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Diabetics Risking Health by Using Alternative Medications Without Consultation

...ctorate candidate in Griffith's School of Nursing, says that though some complementary and alternative therapies may benefit patients, they can also have side effects or interact with conventional medications. "Fenugreek for example, used as a supplement, may affect blood sugar levels but patients are...

Stem Cell Treatment may Prolong Lives of Children With Brittle Bone Disease

...s. A report published in New Scientist magazine says that the treatment has already been tried in the US on three children with OI whilst still in the womb, with promising early results seen after the babies were born. Fisk believes that though drugs exist to treat the disease, stem cell transplants...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

...nez, the speaker of California's state parliament, says that was exactly the intention. "If you look at...s-friendly, said a critic. Although the governor says he wants to hold polluters more accountable, administration officials recently signaled lawmakers th...

Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted

...mercury that they are unfit for human consumption, says the report. Health effects of these chemicals include damage to the nervous, respiratory and immune system, as well as cancer. While there have been reductions in contaminants in parts of the Great Lakes, severe problems remain, particularly for ...

Cat Exposure Increases Bronchial Responsiveness

...d benefit from reduced cat ownership and exposure, says Dr. Chinn. However, because the findings were unexpected, it is important that results are replicated in other studies before firm recommendations are made. The researchers could not rule out the possibility that cat allergen exposure or cat owners...

New Oncogene for Brain Cancer

... fuel development and progression of brain tumors, says senior author Wei Zhang, Ph.D., professor in M. D. Andersons Department of Pathology. Using a gene transfer delivery system in a mouse model, a team led by Zhang and Professor of Pathology Gregory Fuller, M.D., Ph.D., shows that IGFBP2 plays an act...

New York, the City That Roars 24/7, is Forced to Quiet Down

...the inspector and that is written into the law. It says that many noises, if they are plainly audible, it is a violation," Fierstein said. Decibel limits for some noises are being reduced, he noted. For an air conditioning or any air unit, the maximum level that a person can hear in their apartment is 4...

Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications For Designing Therapies

... growth factors in a culture dish. The findings, says the lead author of the study, Florian T. Merkle a ...ng is remarkably clean and was highly unexpected," says senior author Alvarez-Buylla, UCSF Heather and Melanie Muss Professor of Neurological Surgery. "We'v...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...e scientists and the granola-and-sandals brigade," says US historian Spencer Weart -- took notice of the i...titute of Physics (AIP) in College Park, Maryland, says two other factors have been big in changing opinion in the United States. One is former US vice pr...

Low Income Family Adolescents Suffer Migraine

...ressful life events related to income dont matter, says Dr. Bigal. Theyre more likely than other teens to get migraine regardless of their socioeconomic status, since they are predisposed. But for teens without a strong predisposition, reflected by the absence of migraine in first-degree relatives, fam...

New Clues About Multiple Sclerosis

...ber of the American Academy of Neurology. Rinker says the reason for this biological difference is unkno...verage of 17 years for Caucasians. However, Rinker says the higher values of antibodies in African Americans did not predict an earlier need for help walkin...

Diabetic Skip Jabs to Stay Slim

...ness, heart disease and even death. Diabetes UK says that ups to a third of young women with the disease miss the life- saving injections or drastically reduce the dose so they can stay thin. This is equivalent to almost 3,000 teenage girls. Sufferers of Type 1 diabetes, which often develops in child...

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

...arn not to let the disease derail their lives. She says about her patients, Theyre amazing. Dubinsky, a pediatric gastroenterologist, and her colleagues at Cedars-Sinai currently treat more than 400 children from 2 to 21 years of age with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Crohns disease and ulcerative c...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...as picked up," particularly by private companies," says Davis, the centers associate director and its chie...ys. Rodney Andrews, the centers acting director, says CAERs focus places the university among the leaders of researchers seeking fuels to provide energy i...

Moss, Beckham, Hilton's Portraits Sketched in Pig's Blood for Charity

... . Artist Rich Clarke, who created the artworks, says that he was inspired by US TV drama 'Dexter' that follows a serial killer, working for the police and analysing blood at crime scenes. He was specifically assigned the task of making these artworks by FX Channel to coincide with the launch of US TV...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...ve a hydrogen-powered car along the entire route," says Anders Hermansen from Statoil, Norway's biggest oi...ude towards climate change in the past 12 months," says Kruse, "and this makes it easier to mainstream hydrogen technology. I'm already receiving inquiries ...

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

...oking for an insurance to give them better health, says Dr. Dr.Geoffrey Savage, a senior lecturer in Food Biochemistry in Lincoln University, Newzealnd. The term functional food was a curious and confusing concept, he said. Clearly all foods are functional, because they provide taste, aroma or nutriti...

Gadrasil Could Prove Effective in Men too

... cause relatively harmless genital warts. Merck says it did this because the wart strains can confuse HPV screening tests and cause unnecessary anxiety among patients. Some researchers, however, have said that this grouping will encourage men to get vaccinated to prevent disfiguring warts, and as a r...

Defective HIV Testing Kits Poses Serious Health Risks

A noted India-born AIDS researcher in the US says that defective or sub-standard medical kits supplied by the government's National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) for testing HIV in different blood banks and hospitals in India has put a large number of Indians at serious health risk. Kunal Saha...

Single Drug to Check Both Glucose and Cholesterol in Diabetics on the Cards

...rmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine, says that the compound colesevelam HCl, in combination with Sulfonylurea-based therapy has been found to significantly reduce glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. People with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol face a number o...

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