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Hypertension lowered by Bedtime Dosing

Researchers in Japan have found that evening administration of the central alpha(2)-agonists guanabenz and clonidine effectively suppresses elevated blood pressure in the morning in hypertensive patients. The study was done on 133 patients with morning hypertension to receive once-daily evening administration of guanabenz or clonidine for four weeks. The blood pressure lowering effects of...

Risk of breast cancer may be lowered by diet

In two researches presented in the annual meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology had emphasized// the importance of having low fat diet to reduce the risk of breast cancer. Researchers had studied the recurrence or relapse of cancer in postmenopausal women with primary breast cancer who were given a low fat diet versus the same who had a normal diet. The other dietary interve...

Risk of deep vein thrombosis less in people who were flight stockings when flying

Graduated compression stockings that are worn during long hours of flying can significantly reduce the risk// of deep vein thrombosis. Researchers of the study had compared nine studies of nearly 2500 passengers who had flown long distance in airlines. The researchers had carried out the research where they had advised all the participants of the study to walk or exercise regularly, dr...

Risk of prostate cancer lowered by soyabean

A 30% decrease in the risk of developing prostate cancer was observed in people// on a high intake of soy. This increase intake is also beneficial in lower death rate amongst prostate cancer patients. The analysis is based on the data from eight population studies, five from America & Canada and 3 from Asian countries. All these studies investigated the effect of soy protein intake...

Warning Signs On Powered Baby Milk

WHO has passed a resolution that from now on all powdered baby milk formulas will carry warning //signs against the pathogen, Enterobacter sakazakii. These strong warning signs will now appear next to nutritional information and label proclaiming mother’s milk as the best for infants. The alarm is due to the death reported by consumption of contaminated baby formula. A Fre...

Cholesterol can be lowered using combination of Soy Proteins and Sterols

Heart disease is responsible for nearly half (49 per cent) of all deaths //in Europe, killing more than 4.35 million people each year. Reducing cholesterol is one of the most important preventable factors in the disease. Both soy protein and plant sterols extracted from soy are already well established in the heart health foods market, with the US Food and Drug Administration backing he...

Testing Your Health & Charging Your Mobile At One Go - Check Out The Urine Powered Batteries

Imagine a credit card-sized, urine-powered paper battery that could make healthcare tests cheaper and even charge mobile phones! Current biochips need an external reader such as a laser scanner or an external source of power // , such as conventional batteries, to perform diagnostic tests. The technology developed by Ki Bang Lee at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechn...

Implantable devices to be powered by organosilicon compounds in the future

Medical technology has advanced so much to the extent of replacing lost organs or improving function of existing ones using artificial implants. These implantable devices are becoming commonplace today by serving as a good // alternative to the conventional treatment. Such effective utilization would not have been possible without the availability of lithium batteries that supply power...

Cancer cells were killed even at reduced dose of radiation therapy in early stage Hodgkin’s.

Professor Hans Theodor Eich and his colleagues from University of Cologne, Germany has found that lowering dose of radiation in Hodgkin’s Lymphoma patients undergoing chemotherapy does not increase the risk of disease //progression but benefits in reducing the side effects of radiation therapy. The results of the study were published in American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncol...

Students Involved In Bullying And Victims Were Equally Stressed

Study shows that both victims of bully and children’s involved in bullying are equally stressed. Researchers from University of Washington reported in the Journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine that psychologically both the group of children’s was stressed//. The study was conducted in 3,350 students studying in three, four and five students and grouped them in to 4 gr...

Dogs Were Domesticated Recently Only

Dogs were domesticated by human beings only as recently as between 13,000 and 17,000 years ago, according to a recent study. The earlier theories contend that the bond // lasted since 135,000 years ago. The study was conducted by Darcy Morey, and takes canine burials into consideration. Researchers found that though earliest known buried dog dates to around 17,000 years ago in central Rus...

Women's Self-Esteem Not Lowered By Seeing Ultra Thin Models

Thin models, believed to set unrealistic standards of beauty are most commonly blamed for lowering self-esteem of women who watch the advertisement. Based on this trend, // a lot of marketing companies (including Dove) have started looking out for realistic-looking models to convey messages in an effective way. A new study has now revealed that moderately heavy women are more likely t...

