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Discovery Could Lead To New Treatments For Asthma
Ovary Transplant Could Delay Menopause Indefinitely
Novel Therapies For Liver Cancer In The Offing
Beauty Tips - Soft, Pink Lips Naturally
Dietary Supplementation Of An Algae Extract Improves Good Cholesterol Levels
Baking Soda May Prevent Cystic Fibrosis Symptoms
Begin Your Day With Eggs If You Want To Lose Weight
Doping in Olympics 2012: Say No To Shortcuts
Over Five Cups of Coffee a Day Tampers the Chance of IVF Success By About 50 Percent
Los Angeles County To Decide Mandatory Condom Use in Porn Films
Should Young ADHD Children be Medicated?
Seaweed Bacteria May Help Prevent Tooth Decay
Quiz on Bleeding Disorders
Dad's Human Capital Decides Son's Success
New Privacy Solution for Facebook Developed
Half of World's Underweight Kids Live in South Asia: Study
Obesity Ups Risk of Kidney Injury After Heart Surgery
UNAIDS Says Record Number of Africans Get AIDS Drugs
Wine Intolerance Could Cause Allergy-like Symptoms
Why Fatty Salad Dressing is a Good Choice
Diabetes Drug may Help in Regenerating Brain Cells
Exercise Caution While Using Wire Grill Brushes

Discovery Could Lead To New Treatments For Asthma

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Reprogramming the immune cells that promotes asthma diminishes airway damage and inflammation in mice, a discovery that could lead to new treatment options for asthma. The researchers were able to reprogram the asthma-promoting cells (called Th2 (T-helper 2) cells) after identifying an enzyme that modifies the DNA of these cells. The enzyme could be a target for the development of new treatments for chronic inflammatory diseases, in particular allergic ...

Ovary Transplant Could Delay Menopause Indefinitely

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Ovary transplants can delay the menopause thus helping women to remain fertile indefinitely. A technique to remove pieces of ovary, store it for decades and then replace it with delicate surgery could effectively put a woman's menopause 'on ice', doctors said during a conference. They said that the only thing preventing them from having babies into their old age would be their physical ability to carry a pregnancy. The controversial notion ...

Novel Therapies For Liver Cancer In The Offing

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Researchers have created the first mouse model demonstrating the role of a cancer promoting gene, Astrocyte elevated gene-1 (AEG-1, in liver cancer. The mouse model represents a critical step in understanding the molecular mechanisms of liver cancer progression and could lead to novel therapies for the disease. AEG-1 was originally cloned in the lab of the study's co-author, Paul B. Fisher, M.Ph., Ph.D., Thelma Newmeyer Corman Endowed Chair in Oncology ...

Beauty Tips - Soft, Pink Lips Naturally

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Healthy and pink lips are every girls dream. Texture and colour of your lips can reveal a lot about your health and lifestyle.

Dietary Supplementation Of An Algae Extract Improves Good Cholesterol Levels

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A dietary supplementation of an algae extract can help boost high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels. In a study funded by Health Enhancement Products of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Smiti Gupta, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of nutrition and food science in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has found that dietary intake of ProAlgaZyme increased the level of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in an animal model. While medications ...

Baking Soda May Prevent Cystic Fibrosis Symptoms

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A simple solution of baking soda helps prevent the symptoms of cystic fibrosis. The solution has been found to prevent the airway infection in the animal models. The human airway is a pretty inhospitable place for microbes. There are numerous immune defense mechanisms poised to kill or remove inhaled bacteria before they can cause problems. But cystic fibrosis (CF) disrupts these defences, leaving patients particularly susceptible to airway infection, which is the ...

Begin Your Day With Eggs If You Want To Lose Weight

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Beginning your day with eggs is the best way for those who want to lose weight. A major UK review of studies into the effects of eating eggs has found that egg contains a powerful ingredient that can help to cut the amount of calories people go on to eat at lunch and dinner. Scientists say boiled, fried, poached or scrambled, eggs keep people fuller for longer compared with other common breakfast foods. This appears to help people who are ...

Doping in Olympics 2012: Say No To Shortcuts

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Failure is one factor that is not accepted by human nature openly. The urge to win and be satisfied has pushed some to seek help from modern science and find shortcuts to enhance performance and fulfill desires. The best example can be seen in the sports and athletics today. Most serious athletes will tell you the pressure and competitive drive to win can be fierce. More so in international games where athletes want to pursue the dream of winning a medal for their country ...

Over Five Cups of Coffee a Day Tampers the Chance of IVF Success By About 50 Percent

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Women who consume five or more cups of coffee a day gravely cut down their chance of success from IVF treatment. Indeed, Danish investigators who followed up almost 4000 IVF and ICSI patients described the adverse impact as "comparable to the detrimental effect of smoking". The study presented at the annual meeting of ESHRE by Dr Ulrik Schiler Kesmodel from the Fertility Clinic of Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark. Results showed that the consumption of five ...

