Milk Thistle To Prevent Cancer
A natural derivative from milk thistle known as silibinin is said to stop lung cancer in mice. This study was conducted to check if there is a way in which the tumor can be stopped from growing. Silibinin is being used since 2000 years for treating ailments related to the gall bladder and the liver. However, this new study has helped in discovering new benefits of the natural extract as compared to the various other treatments of lung cancer available today. The study was performed by Alpna Tyagi from the University Of Colorado Skaggs School Of Pharmacy who works for their Cancer Centre ...
Prevent Diabetes: Eat Fish
A new cross sectional study published in the Nutricion Hospitalaria states those adults, suffering from cardiovascular diseases, who consume fish as regular part if the diet are less prone to diabetes than their counterparts. The study was conducted on 340 men and 605 women of the Valencia community who were between the ages of 55 to 80 and are suffering from cardiovascular diseases. Though meat and fish both have been a regular part of their diet, red meat tends to contribute to weight gain and obesity. However, the fish has definitely led to a decrease in the glucose levels and hence in the ...
Delay Cord Clamping – Improve Iron Content In Newborn Babies
According to a research published in the online British Medical Journal, delayed clamping of the umbilical cord will help in overcoming the iron deficiencies in four month old children. In most cases, the umbilical cord is clamped in less than 10 seconds of childbirth. However, the research states that in a normal case where there is no crisis in the pregnancy and it is a full term birth, clamping of the cord should be delayed so as to facilitate the placental transfusion. The research was conducted on 400 infants wherein in some cases umbilical cord clamping was delayed and in others was done ...
Increasing Antibiotic Effectiveness Through Targeting Bacterial Gas Defenses
Researchers from the NYU School of Medicine have discovered that the by-product of bacteria cellular activity which is hydrogen sulfide (H2S) plays an important role in protecting bacteria from the effects of a variety of antibiotics.
Hydrogen sulfide was once known as just a toxic product of cellular activity but now Evgeny Nudler, PhD, the Julie Wilson Anderson Professor of Biochemistry at NYU School of Medicine, have found that it acts as a general defense mechanism of bacteria against stress. Oxidative stress is known as one of the many processes in which antibiotics kill ...
Stopping Skin Cancer Dead On Its Tracks
There is a new discovery regarding a method that can significantly stop skin cancer. This can lead to developing better cancer treatments as well as making new skin care products that may offer preventive measures towards skin cancer.
A research on the matter was recently published in the cancer journal, Cancer Cell. An international team of scientists led by Professor Stephen Jane and Dr Charbel Darido of Monash University’s Department of Medicine at the Alfred Hospital has discovered a gene that can help protect the body from a type of skin cancer called squamous cell cancer or ...
Women Are More At Risk Of Decreased Serotonin Levels Than Men
A research at the Department of Psychology and the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden revealed that after only four years of heavy drinking, there was a significant decrease in the system that regulated serotonin levels in the brain in women. Men on the other hand may take 12 years before this happens.
Three major neurotransmitter substances were studied in a single individual. A group of women and a group of men who were diagnosed of alcohol dependence were a part of the study which will be published on January 2012 in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and ...
Fatter Americans By 2020
Projections about the future of the population by 2020 of the Northwestern Medicine researchers at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions last November 16, 2011 in Orlando, Florida were bleak. It was predicted that by 2020, the vast number of adult population in the United States will be overweight, obese and half is estimated to suffer from diabetes or any pre-diabetic conditions.
The AHA also set a target to American adults to improve their weight to ultimately improve their overall heart health by 20 percent before the year 2020. This of course is something short ...
Premature Death Due To Heart Disease In Teens
Teens and adolescents in the United States are more likely to die in an early age due to cardiovascular problems. A new study takes into consideration adolescent cardiovascular health which reveals a dismal picture. This research was done at Northwestern Medicine where Donald Lloyd – Jones, MD chair and associate professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, describes the future for teens are bleak.
The study of teens and their cardiovascular health was presented last November 16, 2011 ...
The Rise Of Super Bacteria In The Cleanest Wastewater
Treated municipal water which is cleaned through the highest-quality treatment technology can result in significant amounts of antibiotic-resistant bacteria or simply called super bacteria. A study at the University of Minnesota reveals that standard wastewater treatment technologies may release great quantities of antibiotic genes used by bacteria.
This new study is led by civil engineering associate professor Timothy LaPara in the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities College of Science and Engineering. This study is published in the most recent issue of Environmental ...
Discovery Promising Treatment For Late – Stage Ovarian Cancer
A promising treatment for late – stage ovarian cancer has been discovered by researchers at the University of Guelph. A peptide that shrinks advanced tumors can greatly improve cancer survival rate and can be the much awaited cure for ovarian cancer in its late stage.
Jim Petrik, a professor in the University of Guelph Department of Biomedical Sciences is the author of the research along with student Nicole Campbell. Findings of this important research will appear in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics latest edition which is published by the American Association for Cancer ...
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