inflammation Archives

Sick Of Stress: Is Fear Making Us Ill?10
- Health & Medicine, War and Terror
- February 22, 2015
Fear of terror increases pulse, the risk of disease and subsequent death. The jitters, cold sweats, fast heart rates, heavy breathing. Fear is known to provoke strong bodily reactions. But how much does fear really influence our health? Can fear make you ill? And if so, is this preventable? In a study published in PNAS
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Disturbing Facts About Sunscreen 6
- Health & Medicine
- June 16, 2014
What you should know about sun cream ingredients. Summer is back again and so is the yearly dilemma: how can I enjoy the nice weather and protect my skin at the same time? With such a plethora of sunscreens which one should I use? We can distinguish two types of UV filters. Sunscreen active ingredients
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New Target To Treat Obesity And Age-Related Diseases 0
- Health & Medicine
- March 28, 2014
Increasing fat metabolism and longevity FAT10 seems promising. Nomen omen, destiny in a name. So it seems for the gene that was called FAT10 at the time of its discovery, and not because of any relation to adiposity, but because it lay next to another gene known as HLA-F: from here its imaginative name F Adjacent
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Electroacupuncture Blocks Deadly Systemic Inflammation 4
- Health & Medicine
- March 14, 2014
Nerve stimulation may attenuate immune responses of sepsis. Sepsis is an intense inflammatory state that affects the whole body, mainly caused by severe infections. It hits multiple organs provoking their failure and often leading to the patient’s death: it is in fact the principal non-cardiac cause of death of patients in intensive care units. The
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New Study May Help Refine the Prescription of Antidepressants 3
- Health & Medicine, Mind & Brain
- September 19, 2012
There are many drugs to treat depression, but doctors are still uncertain about how to prescribe them appropriately. It appears that about two thirds of the patients don’t respond adequately to the treatment, so doctors need to prescribe the drugs based on ‘trial and error’. But this may be about to change, according to a
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