Los Angeles County To Decide Mandatory Condom Use in Porn Films

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Los Angeles County voters are to decide in November's election, if porn actors should wear condoms during filming, after AIDS campaigners claimed to have collected enough signatures to qualify for a ballot. The campaigners submitted more than 360,000 signatures to support enforcing condom use in the US porn movie industry, which is based in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. Michael Weinstein, president of AIDS Healthcare Foundation -- one ...

Should Young ADHD Children be Medicated?

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Children with emADHD/em who start medications as early as fourth grade may be able to score better academically than those who start medications in middle school. This has been established in a recent study published in the Journal, iPediatrics/i. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a developmental disorder and is usually diagnosed by age 7. Children with ADHD have problems with focusing and exhibit erratic behavior. ...

Seaweed Bacteria May Help Prevent Tooth Decay

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Adding enzymes from seaweed microbes to toothpaste and mouthwash may offer protection against tooth decay, reveals a study. Researchers at the Newcastle University, UK had been studying Bacillus licheniformis to see if it could clean ships' hulls. But they now believe that it could protect the areas between teeth where plaque can gather despite brushing. Their lab tests suggested that the microbe's enzyme cuts through plaque, stripping it ...

Quiz on Bleeding Disorders

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The clotting process is impaired in people with bleeding disorders which leads to excessive internal or external bleeding. Take this quiz to know more about bleeding disorders.

Dad's Human Capital Decides Son's Success

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A recent study published in the Journal of Political Economy claims that a father's brain plays a greater role than his money in impacting his son's success. A father-child relationship is always very special and is known to play a very unique role in shaping the child's mental health. Children, especially sons, who remember spending quality time with their fathers, have been found to be more capable of handling stress during later life than those ...

New Privacy Solution for Facebook Developed

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Facebook has come up with new privacy solution that help parents adjust their children's profiles in one click and keep teens safe from pedophiles and criminals. The SPP "app" has multiple levels of protection, but the most important component reviews a user's friends list in seconds to identify which have few or no mutual links and might be "fake" profiles. The app analyzes each friend and scores the "connectedness" to every friend. It flags the lowest scores ...

Half of World's Underweight Kids Live in South Asia: Study

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In a recent study it was found that half of world's underweight children live in South Asia, mostly in India. Although the nutritional status of children under five has improved overall since 1985, one in five infants and children in developing countries is still moderately or severely underweight, amounting to an estimated 110 million children worldwide. Another 148 million are mildly underweight. The UN set the target as part of its Millennium Development ...

Obesity Ups Risk of Kidney Injury After Heart Surgery

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According to Vanderbilt study, obesity boosts the risk of acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery. Considered common after cardiac surgery, AKI represents a fivefold increase in mortality risk within 30 days after the procedure and is associated with longer hospital stays and a range of complications. The study, led by anesthesiologist Frederic T. (Josh) Billings IV, M.D., M.Sc., followed a sample of 455 cardiac surgery patients at Vanderbilt ...

UNAIDS Says Record Number of Africans Get AIDS Drugs

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A record number of Africans now have access to antiretroviral treatment to control the HIV virus, says the head of UNAIDS. At the end of last year, 6.2 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were taking antiretroviral treatment, an increase of 1.1 million over 2010, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe said in an interview on Thursday. It means that 56 percent of Africans in need of the drugs now have access to them, he said. "Ten years ...

Wine Intolerance Could Cause Allergy-like Symptoms

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Intolerance to wine, which affects around seven percent of adults, could cause symptoms akin to allergy. This figure is the result of a survey presented by Peter Wigand and co-authors in the current edition of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztelb Int 2012; 109 (25): 437-44). The authors evaluated 948 questionnaires that were returned from the 4000 sent out to randomly selected people between the ages of 20 and 69 years. They ...

Why Fatty Salad Dressing is a Good Choice

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A new study seems to point out the advantage of eating rich salad dressings vis a vis fat free ones. The study found that fats in rich salad dressings assist the body in absorbing key nutrients available in fruits and vegetables. Mario Ferruzzi, the study's lead author and a food science professor at Purdue University said, "If you want to utilize more from your fruits and vegetables, you have to pair them correctly with fat-based dressings. If you have a salad ...

Diabetes Drug may Help in Regenerating Brain Cells

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In a recent finding, a drug which is most often used to control Type 2 diabetes can activate stem cells to produce new brain cells. This discovery brings in hope of a new way to treat brain injuries as well as neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Researchers found that the drug metformin activates the mechanism which signals stem cells to generate neurons and other brain cells. Freda Miller, a senior scientist at SickKids said, "If you could ...

Exercise Caution While Using Wire Grill Brushes

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A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has pointed out that many people sought urgent medical assistance after consuming bristles from a wire grill brush. The CDC explained how patients had swallowed grill brush bristles that got dislodged from the brush and got mixed with the food. Hospital records showed patients with injuries to the GI tract, some of which needed surgery. Additionally, public awareness might result in careful examination ...