Low maternal cholesterol tied to premature birth
Public release date: 1-Oct-2007 Pregnant women who have very low cholesterol may face a greater risk of delivering their babies prematurely than women with more moderate cholesterol levels, a team…
Chemical compound found in tree bark stimulates growth, survival of brain cells
Public release date: 1-Oct-2007 Researchers have identified a compound in tree bark that mimics the chemical reactions of a naturally occurring molecule in the brain responsible for stimulating…
Almost one-third of US children regularly take dietary supplements
Public release date: 1-Oct-2007 More than 30 percent of American children age 18 and younger take some form of dietary supplement, most often multivitamins and multiminerals, according…
Mental disorders cause 1.3 billion annual days of lost role performance / half of U.S. adults have a mental or physical condition
Public release date: 1-Oct-2007 New findings published by Drs. Kathleen Merikangas from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Ronald Kessler from Harvard Medical School and colleagues in the…
Low doses of a red wine ingredient fight diabetes in mice
Public release date: 2-Oct-2007 Even relatively low doses of resveratrol—a chemical found in the skins of red grapes and in red wine—can improve the sensitivity of mice to the hormone…
Daisies lead scientists down path to new leukemia drug
Public release date: 2-Oct-2007 A new, easily ingested form of a compound that has already shown it can attack the roots of leukemia in laboratory studies is moving…
New study shows Concord grape juice has a heart-healthy effect not yet reported with red wine
Public release date: 2-Oct-2007 Take heart: laboratory research, just presented at the WINEHEALTH 2007 conference in Bordeaux, France, showed that Concord grape juice stimulated an arterial relaxation effect in a…
Cranberries may improve chemotherapy for ovarian cancer
Public release date: 21-Aug-2007 BOSTON, Aug. 21, 2007 — Compounds in cranberries may help improve the effectiveness of platinum drugs that are used in chemotherapy to fight ovarian cancer, researchers…
Vitamin E’s lack of heart benefit linked to dosage
Public release date: 22-Aug-2007 Nashville (Tenn.) - The reported failure of vitamin E to prevent heart attacks may be due to underdosing, according to a new study by investigators at…
Toxic shock: immune system’s anthrax link (important please review)
Public release date: 23-Aug-2007 Human immune proteins crucial for fighting cancer, viruses and bacterial infections belong to an ancient and lethal toxin family previously only found in bacteria, Australian researchers…
New study: Pine bark reduces perimenopausal symptoms
Public release date: 28-Aug-2007 A study to be published in an upcoming edition of the Scandinavian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology reveals that Pycnogenol® (pic-noj-en-all), pine bark extract from the…
Who will recover spontaneously from hepatitis C virus infection
Public release date: 29-Aug-2007 Twenty to fifty percent of HCV infected patients recovers spontaneously. The hepatitis C patients and their relatives like to know if his/her infection would fall into…
Flaxseed shows potential to reduce hot flashes
Public release date: 29-Aug-2007 ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Data from a new Mayo Clinic (http://mayoclinic.edu) study suggest that dietary therapy using flaxseed can decrease hot flashes in postmenopausal women who do…
Red Wine Compound Shown To Prevent Prostate Cancer
Public Release: 31-Aug-2007 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have found that nutrients in red wine may help reduce the risk of developing prostate…
Experimental anti-cancer drug made from corn lillies kills brain tumor stem cells
Public release date: 30-Aug-2007 A drug that shuts down a critical cell-signaling pathway in the most common and aggressive type of adult brain cancer successfully kills cancer stem cells thought…
VA Cancer Data Blockade May Imperil Surveillance
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 -- Stonewalling by the Veterans Administration is putting U.S. cancer surveillance and research in jeopardy, according to many of the researchers involved in those fields. The…
Hepatitis E in Europe — are pigs or pork the problem?
Public release date: 3-Sep-2007 Hepatitis E virus infections can be fatal in pregnant women, but until recently doctors thought the disease was confined to China, India and developing countries. Now…
Many medical residents appear to lack biostatistics knowledge needed to interpret clinical research
Public release date: 4-Sep-2007 Internal medicine residents had low scores in a test of biostatistics knowledge, and about three-fourths of the residents surveyed indicated they have low confidence in understanding…
AVOCADOS MAY HELP PREVENT ORAL CANCER, OSU STUDY SHOWS
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Nutrients taken from avocados are able to thwart oral cancer cells, killing some and preventing pre-cancerous cells from developing into actual cancers, according to researchers at…
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