Medicine News

Mar 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

According to a new study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a daily vitamin C intake equivalent to eating two kiwifruits a day is required to ensure our muscles maintain optimal levels. Kiwifruits. According to the new study, eating high-value vitamin C foods, like kiwifruit, is the ideal way to maintain healthy levels (Hiperpinguino / CC BY-SA 3.0) The study, conducted by Prof Margreet Vissers and colleagues from the University...

Mar 16, 2013 by News Staff

A new research published in the March 8 issue of the journal Science finally proves that a single anti-ageing enzyme in the body can be targeted, with...

Mar 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A new study published in the Journal of Dental Research provides the strongest evidence yet that fluoridated drinking water prevents tooth decay for all...

Mar 10, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by the University of California Los Angeles has found that levels of a peptide called hypocretin (also known as...

Mar 5, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Researchers from the University of Massachusetts, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and the University of Mississippi have reported about the first...

Feb 28, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, the Universidad de Granada and Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, Spain,...

Feb 15, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

U.S. scientists led by Prof Genhong Cheng of the University of California Los Angeles have identified a natural protein with broad virus-fighting properties...

Jan 31, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A gaseous compound called hydrogen sulfide may play a wide-ranging role in staving off aging, according to a team of scientists from University of South...

Jan 30, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists at Brigham Young University say posts on Twitter could be helpful to health officials looking for a head start on flu outbreaks. In a study,...

Jan 25, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of Australian scientists has found that regular aspirin consumption is associated with an increased risk of a disease called age-related macular...

Jan 23, 2013 by Natali Anderson

A team of neuroscientists has created a detailed map of the brain regions that contribute to emotional intelligence, the ability to process emotional information. Prof...

Jan 11, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of researchers from Sweden, Scotland and Australia suggests that human genome may play a role in determining the makeup of the billions of microbes...

Jan 10, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to a new study led by the Warwick Medical School, people from low socio-economic positions in the United Kingdom eat more salt than the well...

Nov 9, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

British researchers have discovered that long-chain sugars called heparan sulfates play a major role in the process of scar tissue formation following...

Nov 1, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A comparative study of 80 patients carried out at the University Hospital Heidelberg in Germany, has shown that patients who drink coffee rather than water...

Oct 19, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Australian researchers claim they have developed milk that protects human cells from the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Dr Marit Kramski of the University...

Oct 5, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

Consumption of caffeinated coffee is associated with an increased risk of developing exfoliation glaucoma, the leading cause of secondary glaucoma worldwide,...

Sep 28, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to researchers at the University of Gothenburg’s Sahlgrenska Academy in Sweden, antibiotics can replace invasive surgery for the treatment...

Sep 11, 2012 by News Staff

According to a team of scientists at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK, non-smokers who live with or spend time with smokers are damaging their everyday...

Aug 31, 2012 by News Staff

Australian scientists have suggested that a protein called Grb10 plays a crucial role in increasing muscle mass during development. Structure of the GRB10...