Sleep disorder linked to elderly men’s blood pressure
August 31st, 2011 - 12:34 am ICT by IANS
London, Aug 30 (IANS) Poor sleep quality greatly raises the risk of high blood pressure among elderly men, says a study.According to the study, lack of deep sleep was found ... Read more...
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Fat substitutes in snacks may trigger weight gain
June 23rd, 2011 - 2:48 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, June 23 (IANS) Beware of fat substitutes in popular snacks - instead of helping you shed weight, they may promote weight gain, says a new study."These substitutes are meant ... Read more...
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Vitamin A plays key role in the human body
March 18th, 2011 - 2:57 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, March 18 (ANI): Scientists have found that Vitamin A may play a more direct role than was previously known in certain physiological functions including sperm cell formation and the development of ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Nanoparticles help improve survival after blood loss
February 23rd, 2011 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 23 (ANI): Scientists have used tiny particles called nanoparticles to improve survival after life-threatening blood loss.The advance by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University could improve ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Mechanism involved in breast cancer’s spread to bone uncovered
February 4th, 2011 - 3:05 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 4 (ANI): A team of Princeton University scientists has discovered a mechanism involved in breast cancer's spread to bone, which may lead to a new treatment for the disease.Cancer cells ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Chronic drinking can disrupt body clock
August 25th, 2010 - 1:00 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 25 (ANI): A study has found a link between dysregulation of circadian clock genes and chronic drinking in humans.Circadian rhythmicity is regulated by circadian clock genes, and animal studies have ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
First discovery of animals making their own carotene
April 30th, 2010 - 5:29 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr 30 (ANI): In what could be called as the first among animals, insects, known as aphids, can make their own essential nutrients called carotenoids, say University of Arizona researchers.To date, ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientists discover stroke’s ‘death signal’
January 22nd, 2010 - 2:14 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 22 (ANI): A group of scientists has identified a way to block a "cell death signal" that they believe triggers brain damage during strokes.The finding was made by biomedical scientists ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
First atlas of bacterial diversity across human body created
November 6th, 2009 - 1:29 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 6 (ANI): Researchers at University of Colorado at Boulder have developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body.The atlas charts wide variations in microbe populations that live ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Ciggie smoke ‘weakens lungs’ natural defense against harmful pathogen’
October 24th, 2009 - 1:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 24 (ANI): Exposure to cigarette smoke might weaken immune cells' ability to remove bacterial infections from the lungs, specifically nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHI), a pathogen often associated with respiratory infections ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Alcohol disrupts circadian rhythm in humans
September 1st, 2009 - 3:58 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 1 (IANS) Chronic alcohol consumption blunts the biological clock's ability to synchronise daily activities with light, even days after the drinking ends, according to a new study.
The study describes the ... Read more...
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Chronic alcohol disrupts body’s biological clock
September 1st, 2009 - 2:52 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 1 (ANI): Chronic alcohol consumption can adversely affect body's biological clock's ability to synchronize daily activities to light, according to a new study on hamsters.It continues to affect the body's ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Connie Culp: first US face transplant
May 6th, 2009 - 8:23 pm ICT by GD
Connie Culp, the first person to have received an almost total face plant in the US today appeared before the media. Connie is 46 years old and a mother of two kids. ... Read more...
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Colour of feathers more than skin deep
April 16th, 2009 - 3:19 pm ICT by IANS
London, April 16 (IANS) Where do birds get their red feathers from? For instance, the red carotenoids that give the common crossbill its red colouration are produced in the liver, not the ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Birds’ feather’s colours are synthesised in their livers, not skins
April 16th, 2009 - 2:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Apr 16 (ANI): Contrary to previous beliefs, the red carotenoids that provide the red colouration in the Common Crossbill is synthesised in the bird's liver and not its skin, according to ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Body clock-metabolism link may offer diabetes, obesity treatments
July 25th, 2008 - 3:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 25 (ANI): Researchers at the University of California, Irvine found a molecular link between circadian rhythms, our own body clock, and metabolism a discovery that will lead to treatments ... Read more...
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Novel mechanisms regulating insulin release, fat deposition discovered
May 14th, 2008 - 1:21 pm ICT by admin
Washington, May 14 (ANI): Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown that a receptor called ALK7 plays an important role in the regulation of body fat deposition as ... Read more...
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Environmentally friendly plastics will disappear within four months of being discarded
April 20th, 2008 - 12:03 pm ICT by admin
Washington, April 20 (ANI): Researchers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology in the US are working to develop environmentally friendly plastics, which can literally disappear within four months of ... Read more...
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