A preliminary research suggests that early use of drug rasagiline may prove helpful to slow down the progression of Parkinson’s disease.

The researchers found that the patients who took that drug soon after diagnosis, they suffered a less aggressive form of Parkinson’s than the patients who didn’t take rasagiline until later.

The study, which involved more than 1,000 patients, has been presented at a neurological conference in Madrid.

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Alcoholism is a chronic disease whereby the body becomes dependent on the consumption of the alcoholic beverages. An individual may become obsessed with the drink and not be able to control the quantities drunk. Although drinking can be causing serious problems at work, to the health and the family of the individual, he or she may still not be able to control it. At the same time, it can be possible for one to have problems with alcohol, but still not display any negative effects.

However there are signs that should raise red flags about one being afflicted with the problem of alcoholism.  Below are some red alerts on alcoholism that should not be ignored:

1. You cannot control the amount of alcohol you drink
2. You are drinking alone or in secret
3. You do not remember conversations or commitments made while drunk
4. When your ritual of having a drink is broken and it upsets you
5. Being irritable when drink time approaches and you do not have access to alcohol
6. You keep alcohol in unlikely places at home or in the car
7. You drink double shots or drink to feel ‘normal’
8. Experiencing physical withdrawal symptoms if you do not drink
9. Building a tolerance level to alcohol so that you need to drink more to get the same effect
10. Finding excuses to drink

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Earache is a common medical problem in children as well as in adults. Often, earache becomes the cause of pain and inflammation of the outer part of the ear called pinna or earhole. Build-up of fluid and pressure behind eardrum in the middle ear often cause ear pain in children. Many people consider that the ear pain in children or infants is because of some infection but you must keep in mind that ear pain is not always from some infection.

There may be some other causes including retention of water, soap or shampoo from bathing, ear canal irritation from some object like cotton swabs etc. There are some traditional earache treatments like warm, damp compresses. Similarly, herbal extract ear drops are often recommended for the earache treatment.

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How fish oil helps to lower cholesterol? How much fish oil our body really needs to lower cholesterol? From which source we can get the required quantity?

These are some frequently asked questions about fish oil and its consumptions. This article may help you to find the most suitable answers.

Omega-3 fish oil

The following oily fish are rich with Omega-3 fish oil

• Salmon
• Trout
• Sardines
• Herrings
• Mackerel
• Pilchards

Omega-3 fish oil has a high amount of essential fatty acids and that’s why it is considered extremely well for health.

Essential fatty acids are rich with useful health properties that help to lower cholesterol as well as reduce the symptoms of many other diseases like Asthma, Crohn’s disease, Gallstones, Psoriasis, Ulcerative Colitis, Atherosclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and most importantly the heart disease.

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The screening of families for an inherited cholesterol disorder is expected to endorse in UK. It recommends that children of those people who have familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) will be tested by the age of 10.

In UK, familial hypercholesterolaemia affects one out of every 500 people and it’s only 20% cases have been diagnosed yet.

The risk of inheriting this disorder is almost 50% in siblings and children of people with FH.

FH causes unusual high levels of cholesterol from birth and it often goes without any notice until an individual’s 30s or 40s and then the first symptom appears as heart attack.
But, if FH is identified, it can be controlled by using cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, diet and lifestyle.

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According to surprising results of a new study, some common moisturizers may quicken the development of skin cancer at least in mice.

However, you need not to throw away your creams and lotions just yet as senior investigator of the study Allan Conney, PhD has said that further research is needed to find its impact on human moisturizer users. The study has been published in Journal of Investigative Dermatology. For some people, moisturizers are medically needed and some animal study doesn’t directly identify the human risk of skin cancer.

Conney, the director of cancer research at the Rutgers University School of Pharmacy, N.J, says that this new study shows there may be a problem with these moisturizers.

The findings of the study

In this study, hairless mice were exposed to ultraviolet light twice a week for 20 weeks that increased their risk of having skin cancer. The researcher applied either water, nothing or one out of four of these different creams known as Dermovan, Dermabase, Vanicream and Eucerin Original Moisturizing Cream on mice’ skin. For an additional 17 weeks, this went on 5 days a week.

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After having a hot cup of coffee you may often realize temporarily alertness, improve concentration and an increased performance while doing some task.

Some people easily get effects (negative as well as positive) of caffeine while others don’t even realize. If your friend claims that he can have all the coffee he wants to and don’t even realize any effect of it, you shouldn’t think that the effect of coffee and caffeine will be the same for you. Contrarily, you must listen to your body when it says no to another cup of coffee.

There are many researches that conclude, in healthy people, taking one to three cups of coffee in a day, don’t cause any negative effects. People that must avoid coffee include pregnant women, heart patients and children as caffeine, which is a vital content of coffee, can cause the worst effects on them.

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Sore throat is considered the commonest communicable viral or bacterial infection. In the beginning we feel a tickling sensation that gets sore, frustrating and very painful afterward. Mostly, sore throats are cured with the help of antibiotics but you must know that these antibiotics are effective against bacterial sore throats and prove good for nothing against viral infections. However, there are some natural remedies that can work wonders with these viral infections. By using these natural health remedies you can relieve your soaring throat within an hour or two but sometimes these remedies can also take a little more time.

In most of these natural remedies, the body’s natural resistance against infections is boosted. Here are some natural remedies that surely help to lessen the symptoms of an irritated sore throat and quicken the healing.

Increase the intake of liquids:

The increased intake of liquid helps you to keep your throat moisture the dry mucous membranes hydrate. Different warm, mild and soothing drinks including ginger and honey tea, decaffeinated coffee, holly basil and clove tea and mild warm water with honey and lemon often provide soothing effects to your throat.

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‘How to prevent acne’ this is one of the most frequently asked questions about acne but there is a problem with that question as it doesn’t have a cut and dried answer to rely on. In fact, acne cannot be avoided by just doing one or two things in particular.

But if there isn’t any fix cure or way to prevent acne, it doesn’t mean that you can’t do anything against them. Here, some handy ways to avoid acne.

It is essential to keep face clean and free of oil to prevent acne but you must also keep one thing in mind that in a lot of cases over cleaning makes your acne problem bad to worse and proves very harmful for your skin as it over-dries the skin that makes acne problem more problematic.

If you are suffering from acne break out, you must handle this problem with intensive care without making your skin a filed of experiment for each and every available soap, scrubs and creams. You must consult a dermatologist and use recommended products to treat acne. Skin is a sensitive issue, mind it!

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According to scientists from Harvard, some new stems cells for 10 genetic disorders have been created and these stems cells will allow researchers to observe the development of some disease in a lab dish.

It will help scientists to speed up their efforts to find treatments for some confounding ailments.

The new work has been reported online in the journal Cell and according to researchers they are planning to make these cell lines available to other researchers and scientists soon.

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