Saturday, March 24, 2012

A possible remedy for depression can be Ketamine

Ketamine, the substance used for tranchilizarea horses, but also an extremely powerful painkiller, could be an instant remedy for those suffering from severe depression.
Doctors at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston, Texas, tested the effects of ketamine on people suffering from a severe form of depression. They say that this substance, which has the ability to numb the senses through a dissociative state of anesthesia, can overcome depression.
The current treatment is used for depression starts to work within weeks, during which patients recorded suicidal tendencies. Ketamine, however, starts to work immediately after administration.

Cosmetics could cause breast cancer

Recommendation is made ​​by specialists in the UK, who argue that prolonged use could result if parabens to breast cancer ladies. The British established after tests, a possible link between these chemicals and disease. In response, we send our doctors do not have to worry about. "The link between parabens and breast cancer remains that parabens have a similar action to that of the female hormone estrogen.
It is known that exposure to estrogen is a risk factor for breast cancer, "says Dr. Philippa Darbre, study author.
With these words, but with dozens of tests over time, experts from Reading University in Britain bring back the discussion possible link between parabens, these chemicals used as preservatives in personal care products and breast cancer.Of 160 samples of tissue taken from women who have had breast cancer, in 99% of cases, researchers have discovered at least one parabens in tissue taken and in 60% of cases were discovered five parabens
But we find these chemicals? Currently it is estimated that 80% of cosmetics containing parabens from creams to hair dye.

Alcohol - slow and safe destruction

Reduces ability to concentrate, ability to drive or to speak coherently - they are effects of alcohol abuse that everybody knows. But recent studies have revealed a much worse result.
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts have shown that alcohol reduces the body's ability to fight viral infections.
The same study showed that people who have made ​​a daily habit of drinking alcohol will recover much more difficult after various injuries, including burns.
That's because monocytes, white blood cells fight infection, if not act normal steady consumption of alcohol.
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Women less likely to suffer from depression

A U.S. study, involving 50,000 nurses found that women who consume two or more cups of coffee a day were less likely to suffer from depression.
Caffeine is the element scientists suspected as the source of this positive effect, as decaffeinated coffee has anti-depressant same results.
Team of researchers from Harvard Medical School followed 50,000 nurses over 10 years, between 1996 and 2006. Of these, approximately 2,600 women started to suffer from depression during the period studied. Most people who have been affected by depression or did not drink coffee at all or drank small quantities.
The study found women who drank 2-3 cups of coffee per day had a 15% risk
than to suffer from depression compared with those who drank a cup of coffee a week. The most encouraging result was that obtained in women who drank four cups of coffee per day, the risk of suffering from depression were 20% lower!

A new study of a substance that kills cancer

A study by researchers at the University of Bradford, UK, herbal remedies recalls scientists. A substance extracted from turmeric was shown to have great effect in destroying cancerous tumors
Tests have been made ​​so far only in mice, and results will be published next day, the British Science Festival. Experiments on humans will begin only after 18 months and the drug will be launched, probably over 6-7 years.
But scientists are very optimistic, because half of the subjects injected with a single dose had positive reactions, tumors disappeared completely, while healthy organs and tissues were not affected.

Substance contained in saffron is very toxic, so it is very effective. Scientists have managed to isolate the toxin, becoming active only when reaching the tumor, which destroys, preventing it longer feed.
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Gesture due to which 80% chances to make cancer

Smokers will light a cigarette in the first 30 minutes after waking up? If so, is very bad. Know, that will increase the risk of lung cancer, nearly 80 percent. At least that warns a study by British researchers.
Those who do not leave very much risk. This behavior brings smokers closer to cancer, says study just done by researchers in the UK.
According to them, those who smoke within 30 minutes after waking are 79% more likely to develop lung cancer than those who delay smoking the first cigarette at least one hour after awakening.

This is how flags of pneumology wards are full.
Nicotine delivered by tobacco smoke, reaching six to seven seconds to the brain, which cause the secretion of substances among which dopamine that activates a network of neurons responsible for producing state of satisfaction.

Noise adversely affects heart

Those who work in areas with high levels of noise present, after only a year and a half, an increased risk of heart disease, a study in North America.
A researcher at the University of British Columbia, Canada, analyzed data from a study involving, between 1999-2004, over 6,000 U.S. citizens and found that there is a correlation between increased semnficativa noise at work and risk heart disease.

Most study participants were men aged over 40, whose lifestyles have other characteristics which predispose to the occurrence of heart problems (excess weight, smoking).