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Youths Use Alcoholic Drink Labels To Choose Strongest Drink At Lowest Cost
Contrary to the industry’s position that visible drink labels will promote responsible drinking, young people are, instead, using these visible standard drink labels to increase or even maximize the amount...
Hypnotherapy Boosts Quality Of Life And Health For Ulcerative Colitis Patients
Ulcerative colitis is a nasty gastrointestinal disease that flares without warning and makes it vital to find a bathroom fast. Often diagnosed when people are in their late 20s and...
Breakthrough In The Treatment Of Bacterial Meningitis
It can take just hours after the symptoms appear for someone to die from bacterial meningitis. Now, after years of research, experts have finally discovered how the deadly meningococcal bacteria...
Mathematical Model Developed To Predict Immune Response To Influenza
Researchers have developed a mathematical model to predict immune responses to infection with influenza A viruses, including novel viruses such as the emergent 2009 influenza A (H1N1). This model examines...
Vaccine Slows Progression Of Skeletal Muscle Disorder
A potential vaccine for Alzheimer's disease also has been shown in mice to slow the weakening of muscles associated with inclusion body myositis, a disorder that affects the elderly.
Health insurance from Uncle Sam gets a look
(AP) -- Look out Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealthcare. Senators are meeting behind closed doors to consider whether the federal government should jump into the health insurance business.
Farnesoid X receptor regulates cystathionase
The expression and activity of Cystathionase is reduced in rodent models of liver injury, leading to hyper-homocysteinemia and impaired generation of hydrogen sulphide, two factors that contribute to endothelial dysfunction...
Hyperferritinemia is another surrogate marker of advanced liver disease
High serum ferritin, being a hallmark of hereditary haemochromatosis, is frequently found in chronic hepatitis C, alcoholic or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients. A study in Italy...
Golden rice an effective source of vitamin A
The beta-carotene in so-called 'Golden Rice' converts to vitamin A in humans, according to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Tufts University in an article that appears in the...
Chronic diarrhoea unresponsive to conventional medication: Are you taking lansoprazole?
Lansoprazole is a proton pump inhibitor which powerfully suppresses gastric acid production and is widely prescribed for chronic use in gastroesophageal reflux disease. Lansoprazole uncommonly causes chronic watery diarrhoea unresponsive...
Influenza pandemic planning needed to assure adequate care for pregnant women
Pregnant women and newborns are at greatest risk in a flu epidemic, but more planning must be done to ensure that they receive priority treatment should an outbreak occur, according...
Development of an artificial simulator of the nervous system to do research into diseases
Researchers of the University of Granada have developed a simulator, so-called EDLUT ('Event driven look up table based simulator'), which permits to reproduce any part of the body's nervous system,...
p90RSK: A new therapeutic target for liver fibrosis?
Cirrhosis is a world wide, bad prognosis liver disease and characterised by excessive collagen deposition and liver function damage. In our previous work, p90RSK is observed significantly up-regulated in association...
Nursing homes save millions using care improvement program
Ageing adults living in nursing homes and relying on the care of others are often susceptible to a long list of medical problems. These problems are debilitating for the residents...
Births to unwed moms rising, N. Europe beats US
(AP) -- The percentage of births to unmarried women in the United States has been rising sharply, but it's way behind Northern European countries, a new U.S. report on...
Out-of-Wedlock Birthrates Are Soaring, U.S. Reports
WASHINGTON — Unmarried mothers gave birth to 4 out of every 10 babies born in the United States in 2007, a share that is increasing rapidly both here and abroad,...
System That Regulates Blood Pressure Is Amiss In Some Healthy, Young African-Americans
When stress increases blood pressure, a natural mechanism designed to bring it down by excreting more salt in the urine doesn't work well in about one-third of healthy, African-American adolescents,...
Medicinal Plant, St John's Wort, May Reduce Neuronal Degeneration Caused By Parkinson's Disease
The plant St John's wort has both antidepressant properties and antioxidants that could help reduce the neuronal degeneration caused by Parkinson's disease, according to researchers.
Sprained ankle rehab complicated by delayed muscle response, study finds
Whether on the trail, at the gym, or even on the front-porch steps, what happens inside your ankle in the milliseconds following a single misstep could sentence you to a...
NPs-NPR-B/pGC-cGMP signal pathway is involved in diabetic gastroparesis
The natriuretic peptide (NP) receptor type B (NPR-B) gene was expressed in gastric smooth muscles of normal and diabetic rats and the expression was increased in diabetic rats. These results...
Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense
One of the major sources of drinking water for south-east Queensland is now under the watchful eye of Australia's largest integrated intelligent wireless sensor network.
Enzyme cutback helps hearts
Researchers have found that blocking a certain enzyme - found in snot, and sometimes in arteries - could help fight heart disease.
Private surgery blocks access
Private surgery in New Zealand was expected to improve public access - but according to a new study, it has done the opposite.
Women 'fight off disease better'
Men really do have an excuse for being wimpy about coughs and colds - their immune systems are not as strong as those of women.
Health Canada weighs fortifying junk foods
Health Canada wants to allow food manufacturers to add nutrients to a wider variety of foods, including junk food, a proposal that has some health specialists worried.
New tools to fight fake medicines
New technologies can help African countries identify counterfeit or substandard drugs, says director of Africa Fighting Malaria Roger Bate.
Earwigs 'sniff out' best babies
Earwig mums “sniff out” their best offspring and give them preferential treatment, say researchers.
Mark Landau dies at 59; he and his wife believed to be first couple to have heart transplants
He received a second heart transplant on Dec. 17, 2007, but was unable to recover his health. ...