On the field is what counts: mustard consumption can protect against damage to the genetic material

A research group led by Prof. Dr. Volker Mersch-Sundermann and Dr. Evelyn Lamy at the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the University of Freiburg has demonstrated both in a preliminary study in human cell cultures as well as in an independent study on humans that commercial hot mustard before effect of carcinogenic substances that are consumed in the diet, effectively protects. "The consumption of hot mustard for example protects against the mutagenic effects of produced during grilling and roasting meat polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs," institute director explains Prof. Dr. Volker Mersch-Sundermann. PAHs are as carcinogenic substances - so-called carcinogens - known.

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The sensation of pain is very important for the survival of organisms. Sometimes pain is but even to pathological problem. A research team headed by Prof. Knut Biber, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Freiburg, identified the inflammatory factor CCL21 as triggers of neuropathic pain.

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Scientists at the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) have identified in cooperation with the Technical University of Munich and the Charité Berlin in taste buds of the human tongue and the surrounding tongue tissue a grease receptor. It is activated by long chain fatty acids, which are mainly responsible for the typical fat taste. Maybe he could play a role for the fat taste perception and eating behavior.

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An active ingredient from magnolia inhibits bone breakdown in the human body: This is what researchers at the Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of Bern and the National Research Center (NCCR) «TransCure» have discovered. Your study will appear tomorrow Friday in the journal “Chemistry & Biology”.

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Partly unnecessary and costly investigations, without recognizing the relationship

Despite numerous visits to different specialists Monika M. suffered many years of recurring neck pain that reduced their quality of life. Only later was the link with the same throbbing frontal headache, which she often complained of light and noise sensitivity, nausea.

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Results of 13. scientific workshops by the Institute Danone Nutrition for Health eV (IDE)

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People, especially easily curdles their blood ill, often from cancer. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have discovered that some variants of the genes affect the risk of colorectal cancer for the clotting factors. They found for carriers of a particular gene variant of clotting factor V, a six-fold higher risk of colorectal cancer than in people whose genetic material does not exhibit this deviation. The study is an important condition to find out if and to whom drugs that act on blood coagulation, can prevent bowel cancer.

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Drug costs, loss of work, multiple illnesses

Headaches cause enormous costs. Both the direct costs (for treatment and prevention of headache) and the indirect costs need to be considered (by labor and lost productivity). Furthermore arise tertiary costs, ie consequences of a false headache therapy or a disability. The details below relate to costs, etc., incurred within one year.

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In a salmonella intestinal infection helps the body's own defense mechanism, by simply digesting the invading bacteria. As the body cells recognize salmonella and render them harmless, now researchers at the Biozentrum, University of Basel have found with colleagues from Germany, Denmark, Russia and Croatia. Your new insights at the molecular level are important because most antibiotic resistance is increasing rapidly, which increasingly limits the possibilities of a successful treatment. The research results are published in the current issue of the journal "Science".

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Scientific study suggests that men should start earlier with the colorectal cancer screening than women

The colonoscopy detects precursors - called adenomas - and early forms of colorectal cancer. This reduces the risk of developing tumors and die. The benefits of "colonoscopy" in the prevention of colon cancer is considered in the medical community thus assured. Less clear, however, the age at which the first colonoscopy should be done. Currently recommended medical societies people without family history of colon cancer, off the 55. Age to be examined by colonoscopy every 10 years. In terms of population-wide screening the insurance companies reimburse the investigation from that age. Between men and women is, however, no distinction is made, one for Prof. Dr. Frank Kolligs in the light of a new study "unsatisfactory state of affairs". The Head Physician of the Department of Internal Medicine II of the Munich University Hospital and his colleagues have analyzed in detail the data of 625.000 colonoscopies, the Ambulatory Health Association Bavaria has documented. Results clearly showed that "men have at any age a significantly higher risk than women, that in an enteroscopy an advanced adenoma or cancer is found," as Prof. Kolligs explained. Consequently, men should start earlier with the colorectal cancer screening than women.

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New knowledge module "nutritional medicine" available

Calcium is considered the alpha and omega in the treatment of osteoporosis. Undoubtedly, it is essential for bone formation. To exploit this in bone metabolism correctly, but a number of other nutrients are still required.

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