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Runners -- Let thirst be your guide

Many people are drinking too much water, including sports drinks, when exer...data clearly indicate that EAH is caused by excess drinking during endurance exercise activities, and that it can be prevented by limiting fluid intake while ex...

Premature births may be linked to seasonal levels of pesticides and nitrates in surface water

...vironmental pesticides and nitrates in surface and drinking water. Last year at the Pediatric Academic Societies' annual meeting, Dr Winchester reported that birth defects peak in Indiana and in the United States as a whole during April through July, the same months as pesticides and nitrates reach their maxi...

Double the death rate from cirrhosis for 'blue collar' men

...er socio-economic status (SES). Heavy or binge drinking is one of the main contributors to the development of liver cirrhosis. Professor Najman said the study results suggested that men from lower socio-economic backgrounds were in greater danger of liver cirrhoses because of their heavy and binge dri...

Hepatitis E takes a piggyback

...essors and vets. The disease can be transmitted by drinking water contaminated with faeces as well as by eating pork: uncooked wild boar liver is one Japanese delicacy that frequently leads to infection. Suckling pigs don't contract the virus in their first 30 days, because a maternal antibody protects the...

Hexavalent chromium in drinking water causes cancer in lab animals

...ancer in laboratory animals when it is consumed in drinking water. The two-year study conducted by the Nation... textile manufacturing and have been found in some drinking water sources. Male and female rats and mice were given four different doses of sodium dichromate...

A new portable biosensor detects traces of contaminants in food more quickly and cheaply

...ed successfully to detect pesticides in samples of drinking water and commercial orange juice, as well as to detect traces of antibiotics in cow's milk. The agricultural use of atrazine, and other herbicides based on a chemical substance called triazine, often causes contamination both of underground water ...

New compound prevents alcoholic behavior, relapse in animals by blocking stress response

...n’s response to stress effectively stops excessive drinking and prevents relapse. The new, synthetic compoun...re alcohol. Injections of MTIP prevented excessive drinking of alcohol in both cases and eliminated the rats?susceptibility to relapse under stress. Yet the com...

It's OK for men with high blood pressure to have a drink or two, new study finds

...ol in moderation they may not need to change their drinking habits." Beulens reiterated that alcohol consumption of more than three drinks a day raises blood pressure and risk of hypertension, "so our findings are not a license for men with hypertension to overindulge." Beulens was a PhD-fellow at TNO...

Cocoa 'vitamin' health benefits could outshine penicillin

...erg has spent years studying the benefits of cocoa drinking on the Kuna people in Panama. He found that the risk of 4 of the 5 most common killer diseases: stroke, heart failure, cancer and diabetes, is reduced to less then 10% in the Kuna. They can drink up to 40 cups of cocoa a week. Natural cocoa has high...

Robotic therapy helps restore hand use after stroke

...h real-world tasks as grasping a block, gripping a drinking glass, pinching to pick up a small marble or ball bearing, and putting your hand on your head -- improved by nearly 10 percent. And their average score rose by nearly 20 percent on the Box-and-Blocks Test, which assesses manual dexterity as one moves...

In-shell vaccine for chick disease

...h are usually delivered by less efficient spray or drinking water dosage, can prevent chicks hatching if delivered in the egg. The scientists have extracted a so-called spike protein from a pathogenic virus strain which triggers an immune response, and incorporated it into a harmless non-pathogenic strain...

Rapid, Low-Cost DNA Testing

...test DNA to improve our health and make sure we're drinking clean water and eating uncontaminated food. In fact, his new method can be used to help forensics labs identify criminals, test ponds and pools before children swim in them, and identify harmful genetic sequences in medical research, to name only a f...

Failure to meet United Nations sanitation target could affect millions of the world's poorest

...of people lack access to a reliable source of safe drinking water and basic sanitation facilities. To address ...rtion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015. Target 10 was launched in 2000 as part of the U.N. Millennium D...

New cigarette designs don't offer lower predicted cancer risks

... An analogy might be someone who abuses alcohol by drinking 10 beers a day, but says they are going to cut down to 9." Such findings could lead to tightened restrictions on how tobacco companies market their products. Legislation is now being considered in Congress on whether and how the U.S. Food and Drug...

Salamanders suffer delayed effects of common herbicide

...t per billion above the maximum allowable level in drinking water set by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency," said Rohr, who presented his findings at a recent workshop organized by the U.S Geological Survey in St. Louis, Missouri. "What this tells me is that we need to consider the long-term effects ...

New UD technology removes viruses from drinking water

...ve harmful microorganisms, including viruses, from drinking water. UD's patented technology, developed joint...echnology could dramatically improve the safety of drinking water around the globe, particularly in developing countries. According to the World Health Organiza...

Light wine intake is associated with longer life expectancy in men

...among survivors in mid-2000. The surveys included drinking habits, dietary habits, body mass index, smoking h..., if you smoke. There is no scientific proof that drinking wine or any other alcoholic beverage can replace these conventional measures....

Researchers to study why dead zone returned to Lake Erie

...recreation industry, supply 40 million people with drinking water, provide habitat for wildlife and fish, and support transportation and agriculture production. Lake Erie is the smallest of the five Great Lakes. ...

Negative effects of caffeine are stronger on daytime sleep than on nocturnal sleep

...e Université de Montréal has concluded that people drinking coffee to get through a night shift or a night of studying will strongly hurt their recovery sleep the next day. The study published in the current issue of Neuropsychopharmacology was conducted by Dr. Julie Carrier from the Department of Psychology ...

'Protecting virus' offers instant flu protection and converts flu infections into their own vaccines

...mply deliver the protecting virus to them in their drinking water. One dose should protect a chicken for weeks. Flu is a major problem in the horse racing industry and in domestic horses. It also has very recently become a problem in domestic dogs in the USA and domestic cats are susceptible to H5N1 virus....

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