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Mobile Phones Found To Reduce A Man’s Fertility by 30

...that the males who walked around with their phones switched on (on standby) all day had 30% less sperm than the men who had them switched off (or not on them). More alarming – they found that the rest of the sperm of them men who had thei...

Low Glycemic Diet Effective In Reducing Weight

...ovascular disease. Even after the two diet groups switched to the alternate diet for another three weeks, the rats that switched from low- to high-GI diets showed greater increases in blood glucose and insulin than rats switched ...

Epileptic Drug Found To Be Effective In Relieving Headache

...d either treatment for a week, and then each group switched to the opposite treatment for a second six weeks. Results showed 36 percent of the patients taking 2,400 milligrams of gabapentin a day stopped having chronic daily headaches. Negative effects of the drug included vomiting, dizziness, dysarthria (p...

Another Use For Epilepsy Drugs

...d either treatment for a week, and then each group switched to the opposite treatment for a second six weeks. Results showed 36 percent of the patients taking 2,400 milligrams of gabapentin a day stopped having chronic daily headaches. Negative effects of the drug included vomiting, dizziness, dysarthria (p...

Heart Disease In Women Can Be Reduced By Eating Grapes

... After a three-week washout, the two groups were switched for a second four-week period. Plasma triglyceride concentrations were reduced by 15 percent in the pre-menopausal women after they had taken the grape powder, and 6 percent in the post-menopausal women. Plasma LDL (‘bad’) cholesterol and apolipoprot...

New Blood Thinner Pill - First Potential Alternative to Warfarin in 50 years

...t it will take some time, before patients could be switched over to the new drug. The Swedish study of 1,223 patients in 18 countries tested Exanta for the prevention of recurrent clots in people who had a leg or lung clot. They entered the study after getting warfarin for six months. For the next 18 months...

Red Clover- A Future Remedy For Menopause And An Alternative To HRT

...e female sex hormone oestrogen. A lot of them have switched over from HRT due to the associated risk of stroke and breast cancer. Red clover is also used as a remedy for respiratory problems, particularly whooping cough, and for chronic skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis. The study is thought to b...

Breast Cancer Advance

...compared to normal breast tissue, while others are switched on. These genes could be targets for the development of 'smart' drugs tailored to treat individual patients' tumours. These new findings suggest they could become robust 'markers', predicting disease outcome in breast cancer patients and identifying ...

Novartis MS Drug Shows Promising Results

... subsequent six-month extension. In patients who switched from placebo to either the 1.25 mg or 5 mg dosing ...sequent six-month extension. In those patients who switched from placebo to either 1.25 mg or 5 mg of FTY720 after six months, the annualized relapse rate was r...

High-Fat Diet Can Ward Off Inflammation In The Gut

...tylcholine. This bonded itself to the proteins and switched the immune cells off. The study authors say that this pathway may explain why the body does not reject food as a foreign invader. They also feel that it might be useful to activate this pathway after major surgeries....

Gynaecologist Faces Stiff Prison Sentence On Counts Of Sexual Abuse

...rs, who are US citizens born in Nigeria, sometimes switched identities and assaulted them. The documents also say the obstetrician-gynaecologist prescribed addictive painkillers for no good medical reason, pressured patients into surgeries and double-billed insurance companies for procedures. In all, more t...

Carbohydrate-rich Diet In Diabetes Raises Blood Pressure

...ree diets was the same. After six weeks the groups switched over to the other type of diet. During the last three days of each diet, the systolic and diastolic blood pressure was measured. Although there was no difference between high-carb diet and high-mono diet the first time around, the researchers found t...

Excess Cdk5 Enzyme Can Harm Brain

... was found that while in the mice in which p25 was switched on for only two weeks, actually enhanced learning ...nd memory, in contrast, mice in which p25 had been switched on for six weeks showed impaired learning and memory in certain tasks. The researchers said that t...

Anastrozole Is A More Effective Cancer Drug

...the research. In the case of the patients who had switched drugs, the deaths had gone down by 29%. The study was conducted on over 4,000 women across Italy, Germany, and Australia. The deaths among the 2,009 women who changed over to anastrozole was 66, while in the case of tamoxifen, it was 90. AstraZene...

Salmon's own diet sure to affect yours

...sed salmon, some fish farmers in recent years have switched to vegetable oil pellets.But a study last year found the heart-health benefits from fish like salmon were weakened when they were fed vegetable oil instead of fish oil. To determine whether the heart-health benefits of farmed salmon were worth the r...

Green Tea Consumption Found To Improve Clinical Outcome In Cancer Patients

... The four study participants are believed to have switched to green tea consumption after hearing about the possible health benefits. The observed improvement could be due to the high levels of anti-oxidants such as EDCG (substances that prevent oxidative cell damage, known to play a major role in carcinogen...

A strategic study: Soy diet makes heart disease to worsen in male mice

...nwand, noting that when the mice in the study were switched to a diet of milk protein their condition improved markedly. Female mice carrying the mutation for HCM were relatively unaffected by the soy diet, according to the study. That led the Colorado research team to believe that heart deterioration in mal...

Hwang Woo-Suk Apologizes For Fabricating Research

...erinarian stood by his assertion that samples were switched at a hospital and named three researchers he believes conspired against his work. On 11 January 2006, the government stripped Hwang of the title "Top Scientist" and the university apologized for the fraud. Prosecutors were investigating Hwang's cas...

New Gadget To Protect The Eyesight Of Children

...hem not to sit too close to the TV. The TV will be switched off if the warning goes unheeded.// The new gadget, TV Magic Tool, is an alarm system placed on top of a TV set. It uses a passive infrared (PIR) sensor to judge the distance between the TV set and the viewer. "Parents can pre-set the allowed d...

US Government Calls For Better Drug Supplies

...of thousands of beneficiaries are reported to have switched plans. The present coverage of Medicare amounts to one million prescriptions everyday. The states that have offered to come to the aid of the low-income groups are inclusive of New England, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, and Illinois. Most people do...

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