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Bone Health Protection by Dietary Calcium

...alcium can be absorbed, and this also could play a role in the study's findings, according to its authors. For example, calcium carbonate tablets need to be taken with a meal so that stomach acid can facilitate absorption, but calcium citrate tablets don't have this limitation. If the study participant...

Genetic Tests Could Help Decide the Right Anti-depressants

...tidepressants. Furthermore, other genes may play a role in the adverse effects of antidepressants that have made recent headlines: suicidal behavior. Recent evidence shows that a small number of depressed adolescents and young adults experience an increase in suicidal feelings and thoughts when they are t...

Advanced Cancer Patients Have Sleep Disorders

...ch as depression, pain and fatigue may also play a role in the disruption of sleep among this population, Dr. Parker notes. Opioids, the mainstay of treatment for pain, may have adverse effects on sleep in cancer patients by specifically suppressing deep sleep and dream sleep and altering the normal circa...

Desalination of Sea is Not a Solution to Tackle Global Water Scarcity: WWF

...e said. Desalination plants already play a major role in providing water for drinking and irrigation in areas such as the Middle East, where freshwater supplies are scarce. But many other nations, including the US, China and Spain are turning to the technology to meet growing demands. "Water supply, o...

Protein That may Prevent Eye Damage in Premature Babies Identified

...e discovered that a specific protein plays a vital role in healthy eyesight, and may prevent eye damage in premature babies. University of Florida and Harvard Medical School researchers' discoveryould speedily lead to treatments for babies born before their eyes are finished growing. The finding, to be...

Research in the Origin of Microtubules

...stant tissues. Because microtubules play a central role in cell division, cancer drugs like colchicine, vincristine and paclitaxel (Taxol) can block cell division by altering microtubule dynamics. "Many classic chemotherapy strategies affect microtubules, although it's not quite clear how these drugs in...

Eating Disorder Figures Among Children Soars

...r as if everything is fine. "Teachers have a key role in recognizing and supporting pupils that are struggling in school because they are coping with hidden mental health problems. This is especially true where the parents may be unaware of their child's condition. "As childhood becomes increasingly c...

Kelly Clarkson Reveals Bulimic Past

...ting disorder after she tried to lose weight for a role in a play. "I thought...If I came back and I'm cuter and thinner...then I'll get the role," Us Weekly quoted Clarkson, as saying. However, one of Clarkson's guy pals discovered that she was bulimic, after which she 'snapped out' of it. "One of m...

Researchers Have Found the Role of Protein in Accelerating Breast Cancer Progression

...itute have found in animal models just how great a role the protein pleiotrophin (PTN) plays in accelerating breast cancer . Until this study, the significance of pleiotrophin (PTN) expression in breast cancer had not been clearly established, and boffins are hopeful that the new findings could lead to a...

New Tumor Markers for Pancreatic Cancer

... (DNA) are the masterminds of the system and their role is to give orders. Those orders are transmitted in...me range of orders. However, depending on their role and the signs and information they receive from their surroundings, each cell type sends only specif...

Aedes Agypti Mosquitos Immune System Revealed

...at importance as scientists believe it plays a key role in controlling the transmission of viruses that cause yellow and dengue fevers diseases that infect over 50 million people worldwide every year.The genes that make up the immune system of the Aedes aegypti mosquito which transmits deadly viral dise...

Indigenous Child Abuse

...e Ministers invitation for the AMA to play the key role in addressing this national emergency. AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said today that the AMA is seeking a briefing from the Prime Ministers office and the Health Minister on the detail of the proposals so work can commence as soon as practic...

First-borns Have Higher IQs Than Their Younger Siblings

...he partitioning." This theory suggests that once a role in the family is filled, others have to find roles that help them compete for attention in the family. Because older children already occupy that niche in the family, younger children have to find other roles to play, Sulloway said. However, the wo...

Nephrologists Reassess Disaster Response Strategies

...ntroduction from Dr. Paul Kimmel, highlighting the role of the ASN and other professional organizations in planning the response to disasters. Dr. Jeffrey Kopp of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, and coauthors analyze the lessons of two ...

Antarctic Icebergs Serve as 'hotspots' for Ocean Life

...dell Sea. Based on their new understanding of the role of icebergs in the ecosystem and the sheer number ...er believe the icebergs may also play a surprising role in global climate regulation by removing carbon from the atmosphere. As such, the new research may ...

LifeCycle Pharma Forms Scientific Advisory Board in Solid Organ Transplantation

...ntific Advisory Board will provide an instrumental role in guiding our research and development programs,'... the transplantation field who will play a pivotal role in LifeCycle Pharma bringing innovation to this disease area,' added Dr.Orsnkov. In addition, Lif...

Oral Anti Viral Tamiflu A Cost Effective Treatment

...mic vaccination programmes would play an important role but their effectiveness would be dependent upon how well the vaccine was matched to the virus. The World Health Organisation provides a strong recommendation for the use of Tamiflu for the prevention of avian flu in people who have been in contac...

Another Sexual Attraction is Possible ...

...y specific, hence they are thought to play a major role in the evolution of mating barriers and in the for...es studied here. These results suggest that the role of pheromone divergence in speciation may not be quite as strong as previously thought - at least wi...

Northern Forests Less Effective Than Tropical Forests in Reducing Global Warming

...- and upper-latitude regions are playing a smaller role in offsetting global warming than previously thought , according to a study appearing in this week's issue of Science. The study, which sheds light on the so-called missing carbon sink, concludes that intact tropical forests are removing an unexpect...

Indian Yoga Expert Teaches Fitness Mantras to Lahoris

...said Dr Mishra. He said parents could play a key role in the development of their childrens personalities. He said they should never say no to their children because denying them anything would spoil their confidence. Parents should control their anger in front of children and this is where yoga w...

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