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| AHHHH! BETTER THAN RED WINE OR GREEN TEA, COCOA FROTHS WITH CANCER-PREVENTING COMPOUNDS, CORNELL FOOD SCIENTISTS SAY. |
| Beyond the froth, cocoa teems with antioxidants that prevent cancer, Cornell University food scientists say. Comparing the chemical anti-cancer activity in beverages known to contain antioxidants, they have found that cocoa has nearly twice the antioxidants of red wine and up to three times those found in green tea. |
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| BELLIES: IT'S MORE THE BINGE THAN THE BEER |
| The unhealthy 'beer belly' might be better known as a 'binge belly', according to a new U.S. study on how drinking alcohol affects the accumulation of abdominal fat. |
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| NEW STUDY: PERCENTAGE OF BABIES BORN WITH INTESTINAL BIRTH DEFECT GROWING IN U.S., N.C. |
| Gastroschisis, an uncommon but life-threatening birth defect in which babies are born with their intestines outside their abdomens, increased markedly in North Carolina and the rest of the United States in the late 1990s, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study. |
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| WHAT MAKES THE BODY ABSORB TOO MUCH IRON? RESEARCHERS AT EMBL AND HARVARD GAIN NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE MOST COMMON INHERITED DISEASE IN THE WESTERN WORL |
| Like most nutrients, iron is good for people - in the right doses. When the body has enough iron, our cells stop absorbing it from food; if there is too little, they absorb more. This system breaks down in the most common inherited disease in the Western world: hemochromatosis, which affects about one in every 250 people and is often fatal if it is not recognized and treated. Now researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg (EMBL) and Harvard Medical School (U.S.) have linked the response of a gene in the liver to the disease. The study, which appears in the current issue of Nature Genetics, is changing our understanding of how hemochromatosis develops. |
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| HIGH MEAT DIETS MAY POSE A KIDNEY RISK |
| People with even a mild kidney condition could damage them by taking up a high protein diet, a large-scale American study has found. |
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| ASPIRIN PREVENTS POLYPS IN COLON CANCER PATIENTS |
| A single tablet of aspirin a day may be one of the best ways to prevent colorectal polyps from recurring in patients who have already had colon cancer, a new study has shown. |
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| DIARRHOEA BACTERIA MAY PROTECT AGAINST COLON CANCER |
| Call it Montezuma's Revenge, traveler's trot or just a real pain, diarrhoea may do at least one good deed: protecting people against colon cancer, researchers report. |
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| U OF MINNESOTA STUDY: ADULT BONE MARROW STEM CELLS CAN BECOME LIVER CELLS |
| Researchers at the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute (SCI) have demonstrated, for the first time, the ability of adult bone marrow stem cells to differentiate in vitro as hepatocytes (liver cells) with hepatocyte phenotype and function. The findings will be published in the May 15, 2002 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. |
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| LONGER LASTING PACK FOR LONG-LASTING HEARTBURN RELIEF |
| The new 48-tablet pack of Zantac 75TM is now available. This new, large Zantac 75 TM pack is available from pharmacies throughout the UK, making access to quick, effective and long-lasting relief from heartburn now even more convenient.
Although the Zantac 75 TM 48-packs arrived in pharmacies on April Fools Day, the new pack size is no joke. The launch of this larger pack is fantastic news for the estimated 6.4 million British adults1 for whom heartburn is a recurring problem. |
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| ACCIDENTAL OVERDOSE WITH ACETAMINOPHEN (PARACETAMOL) CARRIES A GREATER RISK OF DEATH BY LIVER FAILURE |
| New research published in the latest issue of Critical Care shows that patients who are admitted to hospital because of accidental poisoning with acetaminophen (paracetamol) are at greater risk of liver failure and death than those whose take an overdose intentionally. This is because people who poison themselves accidentally often attend hospital much later and are more likely to be alcohol abusers, two factors that greatly increase the chances of death. |
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| IS THIS THE CELL THAT COULD REVOLUTIONISE MEDICINE? |
| IT MIGHT turn out to be the most important cell ever discovered. It's a stem cell found in adults that can turn into every single tissue in the body.
Until now, only stem cells from early embryos were thought to be able to do this. If the finding is confirmed, it will mean cells from your own body could one day be turned into all sorts of perfectly matched replacement tissues and even organs. |
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| PAIN IN THE GUT? DON'T BLAME STOMACH ACID. U-M SCIENTISTS SHOW WHY INHIBITING ACID PRODUCTION COULD MAKE GASTRITIS WORSE. |
| When it comes to cooling the burning pain of gastritis or an inflamed stomach lining, reducing the amount of acid in the stomach may seem like a good idea. But two new studies with laboratory mice, conducted by Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists at the University of Michigan Medical School, indicate it could be exactly the wrong thing to do. |
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| ULCER BUG INCREASES RISK OF STOMACH CANCER |
| Evidence is mounting that the ulcer bacterium, H. pylori, increases the risk of the world's second most deadly malignancy, stomach cancer. |
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| NEW LIVER CANCER TREATMENT; THE CURRENT PICTURE |
| In June, 2000, the Adelaidean reported on promising trials of a new technique to treat patients suffering from cancers of the liver. The researchers have now presented the preliminary results of those trials to the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (South Australia). |
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| ANIMAL-BASED NUTRIENTS LINKED WITH HIGHER RISK OF STOMACH AND ESOPHAGEAL CANCERS |
| Yale School of Medicine researchers have found that a diet high in cholesterol, animal protein and vitamin B12 is linked to risk of a specific type of cancer of the stomach and esophagus that has been increasing rapidly. |
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| BLACK RASPBERRIES SHOW MULTIPLE DEFENSES IN THWARTING CANCER |
| A cup of black raspberries a day may help keep esophageal cancer at bay.
Researchers found evidence in rats that black raspberries may both prevent the onset of esophageal cancer as well as inhibit precancerous growth already underway. |
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| EXCESS IRON INTAKE INCREASES RISK OF INTESTINAL INFECTIONS, STUDY SUGGESTS |
| Researchers here believe that an overdose of iron in the nation's diet could be rendering thousands of otherwise healthy people prone to intestinal infection. The scientists found that cells containing high levels of iron were more easily invaded by the bacteria. |
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| STUDY FINDS OLDER PATIENTS BENEFIT AS MUCH FROM CHEMOTHERAPY AFTER SURGERY FOR COLON CANCER AS YOUNGER PATIENTS |
| Older patients diagnosed with mid-stage colon cancer benefit as much from chemotherapy after surgery as younger patients with the disease, according to a study led by the North Central Cancer Treatment Group, a clinical trials cooperative group based at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. |
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| CIGS AND BOOZE A BAD COMBINATION |
| The interactive effects of smoking and drinking are not good news for smokers.
People who drink and smoke have to drink more booze to feel drunk than non-smoking drinkers – placing them at greater risk of damage to their brains, livers and hearts, a new study suggests. |
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| GENOME ANALYSIS OF PATHOGENIC AND WEAK-ACTING GASTRITIS BACTERIA |
| Intestinal infections caused by a Helicobacter pyroli bacterium might lead to the origination of intestine illnesses and in some cases - even to the development of oncogenetic diseases. |
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| VANILLA AS A MEANS TO INCREASE APPETITE |
| Vanilla flavor helps people with a depressed appetite. Researchers have come to this conclusion after a survey carried out in the St. George hospital in London... |
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