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Red Wine Helps Fight Heart disease

...ount of the peptide endothelin-1 produced by cells taken from the blood vessels of cows. Endothelin-1 is a ...skins. In white wine and rose, the grape skins are taken out before fermentation. The key message is moderate consumption of red wine is likely to prevent he...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

...each individual already infected. As steps were taken to hinder the spread of the disease--including mass vaccination campaigns, restriction of infected individuals' movement and quarantines--the rate of disease spread would fall. Nonetheless, significant epidemics could result, particularly if there we...

Choose the correct hypertensive drug

...e the best outcome for the patient. This should be taken care by the doctors in order to avoid the side effects relating to these drugs. Several different drugs lower blood pressure effectively.// According to researchers at Texas University it is necessary to find out which to prescribe.Recent trials show...

Genes for Vision discovered

...program that compares snippets of genetic material taken from mouse retinal tissue with a huge genetic database from the mouse and human genome project, the researchers identified approximately 300 photoreceptor genes - five times the number that were previously known. Two hundred and sixty four of these w...

Keys to good bone health

... directly link bone density to the number of steps taken per day, it is already well known that exercise is a major factor in the prevention of osteoporosis, the common bone-thinning disease. In fact, there are exercises that have been identified as particularly effective in building bone strength, and not...

Relief from common back pain

...e so it doesn’t pinch the nerve and so the pain is taken away.Lower back pain is one of the most common ailments affectig adults; as many as four out of five Americans experience significant back problems during their lives. Back pain is the second most common reason for doctor visits, and herniated disk i...

Excess vitamin A increases fracture risk

... osteoporotic hip fracture. Any vitamin or mineral taken in adequately is good for health. Excess or less q...lways the case, particularly when one component is taken in excess. The latest report from the long-running Nurses' Health Study, which covers over 60,000 wo...

Immunisation to prevent cot deaths

... been immunised. Two-thirds of the live babies had taken part. Among children of three or more months old, 68% of cot death victims had received the vaccines, compared with 95% of the surviving children. Report author Peter Fleming said "Our data suggest that immunisation does not contribute to the risk ...

Asprin aids in pregnancy

... is the most common. They found that women who had taken anti-platelet drugs had a 15% reduced risk of pre-eclampsia, an 8% reduction in premature birth and 14% less chance of their baby dying in the womb. A spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said : "It appears from thi...

A novel augmentation

...s grow-your-own organs.The mode uses special cells taken from frog embryos called stem cells. These have the potential to develop into any specific type of cell in the frog's body - heart, skin, muscle and so on.// The major technique used by the team at Tokyo University is the use of a chemical to direc...

Women's strong sense of smell

...ntification, even when sex, age and education were taken into account." The tests were originally carried out on six subjects. They used benzaldehyde again and a second substance, isoamyl acetate, which smells like bananas. Sensitivity to benzaldehyde increased substantially for both the experienced wome...

Herbal Drug In Controversy

...iazepines have been shown to be habit-forming when taken in high doses or for extended periods of time. While there is evidence of kava overuse or abuse in South Sea Island populations, the herb is largely thought to be non-habit-forming. Alternative medicine experts also say that kava's new association wi...

Vitamin E useful for Alzheimer's

Vitamin E taken daily could protect the brain and prevent the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's, a study suggests. Scientists in Japan discovered it is possible to reverse a degenerative// brain disease simply by taking vitamin E. They say the supplement is a ...

Creams may not reverse aging

...nt animal studies have found that when selenium is taken orally or through the skin in the form of L-selenomethionine, it provided protection against both everyday and excessive UV damage....

Dental x-rays to prognosticate heart attacks

...noramic dental X-rays -- wide-angle frontal images taken to authenticate the baseline condition of teeth and surrounding bone -- also revealed any calcium deposits present in the carotid arteries. These are the large vessels on either side of the neck that carry blood from the heart to the brain and back. ...

A treatment for Osteoporosis

...s rigid dosing instructions: It was supposed to be taken upon waking 30 minutes before eating, and downed with plenty of water. To top it off, the drug can cause severe indigestion. So scientists tried giving women a week's dose at once, enrolling 1200 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis in a two-year ...

Blood Pressure Drugs maintain muscle strength

... problems. In a study of 850 elderly women who had taken part in the study, researchers found that those who continuously used ACE inhibitors had less muscle decline and could walk quicker than women who had used the drugs occasionally or not at all. If these findings can be confirmed in randomized con...

Scientists found ancient Human Germ Killer

...ubstance that scientists created using information taken from a monkey gene ``dramatically protected'' human cells from the AIDS virus in a laboratory experiment. The researchers believe the substance, which they call ``retrocyclin,'' was once produced naturally in human cells, but was lost to humans beca...

Drugs may fog memory

...niversity of Northumbria, said: "The more they had taken ecstasy in the past, the more their long-term prospect of memory failed. The other thing we recorded was the number of errors they made when submitting the questionnaire. The research team suggest ecstasy targets the frontal lobes of the brain, which...

Statins reduce risks for angioplasty patients

...with diabetes. None of the patients had previously taken the drugs, called statins, and all of them had had their first angioplasty within the previous 8 months. Statins reduce cholesterol by slowing cholesterol production. Several large studies demonstrated that the drugs prevent heart attacks and heart-...

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