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Beer does good

...e tests by giving hamsters the human equivalent of two beers a day. He said other research had shown health benefits from antioxidants in wine and that the alcohol in beer and wine helped protect against heart disease. But he said he believed his study was the first to show the antioxidants in beer als...

Photographs as a parameter

...narrowing of tiny blood vessels on the retina were two and a half times more likely to suffer a stroke during the study. This finding held true even when the team controlled for risk factors that might affect both the eyes and risk of stroke, like diabetes, age, smoking and high blood pressure. Ann Elsn...

Sex life enhanced by cycling

...e. 20 followed an exercise programme consisting of two one hour sessions a week on a stationary exercise bike. For the first 20 minutes, they did stretching and warm-up and then, for the rest of the time, they cycled at 65 per cent of their peak oxygen uptake (the usual goal for aerobic fitness). They fo...

First Artificial Heart patient has Major setback

...again last week. Similar bleeding during the first two months after the heart implant kept doctors from giving Tools blood-thinning anticoagulants that reduce the risk of clots, which can cause strokes. Doctors finally were able to give Tools anti-coagulant medicine during the last month, and that coul...

Comparison between warfarin and aspirin

...eventive treatment at all. But a comparison of the two shows there is little to choose between them. This means that either can be prescribed to patients at risk of stroke....

The alarm clock in you

... wake up. The researchers measured the levels of two stress hormones - adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) and cortisol - in the blood of two sets of people as they slept. Previous research has shown that people's bodies have their own rhythm...

For a Better Memory

...the large bundle of nerve fibers that connects the two sides of our brain and is one of the last major br...both halves of the brain. Memory is divided into two categories. The first type is called semantic or implicit memory. We don't really remember things as...

Erythromycin and infants’ intestinal disorde

...y found that if given erthromycin during the first two weeks of life, babies were 10.5 times more likely ...tic should be used only with prudence in the first two weeks of life.The IU School of Medicine study also showed that babies who received an erythromycin e...

The cancer-fighting gene

...sts have been focusing their investigations on the two ends of the protein, the C terminus and the N terminus.The focus of Glover’s work has been the C-terminus, which consits of a pair of related structures, called BRCT repeats. BRCT repeats not only occur in BRCA1, but are a hallmark of a large famil...

Safe for people with asthma

... other got a placebo injection. After 15 days, the two groups swapped over, and hence everyone got both i...ections, in a different pattern.// Every day for two weeks after each injection, the patients were monitored for peak expiratory flow, asthma symptoms an...

Left handed have better episodic memory

...person better at remembering events? The data from two recent experiments answer in the affirmative. This...o share a unique trait: There is evidence that the two brain hemispheres of even righthanders with left-handed relatives share functions more equally, inte...

Birds breed viruses

...enza viruses circulate in wild birds.However, only two types have ever been known to infect humans. These are two subtypes of the influenza A virus known as (H5N1) and (H9N2). The first human case of the disease wa...

Eating More Often May Help Lower Cholesterol

...vels compared with those who tended to down one or two large meals per day. This was despite the fact that the frequent eaters, on average, had a higher calorie and fat intake. The researchers looked at data on more than 14,600 men and women aged 45 to 75.// Participants were asked about their curren...

Night borns' risk

...vealed there had been no improvement over the past two decades. It also found the consequences for pret...rom the Swedish birth register, analysed more than two million births from 1973-95. The first risk period started from the end of the normal day shift and ...

FDA attacks American Red Cross for blood violations

...ol of its blood program, inspections over the past two years have revealed persistent and serious violations of blood safety rules. FDA inspectors said they found several violations including incorrect labeling and release of potentially contaminated blood, a lack of adequate quarantine and inventory c...

Cure for sleepless nights

...ers behavioural therapy, some a combination of the two and the rest a placebo. They received the treatment for eight weeks and were followed up over a two-year period. The researchers found that drug and behavioural therapy combined was most effective in helping people to fall and stay asleep. But behav...

Radiofrequency catheter ablation safe for infants

...tive." The research team compared 137 babies aged two weeks to 18 months, who underwent the procedure, with 5,960 patients aged 19 months to 21 years, who had RFCA. Among the infants in the study, 36% had congenital heart defects, compared with 11% of the older patients and 33% underwent RFCA for life-t...

Drooping eyelids more common in men

...an den Bosch said eyelid droop was associated with two painful conditions. Inward rotation of the eyelid, or entropion, leads to the eyelashes rubbing against the surface of the eye, the cornea. This can lead to severe irritation of the eye, and to corneal damage. Outward rotation of the eyelid, or ectro...

DNA biochip for genetic screening

...uld then match up with the appropriate probe, like two pieces of Velcro attaching to each other.A detection device indicates which probes found their mark. “If we put specific probes on the chip, we can tell if a person has or doesn’t have these genetic codes present, and we can screen for thousands or t...

Sniff out flatulence

..., had a "sweet" bouquet. The researchers selected two judges who had proved their ability to distinguish between the array of different gases through a blindfold test. Their job was to hold a syringe of gas three centimetres from their noses, slowly empty it and sniff. They had to rate the odour emitted...

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