This finding could show why obese people are at increased risk of colon cancer. It could also point to new modes of treating this type of cancer, finds…
An ancient Chinese proverb says: “Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one”. A cup of green tea contains up to 200 mg of catechins, whose…
Hypertension and prehypertension in adolescents and young adults was associated with a higher risk of having an abnormally enlarged heart, researchers report…
Their study is published in the Jan. 3 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.”We knew that arsenite was particularly effective against this…
The review also looks forward to the arrival of newly designed molecules that mimic the action of insulin while avoiding triggering an allergic response. In…
Tests on volunteers showed that black tea significantly improves the ability of the arteries to relax and expand, but adding milk completely blunts the effect….
This study was conducted by the physicians at the Seattle Prostate Institute. Doctors wanted to look at the combination of seed implants and external beam…
The National Dairy Council (NDC) acknowledges and supports the body of scientific evidence that backs the proposed claim, which indicates that a lifestyle that…
The research program, code-named Apotherapy, will develop methods to activate a protein at the surface of ovarian, lung and bladder tumor cells which will stop…
Researchers from the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in Nashville, USA, surveyed 129 males treated at the institution over a ten-year period. They…
“We found that estrogen suppresses appetite using the same pathways in the brain as the adipose hormone leptin,” said lead author Tamas L. Horvath, chair and…
Professor Keith Horner and Dr Hugh Devlin co-ordinated a three year, EU-funded collaboration with the Universities of Athens, Leuven, Amsterdam and Malmo, to…
A newly published thesis from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, however, shows that the condition depends in certain cases on a hormonal imbalance that can be…
Of 96 community-dwelling adults aged 60 to 92 years, those with uric-acid levels at the high end of the normal range had the lowest scores on tests of mental…
The researchers revealed a link between active thyroid hormone in the brain and increases in an “uncoupling” protein (UCP2) that boosts the number of…
The results of this 10-year respiratory study appear in the first issue for January 2007 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine,…
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