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Novel system uses turmeric to stop cancer cell growth

5 days ago

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Turmeric has been used in cooking and as medicine for centuries in Asian countries, and its active ingredient, curcumin has been shown to have anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory and bone-building capabilities...

Drug to boost growth in kids with dwarfism shows promise

6 days ago

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Achondroplasia is a genetic bone disorder affecting about one in every 25,000 infants. It is caused by a mutation in the FGFR3 gene that impairs the growth of bones in the limbs, the spine, and base of the skull...

Hypertension drug may slow down Alzheimer's in patients

7 days ago

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For the study, researchers sought to discover whether nilvadipine could help treat Alzheimer's disease by comparing the use of nilvadipine and a placebo among people with mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease...

Anti-malaria drug may prevent hereditary hearing loss: Study

12 days ago

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Researchers from Case Western Reserve University in the US conducted a study on zebrafish with a commonly used anti-malarial drug called artemisinin...

Being overweight doubles blood pressure risk in kids

13 days ago

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Published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, the study shows that obese four-year-old kids have a doubled risk of high blood pressure by age six...

New drug to fight multi-drug resistant TB soon in Uttar Pradesh

13 days ago

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The new anti-TB drug, with delamanid as active substance, is currently administered to patients primarily children in the age group of six to 17 years in a few southern states of India and is yet to be introduced in Uttar Pradesh, which reported 4.22 lakh patients in 2018...

How you lock smartphone can reveal your age: Study

6 days ago

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The study tracked 134 volunteers, ranging from 19 to 63 years of age, through a custom app installed on their Android phones...

Cause of disease that turns babies' lips blue identified

6 days ago

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The disease starves the pulmonary system of oxygen after the lung's blood vessels do not form properly during organ development. The lack of tiny blood vessels called alveolar capillaries causes hypoxia, inflammation and death...

Friend circle more predictive of your health than Fitbit

7 days ago

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For the study, participants wore Fitbit to capture health behaviour data such as steps, sleep, heart rate and activity level and completed surveys and self-assessments about their feelings of stress, happiness and positivity...

Excess weight, body fat cause cardiovascular disease, study suggests

12 days ago

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A recent study suggests that excess weight and body fat can cause a range of heart and blood vessel diseases including aortic valve stenosis a condition in which the valve controlling the flow of blood from the heart to the body`s largest blood vessel (aorta) narrows and fails to open fully...

High calorie diet causes brain health to decline faster: Study

13 days ago

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According to the study, 30 per cent of the global adult population is either overweight or obese, and over 10 per cent of the world's adult population will have type 2 diabetes by 2030, reports Efe news...

Dogs mirror owner's stress: Study

13 days ago

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Researchers at Linkoping University in Sweden have examined how stress levels in dogs are influenced by lifestyle factors and by the people that the dogs live with. They determined stress levels over several months by measuring the concentration of a stress hormone, cortisol, in a few centimetres of hair from the dog and from its owner...

Breast cancer raises heart disease risk

6 days ago

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The goal of the study was to compare and evaluate risk factors for cardiovascular disease in postmenopausal women who are survivors of breast cancer and women without breast cancer. For the findings, more than 90 postmenopausal breast cancer survivors were compared with 192 postmenopausal women...

Australian state legalizes euthanasia for the terminally ill

7 days ago

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The VAD law, which was passed in November 2017, provides for each case to be individually reviewed by a commission that will determine whether or not to approve the euthanasia procedure, reports Efe news...

Poor oral health escalates liver cancer risk

7 days ago

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According to the researchers, of the 469,628 participants from the UK, 4,069 developed gastrointestinal cancer during the (average) six-year follow up. In 13 per cent of these cases, patients reported poor oral health...

Smartphone app may help treat anorexia

12 days ago

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The approach is based on the theory that slow eating and excessive physical exertion, both hallmarks of anorexia, are evolutionarily conserved responses to the short food supply that can be triggered by dieting and reversed by practising normal eating...

Sauna sessions as exhausting as moderate exercise: Study

13 days ago

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Contrary to the previous assumption, researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the Medical Center Berlin (MCB) in Germany found that the blood pressure does not drop during a sauna session...