Genes That Were Responsible For The Cause Of Blindness Identified

Scientists have identified those two genes that were responsible for the cause of blindness that affects millions of older people // throughout the world and they added that the new development could pave way for new treatments. Nearly three-quarters of people in the world suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) a most common cause of blindness. AMD is marked by a progress...

Bionic muscles developed by scientists powered by alcohol and hydrogen

In the direction of development of prosthetic limbs researchers at University of Texas have developed artificial, super-strength muscles which are powered by alcohol and hydrogen. // As it appears in Science, these artificial muscles are 100 times more powerful than the body's own. Two types of muscle are being investigated by US researchers at the Nanotech Institute at the U...

Infants Malarial Risk Lowered by Preventive Measures

As a preventive measure, single dose of a common anti-malarial drug could help to reduce the risk of developing malaria in infants – study finds//. According to a new study, intermittent preventive measures of giving anti-malarial drugs to 3, 4, and 9-month old-infants lowered their risk of contracting malaria in the future. Malaria is one of the leading causes of death worldw...

Bicycle-Powered Portable Water Filter System For Disaster Zones

Researchers have developed a portable water filtration system, powered by bicycle that can be used in disaster zones//. The Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) institute of environmental science and engineering unveiled the unit, consisting of a bicycle coupled with a mechanical pump and a membrane module to filter the water. Believed to be the world's first, NTU exper...

Chicken Dishes Were Off The Menu At Pakistan President's House

Pakistan Friday imposed a ban on chicken dishes in the menu of the Aiwan-e-Sadar, President's House, and important state functions//. Health Minister Naseer Khan told the National Assembly that chicken dishes have been excluded from the menu of Aiwan-e-Sadr and important celebrations where foreigners and diplomats are invited. This is part of precautionary measures against possible out...

Scientist Convicted As His Claims Were Found To Be Fabricated

In 2004 Hwang Woo-suk a South Korean scientist claimed that he had produced stem cell lines from cloned human embryos. But later it was found that the scientist an expert// in cloning techniques have faked his stem cell research. Thereafter he was charged for fraud and embezzlement. He has used the grant given by the government and by the private committees for his personal reason. He is...

Top FDA Officials Were Not Part Of Plan B Decision

The former U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief Commissioner Lester Crawford prevented two senior officials// from deciding the course of action on Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s Plan B, which is a 'morning after' pill. These statements were contained in the transcripts released by the non-profit Center for Reproductive Rights. Dr. Steven Galson, director of the FDA's Center for Drug...

Adult Diabetics Were Unaware Of Their Condition

A national survey data by the researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention// (CDC), diagnosed the prevalence of diabetes in U.S. adults aged 20 and older, and reported that it has risen from about 5.1 percent to 6.5 percent, from two periods--1988 to 1994 and 1999 to 2002. No significant increase in the percentage of adults wi...

Doctors Who Were On Strike To Receive No Pay

The Health Department of the Delhi government has claimed that it has released the full salaries of medical doctors who were on strike, over the proposed quota// for OBCs in educational institutions last month against claims by the senior resident doctors in medical institutions run by the center that they are awaiting their salaries. Binod Patro, senior resident from AIIMS claims tha...

Fluctuating BP and Stroke Lowered Patient Survival Rate

Finding of a Mayo Clinic study says ‘significant fluctuations in the first hour blood pressure after a stroke drastically increases// the chances of death’. According to this study patient mortality increases with a varying diastolic blood pressure, which again is rooted to an impaired autoregulation of blood pressure. The researchers studied 71 emergency room patients with is...

Patients Empowered to Force for Better Services

Patients are to be granted power to petition for better local health services under proposals put forward by ministers. The petition must be signed// by 1% of the population to initiate a formal response from primary care trusts that commission local services. This is mainly seen as an attempt to give the public a "more powerful voice". Ministers have also said firms were being invite...

Head Injuries Lowered among Canadian Youth

The past decade saw a decrease in traumatic head injuries among Canadians under age 19 by 53 per cent according to a new report released on Wednesday.// When the Canadian Institute for Health Information looked at hospital admissions for traumatic head injuries from 1994 to 2004 it found that overall, injuries were down by 35 per cent since 1994, with children and youth showing the lar...

