Vitamin D levels may have different effects on atherosclerosis in blacks, whites Newstrack India | Washington, March 15 (ANI): Supplementing vitamin D in those with atherosclerosis or "hardening of the arteries," may have different effects in black and white patients, suggests a study. | Experts at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine found that the supplement could actually do h...
Being overweight is risk to liver Zeenews London: Obesity and alcohol both increase the risk of liver disease, researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Glasgow show in two separate studies published in the British Medical Journal. | While alcohol is well known as a major cause of liver cirrhosis, recent evidence suggests that excess ...
Indian Spices, Powders Linked to Lead Poisoning ABC News By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES | March 15, 2010 | , a writer, musician and artist who emigrated from India, prepares her children's daily meals with fragrant spices that are a staple of Indian cooking, including tumeric, coriander and garam masala. Turmeri...
Mini clip is safer than heart-valve surgery Deccan Chronicle Mini clip is safer than heart-valve surgery | Many Americans with leaky heart valves soon might be able to get them fixed without open-heart surgery. A study showed that a tiny clip implanted through an artery was safer and nearly as effective as sur...
No heart benefit seen with fibrates Deccan Chronicle No heart benefit seen with fibrates | Adding a triglyceride-lowering drug to cholesterol-fighting statins provided no additional protection from heart attack, stroke and death from heart disease in patients with Type 2 diabetes, according to data fro...
New cancer drug screening technique simulates reality Zeenews London: Taking a step ahead of traditional screening tests for potential anti-cancer drugs, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a laboratory technique that more closely mirrors the real-world conditions in which tumour cells min...
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Years of smoking reduces Parkinson's risk Zeenews New York: Smoking for a greater number of years may reduce the risk of Parkinson's disease, but smoking a larger number of cigarettes per day may not cut the risk, says a new study...
Outwitting germs that never say die The Boston Globe | In the ongoing battle between pathogens and humans, bacteria have an unusual survival tactic: playing dead. | Scientists in Boston and elsewhere are increasingly interested in my...
Mobilized for War, Immobilized for Healthcare WorldNews.com Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | It was not Dec 7, 1941 that changed everything, neither was it Sept 11, 2001. Instead, it was November 5, 1941 and Oct 1992...
Health Care 101: Consumer Primer On Obama's Bill WPXI WASHINGTON -- It took lawmakers a year to shape President Barack Obama's health care bill. If it finally passes Congress, it'll take the better part of a decade to write the user manual for consumers and doctors, employers and insurance companies. | ...
New cancer drug screening technique simulates reality DNA India | London: Taking a step ahead of traditional screening tests for potential anti-cancer drugs, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a laboratory technique that more closely mirrors the real-world conditions in which tumour cells m...
A Better Test for Finding Autism Genes? ABC News By DAN CHILDS | ABC News Medical Unit | March 15, 2010 | A genetic test for currently classified as a secondary approach may be able to pick out the underlying causes for the condition at a rate more than three times that of a screening considered to...
Mentally Ill and Missing: A Deadly Combination ABC News By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES | March 15, 2010 | Since bolted in a manic frenzy from her Barrington, N.H., home last December, her father has been distraught, knowing her history of and paranoid schizophrenia. Sarah Rogers, a 29-year-old artist from New H...
Employers think it’s okay to pay women less Indian Express | Employers think they can pay women less than men for the same work, according to a study. | The research, by the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, found education, experience or historical factors were far from being the reasons wh...
