Cranberry sauce: good for what ails you
Public release date: 13-Nov-2007 WORCESTER, Mass. – Cranberry sauce is not the star of the traditional Thanksgiving Day meal, but when it comes to health benefits, the lowly condiment takes…
Funding source may be associated with findings regarding adverse effects in corticosteroid studies
Public release date: 22-Oct-2007 Studies of inhaled corticosteroids, medications frequently prescribed for asthma and other respiratory problems, appear less likely to find adverse effects if they are funded by pharmaceutical…
High numbers of men and women are overweight, obese and have abdominal fat, worldwide
Public release date: 22-Oct-2007 DALLAS, Oct. 23 - A new global study revealed that 40 percent of men and 30 percent of women are overweight, while 24 percent of men…
More fast food means greater BMI
Public release date: 22-Oct-2007 Americans are less willing to pay more for healthy dishes, less knowledgeable about healthy menu items, and more likely to consider healthy items bland tasting, finds…
XDR TB in South Africa traced to lack of drug susceptibility testing / inadvertently helped to create a new strain of TB
Public release date: 22-Oct-2007 XDR TB in South Africa traced to lack of drug susceptibility testing In South Africa, the 2001 implementation of the World Health Organization’s anti-tuberculosis program may…
Broccoli sprout-derived extract protects against ultraviolet radiation
Public release date: 22-Oct-2007 A team of Johns Hopkins scientists reports in this week’s issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that humans can be protected against…
Zinc may reduce pneumonia risk in nursing home elderly
Public release date: 22-Oct-2007 BOSTON — When elderly nursing home residents contract pneumonia, it is a blow to their already fragile health. Simin Nikbin Meydani, DVM, PhD of the Jean…
Exercise improves thinking, reduces diabetes risk in overweight children
Public release date: 22-Oct-2007 Just three months of daily, vigorous physical activity in overweight children improves their thinking and reduces their diabetes risk, researchers say. “Is exercise a magic wand…
IRON DEFICIENT WOMEN COUGH MORE
Public release date: 24-Oct-2007 New research investigates a possible link between iron deficiency in women and idiopathic cough. Italian researchers evaluated 16 healthy, non-smoking women, all of whom had normal…
FRAGMENTED SLEEP AFFECTS CHOLESTEROL
Public release date: 24-Oct-2007 Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have released a new study, examining the relationship between sleep fragmentation and lipid profiles. Both normal and…
NECK SIZE IS BEST PREDICTOR OF SLEEP APNEA SEVERITY
Public release date: 24-Oct-2007 A new study evaluates the roles of gender and body measurements in the severity of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) requirements.…
VITAMINS MAY IMPROVE SMOKERS’ LUNG FUNCTION
Public release date: 24-Oct-2007 New research shows that antioxidants—vitamins A, C, and E—may help improve lung function in people who smoke. Researchers from Bangladesh compared the lung function of 200…
Daylight savings time disrupts humans’ natural circadian rhythm
Public release date: 24-Oct-2007 When people living in many parts of the world move their clocks forward one hour in the spring in observance of daylight saving time (DST), their…
Contamination from depleted uranium found in urine 20 years later
Public release date: 24-Oct-2007 Inhaled depleted uranium (DU) oxide aerosols are recognised as a distinct human health hazard and DU has been suggested to be responsible in part for illness…
Scientists discover a direct route from the brain to the immune system
Public Release: 24-Oct-2007 – It used to be dogma that the brain was shut away from the actions of the immune system, shielded from the outside forces of nature. But…
Dietary supplement boosts IVF hopes – DHEA
Public release date: 24-Oct-2007 “AT THIS point I’ll try anything I can to have a child,” says Emma*, a 38-year-old teacher from London. Emma faces a similar problem to many…
Natural product discovery by Cleveland medical researchers blocks tissue destruction – Croton palanostigma
Public release date: 24-Oct-2007 CLEVELAND – Scientists at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Medicine have published in the Journal of Inflammation a remarkable discovery with a natural product derived…
Drugstore in the Dirt – French clay fights “flesh-eating” bug (M. ulcerans)
Public Release: 25-Oct-2007 Boulder, CO, USA - French clay that kills several kinds of disease-causing bacteria is at the forefront of new research into age-old, nearly forgotten, but surprisingly potent…
New Screening Method May Identify Tumor Viruses
Public release date: 26-Oct-2007 For the first time, a new screening method shows promise for identifying new human tumor viruses, as well as determining which cancers are caused by infection…
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