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Cure for Hepatitis B

...asier viral model for studying in the lab. That is why we took it up and we had good convincing evidence by in-vitro studies that this plant extract is able to inactivate the virus," he added. According to Dr Thiagranjan, the new drug scores over the two main drugs used to treat the virus - Lamuvidime ...

Red Wine Helps Fight Heart disease

...n of the compound is thought to be a key factor in why arteries clog with fatty deposits. The pigments are not present in white wine or rose, and they seem to be less potent when they are present in grape juice. In the study, the cow cells were exposed to extracts from 23 red wines, four white wines, o...

New Drug, Pleconaril speeds recovery from common cold

Colds are the single most frequent reason why people go to the doctor. Antibiotics are worthless against colds, though doctors often prescribe them anyway. Researchers have developed a drug that speeds recovery from the common cold -- a significant breakthrough for scientists who have been in pu...

Step Aerobics Increases good cholesterol

...llege-aged students. They offer no explanation for why step aerobics proved more beneficial for HDL levels. However, they point out, these findings are limited since the study group was small and, although the women were told not to change their diets, they might have done so. In addition to this, many m...

Breast screening among diabetic women

...mpared to 70 per cent of the controls. The reasons why rates of mammography are lower among women with diabetes is unknown. The researchers wonder whether managing diabetes takes up so much time and attention that there is little room for other aspects of health care. Since women with diabetes run the s...

Aspirin - a drug after one’s own hear

...h as bleeding and ulcers, which could also explain why it is not more widely used. The study is one of the largest international overviews of a disease treatment. It involved hundreds of trials with 200,000 patients. The researchers found that aspirin and anti-platelet therapy reduced the risk of a serio...

Medications for depression

...ed in depression treatment .This may be the reason why medication is being preferred over psychotherapy - physicians may feel more confident giving out a prescription than offering therapy. This is acceptable so long as people get better, but more effort could perhaps be made to give patients a choice of...

Immune cells halt round in space

...e rigid round shape. Researchers do not understand why the T-cells stay round in microgravity but suggest that intermolecular or submolecular forces such as hydrogen bonding might play a larger role in determining the cell's shape in the absence of Earth's gravity. They say finding out is important to b...

Depression elevates heart failure risk

...ifference for the men. We still don't understand why depression increases heart failure risk among women. It could be a direct biological effect on the brain, or perhaps some indirect effect, where women who are depressed act so as it increase their heart failure risk. The study suggests that it's impo...

Find a partner

...ing a wife as a close friend might help to explain why married men are able to deal with stress better and are therefore less likely to suffer from heart attacks or strokes....

Less sleep increases mortality rates

...ls were more likely to die sooner. It is not clear why sleep has this effect upon mortality, although the... shorter, hours. More needs to be done to work out why long sleep is risky - in the meantime, you can get away with six or seven hours knowing you're doing...

Mutation connected to Osteoporosis

... new finding will help bone researchers understand why the body loses the ability to make new bone cells as people age.// Later, Levine explained the researchers studied DNA from 15 people who have a condition called progressive osseous heteroplasia or POH. People who have POH form extraskeletal bone, ...

Winter months encourage binge eating

...ighting, were more likely to binge. It's not clear why this is, but if such people become overweight and decide to diet in the New Year, they're doomed to failure. Counsellors could, perhaps, help them identify these weak points and devise a healthy eating plan that works, whatever month of the year it i...

Toxin connected to 'Flesh-eating' Pneumonia in Kids

...ing pneumonia. Etienne said his team doesn't know why these PVL cases are concentrated in children and young adults, when most cases of Staph pneumonia occur in elderly patients with underlying conditions. One hypothesis, he said, is that some younger people may lack protective antibodies against the in...

Ethnic discrepancy in ovarian cancer

...reat to one ethnic group over another. The reasons why African Americans are more at risk is unclear, but at least highlighting the difference provides a stimulus to future research....

Surgery-Rigged pulley helps patients

...aws. If it worked on single bones, Poll reasoned, why not for children's entire faces. First, Polley operates to cut all the stunted, sunken facial bones, but he doesn't move them. Instead, he attaches wires to the skull or certain other bones. Those wires screw into to a halo-like device, designed with...

Attempting Hypnosis for relaxation

... stress and relieve pain. Its success depends upon why it is being used, and how readily the person can enter the altered awareness of the hypnotic state, say doctors at the Mayo Clinic. But most people can benefit from a simple form of self hypnosis. This involves finding a quiet place, where you will...

Gene variation simulates cholesterol response to oestrogen

...art attacks for these women. The study may explain why previous research has shown no particular benefit from HRT in women with established heart disease - such research focusses on all women, not just the subgroup with the gene variant. The dramatic increases in HRT in this group would be diluted by res...

Hypertensive drugs may cause cough

...rious by doctors, but it is the most common reason why patients abandon ACE inhibitors. In Seoul, at the School of Medicine, researchers, have found a way of treating the cough. They gave ten patients on ACE inhibitors, with the cough, iron supplements of 256 milligrams a day. Another nine patients we...

Leptin connected to obesity blood clots

...increased levels of the hormone leptin may explain why obese people seem to be more at risk of blood clotting// that causes heart attack and strokes.It is well known that being overweight or obese increases the risk of cardiovascular problems.Now researchers at the University of Michigan are one step clo...

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