Organic is healthier: Kiwis prove that green is good
...ndon, believes that the results show a significant reduction in the increase in plasma lipids caused by cholesterol feeding. "This is potentially beneficial to health with regards to heart disease", he added. Casey Gauthier reports on this story in Chemistry & Industry....Energy supplement under study for Parkinson's disease
...alf placebo. The hope is for at least a 20 percent reduction in disease progression, so that at the end of five years, patients on creatine will look like placebo patients at four years, says Buff Dill, MCG study coordinator. A number of methods will be used to periodically measure disease progression, inclu...Forsyth scientists wiping out tooth decay through school-based cavities prevention program
...ling Analysis of collected data showed that a reduction in new decay in primary teeth of 51% was achieved after a single preventative treatment. A second treatment reduced new decay to almost zero. There were also significant reductions in decay for permanent teeth. These results suggest that on a popul...Baum to receive IADR Oral Medicine & Pathology Award
...dies from 1978 to 1990 clearly demonstrated that a reduction in saliva production was not a normal result of growing old, to be accepted by elders, but rather a consequence of pathology that required clinical attention. With Dr. Philip Fox, Dr. Baum established the first research clinic in the US focused on d...First greenhouse gas animations produced using Envisat SCIAMACHY data
...ns, such as the Kyoto Protocol which addresses the reduction of six greenhouse gases including methane and carbon dioxide. With climate change being the greatest environmental challenge facing the world today, numerous studies and results on greenhouse gases will be presented at the 2007 Envisat Symposium i...Apple consumers reap heart-health benefits thanks to flavonoid content, says new research
...have antioxidant properties that are linked to the reduction of oxidation of the bad (LDL - low density lipoprotein) cholesterol which have been linked in various ways with the development of CVD. According to the government database cited in this paper, apples contain a wide variety of flavonoid compounds. ...Chromium 6: A killer compound with an improbable trigger
...y learned that when vitamin C is present, chromium reduction has a very different effect. Cellular vitamin C acted as a potent toxic amplifier, sparking significantly more chromosomal breaks and cellular mutations. "When we increased the concentration of vitamin C inside cells, we saw progressively more muta...New study: Pine bark significantly reduces endometriosis
...trual pain and endometriosis. Research has shown a reduction in abdominal pain due to endometriosis. Studies have shown a clear improvement in terms of reduction of menstrual cramps and pain in 73% of women following administration of 30 mg Pycnogenol day for on...Computed tomography screening may increase lung cancer diagnosis, but not decrease risk of death
...indings that CT screening is not associated with a reduction in the chance that a person will develop advanced lung cancer or die from lung cancer are important negative results that should influence how screening is viewed up until that time when more rigorous data are available from randomized trials." "Th...Study shows no survival benefit for CT screening for lung cancer
...rresponding decrease in advanced lung cancers or a reduction in deaths from lung cancer. The multi-center study, led by researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, found no advantage to using CT screening on current or former smokers -- the population at highest risk for developing lung cancer. The ...Holographic images use shimmer to show cellular response to anticancer drug
...ganelles stuck at dead ends unable to move. This reduction in motion translates to less shimmer in the image on the screen and can be quantitatively analyzed by a computer program, Nolte said. "Let's say there are 1,000 organelles reflecting light; the exact pattern of the laser speckle is sensitive to eac...Severe PTSD damages children's brains, Stanford/Packard study shows
...ippocampal cells in animals. In a vicious cycle, a reduction in hippocampal size can make it more difficult for a child to process and deal with traumatic events, which in turn may raise both stress and cortisol levels that cause even more damage. "Although everyday levels of stress are necessary to stimulat...Chronic disease management quality improvement efforts yield better care delivery
... normal levels for patients with hypertension. No reduction in urgent care, emergency department visits, or hospitalization for people with asthma. Researchers observed that this focus on short term outcomes to the exclusion of important longer term outcomes may underestimate the true effect of quality i...Addiction breakthrough may lead to new treatments
...nsumption rates have also been linked to a similar reduction in this particular brain receptor. Dr Dalley said, "The next step is identifying the gene or genes that cause this diminished supply of brain receptors. This may provide important new leads in the search for improved therapies for attention deficit...The Natural Fat-Loss Pharmacy by Dr. Harry Preuss
...ement leads to a drop in LDL (bad) cholesterol and reduction in body fat. Green and oolong tea extract: One of the antioxidants in green tea is EGCG, which beside possibly preventing cancer, high blood pressure, and diabetes, can also cut down on the creation of body fat and help destroy it through incre...USC-led study suggests exercise reduces risk of developing invasive breast cancer
...vious studies have linked physical activity with a reduction in breast cancer, but few studies have examined risk separately for in situ and invasive breast cancers or have characterized risk by hormone receptor status," said Leslie Bernstein, professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of ...In presence of fragrant cleaning products, air purifiers that emit ozone can dirty the air
...nic purifier without limonene resulted in a slight reduction in the average particle concentration, while operation of the ozonolysis purifier resulted in no detectable effect on the particle level. When limonene was added to the room, the particle concentration shot up in both cases, on some occasions up to 1...The science behind a wrinkle-filler: Researchers discover for the first time how product works
...new, natural collagen then would contribute to the reduction of the appearance of creases and wrinkles. The stu... to creation of new collagen, which contributes to reduction in creases and wrinkles in a persons aging skin, Voorhees says. The paper appears in the new issue...Multislice CT speeds the diagnosis of chest pain in the emergency room
...c evaluation (p "We were able to show a dramatic reduction in the time it took to reach a definitive diagnosis, even though in this small study we did not have the scanner operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week," Dr. Goldstein said. "For both individual patients and society, the use of CT to evaluate ch......e. The endpoint for the study will be a 50 percent reduction in rate of relapse of the disease at the two-year point. USMCI and Generex initiated a Phase I trial of AE37in April 2005, the results of which showed good immunostimulatory activity, safety and tolerance. AE37 is being tested under the direction o...