Washington, Oct 3: Clinicians should rely less on X-rays and expensive diagnostic imaging and more on therapies supported by the evidence, including some medications and some alternative therapies,

Washington, Oct 3: Those looking for an alternative to red wine can switch to Concord grape juice, for a new study has revealed that the family-friendly liquid has a similar arterial relaxation effect on the heart, and that it induces a prolonged relaxation effect that has not yet been reported with red wine.

This study supports other preliminary research which showed that Concord grape juice had a blood pressure-lowering effect.

Washington, Oct 3: Overweight teens have the same eating disorders like their thin peers, a new study conducted on teenagers has revealed.

More than one-third of the overweight girls in the study engaged in what the researchers called “extreme weight control behaviours’ like vomiting or taking diet pills or laxatives in an attempt to lose weight.

Washington, Oct 3: Rochester University researchers will soon test a compound found in a daisy-like plant, Feverfew or Bachelor’s Button, for its ability to attack cancer stem cells in humans.

London: Here’s good news for people with Alzheimer’s disease. Now they no longer need to suffer the bad effects of the disease. Israeli researchers have developed a nasal spray crammed with viruses known as ‘bacteriophages’ that can relieve the annihilative signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

The scientists have stated that their spray has the capability to crack up beta amyloid, a sticky protein, which blocks the brain in Alzheimer’s patients to wipe out links among nerve cell.

Washington, Oct 03: According to a new finding, low doses of red wine ingredient resveratrol can help improve the sensitivity of mice to insulin.

It was found that relatively low doses of resveratrol, a chemical found in the skins of red grapes and in red wine that can also activate the SIRT1 enzyme, earlier linked to longevity, DNA repair, and insulin secretion.

Resveratrol is known to activate the SIRT1 enzyme.