News tagged with digestive system

The pros and cons of Helicobacter pylori

(Medical Xpress) -- The debate over the bacteria Helicobacter pylori continues as a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases shows that people carrying H. pylori have a reduced risk of diarrhea from other bacterial ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Pancreatic cancer declining, but among most deadly

(AP) -- There are almost as many deaths from it each year as there are new cases. The deaths this week of Apple founder Steve Jobs and Nobelist Ralph Steinman bring unusual attention to this less-well-known ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More evidence that spicing up broccoli boosts its cancer-fighting power

Teaming fresh broccoli with a spicy food that contains the enzyme myrosinase significantly enhances each food's individual cancer-fighting power and ensures that absorption takes place in the upper part of the digestive system ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Computer games to help cystic fibrosis kids

(Medical Xpress) -- Computer games which help young people with cystic fibrosis cope better with treatment, and improve monitoring of their condition, are being developed by the University of Derby.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mannan oligosaccharides offer health benefits to pigs

Feeding mannan oligosaccharides (MOS) can fine-tune the immune system of pigs, suggests a new University of Illinois study.

Biology / Other

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tiny snails survive in bird's digestive system

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in the Journal of Biogeography, researchers from the Tohoku University in Japan show how 15 percent of the Tornatellides boeningi, or tiny land snail, are able to s ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Predatory fish have large guts to help them through famine

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by scientists in the US has solved the mystery of why predatory fish have a far greater digestive capacity than they actually need. The study suggests the reason is that the extra-large ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Lost penguin more lively, eating fish post-surgery

(AP) -- New Zealand's favorite penguin visitor is more lively and eating fish after undergoing endoscopic surgery Monday to remove some of the beach sand and twigs it swallowed, apparently mistaking it for ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ill penguin stranded in NZ is offered a lift home

(AP) -- A young emperor penguin stranded in New Zealand has survived two medical procedures and now has an offer of a lift home.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Cleaning up masterpieces with ... bacteria?

(PhysOrg.com) -- For most people the word bacteria will conjure up either images of nasty microorganisms that we fight against daily by cleaning the spaces around us, or the type of 'good' bacteria doctors ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers find new treatment for constipation

Constipation is definitely not a glamorous topic. In reality, it affects nearly 30 million Americans and costs more than $1 billion annually to evaluate and treat. While not often life threatening, the pain, bloating, discomfort, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How now, inside the cow: Nearly 30,000 novel enzymes for biofuel production improvements

Cows eat grass -- this has been observed for eons. From this fibrous diet consisting mainly of the tough to degrade plant cell wall materials cellulose and hemicellulose, substances of no nutritional value ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study finds celiac patients can eat hydrolyzed wheat flour

Baked goods made from hydrolyzed wheat flour are not toxic to celiac disease patients, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Associ ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Can you really be scared to death?

We like a good fright, but can you actually be scared to death?

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Discovery blocks cancer drug's toxic side effect

A debilitating side effect of a widely used but harshly potent treatment for colon cancer could be eliminated if a promising new laboratory discovery bears fruit.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 04, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast