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Apple Peel can Help Prevent High Blood Pressure

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Eating an apple a day without removing the peel can help stave off high blood pressure, say researchers. Canadian scientists have found that the fruit is more effective than other "superfoods" including green tea and blueberries as a source of antioxidants and chemical compounds called flavonoids that combat the potentially life-threatening condition. In a study, researchers from Nova Scotia Agricultural College tested the peel and the fleshy fruit ...

After Ramadan Fast, Indonesians 'Eat With a Vengeance', Say Doctors

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Indonesians go on food binge after Ramadan, doctors brace for an annual spike in complaints of rapid weight gain. Millions in the world's most populous Muslim nation typically mark the end of the Ramadan fasting month visiting families and relatives, in reunions where traditional foods rich in sugars and fats take centre stage. While there is no conclusive study linking festive binging with weight gain, doctors say many more patients knock on ...

Watching Re-runs of Old TV Shows can Increase Your Self Control: Study

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Watching re-runs of old television shows can be good for your health, reveals study. Psychologists have long believed that people who have limited amounts of impulse control are more likely to give in to temptation later. In order to stop this from happening and to restore a sense of self-control, we need to boost ourselves and be in a good mood, which is where re-watching your favourite TV shows works. According to psychologists, we ...

New Recommendations on Hepatitis C Screening Published

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Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians publishes new CDC recommendations on hepatitis C screening. Up to 3.9 million people in the United States are infected with HCV, a virus that can cause inflammation and permanent liver damage. The infection is most prevalent among people born from 1945 through 1965, and approximately 50 to 75 percent of those with HCV are unaware that they are infected. This is a problem ...

Speech Patterns can Reveal the Severity of Depression

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Speech patterns help reveal depression levels and a patient's response to treatment, suggests study. The study, the largest of its kind in the world, found that improvement in patients diagnosed with depression and undergoing treatment can be monitored over the phone by looking at changes in their speech. Adam Vogel, who heads the Speech Neuroscience Unit at Australia's University of Melbourne, said speech was a strong marker of brain health, ...

Meddling With 'Mating Plug' of Male Malaria Mosquito can Help to Control Epidemic

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Using information about the unique mating practices of the male malaria mosquito, scientists work on birth-control drugs of female Anopheles. They reported today at the 244supth/sup National Meeting (and) Exposition of the American Chemical Society on development of an approach for screening substances that could prevent formation of the plug, thus preventing mosquitoes from reproducing and spreading malaria. Richard H. G. Baxter, Ph.D., professor of ...

Coral Reefs can be Saved by Improving Quality of Water

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A research from the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Center has found that coral reefs can be saved by improving water quality. Corals are made up of many polyps that jointly form a layer of living tissue covering the calcareous skeletons. They depend on single-celled algae called zooxanthellae, which live within the coral polyps. The coral animal and the associated zooxanthellae depend on each other for survival in a symbiotic ...

Maastricht Drug Trade Boosted by the Dutch 'Cannabis Card'

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Illegal Street dealers of drugs now sell Cannabis and Marijuana without fear in the heart of the southeastern Dutch city of Maastricht. A new law took effect in May allowing the owners of legalised cannabis cafes in the southern Netherlands to sell only to Dutch residents, no longer to foreigners. Since then, Maastricht -- near the borders with Germany and Belgium and which attracts an estimated 1.4 million "drug tourists" each year mainly from those ...

From Functional Food To Modified-Risk Tobacco Products: Regulatory Science For Public Health

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Consumers face the barrage of product claims everyday, which creates their expectation on the safety and performance of the product. Hence, in such cases the science behind the products are more important to know. Scientists told the audience here today at the 244th National Meeting (and) Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Philadelphia that greater collaboration is needed to ensure that product claims are based on the best available scientific ...

Enjoy 3D Movies Without Any Need of Glasses

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3D movies can be enjoyed on TV without any viewing glasses, thanks to a new German technology. The 3D movies currently available on Blu-ray are based on two different perspectives: two images, one for each eye. However, autostereoscopic displays need five to 10 views of the same scene (depending on the type). In the future, the number will probably be even more. This is because these displays have to present a 3D image in such a manner ...

Secondhand Smoke Impairs Vital Cough Reflex: Study

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Secondhand smoke reduces the sensitivity to cough-eliciting respiratory irritants in children, states study. The findings may help to explain why children of smokers are more likely to develop pneumonia, bronchitis and other diseases and also are more likely to experiment with smoking during adolescence. "Cough protects our lungs from potentially damaging environmental threats, such as chemicals and dust. Living with a parent who smokes weakens this reflex, ...

Study Says Working Mums 'Healthier Than Stay-at-home Peers'

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According to a recent research, mothers who work full time are healthier at age 40 than stay-at-home mothers. Frech and co-author Sarah Damaske of Pennsylvania State University examined longitudinal data from 2,540 women who became mothers between 1978 and 1995. Accounting for pre-pregnancy employment, race/ethnicity, cognitive ability, single motherhood, prior health conditions and age at first birth, the research revealed that the choices women make ...

Pakistani Patient Gets a New Lease of Life

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A Pakistani son donates his liver to his mother, say sources. "A team of 21 people including doctors and other staff of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital successfully transplanted the liver of her son in the Pakistani woman, Zaib Un Nisa, curing her of cirrhosis of liver August 14," said Associate Director, Hepatobiliary and liver transplant department of the hospital, Dr Naimish N. Mehta. Dr. Mehta said the liver was voluntarily donated by the woman's 27-year-old ...

Simple Test to Combat Counterfeit Drug Problem

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A simple, paper-strip test identifies counterfeit versions of one of the most-frequently faked medicines in the world. Their report on an inexpensive test to identify fake tablets of Panadol was presented here at the 244supth/sup National Meeting (and) Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. Panadol is one of multiple brand names used abroad for the pain-and-fever-reliever acetaminophen, most familiar ...

New Way to Attack Cancer Cells Identified

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Trojan Horse to attack cancer cells, say researchers. DNA origami involves folding a single strand of DNA into a complex pattern, creating a 3D structure. In their study, Baoquan Ding at the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology in Beijing, China, and colleagues loaded a tubular piece of folded DNA with doxorubicin, a chemotherapy drug. "This is the first study to demonstrate that DNA origami can be used to circumvent drug resistance," ...

Vitamin C Rich Diets Can Reduce Harmful Effects of Air Pollution

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Consuming diet that are rich in vitamin C may help to curb the harmful effects of air pollution for those suffering from chronic lung diseases, reveals a study. Researchers looked at London hospital patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and found that those with low levels of vitamin C had an increased risk of breathing problems on days when outdoor air pollution levels were high. "This study adds to a small but growing ...

Quality of Life Improves After Weight-loss Surgery

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People who have undergone bariatric surgery to treat obesity report an overall improvement in health and social life, according to a research. Obesity is an epidemic in the United States with more than one-third of adults over age 20 classified as obese. Bariatric surgery is an increasingly common procedure that individuals are turning to that typically results in dramatic weight loss-sometimes of 100 pounds or more. According to the American Society for Metabolic ...

Red Wine Could Improve Balance, Prevents Falls Among Elderly

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Resveratrol, the so-called "miracle molecule" found in red wine, might help improve balance and prevent life-threatening falls among elderly. The finding, believed to be the first of its kind, was presented today to some 14,000 scientists and others gathered at the 244supth/sup National Meeting (and) Exposition of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The researchers say this report - based on studies of laboratory mice ...