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Comprehension of taste receptor

...eceptors, though the exact receptor mechanisms are still being sorted out.They have focused on T1R receptors, a family of proteins remotely related to receptors in the brain that recognise the amino acid glutamate and related chemicals.Different T1R genes can be expressed in cells in different combinations...

Endometriosis coalesced with genes

... ligaments and organs in the abdominal cavity, but still responds to the menstrual cycle — causing bleeding, pain, inflammation, adhesions, and sometimes infertility. Australian endometriosis researchers have made use of the Australian Twin Registry, and have joined with the Oxegene project, based at Oxfo...

Obesity increases health costs

...many more chronic health hazards. While tobacco is still the nation's principal cause of preventable deaths, the surgeon general warned// that obesity was running a close second. For a more precise look at the resulting costs, Rand Corp. economist Roland Sturm used data from two national health surveys t...

Acupuncture to bring relief to patients with dry mouth

... migraine to morning sickness. But researchers are still trying to apprehend it works. "When we try to explain the relief of (dry mouth) using ear acupuncture, we presume it is a function of a subtle activation of the autonomous nervous system," the new study's lead author, Dr. Peter A. S. Johnstone of the...

Take care of skin in winter

...ture. If, after following these tips, your skin is still dry, cracked or painful, do see a doctor. It may be that you have dermatitis or eczema - both of which require medical attention....

Nose plug: switch that stops smelling

... stop smelling something, even though the odour is still there.// Two papers published in a recent issue of the journal Science show that a protein called CNGA4 helps plug the ‘nose’ of odour receptor cells.The main job of these neurons is to detect smells and send that information to the brain as an elec...

Dietary advice for diabetes

...arbohydrate/low-fat recommendations (though that's still considered a healthy option too)....

Smokers children likely to develop caries

...d serve as a pragmatic wake-up call to parents who still don't see the danger in smoking around their children," said pediatrician Andrew Aligne, M.D., 3,873 children participated in the survey. The children in the study had dental examinations and a blood test measuring their levels of cotinine, a qua...

Aspirin deflated

...ied substantially among the aspirin users but were still lower than they were in patients not taking aspirin at all. Researchers analyzed that aspirin did not adequately block thromboxane in some patients because of an underlying genetic mutation....

Aspirin surpasses Modern Anti-clotting Drugs

...s no longer recommended by many physicians, but is still on the market. Evaluation of Plavix in a single large trial with stroke patients was not significantly better than aspirin in reducing further strokes, and the company has twice been cautioned by the FDA not to promote the drug. Finally, the Britis...

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...e child's face looks just right. The procedure is still experimental, cautions Dr. Harold Slavkin of the University of Southern California, the National Institutes of Health's former chief of dental and craniofacial research. But it has ``enormous promise,'' he says - so much that some scientists are stud...

Pig cloning for organs

...al-to-human transplants become feasible, there are still likely to be questions about whether such procedures are morally acceptable. Most transplant patients would have no such qualms, researchers say. "When you talk to patients and see surveys done with patients on organ waiting lists, if they're shown t...

Drug to treat lung cancer shows promise

...pears especially promising for former smokers, who still face a higher-than-usual risk// of lung cancers years after they quit. The preliminary study found that the medicine reduced the risk of new or worsening precancerous growths in the lungs of longtime smokers by about 30% during 7 months of use. The ...

Blood test may aid foretell Alzheimer's

... with it for a longer period of time -- while they still have most of their cognitive capabilities -- rather than being told when the disease has progressed to the point they are not able to fully comprehend. That does not mean, however, a blood test would not be useful in understanding what is taking pla...

Liver transplant oversight urged

... rose to 500 last year. About 90 percent of livers still come from dead donors. According to doctors, the s...rcent - far higher than for kidney donors. ``It is still not clear exactly how safe it is to donate a large part of one's liver,'' he wrote....

Oestrogen to help mental health

...ke risperidone have been shown to help many people still suffer these. But researchers have suspected for some time that oestrogen can help protect against schizophrenia, because women suffer a milder version of the disease than men and it usually strikes them later in life. Studies in animals also sugg...

Early Warning System For Breast Cancer

...ssive treatment.// A test to detect the protein is still more than a year away from clinical trials. But promising early results show that RhoC can serve as a marker for breast tumors. RhoC, whose full name is RhoC-GTPase, is an enzyme involved in changing the internal skeleton of a cell - changes that a...

Needle free future for diabetics

...be a needle-free glucose monitoring. The method is still in its early stages, but it's already looking extremely promising. Meanwhile, keep watching this space - for iontophoresis is also being developed as a drug delivery system....

A question on study of Adult Stem Cell

...tion in Cincinnati, Ohio, told UPI. "The potential still exists for stem cells -- even hybrid ones -- to have relevant biological activity and provide (medical) benefit."...

Novel biopsy technique for prostate cancer

...ond biopsy - when the first is clear but cancer is still suspected....

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