According to researchers at the Ohio State University, Vitamin E (the most powerful among antioxidants) has two forms that act differently from each other once inside animal cells. Lost of studies...
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Japanese researchers who recently discovered a new way of extracting rice bran found that including a fraction of it in dietary supplements could lower blood pressure. Bran, a rice waste material that...
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As we grow older, we all feel that we are becoming forgetful. (Well, I certainly do!) Experts say that we are indeed becoming forgetful because like most organs in our body, our brain is getting...
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Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and the impact of a benign prostate disease (BPH) is equally important as up to 90% of men will have BPH at age 80. Though not usually...
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A diverse array of University of Michigan researchers (leading scientists from engineering, public health, dentistry and medicine) is exploring nanotechnology's potential for improving drug...
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A study in the February 15 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute reported that intakes of dietary or supplemental antioxidants were not associated with a decreased risk of prostate...
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According to Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist at the University of Cambridge in England, there is a considerable chance that, in the next two decades, anti-aging therapy could increase a...
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A new study by a team of scientists at UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles suggests that men with cardiovascular diseases are still facing high death risk even if their blood sugar...
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine suggests that male circumcision could protect women from HIV based on a large-scale study conducted in Uganda. They studied 300 Ugandan couples in...
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The University of Rochester Medical Center scientists reported that Vitamin D can inhibit the spread of prostate cancer cells by limiting the activity of two specific enzymes-proteases called matrix...
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The recently revised Food Guide Pyramid, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans have for the first time revealed quantitative recommendation of whole grain intake. In a study published in the January...
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by kevin on January 05, 2006
A male fertility test is being investigated: To conduct the test the man produces a sample, sets the device and within an hour will find out whether he has enough sperm to fertilise a female egg. The...
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by kevin on December 19, 2005
The FDA is one step closer to approving a vaccine for shingles: Federal health advisers endorsed a proposed vaccine yesterday to help prevent shingles, an often-excruciating disease that afflicts as...
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by kevin on November 30, 2005
A study suggests that Alzheimer's can be related to diabetes: "Insulin disappears early and dramatically in Alzheimer's disease," senior researcher Suzanne M. de la Monte, a...
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by kevin on November 16, 2005
An investigational drug for smoking cessation is in the works: An experimental drug might make it a lot easier to stop smoking, new research suggests. The drug, varenicline, quadrupled the chances...
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by kevin on November 09, 2005
The FDA has approved a portable PCA-like chronic pain device: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Medtronic Personal Therapy Manager (PTM), which allows chronic pain patients...
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by kevin on November 08, 2005
Someone has invented a do-it-yourself PAP smear: Women may soon be able to carry out their own test for cervical cancer at home. A British designer has developed a kit that can be used without the...
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by kevin on October 27, 2005
A controversial study is allowing parents to pick the gender of their child: Now, doctors at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine are conducting a "sex selection" study that will allow...
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by kevin on October 21, 2005
A trial just started for a microbial gel to be used by women to prevent the spread of HIV: Women will be able to protect themselves from HIV by 2010 if South African research into a microbicide gel,...
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by kevin on October 18, 2005
Can imaging studies diagnose psychiatric disorders? Not long ago, scientists predicted that these images, produced by sophisticated brain-scanning techniques, would help cut through the mystery of...
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by kevin on October 11, 2005
The brains of AIDS patients are 15 percent thinner: Scans could be used to spot patients who might benefit from brain-protecting drugs, the authors told Proceedings of the National Academy of...
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by kevin on October 06, 2005
Encouraging initial news for the cervical cancer vaccine: The first large study of an Experimental cervical cancer vaccine found it was 100 percent effective, in the short term, at blocking the most...
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by kevin on September 29, 2005
Sounds like an expensive polygraph test: Neuroscientists using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans - which provide a computer-generated picture of the brain's workings - have developed a near...
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