Health

A new study suggests that mixing alcohol with energy drinks such as Red Bull could be even worse for your heart and nervous system than it was previously thought.

Research has linked high-caffeine cocktails with heart problems and anxiety, and a top brain expert fears the drinks could be a health disaster, the Daily Star reported.

Professor Peter Miller, from Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, said that most research has only looked at the effects of one shot and one energy drink.

That ignores the fact that many party-goers knock back several in a night.

On reviewing available research on cancer prevention and the benefits of orange, scientists say orange could prove to be crucial in the prevention of cancer.

In a forthcoming review article from Nutrition and Cancer: An International Journal, a publication of Routledge, researchers reviewed available evidence that links orange juice with cancer chemoprevention, reports Science Daily.

The review article, ‘Orange Juice and Cancer Chemoprevention’ discusses the putative mechanisms involved in the process and the available data in terms of evidence-based medicine.

A new study by Indian origin researcher has suggested that diabetic people have a 30 percent less chance of dying if they undergo coronary artery bypass surgery rather than opening the artery through angioplasty and inserting a stent.

Dr. Subodh Verma, a cardiac surgeon and principal author of the paper, said that although bypass surgery is more invasive than stenting, it is imperative that physicians and patients realize that long term mortality reduction is best achieved with bypass surgery.

A new study has revealed that measuring sodium in a child’s urine may help doctors identify those at risk for having high blood pressure later in life.

Researchers used a new protocol to quickly screen 19 children who were 10 to 19-year-olds and found that of the eight who retained sodium, seven had high blood pressure.

The inability to properly excrete sodium in the body can occur during stress.

Researchers have brought out new data that could prove useful for advances in care for women suffering from recurrent miscarriage.

The recurrent loss of pregnancy through miscarriage causes significant distress to couples, often exacerbated by there being so few treatments available to clinicians.

Scientists have been uncertain about how these natural killer cells (NK cells) could contribute to a miscarriage and this has raised doubt over their importance in causing pregnancy loss.

Researchers have claimed that patients suffering long-lasting chest pain are likelier to have a heart attack than those with pain of a shorter duration.

James McCord, M.D., a cardiologist at Henry Ford Hospital on the research team, said that patients can experience varying strength, location, and duration of chest pain, asserting that the variety of symptoms any one patient may experience during a heart attack is a challenge to the physician who is trying to distinguish between patients who are having a heart attack and those who are not.

Cigarette smoking by obese people may result in them facing additional health problems, a new research has suggested.

Aaron Wright, Ph.D., who reported on the study, said that their research shows that smoking and obesity together may pose a triple health threat in addition to the increased risks for heart disease, cancer and diabetes.

He said that the dangerous combination impacts key mechanisms by which both the lung and liver perform metabolism.

Obese people are 81 percent more likely to have occasional migraines as compared to people of normal weight, according to a new study.

Study author B. Lee Peterlin, DO, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD said that as obesity is a risk factor that can potentially be modified and since some medications for migraine can lead to weight gain or loss, this is important information for people with migraine and their doctors.

Researchers have claimed that patients suffering long-lasting chest pain are likelier to have a heart attack than those with pain of a shorter duration.

James McCord, M.D., a cardiologist at Henry Ford Hospital on the research team, said that patients can experience varying strength, location, and duration of chest pain, asserting that the variety of symptoms any one patient may experience during a heart attack is a challenge to the physician who is trying to distinguish between patients who are having a heart attack and those who are not.

Researchers are focussing on the healthful antioxidant substances in red wine, dark chocolate, olive oil, coffee, tea, and other foods and dietary supplements.

The American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society, is holding a symposium on those substances during its 246th National Meeting and Exposition.

Reports in the symposium involve substances that consumers know best as ‘antioxidants,’ and that scientists term ‘phenolic derivatives.’

Epilepsy patients in eastern India can now breathe a sigh of relief. A diagnostic procedure that enables detailed monitoring of brain activity has been launched here for patients who fail to respond to drugs.

The Institute of Neurosciences Kolkata has stepped up to achieve global standards in health care by introducing video telemetry (automatic transmission and recording) services capable of long-term monitoring of epileptic patients.

Researchers have suggested that the cause of obesity and insulin resistance may be linked to the fructose a person’s body makes in addition to the fructose they eat.

The team led by researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine claimed that fatty liver and insulin resistance may also result from fructose produced in the liver from non-fructose containing carbohydrates.

A new study has revealed that men are better than woman when it comes to dieting and shedding off the kilos.

