LARGE doses of Vitamin C may moderately reduce blood pressure, Johns Hopkins researchers have found.
But the scientists don’t recommend people start taking large amounts of the vitamin.
Researchers led by Dr. Edgar “Pete” R. Miller, an associate professor in the division of general internal medicine at Hopkins, reviewed and analyzed data from 29 previous clinical [...]
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PETALING JAYA – The Health Ministry will look into claims that the “fake banana leaves” used by some Indian restaurants are harmful to health.
“We will verify what these fake leaves are made of,” said its director-general Datuk Seri Dr Hasan Abdul Rahman .
He was responding to claims by the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) that [...]
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PEOPLE of working age who live alone are significantly more likely to be depressed, a study has shown.
They are 80 per cent more likely to be taking antidepressants than people in any kind of social or family group, scientists found.
Researchers in Finland followed the progress of 3,500 working men and women for seven years while [...]
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NEW research from the Harvard School of Public Health suggests even moderate consumption of red meat — as little as one serving a day — poses a more serious health risk than first thought.
Investigators followed more than 37,000 men from the Harvard Health Professionals Follow-Up Study and more than 83,000 women from the Harvard Nurses [...]
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RICE may not do a body good – at least if it’s white rice, according to a new study that indicates a link between your risk of diabetes and your consumption of white rice. What the Harvard researchers discovered is that each added serving of white rice increased the risk of Type 2 diabetes [...]
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SINGAPORE – Scientists in Singapore have uncovered the reason some patients are resistant to some cancer drugs.
They pin it down to a particular gene in people of East Asian descent.
The team, led by researchers from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, has discovered that about 15 per cent of East Asians display this gene.
It is estimated some [...]
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MALAYSIA – Glow-in-the dark lollipops will be held at all ports of entry and samples will be tested before being released in the market, the Health Ministry said.
Its minister, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, said the ministry has imposed a Food Safety Information System of Malaysia (FoSIM) Level 5 alert on these lollipops at all [...]
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PETALING JAYA – HIV transmission through sexual relations and syringe-related drug abuse is on the rise in Malaysia, a trend the Health Ministry says is only compounding an already appalling situation.
The ministry’s records show half of the newly-recorded HIV cases in 2010 stemmed from these two methods of transmission. Last year, 3,652 HIV cases were [...]
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HOUSTON, Tx – Damage done to the brain by Alzheimer’s disease may spread like an infection, from brain cell to brain cell, according to a new study by U.S. researchers on Wednesday.
Viruses and bacteria cause infections, and Alzheimer’s is neither viral nor bacterial. But Alzheimer’s appears to spread in the same manner that infections [...]
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PUTRAJAYA – The Health Ministry has advised the public against using the Jole et Beaute Daily Protecting Cream and several face cream under the brand name “Yoko” as they were found to contain mercury.
The ministry’s senior director of pharmaceutical service, Datuk Eisah A. Rahman, said the affected Yoko cream are Yoko Whitening Cream Ginseng [...]
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