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Safe for people with asthma

...ous problem for people with asthma, so vaccination seems like a sensible thing to do. But there have been concerns that the flu jab can make people's asthma worse. To find it this out researchers at Cleavland University School of Medicine did a thourough study in over 1000 patients, aged from 4-50. One gro...

Cut down on fries

...ea or coffee - particularly when piping hot - also seems to increase risk, perhaps because of the burning e...own.Dr Sharp said: "It's interesting that the risk seems to be higher with tea than with coffee, but perhaps people drink their tea at a higher temperature."...

Discovery of bone gene

...n the gene that drives this process. This family seems to have a higher set point for bone than the general population - bone is formed faster than it is destroyed. Discovering the gene involved may result in a new generation of osteoporosis drugs. Current treatments focus on preventing further bone loss...

Hobbies prevent dementia

...d with reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease. Now it seems that leisure activities, too, protect against cognitive decline as we age.//Researchers at Cleavland University, have been studying 1,000 people aged 60 or older, free of dementia at the start. They asked the participants about their intellectual, so...

Variation in breast cancer

...radiation, which means higher levels of vitamin D, seems to be protective....

Undertaking the obesity epidemic

...n plus at least 120 minutes of exercise a week. It seems that exercise is where the strategy falls down, so it's interesting to note that another study by doctors shows that completely sedentary people who start to exercise have even more to gain, health wise, than those who are already physically active a...

Vitamin E decreases high blood pressure in kidney failure

...nt, reduces the high blood pressure. The vitamin seems to work by restoring levels of nitric oxide, a natural hormone which can relax blood vessels and also has antioxidant properties. Previously, levels of nitric oxide were impaired in the kidney-damaged rats. The study opens up the exciting possibility...

Eat healthy fat

...rs, the research team suggests that grass-fed beef seems to have a better ratio of omega-3 fatty acids, compared to the omega-6 class. Note this isn't always the same as organic meat - which sometimes comes from animals fed from grain....

Fossil teeth and human development

...portions, body weight and small teeth and jaws."It seems our prolonged period of growth and development may be a more recent evolutionary acquisition that arose in step with our comparatively recent development of a larger, modern, human-sized brain," Dr. Walker said. ...

Toxin connected to 'Flesh-eating' Pneumonia in Kids

...e that "pneumonia caused by PVL-positive S. aureus seems to be a specific disease...with a poor prognosis." Because of the extensive destruction it causes in the lungs and other tissue, they have dubbed the illness S. aureus necrotizing (death of living tissue) pneumonia. It is unclear how common this pne...

Heart Surgery Is Getting Safer for the Old

...gery for patients in their mid-eighties and beyond seems to dropping, making the procedure safe and advisable for the elderly.// According to Dr. Todd Rosengart, an associate professor of surgery at Southeastern University ,open heart surgery, if indicated, is safe and will improve quality of life in thes...

Calcium reduces colon cancer risk

...cium diets, even a modest increase in the nutrient seems to lower the risk of some types of colon cancer. Researchers evaluated the diet and colon cancer history of 135,000 men and women in two large health surveys.// They found that those who consumed 800 to 900 mg of calcium a day significantly reduced t...

Clotting Protein plays a role in nerve repair

...kefeller University in New York report that fibrin seems to play a critical role in repairing damaged myeli...he brain and spinal cord. After a nerve injury, it seems that a protein called fibrinogen can leak from the blood into the damaged nerve. Once in the nerve, ...

Stem Cells Have Few Mutations

...ed, however, that the chromosome deletion mutation seems to increase in frequency as a colony of stem cells ages.``These events accumulate as one maintains these cells in culture,'' he said. Larry Goldstein, a cell biologist at the University of California, San Diego, said the finding that mutations accu...

Mutating viruses helps produce antibodies

...ocess works still are unclear, but unexpectedly it seems to involve an enzyme tied to deadly retroviruses, such as HIV, known as reverse transcriptase. The enzyme apparently analyzes a master copy of the gene for the tail-like structures to modify a second copy of the gene, which is the version the virus u...

Dangers of sunlight

...te et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), said: "It seems that sunlight exposure throughout a lifetime may be important to cataract formation." The greater the dose of solar radiation, the higher the chance of developing a cataract. Mr Jonathan Dowler, a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Moorfields Eye Hos...

Look out for sepsis

... infection does not clear up within a few days, or seems to be getting worse. Sepsis can take hold very rapidly, so prompt medical attention is essential....

Pregnancy complications indicate health problems

...mid-life screening - from the late 30s onwards. It seems that there may be underlying genetic factors influencing both difficult pregnancies and diabetes and heart disease....

Drinking wine as part of a healthy living

...ell established that moderate alcohol consumption seems to confer some health benefit,// chiefly in the fo..., smoked less and exercised more. So wine drinking seems to go hand in hand with healthy choices. Many other studies have shown that alcohol - whatever the...

Novel research on liver cancer

...with 3-bromopyruvate in the rabbits, healthy liver seems to be spared, but sections of healthy liver were damaged by chemoembolization. Doctors felt, at this time, the test is very experimental and has only been tested in animals. Many more studies will need to be completed before it can be tested on huma...

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