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Tobacco chewing leads to dental caries

...e Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say that tobacco chewers are more prone to caries.The researchers studied dental caries and tobacco use data from more than// 13,000 adults aged 19 and over. The researchers illustrated between the two types of spit tobacco, also called smokeless tobacc...

Dangerous food bacteria

Scientists say the bacteria that cause food poisonings aren't goi... food entirely free of them. The scientists also say the increasing use of manure as fertilizer poses the risk of spreading harmful bacteria to food, eit...

Wheat wards off colon cancer

... State University, who carried out the research//, say the findings may empower them to create modified wheat strains with high levels of cancer-fighting chemicals. Antioxidants are important because they combat the body's free radicals - charged particles, produced by the body, which can damage cells. ...

Creams may not reverse aging

Dermatologists say that paying extra for expensive vitamins in skin creams that promise to erase fine lines and prevent wrinkles will get you little more than an empty wallet.//Antioxidants are known to prevent agents called free radicals from damaging cells in the bod...

Dental x-rays to prognosticate heart attacks

...versity at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine ,they say that information culled from routine dental X-ray// may serve as an accurate early-warning system of risk of dying from heart attack or stroke. The study was ushered in a population with a high incidence of diabetes. "Results of this study move us c...

Beta-Carotene May Aid Diabetics

...tene supplementation on LDL oxidation. Researchers say that natural Beta-carotene supplementation may delay atherosclerosis In Diabetics. Participants included 20 patients who were non-insulin-dependant diabetics and age-sex-matched control subjects. For three weeks patients received a supplement of dun...

AIDS drugs linked to heart attack risk

...increase the risk of heart trouble, though experts say the medicines' benefits outweigh any danger. Researchers are at odds over whether the drug combinations are bad for the heart. The drug combinations have been in widespread use for about six years and have prevented thousands of AIDS deaths. Howeve...

Gleevec gets hopeful results

...low patients to live longer than expected. Experts say the drug, made by Novartis Pharmaceuticals also holds promise for the treatment of lung cancer, prostate cancer and a form of stomach cancer. In the longest study of the drug so far, researchers studied 532 patients with chronic leukemia. They all h...

Air pollution may raise risk of lung cancer

...ge D. Thurston. Although much of the study doesn't say anything new, experts note it's important research because it addresses criticisms of past air pollution studies, including a lack of adequate follow-up. "What makes this study significant is that it involved hundreds of thousands of people in citi...

Prescription Drug Use Varies Widely Between States

... of prescription drug use, where you live also can say a lot about which and how many medications you use. // According to the study, the percentage of adult beneficiaries obtaining at least one prescription in 2000 ranged from a high of 71 percent in Kansas to a low of 58 percent in California. The ave...

Outdoor cold is a health hazard

... waiting for a bus or a train. In just 30 minutes, say Professor Ketinge, you can get cold enough to create a problem with clotting a day or so later. It's the time lag that's made this an unsignificant place problem. In colder countries, like Siberia, the excess death problem doesn't exist because peo...

Composite fillings to hasten work procedures

...showing great covenant in dental restorative work, say researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology at Ohio.//This ACP has new physical-chemical properties,” says Tyndall Don, Ph.D., a researcher at OSU. “It’s more soluble than other calcium phosphates and has a tendency to convert t...

Take care of skin in winter

... skin and you need to take extra care. The experts say you should always use a mild, superfatted or glycerine soap and limit the time you spend in the bath or shower to no more than ten to 15 minutes. Lukewarm water is easier on the skin than very hot, and you shouldn't rub yourself dry with a towel - ...

How to avoid a bad hair day

... as much care of your hair as you do of your skin, say hair experts.Dr Zoe Draelos of Forest University explains that the outer layer of the hair - the cuticle - is readily damaged and that's what makes the hair look lifeless, dry and faded.// Hair damage occurs from a range of causes - from dyeing and b...

Defibrillators saving lives but price is an issue

...ath in nearly one-third of the patients. //Doctors say the findings will likely lead to a dramatic and costly shift in the way they treat millions of heart attack patients by adding a $20,000 defibrillator to the medicines now in use. The study is the first to test the preventive use of these devices i...

Dietary advice for diabetes

...eanut oil and carbohydrates. Diabetes experts now say that 50 to 60 per cent of calories should come from carbohydrates - unrefined ones if possible - and monounsaturated fats. Polyunsaturated fats should account for another ten per cent, and its advised that people keep saturated fats below 15 per cent...

Gastrointestinal Complaint to be dealt Psychologically

...iety and depression lie at the root of the nausea, say researchers at the Haukeland University Hospital in Norway. They have surveyed 50,000 people in Norway and find nearly half had suffered at least one gastrointestinal problem, including nausea, constipation and heartburn, in the previous year. And ...

Loss of weight

... taking the drug had died. A spokesman declined to say who was leading the review, which was requested by Italy. Abbott, the manufacturer of sibutramine, has said it is aware of 34 deaths globally in patients taking the drug, but insists there is no evidence that the drug was the cause of the deaths.Mi...

Problematic Use of smallpox vaccine

...t supply of smallpox vaccine, but health officials say they are not recommending that it be widely used- yet. The vaccine currently on hand, 16.8 million doses in a government stockpile// and more than 80 million doses that drug maker Aventis Pasteur says it will add to that, is safe and effective but ca...

Skin cancer on the rise

...if it the condition is caught early.Cancer experts say women have previously had higher rates of malignant skin cancer, probably because of the fashion for suntans. But now they are starting to listen to the warnings about skin cancer, and are protecting both themselves and their children....

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