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Garlic a day keeps cancer away

...ncer, a single raw clove of garlic can do wonders say the researchers from Boston University. Garlic is...valent// to a moderate daily intake in humans.They say that even half a clove of raw garlic could have the same beneficial effect in humans....

Focus on DNA transcription

...Erie, Assitant Professor in Chemistry and her team say that " the information for all the genes in an organism is containd in its DNA.For this information to be translated into function, sections of the DNA must be copied into an RNA chain. The RNA is then translated ino proteins that must carry out part...

Ear infection- a new treatment

...help boost the bodies defence system. The authors say that using alpha streptococci may help offset antibiotic resistance among children prone to this type of ear infection.Dr Henley Harrison who heads the Ear, Nose and Throat Department at Sydney Children's Hospital said it was a novel approach with im...

Chaste plant a boon

... anger, headache and breast fullness. The authors say that, following the positive results, agnus castus should now be considered by medical practitioners as a therapeutic option for women suffering from PMS. ...

Breast milk is essential

Researchers say that mothers who breast-feed their children for less than three months may be preventing them from reaching their full intellectual potential. The results of intelligence tests on 13-month-old babies and five- year-old children showed that those who...

Eat Vitamin C and stay young

...t University and the National Institutes of Health say that recommended daily allowance of vitamin C for healthy young women should be raised from 75 to 90 milligrams a day. Eating a variety of fruits and vegetables can more than satisfy the recommended allowance, said Dr. Mark Levine, lead author of a ...

Prevention of cataracts

...olate, carotene and lutein/zeaxanthin. Researchers say after they adjusted for other nutrients, only vita...who never used vitamin C supplements. Researchers say these results provide further proof that antioxidant nutrients play a role in the prevention of age-...

How to diagnose heart failure?

Researchers at the University of Texas say that physical examination gives two distinct signs that signal heart failure. Generally the power of the simple physical examination is forgotten by many. But doctors at the Heart Failure Research Unit at the University of Texas now reveal that two s...

Genetic influence in menopause

... menstruating much earlier or much later. But they say that however, it is unlikely for gene therapy to control the age of menopause because there are probably many different genes involved....

Osteoporosis in men

...ive drinking and lack of exercise. A final factor, say scientists, is age. The older you are, regardless of gender, the greater your risk of developing osteoporosis. The good news is that diet and exercise can help prevent osteoporosis. As part of National Osteoporosis Month, experts are promoting the ...

Acupuncture for conception

...re the flow of energy that acupuncture specialists say will prepare the patient for pregnancy,as the news states....

Bald head bad health

...heart disease than those with a full head of hair, say researchers.Their findings were published in the A..., a susceptibility to blood clots.Researchers also say that heart disease and baldness may be inherited together and they recommended that bald men should ...

Coronary stent leads to complications

...rder to cut the complication rate, the researchers say that may be people should be given anti-clotting therapy for longer around the time of angioplasty and probably use stent coated with an anti-clotting material in future....

'Prozac miracle' could end in disaster

...GlaxoSmithKline on behalf of a group of people who say they became chronically addicted to an antidepressant drug in the same class as Prozac. The case, which has been filed in California, is the first ever to claim damages for addiction against one of the drug companies that have made billions from SSRI...

Memory problem? solve a crossword

.../ Other strategies to keep the mind functioning, say experts, include lifelong learning and memory trai...ir problem solving abilities by taking up walking, say the researchers....

Humour inherited

...r genes, and everything to do with your upbringing say UK biologists. Most personality traits such as being introverted or extroverted are believed to be at least partly genetically determined - so researchers presumed the same applied to our sense of humour. The team asked 71 pairs of identical twins a...

Doctors not to accept gifts from drug companies

...that some drug makers shower on doctors. Ethicists say the gifts could encourage doctors to prescribe medications that may not be in patients' best interests. "Overall they spend billions of dollars trying to influence physicians prescribing behavior, and it works," said Dr. John Lantos, associate direc...

A rare complication of bowel disease

...flammation like this can even be life-threatening, say the researchers. It's a rare complication of IBD,but is important for physicians....

Male infertility in relation to pesticide

...m a productive farming region in Austria. But they say the dramatic nature of the observed changes in semen quality warrant further attention.// Among men seeking infertility treatment, those who were exposed to pesticides were most likely to have a very low sperm output - in the bottom 25 per cent of ...

The bad combination

... alcohol to get an expected level of intoxication, say the researchers from the Texas A&M University System Health Centre.// Although their blood alcohol level would be reduced by smoking, the levels of acetaldehyde, a product of alcohol breakdown, would not.So in heavy drinkers who smoke, acetaldehyde...

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