Coffee can cure hepatitis C

Coffee, with its numerous virtues, has another one to add to its list – it can treat advanced hepatitis C patients with chronic liver disease.

According to a study, patients who received peginterferon plus ribavirin treatment and drank three or more cups of coffee a day were two times more likely to respond to treatment than non-drinkers.

About 75 percent…

Cinnamon A Saviour Against Alzheimer’s

Cinnamon a safe and natural substance is believed to help prevent the brain degenerating Alzheimer’s disease, according to a recent study. In a breakthrough scientists have recently discovered an extract from the plant’s bark that can halt the brain disorder which disrupts the patient’s memory, behaviour and thought processes. One-in-eight people over 65 have the condition, according to…

Good health unthinkable without honeybee

London: Good health is unthinkable without the tireless efforts of the humble honeybees, butterflies other pollinators.

Thanks to their presence, an abundance of vitamins and minerals from fruits, berries and vegetables are easily available for human consumption.

Researchers showed that globally “animal-pollinated crops contain the majority of the available dietary lipid, vitamin A, C and E, and a large portion of…

Battle of bulge: Read food labels right

Wondering why all your gym sessions and health food are not making any difference to your expanding waistline? The problem may be your reading skills! Experts say that getting the true meaning of food labels and culling precise facts from them is often the difference between flab and fit.

Ritika Samaddar, chief dietician at Max Healthcare, points out…

Parsley could help in breast cancer treatment

Parsley carries a potent compound that can halt breast cancer cells from reproducing, according to researchers.

Salman Hyder, professor of biomedical sciences at the University Of Missouri College Of Veterinary Medicine, exposed rats with breast cancer to apigenin, a compound found in parsley and other plant products.

The exposed rats developed fewer tumours and experienced…

A gene which controls entry of medication into the brain

MELBOURNE: An Indian origin researcher has claimed to have found out in a four year study that will help depression sufferers to avoid months or years of experimenting with different doses of medication. Ajeet Singh, a clinical senior researcher at the Deakin University Medical School in Victorian state, has remarkable findings by linking a gene which controls the entry of medication into the brain with the dose of anti-depressant patients…

Too much meat ‘raises bowel cancer risk’

Cutting down on red and processed meat besides exercising regularly could help reduce bowel cancer cases by 43 per cent, the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has suggested. In its “the most authoritative ever report of bowel cancer risk” today (MON), the WCRF recommended that people limit their intake of red meat to 500g a week, or just over a pound in weight. That is “roughly the equivalent of five or…

Embarrassed by body odour? Here are some tips to get rid of it

Bharti Malhotra, 24, has been going through acute embarrassment due to her body odour. It has also crushed her confidence, especially after she was gifted a pack of deos on her birthday. Many people like her suffer from body odour, but there is no need to despair, say experts who give their reasons for the predicament and suggest helpful tips.

Sweating is not the only reason for body odour, but…

Mulberry juice ‘can help shrink wrinkles’

USA:Want to get rid of wrinkles? Drink mulberry juice, says a new study. Researchers at Brunswick Laboratories in the US have found that the fruit is packed with anti-ageing properties that could give skin back its youthful bloom and even reduce the onset of wrinkles and grey hair. Their tests have shown the mulberry contains…

Just a spoonful of sugar makes infections go down

London: Just a spoonful of sugar can impart that killing edge to antibiotics against infections.

Researchers found that glucose and fructose — types of sugar found in plants — make deadly bugs behind chronic infections more vulnerable to drugs.

Sugar can improve the effectiveness of antibiotics against infections, say researchers.

Such infections often occur when bacteria ‘shut down’, making…