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Big and Bright

...is directly related to birth weight, while factors such as the mother's age, race, education and socio-economic status were also taken into account. Many studies have shown low birth weight babies (those born weighing less than 2500 grams) have lower IQ test scores at school age - and the small...

Tea Tales

...nutes as a result of this it has other polyphenols such as thearubigins and theaflavins which are very powerful antioxidants....

Iron supplementation for a common side effect

...r three it had virtually disappeared. There was no such improvement in the placebo group. The researchers say that iron decreases levels of nitric oxide, a hormone that is known to irritate the lungs. It is very difficult to state that iron should be recommended to patients on ACE inhibitors who are ...

Young womens woes

...can vary greatly, experts say. While these include such classic symptoms as chest pain, gray colour and increased sweating, women can also experience general malaise, nausea, abdominal pain and excessive fatigue. It may also be, they said, that women are more at risk of death after heart attack because o...

Young women's woes

...can vary greatly, experts say. While these include such classic symptoms as chest pain, gray colour and sweatiness, women can also experience general malaise, nausea, abdominal pain and excessive fatigue. It may also be, they said, that women are more at risk of death after heart attack because of increa...

Focus on DNA transcription

... proteins that must carry out particular functions such as wound healing which is at the end of a complicated cascade of events in the body. Transcription is the process of making RNA chains from DNA.In a series of complicated experiments with the enzyme from the bacteria E.Coli. Erie and her student...

Ear infection- a new treatment

...g them with bacteria.Naturally occurring bacteria, such as alpha steptococci,protect the body from such infections. However children who get a lot of ear infections have been found to have a lower than no...

Dark skin protects

...he body which are hardly ever exposed to sunlight, such as genitalia, throats and nasal passages, are packed with melanin cells.In mammals, melanin is contained inside vesicles called melanosomes. Larger, more numerous melanosomes make for darker skin. Mackintosh suggests melanosomes might act like lysoso...

Strong pain killers likely to cause miscarriage

...taken no drugs. The study found that while taking such drugs did not cause more birth defects, low birth weight or preterm births, it did cause a higher rate of miscarriage. Ironically, low doses of another NSAID, aspirin, is used in preventing miscarriage in a small group of women who have an immune dis...

Chaste plant a boon

...178 women diagnosed with PMS who suffered symptoms such as unstable mood, anger, anxiety, tiredness, sleep disorders and bloating. They took one 20mg tablet a day throughout three monthly cycles, and the treatment was especially effective for irritability, mood alteration, anger, headache and breast fulln...

Breast milk is essential

...e was found in the development of movement skills, such as those involving co-ordination. Dr Torstein Vik, of the University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, and scientists from the Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, followed 345 randomly selected children to test o...

Doctor samples come under the ambit of advertisement

...onfidence about the curative value of the drug and such confidence could be created mainly by the medical ...ment, publicity or sales promotion. The purpose of such distribution was to obtain a feed back from medical profession as to the efficacy of the distributed...

'Sweaty palms syndrome' can be cured by surgery

...ontinue to sweat after surgery.The side effects of such surgery are compensatory sweating on the abdomen, back or thighs, but this sweating is often not nearly as severe as was experienced on the hands....

Sponging Cattle betters spraying in eradicating Malaria

...iparum, than house spraying.It was also found that such methods adopted to eradicate the mosquitoes had no toxic reactions in any animals, and deltamethrin, the insecticide used, is not thought to be a hazard to consumers....

Iron supplements proves helpful in dry cough .

...cations in patients with cardiovascular conditions such as hypertension and heart failure.But however this drug produces dry cough as its most frequent side effect.// In most cases, patients with this troublesome complication discontinue the drug. Koreans have come out with a remedy for this complication...

Increased Heart Attack Risk From Celebrex,Vioxx

...and Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen, but with less chance of causing ulcers and intestinal bleeding. Aspirin inhibits two closely related cyclooxygenase enzymes, COX-1 and COX-2. These new drugs specifically inhibit only the COX-2 (which is involved in pain and inflamma...

Role of zinc in development

...s most easily absorbed from foods of animal origin such as meat, seafood and poultry. Since iron can interfere with zinc absorption, it would make sense in communities where zinc intakes are likely to be low, to provide a supplement that contained both iron and zinc....

Wrinkle cure

...onsuming more Vitamin C-rich fruits and vegetables such as strawberries, tomatoes, and red bell peppers. There are also foods that should be removed from one's diet in order to prevent aging. Sugar damages skin by causing collagen to cross-link, making skin stiff and inflexible. Other foods that should b...

Surviving surgery

...k of stroke. But various kinds of cancer surgery, such as removal of the lung or oesophagus, are linked with 8.6 per cent to 13.7 per cent mortality. However, without this surgery the patient might die of their disease. So it's a matter of the doctor and the patient weighing up the risks and benefits of ...

Osteoporosis in men

...certain medications and unhealthy lifestyle habits such as smoking, excessive drinking and lack of exercis... right foods. For example, foods high in calcium - such as low-fat cheese, yogurt and milk should be consumed daily....

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