According to British scientists when it comes to the health benefits of red wine, the good old French or Italian reds are by far the best option.The researchers say the traditional red wines from the vineyards of France and Italy are the best at protecting the heart, because reds from these two particular regions contain the highest concentrations of 'oligomeric procyanidins', the antioxidants which contribute to card...Saturday, 2-Dec-2006 / [ Details... ]
According to new research the more you smoke, the more you're likely to drink.Researchers from Washington and Maryland University Medical schools say they have come to the conclusion that there is a connection between smoking and alcohol, and it's a mutually destructive one.In order to examine the popular opinion that cigarette smoking prompts more drinking,...Tuesday, 28-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
British researchers have found enough scientific evidence to support the claim that folic acid is both an easy and inexpensive way to reduce heart disease and strokes.The researchers examined different studies to see whether raised homocysteine was a cause of cardiovascular disease and also reviewed the results of studies that tested the effects of lowered homocysteine levels.Lead author Dr. David S Wald, a cardiologist, and colleagues at the ...Monday, 27-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
Researchers in the United States believe they have discovered a "master" embryonic cardiac stem cell.A team from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cardiovascular Research Center say the stem cell is capable of producing all three types of cardiac tissue.The researchers led by Dr. Kenneth R. Chien, Professor of Basic Science at Harvard Medical School, identified these prog...Wednesday, 22-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
An international research team have come up with a new genetic map which could demand a fundamental shift in how we think genes work.The research has already had an impact on the diagnosing of some genetic diseases.Hundreds of unusual mutations have been found in a newly updated map of the human genome, by Stephen Scherer, a geneticist at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick ...Wednesday, 22-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
The food giant Nestlé has struck a deal with a Swiss university to conduct a five year programme of research into the relationship between nutrition and the brain.The Nestlé Research Center (NRC) and EPFL, one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, will study the role nutrition plays in children's brain development in order to identify ways of slowing down brain decline in older age and preventing diseases such as Alzheimer's.The agreement will also include resea...Wednesday, 22-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
Canadian scientists have found a specific gene which they believe may hold the key to the degenerative brain disorder Alzheimer's disease.Lead researcher Weihong Song, a professor of psychiatry who holds a Canada Research Chair in Alzheimer's disease at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, says the results of their study with mice found that lower oxygen levels (hypoxia) increased the activity of a specific gene.The gene called BA...Tuesday, 21-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
According to researchers in the Netherlands, occupational therapy improves the quality of life for dementia patients and their carers.The researchers say that occupational therapy can help to improve the ability of dementia sufferers to perform daily activities and can also reduce the pressure on their caregivers.As the world's aging population continues to grow, dealing with dementia has become a costly business.The effects of dementia such as a loss of independence, initiative an...Monday, 20-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
Using a microfluidics device designed to reproduce the physical microenvironment of small blood vessels and the spaces between cells, researchers at the National University of Singapore have imaged single tumor cells deforming as they migrate through the device. This tool could prove useful for studies aimed at better understanding metastasis and in high-throughput drug assays designed to identify molecules that alter cell migration.Reporting its work in the journal Microvascular Research...Monday, 20-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
Cancer Research Technology Limited (CRT), the oncology-focused development and commercialisation company, and The University of Manchester have entered into an agreement with AstraZeneca to establish a clinical pharmacology biomarker research and discovery collaboration. Within the collaboration, two clinical pharmacology research fellowships will be jointly funded by Cancer Research UK and AstraZeneca, strengthening existing collaborat...Monday, 20-Nov-2006 / [ Details... ]
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