News tagged with dietary components

Common bone drugs may reduce colon cancer risk

An international team of researchers has found that the use of bisphosphonates - drugs already taken by millions of healthy women to prevent bone-loss - for more than one year was associated with a 50 percent reduction in ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Eating berries may lower risk of Parkinson's

New research shows men and women who regularly eat berries may have a lower risk of developing Parkinson's disease, while men may also further lower their risk by regularly eating apples, oranges and other sources rich in ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Mice run faster on high-grade oil

Between the 1932 and 2008 Olympic Games, world record times of the men's 100m sprint improved by 0.6 seconds. Scientists at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology in Austria have shown that an equivalent improvement can ...

Biology / Other

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Caffeic acid inhibits colitis in a mouse model -- is a drug-metabolizing gene crucial?

Researchers at Iowa State University have found that increased expression of a form of cytochrome P-450 (CYP4B1) is a key marker of inhibition of colitis in mice by caffeic acid, an anti-inflammatory antioxidant compound ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0