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Low Calorie Diet can Promote Healthy Weight Loss and Help Control Hunger

...to 14.7 pounds. Weight loss was well maintained by subjects in both groups during the second six months of the study. Records kept by the women showed that those who included more water-rich foods ate 25 percent more food by weight and felt less hungry than those who followed the reduced-fat diet. By eatin...

A Handful of Pistachios a Day Helps to Keep Your Heart Healthy

...nificant impact on their blood lipid levels. All subjects consumed their normal diets during a five-day baseline period. Then, half the subjects were randomised to the pistachio diet for four weeks followed by four weeks on the regular diet; the...

Lack of Sleep Affects Eye-steering Coordination Needed While Driving

...ay, they drove for one hour starting at 5 p.m. The subjects were kept awake the following night, and on day two, drove again at 5 p.m. for up to two-and-a-half hours. Their eye movements were monitored using a dashboard mounted eye tracker, and steering wheel movement was monitored through a precision poten...

Medical Students Get Poor Quality Sleep

...cipants and 45 percent were humanities majors. All subjects were administered the self-report Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Epworth Sleepiness Scale. "Sleepiness and poor sleep quality are prevalent among university students, affecting their academic performance and daytime functioning. This stu...

Myelin Associated With Early Evolution of Huntington's Disease

...d iron content were taken from the brains of 11 HD subjects and compared to a control group of 27 subjects. Bartzokis found that both the breakdown and the iron accumulation matched the typical progression of the disease from early to late myelinating regions. Thus, according to Bartzokis, earlier myelinated...

Cod Liver Oil Helps Keep Depression at Bay

...ning the dietary habits and health of about 22,000 subjects aged 40 and over, showed that people who seldom or never took cod liver oil had higher rates of depression, stress or anxiety. Nine per cent of the participants who took a spoonful every day were 30 per cent less likely to be subjected to depressio...

HIV Drug Resistance can Be Identified by Genome Sequencing

...ns. Kozal and his team examined samples from 258 subjects of the FIRST study, a large multi-center five-year U.S. trial comparing three different approaches to antiretroviral therapy. The study evaluated the long-term clinical and virologic effects of three initial antiretroviral drug regimens for treatment...

Rejection in Lung Transplants Due to Elevated Pepsin Level

...e study included 36 lung transplant recipients, 17 subjects with normal lung function but unexplained cough wh...he researchers determined pepsin levels in all the subjects using bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) Our primary finding was that, compared with control subjects, w...

Higher Intake of Calcium and Vitamin D Linked With Brain Lesions in Older People

...en the ages of 60 and 86 (average age 71). All the subjects had at least some brain lesions of varying sizes, ...nal study of late-life depression, almost half the subjects had been diagnosed with depression. However, the presence or absence of depression also did not appe...

Anti-inflammatory Drug Fails to Improve COPD Symptoms

...chers at 41 U.S. medical centers that enrolled 234 subjects in the study. Patients receiving infliximab were randomly selected to receive the drug in doses of 3 mg/kg or 5 mg/kg six times during a six-month period of time. At the end of six months, there was no meaningful difference in the quality of life a...

Marijuana can Trigger Psychotic Symptoms, New Study Finds

...h stable schizophrenia. Nearly half of the healthy subjects experienced psychotic symptoms when given the drug. While the doctors expected to see marijuana improve the conditions of their schizophrenic subjects—since their patients reported that the drug calmed them—they found that the reverse was true. "...

World’s First Attempt To Restore Sight Using Gene Therap

...y be available within several months. However, the subjects - Mr. Johnson and the 11 others - will need to be followed up to assess the long term effect of the treatment. It is anticipated that the best results will be achieved in younger patients, as they will be treated when the disease is in its earlier st...

Link Between Migraine Attacks in Teens and Suicidal Tendencies

...three months is defined as chronic headache. The subjects were also screened for psychiatric disorders. The finding revealed that almost half of the people suffering chronic daily headaches suffered one or more psychiatric disorders. Nearly 21% suffered major depression and 19% were suffering panic disorder...

Pistachio Nuts Keep Away Heart Diseases

...ciences at Penn State, performed a study by giving subjects a pista feed after a typical American diet which consisted of 35 percent total fat and 11 percent saturated fat, for a period of two weeks. The experiment included diet variants such as the consumption of 1.5 ounces or 3 ounces of pistachio nuts p...

Lead Removing Drug Improves Muscle Function in Lead-Exposed Children

...context. “Our statistical analysis revealed that subjects who received succimer therapy showed a significant improvement in balance and movement compared to the non-therapy group,” says Bhattacharya. “This new data—combined with our previous research—leads us to believe that succimer therapy may also result...

Black Cohosh-Black Magic Against Breast Cancer

...id that the herb- black cohosh, when used by study subjects showed an effect of reducing breast cancer risk by up to 61 percent. The herb black cohosh is used along with dong quai, red clover, ginseng, yam and others, as hormone related supplements to deal with menopausal symptoms. As a part of their s...

Alcoholics by All Means Should Avoid Stress During Early Abstinence

...otional effects that benefit the alcohol-dependent subjects during early abstinence. However, in the absence o...ful deleterious effects, because alcohol-dependent subjects are more vulnerable to relapse during early abstinence." "Given that the HPA axis remains ‘stunne...

Inhaled Insulin Study Moves Ahead

...gned for upper airway drug delivery. A total of 30 subjects participated in the randomized, two-way crossover study conducted in Germany. Each subject received in randomized fashion a single dose of 10 International Units of insulin through subcutaneous injection (SC) in one period, and 6.5 milligrams of the ...

A Single High Fat Meal Could Boost Blood Pressures

... tests showed that the noted pressure jumps in his subjects were due to the constriction of veins and arteries in the body, which forces the heart to beat harder to circulate blood through. Over time, Campbell says, the problem might become cumulative, with such vessel constriction becoming permanent after ...

Cognitive Problems Occur More Rapidly in Female Alcoholics Than in Males

...emale (n=24) alcoholics, and non-alcoholic control subjects (n=68) – on a series of neurocognitive tasks: motor speed, visuoperceptual processing, visuospatial processing, decision-making, and cognitive flexibility. Participants were recruited from the Leningrad Regional Center of Addictions, and from Pavlov ...

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