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Hepatitis G May Boost HIV Survival

...or to new types of HIV treatment with hepatitis G, researchers suggest. "We are working to try to understand the mechanism of the HIV inhibition'' apparently caused by hepatitis G, Dr. Jack T. Stapleton, of the University of Iowa and the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. "If we can determine how (hepa...

Gastrointestinal ills more common in diabetics

...rather than a side effect of diabetes medications, researchers suggest. Gastrointestinal symptoms such as heartbu...f gastrointestinal maladies in a survey. After the researchers took into account age and sex, they found that diabetics were more likely than people without the di...

The patient's voice

...well recording signs and symptoms, but doctors and researchers could learn a lot from the patient's ideas, beliefs and insights about their illness. It would help new patients too - showing they're not alone, and giving them vital information on managing their condition. // Doctors at the UK Cochrane Centre, ...

Heat therapy relieves back pain

...hod of bringing relief in lower back pain. But now researchers at the Louieville Clinic in the US have developed a high-tech way of using heat.// Intradiscal electrothermal therapy (IDET) was first developed at Stanford University, and involves delivering heat through a treatment wire into the space between th...

Toxic effects common with AIDS treatments

...e been recorded and quantified by a group of Swiss researchers in a study published this week in The Lancet. If e... antiretroviral treatment for their condition. The researchers found that 47 per cent of patients taking part in the study exhibited clinical and 27 per cent exhib...

Wound healing made faster

...sembling them into a wound-healing "complex". The researchers believe that although the complex occurs in nature... artificially assembled complex on skin cells, the researchers were surprised to find that not only did it initiate a normal injury response in the cells, but heig...

Inadequate epilepsy treatment

...epilepsy patients not receiving appropriate drugs, researchers say. Around 30,000 people are diagnosed with epile... expected to continue on long-term medication. But researchers from the Institute of Neurology at University College London have found that some epilepsy treatment...

Fright could be more harmful

...acks. A letter to the British Medical Journal from researchers in the UK, US and Australia predicted that while bioweapons themselves might not kill many people, for many more, their prospect is having a devastating effect. Already, there are reports of mass illness - on 29 September, paint fumes set off a bio...

High-Carbohydrate diet plus exercise !

...od fats also linked to heart disease risk.// But researchers at Loughborough University, England, have found that the drawbacks of a high-carbohydrate diet can be modified by exercise. They tested eight women in their 50s and 60s, and gave them a series of three day diets: low-carbohydrate, high-carbohydrate w...

Smoking can depreciate intellegence

...had suffered significant intellectual decline. The researchers found that smokers were up to five times more like...to all parts of the body, including the brain. The researchers suggest that this may explain why smoking has an impact on intellect. The study also found that peo...

All the more bad

...up and blocking the blood vessels. A team of Swiss researchers examined 367 people with heart disease. Blood test...d stopped for less than three months. However, the researchers also found that once smokers had given up the habit, their paraoxonase levels began to return to nor...

Blood Pressure Drug may slow wasting in burn victims

...severe burns and other major injuries. In a study, researchers at Shriners Hospital for Children in Galveston, Texas, tried propranolol on 13 children with bad burns and left 12 untreated to compare. The drug, one of a class known as beta blockers, checks the stimulating action of the hormone adrenaline and help...

Iron is a two sided sword

...ch iron might be as bad for you as too little, say researchers at Ohio State University. They exposed human intes...d poisoning bacterium Salmonella enteritidis . The researchers suggest that iron supplements and fortified foods should only be consumed by those with proven iron ...

Breast Cancer Surgery Causes Psychological problems

...blic Health Association's annual meeting. // The researchers asked 266 women who had undergone breast cancer su...ess likely to be depressed than younger women, the researchers found....

Smoker's are prone to Alzheimer's

... to get Alzheimer's at a younger age. However, the researchers found that smoking does not increase the risk of d... people with the gene - APOE epsilon 4. The Dutch researchers said this could be because smoking altered the chemistry of the brain and defused some of the effect...

New gene for hairloss

...t those genes down when thyroid hormone is absent, researchers concluded.George, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and colleagues report their study of the hairless gene in the Oct. issue of the journal Genes and Development. According to them the hairless gene itself is activat...

Avoid stress to have strong babies

...regnancy could cause women to have smaller babies, researchers have discovered. They believe the effect is caused...ate their stress levels using a questionnaire. The researchers carried out ultrasound scans to test the blood flow through arteries. They found that those who were...

Fluoride Found Effective in Osteoporosis

...f backbone fractures associated with osteoporosis, researchers report. Fluoride is known to stimulate new bone fo...compared with women not treated with fluoride, the researchers note, suggesting that fractures were prevented by bone remodeling and bone formation....

Fructose cause digestive problems

... linked with consumption of dairy produce.// The researchers carried out a fructose breath test on 190 patients with unexplained gas, bloating and pain, 80 per cent of whom met criteria for IBS. In 70 per cent, methane and hydrogen were found in the breath analysis - both markers for fructose intolerance. More...

Drugs to stop burgeon of HIV

...nd themselves before 'popping' off.// In 1996 the researchers showed that a protein created by HIV called Vpu fo...dding," said Professor Henry.Earlier this year the researchers showed that Vpu could dramatically increase the rate of budding. They concluded Vpu is likely to be ...

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