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Protective effects of tomatoes in prostate cancer

...ene and reduced cancer risk. In their study , the researchers followed 30 men with localized prostate cancer and administered 15 milligrams of lycopene daily to half of them ,while the other half received no intervention for three weeks prior to surgery.Those who were treated had smaller tumors and tumors that...

A better way to measure cholesterol

... At Johns Hopkins University in the US, researchers believe that it is important to measure non-HDL ch...ter predictor than elevated LDL in this study. The researchers suggest that non-HDL levels should be kept below 130 milligrams per decilitre to cut the risk of hea...

Maternal alcohol consumption linked to behavioral problems in children

...and behavioral and emotional problems. hence the researchers conclude that we should reinforce the Surgeon General's recommendation that pregnant women should abstain from drinking during pregnancy....

How much can exercise improve health?

...at people who exercise improve their health.// But researchers often can't tell how much health-improvement pay-o...the research still can be better.He feels that the researchers need to standardise meanings of terms, so that everybody agree on what they are talking about as the...

B Vitamin protects and lowers toxicity of Arthritis Drug

...ion can be prevented by taking folate supplements, researchers report. The investigators found that patient...s, which indicate toxicity to the liver. The researchers also came out wiht the fact that any possible negative effect of folate supplementation on the effic...

Starch fights cancer

...ific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), researchers have revealed that resistant starch could be as im...ugh they eat less fibre than Westerners.// The researchers have discovered that resistant starch which, as its name suggests cannot be digested, passes into th...

Helping stroke patients to recover balance

... lens. But when they took the spectacles off, the researchers found that patients who had been wearing the right-shifting lenses had lost their postural imbalance which lasted for several minutes....

Simple Therapy

... Once the mutinous cells were eliminated,the researchers coaxed the mice's remaining immune cells to develop normally and specifically to refrain from attacking the islets.The once sickly mice have seen their blood sugar levels returning to normal and by most measures, the mice appeared to be cured of the...

Stuttering and brain anatomy

...ong thought to be caused by emotional factors, but researchers who studied adults with persistent stuttering found that these individuals had anatomical irregularities in the areas of the brain that control language and speech. The study results, reported in Neurology provides the first evidence that anatomic ...

Iron supplementation for a common side effect

...no such improvement in the placebo group. The researchers say that iron decreases levels of nitric oxide, a hormone that is known to irritate the lungs. It is very difficult to state that iron should be recommended to patients on ACE inhibitors who are troubled by a cough. Since this is a small study, it is...

Early detection of prostate cancer

...ow levels of IGFBP-3 and high levels of IGF-1, the researchers suggest, might therefore be used to design a more sensitive test for prostate cancer: one that would identify cases that would not be detected through a PSA test alone. Low levels of IGFBP-3 might also identify men at high risk of developing prostate...

Garlic a day keeps cancer away

... single raw clove of garlic can do wonders say the researchers from Boston University. Garlic is best known for staying off heart disease and it also has powerful anti-cancer properties.A substance called diallyl disulfide in garlic is known to make the gut produce enzymes that clear out cancer-causing particle...

Alzheimer cure

... in cognitive decline. In London and California, researchers now reveal that it is the lack of a signalling molecule called nerve growth// factor (NGF) which underlies this neuronal loss. In mice with experimental forms of these diseases, transport of NGF to these areas was impaired as the mice aged. What's ...

Male infertility in relation to cancer

...nal cavity (peritoneum) and digestive organs. The researchers analysed the sperm quality of semen samples taken from over 32,000 men in England between 1960 and 1989. Sperm count, motility, and shape were assessed. Cancer rates were also studied and compared with those expected for the whole population of Brita...

Headache decreases appetite

...r before nausea or even in its absence. Then the researchers gave pain stimuli to rats and discovered that they activated not just brain cells that transmit pain signals, but also those involved in appetite suppression. Headache stimuli lead to an acute fall in food intake during the first four hours after the...

Ear infection- a new treatment

...her given a placebo. After three months followup, researchers found that 42 per cent of children given the bacte...th only 22 per cent of those given the placebo.The researchers recolonised the children with naturally occurring bacteria to help boost the bodies defence system. ...

Depression and heart failure

...depressed patients were 52.2% and80.4%. The Duke researchers feel that all heart failure patients should be screened for depression.In order to improve the outcome, these patients are treated with anti-depressants. Maybe non-drug approaches like therapy would be useful.Thus, the mechanism by which depression w...

Say "no" to x-rays

Medical researchers from the University of Chapel Hill have found that giving x-rays to people with lower back pain can appear to worsen the outcome. The study tracked two groups of patients - 421 in all - who had had lower back pain for over six weeks. One group was...

Ovarian cancer in relationship with Hormone therapy

...ists for many years after therapy is discontinued, researchers from the American Cancer Society report// in the Journal of the American Medical Association.The study followed 201,681 postmenopausal women from 1982 to 1996 and found ERT (oestrogen replacement therapy) increased the risk and this persisted for up ...

Reversing heart failure

... improves the condition of the heart muscle. The researchers looked at heart tissue from two groups of transplant patients - one group had received LVAD support, the other had not. In the first group, the heart muscle had a stronger contracting mechanism than in the second - suggesting that the LVAD was actual...

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