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Vitamin E, the latest warrior against diabetes

...ics around the world. Vitamin E, according to the researchers protects the body against diabetes by acting on th... to the high levels of glucose in the blood. Also researchers showed that vitamin E curtailed the inflammation in blood vessels of diabetics. Dr. Sridevi Devaraj...

Gene Therapy shows promise in treating Hemophilia

... will come as a life saving blessing. However the researchers are cautious and feel more examination is necessary before the method can be declared safe. Further studies are on to cross check that the cells inserted as a part of this method into the patients body do not cause the reaction or turn malignant. T...

OBESE LIL' GIRLS !! SWEAT IT OUT OR U MIGHT BE ASTHAMATIC !!!

...ciated risk of asthma even if they are obese , the researchers say. The risk of asthma is much higher among the girls who attain menarche before the age of 11.However ,the risk ,common in the girls who are obese at the age of 11 rather than at 6, the investigators note.In addition,the tests for asthma such as p...

ZD1839 Proves Effective - A Breakthrough in fighting Lung Cancer

...een 1 and 11 months. With such promising results, researchers are now working on whether this drug can be used for other forms of cancer as well....

Smoking spreads Cancer

... alarm bells are soaring against the same when the researchers identify that female smokers with breast cancer face an increased risk of their tumors spreading to the lungs and other organs than do nonsmokers "There is a relationship between smoking and the spread of the disease," says study author Susan Murin...

Ginseng's efficacy debatable

... mental fatigue and boosting mood performance. But researchers have found no psychological benefit from the use of ginseng. Bradley Cardinal, PhD, associate professor and co-director of the sport and exercise psychology lab at the Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon and his colleague, Hermann Engles, P...

Increase in sugar...decrease in brain function!!!

...own. But what about their immediate effects??. The researchers of Virginia have now come out with astonishing det... symptoms of high blood sugar, were studied by the researchers from the Center for Behavioral Medicine Research at the University of Virginia. When tested for ment...

Heart disease threat starts early in life for Diabetics

...op heart disease even at their teens. The team of researchers with the University of Southern California and Children's Hospital Los Angeles did a study involving 57 diabetics ages 12 to 21 and a group of adolescents without the disease. They found that the ateries of type I diabetics was associated with ateros...

Analgesic abuse - cause for chronic headache in children

...f chronic headache in children. A team of Israeli researchers who treated 26 adolescents, found that the average number of tablets taken by each patient was 28 each week, with 16 using pain medication daily. They stopped all the analgesic medications and found that the headache symptoms decreased after 2 months...

Regular exercise prevents hip fractures

...s per day. After adjustment for other factors, the researchers found that the risk of hip fracture was 28% less for active women than that of sedentary women. Active men had a 25% lower risk of breaking their hip than sedentary men. By doing vigorous physical activity, it did not further reduce the risk of fra...

Alcohol shrinks brain

...an recover brain volume and boost blood flow. The researchers estimate that aging accounts for about 30% of brain shrinkage and heavy alcohol consumption for about 10%....

For better mood and energy!! Work-up in short span

...ng women, but these feelings were already low, the researchers note. In general, the results suggest that exercising for 10 minutes at an aerobic level of 60% (of maximum heart rate) is sufficient for increasing vigor, decreasing fatigue, and decreasing total negative mood state....

One...just one cigarette can spoil the heart function.

...enough to do the necessary damage is proved by the researchers of North Carolina. It is a well known fact that long term smoking has a significant risk towads the diseases such as heart attack , cancer etc.,. Dr. Firas A. Ghanem and colleagues at the Brody School of Medicine of East Carolina University in Gre...

Risk of heart disease begins in teens

...ach year, in the general population. According to researchers patients with more plaque inside their arteries also had higher levels of blood fats such as LDL ,"bad" cholesterol, and increased blood homocysteine, a substance that is associated with heart disease risk. Dr. Jody S Krantz, author of the study fee...

Blocked viens block eye sight

...sure on the eye. To treat this condition Stanford researchers Palanker and Flecther have developed a needle-shaped probe that could shoot drugs right at the site of blockage and reopen the vein. The hollow needle is 1.5 millimetres in diameter and tapers to a point just 50 micrometres across. Inside the needle...

Drinking arsenic water leads to cancer

...to develop symptoms. While there is no known cure, researchers suggest increased use of vitamins A, C and E and p...rt is based on information local and international researchers have gathered over the past decade, said Zafar Adeel, the U.N. university's academic program officer...

H2O - a cure for low blood pressure

US researchers have found that a large glass of water may be the latest blood pressure drug for some patients. Investigators at Vanderbilt's Autonomic Dysfunction Center reported that water has a powerful blood pressure raising effect in patients who experience fa...

Watch your weight when pregnant

...e of 182 pounds and had an average BMI of 31. The researchers also found that the number of women who needed a C-section increased as BMI of a person increased. Among women with a BMI of 20 or less ( which indicates a low amount of body fat),had a normal delivery. Whereas if BMI ranged from 21-30 ( which indic...

The big brain in suicides

... sucidal attitude had heavier adrenal glands. The researchers said all suicide victims should have a routine post-mortem examination to check for oedema (fluid collection in the brain),a thorough brain chemistry and the state of brain receptors at death so as tofocus further light on this puzzle. ...

Better prostate cancer detection

...m the prostate gland. At Ohio State University, researchers said that it is better to take more samples.// Dr.Robert Bahnson and his team, called this the extended sector biopsy. They took 12 samples - six from the outer rim of the prostate and six more from the inside of the gland. They did this on a grou...

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