for Brown Fat in Mice

...s obesity preventive in humans, if their continued research in mice shows promising results once again. "You might not have to implant a large amount of engineered precursors in people who are at risk for being obese. In theory, you would only have to reduce the accumulation of white fat by 1 percent or so...

Viagra Improves Heart Function, Finds Study

...ted about these findings," Michelakis added. The research will appear next week in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association....

A Role Model Spouse can Pass on Good Health Habits

...ividual health behaviours. Unlike some previous research on positive health behaviour, the new study tracked changes in both spouses at the same time. The findings could point toward a new approach for doctors looking to improve the health of married patients, Falba said. "For example, interventions t...

High Blood Pressure Linked to Decreased Pain Perception in Heart Patients

...silent myocardial ischemia," she says. "Further research will be needed to better understand the relationship between blood pressure, pain perception and heart disease," she adds....

Smokers may Develop Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

...se (COPD) if they smoke tobacco , according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues. The genetic variant we studied seemed harmless on its own, said Alireza Sadeghnejad, M.D., Ph.D., lead author. But when someone has this variant, there is more of an adverse effect of s...

Drinking More Milk may Lessen Type 2 Diabetes Risk

A new research has found that combination of calcium and vitamin D may offer protection against type 2 diabetes . The research, conducted at Tufts University, suggests that drinking more milk, a leading source of calcium and vitamin D in the diet, could help less...

Cell Toxin Inhibits Survival Protein in Cancer Cells

...ibit two "survival proteins in cancer cells. The research is a first step toward developing a molecularly-ta...live without that protein. The next step in this research is to use the assays his lab developed to cast a wider net to find additional compounds that have si...

Scientists Revealed the Key Molecule That Controls Pain

...p scientific journal Nature could rapidly advance research into the next generation of painkillers for relief...ction, said Dr Chris Thompson, who carried out the research with Professor Alan North and Dr Sam Fountain in the Faculty of Life Sciences. By looking at slime ...

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