Low-carb Diet Aids Diabetic Patients

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Low-carb Diet Aids Diabetic Patients

Dietary restriction, in conjunction with the anti-diabetic drugs metformin and liraglutide, is effective in patients with advanced diabetes. Diabetes and obesity go hand in hand. The epidemic is rampant globally, engulfing both developed and developing countries. Westernized eating habits...

Study Offers Hope To Reverse Aging in MS Patients

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Study Offers Hope To Reverse Aging in MS Patients

A new research has suggested the possibility of reversing aging in the central nervous system in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). In multiple sclerosis, the insulating layers that protect nerve fibers in the brain, known as myelin sheaths, become damaged. The loss of myelin in the brain prevents nerve fibers from...

Research Proves PET's Efficacy in Detecting Dementia

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Research Proves PET's Efficacy in Detecting Dementia

After a decade of research, scientists have finally confirmed that a method of positron emission tomography (PET) safely and accurately detects dementia, including the Alzheimer's disease. Researchers reviewed numerous PET studies to evaluate a molecular imaging technique that combines PET, which...

Air Pollution Raises Diabetes, High Blood Pressure Risk In Black Women

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Air Pollution Raises Diabetes, High Blood Pressure Risk In Black Women

Exposure to nitrogen oxides in air causes increased risk of type 2 diabetes and hypertension in African-American women, a new study has revealed. Researchers from the Slone Epidemiology Center (SEC) at Boston University assessed the risks of incident hypertension and diabetes associated with exposure...

Hepatitis B Carrier Exchanges Roses For Kisses

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Hepatitis B Carrier Exchanges Roses For Kisses

Zhang Wen, dressed in a low-backed wedding dress, stood at Guanggu Square in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province, on January 3. Shivering in the cold wind, she held 10 roses and asked for kisses from male passers-by, with a friend standing nearby holding a board saying, 'Kiss me for a rose in exchange'. It also...

Lahore Launches Ladies-Only Buses To Curb Sexual Harassment

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Lahore Launches Ladies-Only Buses To Curb Sexual Harassment

Three pink buses with female collectors but male drivers plied on three routes at standard ticket prices on January 5. First Bus Service chief Muhammad Dastgir said the new venture aims at offering harassment-free travel to women, The Express Tribune reports. He said the three buses would run from 6:30am to...

Death Toll From Cholera Nears 7,000 in Haiti

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Death Toll From Cholera Nears 7,000 in Haiti

Jon Kim Andrus, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization, said that as of December, on top of the deaths, the Haitian government had reported more than 520,000 cholera cases with 200 new sufferers appearing each day. Andrus said it was "one of the largest cholera outbreaks in modern history...

BMI Method UrgeBMI Method Urged for Treating Children With Eating Disorders

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BMI Method UrgeBMI Method Urged for Treating Children With Eating Disorders

An exact determination of expected body weight for adolescents based on age, height and gender is critical for diagnosis and management of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia. However, there are no clear guidelines regarding the appropriate method for calculating this weight in children with such...

Statins Linked To Lung Abnormalities In Smokers

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Statins Linked To Lung Abnormalities In Smokers

While some studies have suggested that statins might be beneficial in the treatment of fibrotic lung disease, others have suggested that they may contribute to the progression of pulmonary fibrosis by enhancing secretion of inflammasome-regulated cytokines, and numerous case reports have suggested that statins...

Is Talking Back Good for Your Future?

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Is Talking Back Good for Your Future?

Researchers suggest that parents should see disputes not as a nuisance, but as a "critical training ground" where their offspring can learn life lessons in how to disagree, the Daily Mail reported. The study conducted at the University of Virginia in the U.S found that those teenagers who were encouraged to express...

Study Says Love is 'Conditional' for 80 Pc Chinese Women

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Study Says Love is 'Conditional' for 80 Pc Chinese Women

Over a quarter of women who polled, expected to date men with a monthly income of 10,000 yuan or more, China Daily reported. According to Lu Xiongyu, who works at an import-and-export company in Beijing, it was only fair that women should want to date men earning 4,000 yuan a month or more. "Living costs are high...

Men are More Conscious About Beer Bellies, Lack of Muscles

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Men are More Conscious About Beer Bellies, Lack of Muscles

About 35 percent of respondents said they would trade a year of their life to achieve their ideal body weight or shape. The greatest issue men have is with their muscularity, with 60 percent saying that their arms, chests and stomachs were not muscular enough. This desire for more muscle mass may explain why...

New, Non-surgical Skin Cancer Treatment

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New, Non-surgical Skin Cancer Treatment

According to scientists, there are minimal side effects and the treatment does not even leave a scar. The breakthrough therapy, which has been used on 700 patients in Italy with a success rate of up to 95 percent, could be available in the UK within two years to treat basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma....

Smoking Cessation Drugs Make Quitting Easier

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Smoking Cessation Drugs Make Quitting Easier

The small clinical trial conducted by Larry W. Hawk and his team of researchers from the University at Buffalo Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) focused on 35 women and 25 men, all smokers from Western New York who were on average 48 years old and smoked a pack of cigarettes per day. The participants...

Inflammation and Depression

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Inflammation and Depression

Inflammation in the body is common to many diseases, including high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, and diabetes. Depression has also been linked to an inflammation marker in blood called C-reactive protein (CRP). Dr. William Copeland at Duke University Medical Center and his colleagues...

Proton Therapy Safe and Effective Treatment for Prostate Cancer

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Proton Therapy Safe and Effective Treatment for Prostate Cancer

Proton therapy, a type of external beam radiation therapy, has been found safe and effective for treating prostate cancer, according to two new studies published in the January issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology•Biology•Physics (Red Journal), the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO) official scientific...

Pollution Ups Diabetes and Hypertension in African-American Women

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Pollution Ups Diabetes and Hypertension in African-American Women

An increase in the incidence of type 2 diabetes and hypertension with cumulative levels of exposure to nitrogen oxides, was observed in a new study led by researchers from the Slone Epidemiology Center (SEC) at Boston University. The study, which appears online in the journal Circulation, was led by Patricia Coogan, D.Sc., associate professor of epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health...