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Research Archive
Welcome to our Chinese medicine and acupuncture research news pages. We add to the content of these pages continuously as more research news comes in. Browse through the complete archive below or use the category links on the right.
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Probiotics relieve infant colic
A probiotic supplement has been shown to significantly relieve the symptoms of infantile colic, compared to placebo.
Antibiotics permanently alter gut flora
Categories: Lifestyle research
A single course of antibiotics has been found to permanently alter the microflora of the gut, with unknown consequences.
A single massage can boost the immune system
Categories: Immunity, Lifestyle research
Researchers from the USA have reported that a single massage treatment can produce measurable changes in the immune and endocrine systems of healthy adults.
Intensive meditation boosts longevity enzyme
Categories: Lifestyle research
Positive psychological changes that occur during meditation training are associated with increased activity of telomerase
Tea drinking cuts heart disease mortality
Categories: Lifestyle research, Diet research
Drinking several cups of tea daily can cut your risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) by more than a third, according to Dutch researchers.
Morning exercise makes up for unhealthy diet
Categories: Lifestyle research
Exercising first thing in the morning before breakfast can significantly lessen the detrimental effects of an unhealthy diet.
Exercise prevents the common cold
Categories: Lifestyle research
Regular exercise may prevent the common cold, according to a study by US researchers.
A few hours of meditation is enough to change brain structure
Categories: Lifestyle research
A collaborative study by scientists from China and the USA has found that 11 hours of meditation can induce positive structural changes in an area of the brain that helps regulate behaviour
Get the right amount of sleep to live longer
Categories: Lifestyle research
Getting just the right amount of sleep is unequivocally associated with living longer, according to a systematic review by English and Italian authors. The researchers investigated the relationship between duration of sleep and all-cause mortality, analysing 16 studies which included 1,382,999 participants (follow-up range 4-25 years). Meta-analysis showed that people who generally slept for less ...
Highflying women at greater risk of heart disease
Categories: Lifestyle research
Young women with stressful jobs are more likely to develop heart disease, a Danish study has found. The Danish Nurse Cohort Study prospectively followed a total of 12,116 nurses, aged 45-64 years at baseline, for a total of 15 years. By the end of the study, 580 women had been admitted to hospital with heart disease. The results showed that women who said their job was a little too stressful were ...
Deet is neurotoxic
Categories: Lifestyle research
Deet (for N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide), the active ingredient in most insect repellents, has been found to be toxic to the central nervous systems of both insects and mammals. Using toxicological, biochemical and electrophysiological techniques, French researchers found that deet inhibits the activity of acetycholinesterase, a key central nervous system enzyme, in a manner similar to organophosphat ...
Gallstone risk reduced by exercise
Categories: Lifestyle research
People who exercise more are significantly less likely to develop gallstones, according to UK investigators. A prospective cohort study followed 25,639 volunteers over 14 years for symptomatic gallstones, dividing them into four different levels of activity. Comparing the highest level of physical activity against the lowest three levels, an increase of just one activity level corresponded to a 17 ...
Artificial sweeteners may increase risk of preterm birth
Categories: Lifestyle research
A large Danish study has found a correlation between the amount of diet drinks consumed by women and their risk of going into preterm labour. The prospective cohort analysis of 59,334 women found that the risk of preterm birth was increased by 38% for women drinking an average of one can of artificially sweetened soft drink per day. Regular intake of four or more cans of soft drink per day was fou ...
Alcohol reduces risk and severity of rheumatoid arthritis
Categories: Lifestyle research
Drinking alcohol appears to reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and also reduces the risk of developing the disease, in a dose-dependent manner, according to research from the UK. 873 patients with erosive RA, and 1004 healthy controls were included in the study. The risk of developing RA decreased according to frequency of alcohol consumption, such that non-drinkers were four times a ...
Breast milk gives infants intestines a protective coat
Categories: Lifestyle research
A large part of human milk consists of complex sugars that are undigestible by babies, but American scientists have worked out that its purpose is instead to influence the composition of bacteria in the infant's gut. The researchers have found that strains of the bacterium Bifidobacterium longum infantis, commonly found in the faeces of breast-fed infants, possesses genes that enable it to thrive ...
Antibiotics on verge of being useless
Categories: Lifestyle research
A sobering paper in the prestigious journal Lancet Infectious Diseases predicts a disastrous near future in which antibiotics are no longer effective against infectious diseases. The article explains how a new gene called NDM 1 discovered last year by the paper's author Professor Tim Walsh, can pass easily between enterobacteriaceae such as Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae, making them r ...
Mind-body therapies beneficial for menopause symptoms
Categories: Lifestyle research
A systematic review by American authors suggests that mind-body therapies may be beneficial for alleviating specific menopausal symptoms. Eighteen clinical trials, involving a total of 882 women, met their inclusion criteria. Interventions included yoga and/or meditation programs, tai chi and relaxation practices. Eight of the nine studies of yoga, tai chi, and meditation-based programs reported i ...
Beer may cut prostate cancer risk
Categories: Lifestyle research
A German study has found that xanthohumol, a compound found in hops, can block the stimulating effect of testosterone on prostate cancer cells, raising hopes that it may one day be used in cancer prevention. The researchers found that xanthohumol binds directly to androgen receptors on the cancer cell's surface, preventing the receptor from translocating to the cell nucleus, and thus inhibiting it ...
Drinkers exercise more
Categories: Lifestyle research
According to an American study people who regularly drink alcohol are more likely to exercise than teetotalers, and the more they drink, the more likely they are to work out. The authors of the study analysed data from a phone survey of 230,000 Americans, and found a strong association between alcohol use and moderate to vigorous exercise. The authors suggest that people who consume alcohol recogn ...
Official: Whiskey hangover worse than vodka
Categories: Lifestyle research
A US study confirms - as drinkers have long maintained - that drinking whisky results in a worse hangover than vodka. However, the study also found that drinking vodka all night instead of whisky did not improve performance the next day. Ninety-five volunteers, all healthy heavy alcohol users, had one 'acclimatisation' night, before drinking either whisky or vodka the following night (enough to pu ...
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