http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In a first-ever comprehensive study of 124 natural product combinations, a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Tsinghua University, led by Professor Chen Yu Zong from the Department of Pharmacy at the NUS Faculty of Science, found that certain combinations of natural products can be as effective as man-made drugs in acting against specific disease processes. However, the chances of finding the effective combination of natural products could be as low as below 3 per cent.  http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-natural-products-effective-synthetic-drugs.html Medications Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:24:08 EST news279444239 The benefits of tea drinking have been shown again in a study that has found the risk of ovarian cancer is reduced in tea drinkers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-higher-regular-tea-consumption-benefits.html Health Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:02:24 EST news274525336 The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is low in countries where consumption of black tea is high, suggests a mathematical analysis of data from 50 countries, published in the online journal BMJ Open. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-prevalence-diabetes-regular-black-tea.html Diabetes Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:30:01 EST news271524624 (Medical Xpress) -- Drinking a cup of black tea three times a day may significantly reduce your blood pressure. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-black-tea-blood-pressure.html Health Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:42:28 EST news246645739