Cholesterol Inhibitors In Garlic Identified
...holesterol by 15 percent. In the human studies, 34 men who tookdeodorized garlic capsules for five months showed a 7 percent drop in totalblood cholesterol levels and a 12 percent drop in LDL or so-called "badcholesterol" levels. High blood levels of total cholesterol and "badcholesterol" have both been ...Swedenvironment No. 3 Highlights
...ous effort tobuy eco-labelled products - and it is men who are responsible for the upward trend. Integrated Product Policy Needs Better Eco-Labeling And Public Procurement In preparation for the Commission's workshop on Integrated Product Policy, working groups stress the need for greater environmenta...A New Look At Margerine And Health
...ed, with or without trans fatty acids. Thirtyeight men and women with mildly elevated cholesterol took part in the feedingtrial, lasting 11 weeks. The results of the study showed that, compared to saturated fat spreads, any ofthe four margarines reduced the level of LDL (bad) cholesterol in the blood by1...UCSF Study Finds No Association Between Hair Dye And Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
...ed twice as many women and four times thenumber of men with NHL who had used hair color products than the... Area, where 56 percent of women, and 9 percent of men interviewedduring the study reported ever using hair color products. According to Holly, res...Allelix drug increases bone density and content in women with osteoporosis
...l osteoporosis, bone loss also affectsone in eight men older than 50 as well as patients on long-term corticosteroiduse. Currently, no approved osteoporosis treatments rebuild the skeleton in themanner that ALX1-11 does. ALX1-11 was tested as part of the age related experiments conducted by NASAduring th......tentiallyinfectious--form in the semen of infected men undergoing treatment withpowerful, new antiretrovi...s also plan to test 'discordantpartners'--infected men and their uninfected partners--to see if those on HAARTwho may not be using safe sex can transmit vi...Fat In Spite Of Hard Farm Work - Tracking Down Obesity
...e Amish obesity is ordained by God, and only stout men are consideredsuitable for hard work in the fields - thin women are believed to be infertile.The ideal of slimness which dominates the Western world is completely foreign tothe Amish. This is why they do not diet to lose weight - an additional advant...Cedars-Sinai Tip Sheet For Dec. 21
...rtdisease -- the number one cause of death in both men and women in America --can now be identified much earlier. And that means that treatment planning,lifestyle changes, and other interventions can begin much earlier -- whenthey are most effective."Interviews: Daniel Berman, M.D., Chief of Cardiac Imag...Antibody Revolution Targets STDs, Stomach Viruses, Common Cold
... a biotechnical company called ReProtect. Thethree men are conducting research on monoclonal antibodies under a privateinitiative with ReProtect, which is operating under a research agreement withthe university. Because ReProtect may, in the future, profit from commercialsales related to the research, th......is year," says Fuster. In the study, about 13,000 men in the United States, Europe and Japan were monitored for 25 years. The scientists found that men who smoked fewer than 10 cigarettes daily had a 30 percent higher risk of death from heart disease o...Major Clinical Findings By California AIDS Team: HIV Does More Than Kill Off T Cells
...ng T-cell counts."Study participants included both men and women, and all were patients in theGeneral Clinical Research Center at San Francisco General Hospital MedicalCenter. They represented three groups: HIV-negative and healthy, HIV-positivewho had not undergone anti-HIV drug treatment, and HIV-posi...Life In Womb Determines Adult Health
... dying of heart disease to be 50 percentgreater in men whose birth weight was less than 5.5 pounds, compared with menwho were 9.5-pound babies. Other studies cited in Life in the Womb explain why diabetes and obesityare more likely to be the ironic fate for adults who had low birth weights orwere very...Genetics Not Significant To Developing Typical Parkinson's Disease
... and progressive motorsystem disorder that strikes men and women almost equally. The disease usuallyaffects people over age 50, with the average age of onset at 60 years. Up to50,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. Currently the disease has no cure;standard treatment usually involves the drug levodo......gcancer, the leading cause of cancer death in both men and women. Locating thegene was the scientific equivalent of finding a house while only knowing thecontinent where it is located. Bepler isn't part of the federal Human Genome Project, a 15-year program begunin 1990 to characterize all of the genetic...Gene Variant May Hasten Silent Strokes, Debilitating Stroke Or Alzheimer's
... any brain injury." Scientists studied 414 men participating in the National Heart, Lung,and Bloo...-4 or not." The average age of the men in the study was 72 years. Those whohad at least one copy of apoE-4 had smaller brain volumes when ...A Fresh Look At Love And War Between The Sexes
...h ofthe conflict between the sexes isn't just that men are not monogamous. According to a University of Michigan author, the underlying trouble is that wehumans are anisogamous---we have sex cells of unequal size. Big eggs and littlesperm. And what works to make eggs successful is very different from w...NSF-Supported New Scientists And Engineers Receive Presidential Award
...earch and education. "These talented young men and women show exceptional potential forleadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge," President Clinton said."Their passion for discovery will spark our can-do spirit of technologicalinnovation and drive this nation forward and build a better...Gene Influences Heart Disease And Stroke Risk Factors
...se. Obesity is a risk factor for heart disease.In men the E-4/3 genotype was associated with calcification if the men hadincreased body mass index, but not elevated cholesterol levels. In contrastthose with the E-3/3 ......s. Prevention from transmission could also protect men and women from developmentof these cancers. It is thought that about one in four women are infected by these virusesin the genital tract, with 1 to 3 percent of women showing overt signs ofclinical infection upon gynecologic examination. Alth...