AMD Risk Lowered By Silencing Two Genes

Researchers at Queen's University in Ireland have found a genetic link that could help in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration//. Professor Anne Hughes presented the findings of the study at the British Society for Human Genetics Conference in York last week. It also appears in Nature Genetics. "I am very pleased to have solved a complex and difficult genetic puzzle. This...

Alzheimer’s Risk Lowered with 'Mediterranean' Die

A "Mediterranean" diet rich in olive oil, vegetables, fruits, legumes, cereals and fish have a lower risk of developing// Alzheimer's disease according to U.S. researchers. Lead researcher Dr. Nikolaos Scarmeas, an assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical Center in New York said, "We have confirmed the association of a Mediterranean diet with Alzheimer's disease."...

Risk of STD Lowered with Circumcision

Circumcision in men appears to lower the risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted infection, according to the findings of a 25-year study. // The November issue of Pediatrics which reports the study suggests that circumcision may lower the risk of acquiring and spreading such infections by up to 50 percent, which would therefore suggest "substantial benefits" for routine neonatal circum...

Risk Of Breast Cancer Lowered In Offspring Of Mothers Who Eat Whole Wheat

Women who eat lots of whole wheat during pregnancy may lower the risk of breast cancer in their baby girls, according to a study published //in the Nov 15, 2006 issue of International Journal of Cancer. Lead researcher Dr. Leena Hilanivi-Clarke from Georgetown University in Washington DC and her colleagues conducted their study in rats which revealed that daughters of mother rats t...

China Introduces Solar-powered Baths

China has devised a cost-effective solar energy bathing scheme for its population in the countryside where statistics //show that 200 million out of China's 800 million rural people bathe only once a month. Now energy experts have devised a bathing scheme aimed at introducing China's rural population to the joys of a hot bath. Tens of millions of Chinese population were fou...

And You Thought the Inner Cities Were Healthier…

Inner city dwellings were thought to be far cleaner and healthier as compared to the industrial towns. But British researchers say this is not true- inner cities are a haven// for unhealthy habits and diseases. Market analysts CACI and TNS analyzed smoking and disease rates and dietary habits to understand the unhealthiest places in England, Wales and Scotland. The analysis revealed t...

1,000 Children a Day in 2006 Were Infected by HIV

More than 1,000 children around the world were infected by HIV in each day of the year 2006, says a UNICEF report released Tuesday. // In total, around 410,000 to 660,000 children under the age of 15 were infected with HIV last year, the U.N. agency said. The report added that most of the children were infected during or immediately after their birth to HIV-positive mothers...

Brazil Will Purchase Merck’s Antiretroviral If Price Not Lowere

Brazilian Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao on Wednesday signed a decree declaring that the country would purchase from an India-based drug maker a generic version of Merck's// antiretroviral Efavirenz if the company does not offer the drug at a lower price. According to the decree, Efavirenz is a "public interest" medicine. Temporao at a news conference said the country did not is...

Maninder Says Wrist Injuries Were Sustained Accidentally

Former cricketer Maninder Singh, who was admitted to a hospital in East Delhi after he sustained injuries on his wrist on Saturday raising speculations of a suicide attempt by him, today said he sustained injuries accidentally. In a statement to the Delhi Police, Singh said that he had injured his wrist when the glass window panes broke when he banged his hands on them to wake his...

Adults Who Are Overweight and Obese Experience a Lowered Response to Resistance Training

A new study in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research suggests that adults who are overweight and obese experience a lowered response to resistance training when compared to normal weight adults. The study compared the response to a supervised upper arm, unilateral resistance training program in healthy, young adults who are overweight or obese to the response of normal...

Our Medieval Ancestors Were More or Less Similar to Us Than Previously Thought

Englishmen during the time of Chaucer were not dwarfs but only short by two inches compared to todays average height, and same was the case with women more or less, a new study by researchers from the Bristol Royal Infirmary has revealed. As part of their study, scientists researched 3000 skeletons from the medieval St. Peters Church in Barton upon Humber, North East Lincolnshire,...