What Is Milk Thistle?
Healers have used the prickly Milk Thistle plant to treat liver ailments for more than 2,000 years. Somehow these early practitioners figured out that preparations of this purple-flowered member of the sunflower family could stimulate the flow of bile from the liver, improving digestion and various liver-related ills.
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Interestingly, bile […]
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The epidemic of smoking-related diseases is one that only the potential victims can abolish. Smoking is among the most common habits in the Western world and this dangerous habit will kill a large number of those who engage in it.
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It is amazing to think that people would […]
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Mahidol University Annual Research Abstracts, Vol.28, 2001
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ogy, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand; 3Department of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Key words : IL-16 gene; polymorphism; HIV-1
Interleukin 16 (IL-16) is a chemotactic cytokine which binds to CD4 and addects T cell activation. Here we report a […]
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Johns Hopkins’ senior hospital epidemiologist and flu expert is calling for mandatory vaccination of all health care workers as the best means of protecting patients and hospital staff from widespread outbreaks of the viral illness. Studies by other United States researchers show that voluntary vaccination programs don’t do the job and that each year, nearly […]
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In studies with mice, Penn State researchers have shown that a combination of retinoic acid - a product the body makes naturally from vitamin A - and PIC, a synthetic immunity booster, significantly elevates the immune system response to a tetanus shot.
Dr. A. Catharine Ross, who holds the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair in Nutrition at […]
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