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Moderate wine consumption never harmed anyone - in fact, a study carried out by UC San Diego School of Medicine shows that a daily glass of wine can be beneficial for your health, especially in combating Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. By comparison, people who never consume alcohol have double the chances of cont... |
20 May 2008
05:12 GMT |
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1. Hepatitis B, like hepatitis A, is a viral infection of the liver; the only difference is that the former is more severe because of its capacity to turn chronic. The infection can be detected via blood samples. The virus of the hepatitis B is transmitted from one person to another via body liquids, including blood,... |
12 May 2008
09:46 GMT |
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1. The gall or bile is a yellow-greenish liquid deposited in the pear-shaped gall bladder. It is made of water, cholesterol, biliary salts and biliary acids, necessary for digestion, but also liver waste products, like biliary pigments and extra-cholesterol eliminated from the organism. The hormone cholecystokinin ca... |
17 January 2008
08:46 GMT |
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Are you turned on by long-legged women? In this case, you really prefer healthier women. A complex British research, made at the Bristol University and published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, has found that women with shorter legs display a higher vulnerability to liver disease. The study was c... |
19 December 2007
04:35 GMT |
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Coffee and flue do not match. Mixing large amounts of caffeine with acetaminophen (paracetamol), one of the most common painkillers used in the US and Europe could harm your liver, as found by a new research. The danger does not come only from caffeinated dinks combined with the drug, but also from medications mixing... |
27 September 2007
06:00 GMT |
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She can consider herself lucky because had she been conceived in these times, her mother would have had an abortion. Chinese doctors have found 26 sewing needles inside the body of Luo Cuifen, a 31-year-old woman. They suspect they were inserted into the woman's body when she was a newborn by her grandparents be... |
7 September 2007
16:56 GMT |
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Even if Beethoven was deaf, he 'listened' to his doctor. But this proved even worse, as his doctor poisoned him. With lead. A Viennese forensic expert shows that the composer's physician unwittingly overdosed the genius with the toxic metal. It was clear that the master had been very ill years before h... |
30 August 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Vanuatu, previously known as the New Hebrides, a small archipelago nation on the Pacific, was famous even at the beginning of the 20th century for hosting one of the fiercest cannibalistic tribes of the area. Now, they are battling to defend the reputation of their national drink, a bitter peppery concoction called k... |
23 July 2007
03:37 GMT |
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Big bellies have been seen for a long time now as the main cause for the metabolic syndrome, a group of conditions leading to heart attack: prediabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. By using new powerful imaging technologies, a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at Yale University ... |
18 July 2007
07:32 GMT |
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Bacteria in your guts are not just simple guests eating on your leftovers. Beside digestive conditions, these bugs induce more severe problems, like obesity and now they were found to influence how fat is digested and deposited in the liver. An imbalanced gut flora can affect this metabolic path and trigger diseases.... |
25 May 2007
04:49 GMT |
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It was known that estrogen, a female sex hormone, increases host response after traumatic injury on the liver after trauma and hemorrhage; but the precise cellular pathway was not known. Estrogen heads cellular activities in two ways: by activating some DNA patches to synthesize new protein or by attaching to cell su... |
31 March 2007
07:54 GMT |
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