A new study out of Spain has found that the polyphenol content in red wine can promote the activity of healthy bacteria in the gut, an area that’s gained widespread interest in light of digestive disorders like celiac disease and irritable bowel syndrome. In the study, published recently in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, male participants who drank red wine were found to show an increased percentage of beneficial gut bacteria in the lining [...]

Probiotics when consumed regularly may be able to prevent many acute diarrhoea cases in children. In 2010, diarrhoea killed more than 210,000 children aged less than five years in India, The Lancet reported recently. The mortality figures were nearly 19,000 in neonates and 193,000 in children aged 1-59 months. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and World Health Organisation (WHO) describe probiotics as “microorganisms that exhibit beneficial health effects for hosts when a sufficient amount [...]

Corticosteroids have been the mainstay of successful immunosuppressive strategies since the early days of renal transplantation [1-3]. However, success has not come without a price; long-term use of steroids is associated with well-known metabolic and bone-related adverse effects that lead to significant long-term morbidity want to know more about this article  visit : http://www.omicsonline.org/2161-0959/2161-0959-2-e105.php?%20aid=4369

The posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a clinical and radiological entityWe present a patient with predialysis CRF and PRESAll PRES signs of the patient improved at the 3rd monthPRES in the patients with CRF was known as uncommon condition. But PRES should be brought to mind, if there is an uremic and/or hypertensive encephalophathy want to know more about this article visit : http://www.omicsonline.org/2161-0959/2161-0959-2-118.php?%20aid=5181

OMICS Group invites all the participants across the globe to attend the International Conference and Exhibition on Rheumatology and Therapeutics which is to be held on Aug 14-15, 2012 at Hilton Chicago/Northbrook, Chicago, USA Rheumatology-2012 is a remarkable event which brings together a unique and International mix of large and medium pharmaceutical, biotech, and diagnostics companies, leading universities and research institutions making the conference a perfect platform to share experience, foster collaborations across industry and academia, and evaluate emerging [...]

OMICS Group invites all the participants across the globe to attend the International Conference and Exhibition on Rheumatology and Therapeutics which is to be held on Aug 14-15, 2012 at Hilton Chicago/Northbrook, Chicago, USA Rheumatology-2012 is a remarkable event which brings together a unique and International mix of large and medium pharmaceutical, biotech, and diagnostics companies, leading universities and research institutions making the conference a perfect platform to share experience, foster collaborations across industry and academia, and evaluate emerging [...]

  Could exercise actually be bad for some healthy people? A well-known group of researchers, including one who helped write the scientific paper justifying national guidelines that promote exercise for all, say the answer may be a qualified yes. By analyzing data from six rigorous exercise studies involving 1,687 people, the group found that about 10 percent actually got worse on at least one of the measures related to heart disease: blood pressure and levels [...]

  Arthritis cases ‘set to double to over 17m by 2030‘ Cases of osteoarthritis in Britain look set to double to over 17 million by 2030, according to experts. A report by the charity Arthritis Care says the predicted rise is down to the UK’s ageing population and growing obesity problem. Experts estimate that by 2030 over half of the UK population will be aged 50 or older and nearly the same proportion will be [...]

Radioactive Iodine Therapy: A boon for patients To make people aware and understand the importance of thyroid health and the medical advancement achieved in treating thyroid diseases, the World Thyroid Day is observed every year on 25 May. This year, experts emphasised the importance and effectiveness of Radioactive Iodine treatment in curing Thyroid Cancer and the need to spread awareness about it. Dr RV Parameswaran, head of nuclear medicine at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore said: “Cases [...]

Tobacco kills more than 1,200 Americans each day. Soon that death toll could rise sharply to include thousands of animals who could be used to test new “light” tobacco products. As a toxicologist, I am deeply concerned about the public health consequences of new language in a draft guidance document from the Food and Drug Administration that recommends tobacco companies prove their health claims about modified- and low-risk tobacco products by testing them on animals.