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Air pollution affects the heart

...le with pre-existing disease. According to a new study by researchers at Harvard University now reveals t...lar to that in the general environment. During the study they wore an air sampler -to check PM2.5 level - and a heart rate monitor. There was a 2.6 per cent ...

Grains do good

...reduce stroke risk by about 32%. According to a study of a group of 65,000 women, those who ate the equivalent of two to three slices of whole-grain bread each day were 30% to 40% less likely to have an ischemic (blocked artery)or stroke than women who ate the equivalent of less than half a slice each d...

Meditation relieves stress

According to a new study a meditation programme helps people with chronic i...this follow-up. It is also important to repeat the study with a control group (who do not do the meditation) to confirm that this is not just a placebo effec...

Right drugs drastically cut stroke risk

...n of drugs that keeps blood pressure in check. The study involving about 6,000 patients over six years in m...s regardless of ethnicity, sex and age. The new study has revealed that over 5,00,000 of these could be prevented by using a combination of Perindopril (a...

Antioxidants found in chocolates

...pounds known as flavonoids. It has been found in a study that chocolate contains higher levels of health-promoting flavonoids than apples or orange juice. Antioxidants block the action of harmful free radicals, which are produced when oxygen burns glucose in cells to release energy. Unchecked, free radica...

A new growth factor identified

...ds. According to Dr.Napoleone Ferrara, one of the study authors, they believe that EG-VEGF was implicated in the pathogenesis of some ovarian disorders resulting in infertility, such as the polycystic ovary syndrome and an inhibitor of EG-VEGF may have therapeutic value in this condition. He also added t...

Drink grape juice for health

...ioxidant effects than orange juice. according to a study published in the journal of medicinal food. The study states that, people who are looking to promote their cardiovascular health through increased antioxi...

Link between Constipation and Parkinson's Disease

Researhers have found from a long-term study that men who suffer from constipation are nearly t...ined as less than one bowel movement per day. This study is part of a larger// 24-year research project called the Honolulu Heart Program. Researchers are no...

Starving leads to obesity

...obesity among the women, who were aged 50 when the study took place, was higher than in the general population. Many of these women had increased amounts of body fat in the abdominal area.This particular depostion of fat is associated with "metabolic syndrome" which is also linked to high cholesterol level...

Nitric oxide involved in high blood pressure

...o the researchers at the University of Texas, this study was conducted on rats and found that nitric oxide,...essure are diverse and in many cases unclear, this study shows the importance of making sure high blood pressure is always controlled and may provide greater...

Eating disorder... a survey

...e eating or purging.The girls who took part in the study were asked to complete a standardised questionnaire on eating disorders.// They found that 14% of girls aged 12 to 14 reported binge eating episodes in the previous month. Almost 9% of this age group reported self-induced vomiting to lose weight. ...

Prescription Drug - Helps People Stop Smoking

...e a hurdle when a smoker tries to quit smoking. A study of more than 600 smokers found that use of an anti...nificant aid in helping subjects stop smoking. The study also found that the drug lessened the problem of weight gain among some study participants. The pa...

Recouping blood flow after a stroke

...ns - like speech and movement in many cases. Now a study in laboratory rats reveals that the blood supply of the brain can respond to stroke damage. Researchers at the Harvard University School of Medicine in the US simulated a minor stroke in a group of rats, by constricting the blood vessels in their b...

Alcohol linked to brain activity

A largest study on how alcohol affects the brain in elderly people...in (LDL, or 'good' cholesterol) in the blood. This study suggests that the usual recommendations on alcohol intake - two or three drinks a day as the upper l...

A non-stick danger

...cooking utensils may damage the environment, a new study suggests.The commercial polymer, Teflon, is one of...ants and does not break down in the environment, a study in today's Nature reveals.TFA is known as a breakdown product of gases that were introduced to repla...

Humour inherited

...Institute of Psychiatry in London, adding a larger study would be necessary to confirm these findings....

Acupuncture provides relief

...s into special sites in the nervous system.// The study compared 157 patients undergoing five treatments over a three week period of either acupuncture, massage or "sham" laser acupuncture (a dummy procedure to control for acupuncture). Published in the latest British Medical Journal, it found the acupu...

The effect of heart rate in middle aged men

...ll-cause mortality in middle-aged men.// In their study , data were collected from 2533 men who were between 40 to 69 years of age , who were followed up over 4 to13 years.During such follow up there were 393 deaths.Of these deaths , 38% were due to cardiovascular diseases, 39% were from cancer, 5% from v...

A rare complication of bowel disease

...nd maybe even ulcerated. The first person in this study needed steroids while the other needed an emergency tracheotomy - insertion of a tube in the throat to bypass the obstructed segment of the airway. Airway inflammation like this can even be life-threatening, say the researchers. It's a rare complicat...

Male infertility in relation to pesticide

...ity among infertile men, a new report suggests.The study shows these chemicals may worsen the effect of pre...r sites, including the accessory sex glands," said study author Dr Luc Multigner, from France's Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale. Th...

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