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How safe and effective is your sunscreen?
(HealthDay)—It may be easier than ever to find sunscreen with all the right stuff, but be sure to read the label or you could still get burned.
Aug 11, 2017
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Page 9 - News tagged with zinc
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Man loses feeling in legs after long-term denture fixative use
A 62-year-old man lost the feeling in both his legs after the regular long term use of a denture fixative containing zinc, reveal doctors writing in the online journal BMJ Case Reports.
Aug 8, 2017
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Peptide complex in the brain is responsible for Alzheimer's disease
Members of the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine at the Lomonosov Moscow State University have determined the structure of a peptide complex formed in the brain at the early stages of Alzheimer's disease. The research results ...
Jul 17, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Women and men may have different bipolar disorder biomarkers
Men and women react differently to compounds associated with immune system response to bipolar disorder, according to an international team of medical researchers. The findings suggest that bipolar disorder could one day ...
Jul 11, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Zinc may hold key to fighting liver disease
New research from the Westmead Institute's Storr Liver Centre in collaboration with the Centre for Virus Research and Kirby Institute has shown that serum zinc may benefit liver disease in a way we never expected.
Jun 1, 2017
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Zinc effects on common cold duration illustrate problems of routine statistical analyses
Two randomized trials that examined the effects of zinc lozenges for the duration of common cold symptoms found that colds were shortened on average by 4.0 days and by 1.77 days. However, the shortest colds in the placebo ...
May 18, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Zinc acetate lozenges may increase the recovery rate from the common cold by threefold
According to a meta-analysis of three randomized controlled trials zinc acetate lozenges may increase the rate of recovery from the common cold three fold. On the fifth day, 70% of the zinc lozenge patients had recovered ...
May 11, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Zinc effective in pediatric presymptomatic Wilson disease
(HealthDay)—For young children with presymptomatic Wilson disease, zinc monotherapy is safe and effective, according to a study published online April 28 in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
May 4, 2017
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Common cold duration is shortened similarly by zinc acetate and zinc gluconate lozenges
There is no significant difference between zinc acetate lozenges and zinc gluconate lozenges regarding their efficacy in shortening the duration of common colds according to a meta-analysis published in Journal of the Royal ...
May 3, 2017
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Zinc supply affects cardiac health
In addition to essential metabolic functions, the level of zinc in the body also affects the heart muscle. When oxidative stress occurs, it may be due to a shortage of zinc, which can be determined by examining the heart ...
Apr 18, 2017
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