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Pistachios may lower cholesterol and provide the antioxidants

A handful of pistachios may lower cholesterol and provide the antioxidants usually found in leafy green vegetables and brightly colored fruit, according to a team of researchers. "Pistachio...

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Tags: heart, disease, nutrition, non-traditional medicine, lower cholesterol
Tart cherries may be good for health

Tart cherries may be good for more than just making pie, according to new data from an animal study conducted by University of Michigan Health System researchers and presented today at a major...

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Tags: nutrition, non-traditional medicine
Zorro-LNA has potential to stop genetic disorders in their tracks

A study to appear in the June 2007 issue of The FASEB Journal describes a new agent, called "Zorro-LNA," which has the potential to stop genetic disorders in their tracks. In the study, researchers...

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Tags: disease, biology, gene research, kidney disease
Eating pistachios may reduce body's response to stress

Eating pistachios may reduce your body's response to the stresses of everyday life, according to a Penn State study. "A ten-year follow-up study of young men showed that those who had larger...

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Tags: nutrition, non-traditional medicine
Statins help memory in Alzheimer's

Treatment with Simvastatin, one of the statin drugs widely used for lowering cholesterol in humans, significantly improved spatial memory - how to navigate a water maze - in mice genetically bred to...

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Tags: brain, medicine, disease, elderly, mental health
How plants make vitamin C

Vitamin C is possibly the most important small molecule whose biosynthetic pathway remained a mystery. That is until now. A group of UCLA and Dartmouth researchers, who normally work on genes...

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Tags: medicine, nutrition, biology
Nanotechnology makes better dental fillings

The mouth is a tough environment—which is why dentists do not give lifetime guarantees. Despite their best efforts, a filling may eventually crack under the stress of biting, chewing and teeth...

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Tags: technology
Ingredient used in dandruff shampoos a potential treatment for seizures

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that the same ingredient used in dandruff shampoos to fight the burning, itching and flaking on your head also can calm overexcited nerve cells inside...

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Tags: medicine, disease
Depression may be an early symptom of Parkinson's disease

Depression may be an early symptom of Parkinson's disease, according to research that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 – May 5,...

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Tags: brain, disease, elderly, mental health
Aspirin therapy is less effective in women than in men

A new study shows that aspirin therapy for coronary artery disease is four times more likely to be ineffective in women compared to men with the same medical history. Historically, studies have...

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Tags: heart, medicine, disease, women
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