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Estrogen Does Not Prevent Recurrent Strokes

... might help protect women's cardiovascular health, warding off heart disease and, possibly, stroke. But recent research has questioned that reasoning. The American Heart Association issued guidelines stating that women should not receive hormone replacement for the sole purpose of preventing recurrent hear...

Vitamin E Found To reduce bladder cancer risk

... the vitamin may protect against cancer perhaps by warding off the damaging effects of oxygen. The new study shows that dietary vitamin E may also protect against bladder cancer, which kills about 12,500 Americans annually and is four times more common in men than women. The study was based on questionnair...

Preventing Age-Related Mental Decline By Consuming Vitamin B

...etary measures may be a cheap and effective way of warding off health conditions that typically affect the elderly, such as Alzheimer’s and heart disease//. Research in the past has indicated that higher levels of homocysteine, a amino acid known to be a marker of cardiovascular disease risk, are linked to...

“Super Broccoli” Could Confer Better Cancer Protectin

...vegetables until then should help significantly in warding off cancer. Lead researcher Professor Richard Mithen said that a gene called GSTM1 was responsible for conferring cancer protection. "Some individuals, who lack the gene, appear to get less cancer protection from broccoli than those who have the gene...

Frog Secretions Could Be Used To Ward Off Mosquitoes

...uld be used as mosquito repellents, in effectively warding off the insects.// Researchers at the University of Adelaide gave mice the secretions of the dumpy tree frog and found them remaining bite-free for around 50 minutes compared to 12 minutes for an untreated group, the BBC's online edition reported. ...

Infant’s Formula for good health- Breast-feed, beneficial than formula-fee

...bottle feed//, this time, the advantage evident in warding off obesity during the growing up years. Researchers at Bristol University observed 880 infants from the Children of the 90s project, a study that followed the growth and development of selected babies born in 1991. The study revealed that those wh...

Agencies Express Concern Over "Breast Ironing" In Africa

...em that it is for their own good. It is aimed at warding off sexual harassment and is carried out by hard or heated objects pressed against the developing breasts in teenaged girls. "Breast ironing is an age-old practice in Cameroon, as well as in many other countries in West and Central Africa, including ...

Expanding waistlines: Only a tip of the iceberg?

...f calories and calorie utilization, is the clue to warding of obesity. Words of wisdom, indeed! SA...

Religious Adults Have a Higher Quality of Life than Their Peers

... church,” Dillon says. “In short, when it comes to warding off fear of the Grim Reaper, an individual’s beliefs must be consistent with their practices -- believe in an afterlife and go to church or don’t believe in an afterlife and don’t go to church.” Dillon and Wink’s research is based on an unprecedent...

Tidbits on Tarantula bites and fiery Pepper sensations!

...sm of some animals and plants are quite similar in warding off a predator by triggering pain. The research aids understanding of the pathway of pain and expounds that new drugs to treat persistent pain can be evolved based on these new intriguing findings which has been reported by the online journal Nature....

RU-486, The Abortion Pill, May Quell The Breast Cancer Gene

... breast cancer gene. The drug turned beneficial in warding off potential tumors.// This is thought to have been possible due to the abortion drug, known to inhibit the hormone, progesterone. This is indeed a teaser to researchers to evolve a safe version of the hormone blocker as an option for women carry...

Better ‘Nannying’ Now Than Nevr

...need of washing hands or the importance of this in warding off infections. One of the advertisements include a message that encourages the public to sing the ‘Happy Birthday’ song twice over, the time required to wash germs off hands completely. Though the program is highly approved by the Royal College ...

Good Oral Health Equals Good Health for Your Heart

...ow through them. You never know, you may then be warding off a stroke or heart attack. AN...

Vitamin D may Be Helpful to Curb Tuberculosis

...hey added the vitamin had the potential to help in warding off the disease. The researchers from Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Imperial College said it could be given to those deemed at risk - the bacteria can lay dormant waiting for the immune system to be weakened before striking - or added to drin...

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