According to the study, which was conducted by Slimming World on 1.2 million dieters, males have less emotional issues around eating than females, the Daily Express reported.

The research discovered that unlike women, men are much less likely to deter from their goal by events at home or work and they do not use food as a reward or comfort.

Over a 12-week period, men lost an average of 1st 2lbs compared to women, who lost 11lbs.

A new research has revealed that collecting samples of exhaled breath from people at a high risk of lung cancer could help diagnose the disease.

According to researchers, the new technique could be a cheap and non-invasive method of quickly assessing the symptoms of the disease.

Scientists have found that certain naturally-occurring substances on human skin can make us ‘invisible’ to mosquitoes by blocking the ability of the blood-sucking insects to smell and target their victims.

At the American Chemical Society’s meeting in Indianapolis, researchers described a group of compounds that could block mosquitoes’ ability to smell potential targets.

An Indian-origin scientist has developed a new technology which is showing promise as the basis for a much-needed home test to diagnose influenza quickly.

Suri Iyer, of Georgia State University in Atlanta, and University of Cincinnati colleague Allison Weiss, explained that such a fast, inexpensive diagnostic test – similar to the quick throat swabs for strep throat and to home pregnancy tests – is especially important for flu, as it helps select the most effective drug for treatment.

A team of researcher including an Indian origin has suggested that 15 percent of the most common type of strokes occur in adolescents and young adults, and more young people are showing risk factors for such strokes.

Co-author neurologist Jose Biller of Loyola University Medical Center said that the impact of strokes in this age group is devastating to the adolescent or young adult, their families and society.

A new research has suggested that omega-3 fish oil may help protect against alcohol-related dementia.

The study, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, found that in the brain cells of rats exposed to high levels of alcohol, a fish oil compound protected against inflammation and cell death.

In the study, Michael A. Collins, PhD, and colleagues exposed cultures of adult rat brain cells to amounts of alcohol equivalent to more than four times the legal limit for driving.

An Indian scientist has claimed that evidence from people suffering from heart disease supports the existence of the molecular link first discovered in laboratory mice between the body’s natural circadian rhythms and cardiac arrest or sudden cardiac death.

Mukesh Jain, M.D., said that it pinpoints a previously unrecognized factor in the electrical storm that makes the heart’s main pumping chambers suddenly begin to beat erratically in a way that stops the flow of blood to the brain and body.

A new study has found that inner-ear dysfunction can directly cause neurological changes that increases hyperactivity.

The study, conducted in mice, also implicated two brain proteins in this process, providing potential targets for intervention.

For years, scientists have observed that many children and adolescents with severe inner-ear disorders – particularly disorders affecting both hearing and balance – also have behavioral problems, such as hyperactivity.

A diet heavy in cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli sprouts, has shown potential risk-reduction properties for colorectal, prostate and various other forms of cancer, a study has revealed.

The study by Dr. Sally Dickinson, a research assistant professor in the Pharmacology Department at the University of Arizona and a UA Cancer Center member, focused on how sulforaphane- a naturally occurring compound in broccoli with established chemopreventive properties- could possibly be used to help patients reduce their risk for skin cancer.

A new study has found that kids who regularly consume the increasingly popular caffeine-laden energy drinks or gulp down a relatively large amount of the liquid in a short span are at a higher risk of experiencing seizures, heart palpitations or other such problems.

Researchers have defined a key mechanism behind Alzheimer’s progress, giving hope that a newly modified drug will be effective.

A collaboration among several research entities, including the Salk Institute and the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, found that the binding of two proteins, alpha7Rs and amyloid beta, provoke detrimental effects in mice similar to the symptoms observed in Alzheimer”s disease.

Making a loaf with beetroot can lower blood pressure and improve blood flow to the heart, a new study has revealed.

Researchers from the University of Reading gave 24 participants with four slices (200g) of bread containing 100g of beetroot or a control bread with no beetroot added to it, the Daily Express reported.

It was found that the diastolic blood pressure of those who ate the “beetroot bread” was lowered by 7mmHg when compared to the control group, approximately three hours after consumption.

People who have had cataract surgery to improve their sight live longer than those who choose not to undergo the procedure, according to a new study.

The research is drawn from data gathered in the Blue Mountains Eye Study, a population-based cohort study of vision and common eye diseases in an older Australian population.

A total of 354 persons aged 49 years and older and diagnosed with cataract-related vision impairment – some of whom had undergone surgery and others who had not – were assessed between 1992 and 2007.