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Grapefruit compound, which gives grapefruit bitterish taste, slows down extension of hepatitis C infection in an organism, have established American scientists. In their opinion, the combination of this substance with traditional viricides can relieve disease and prevent chronic form of the disease, informs magazine Hepatology.

According to the head of the research Raymond Chung and his colleagues from Massachusetts hospitals, the main role belongs to nagenginin. Their experiments have shown that action of this derivative substance reduces production of the virus from infected cells by 80 %. It is also important, that medical concentration of this substance is not toxic for an organism, has noted Chung.

According to the statistics, more than 3 % of the planet’s population is infected with hepatitis C, and in overwhelming majority of cases illness passes to the chronic form. The chronic hepatitis C infection can lead to cirrhosis and liver carcinoma.

Using of tattoo technique at vaccination can considerably increase efficiency of some vaccines, believe German scientists. On their data, vaccines injected into an organism by tattoo method, stimulate immune system much better, than usual vaccinations.

According to the researchers, vaccination with the help of tattooing leads to 16-fold increase in production of antibodies to papilloma virus. Such significant effect is connected to the big area of injection, and also with injuring influence of a needle and inflammatory reactions which additionally stimulate immune system, explain scientists.

The new method of tattoo-vaccination can increase efficiency of some DNA- vaccines which have appeared unable to cause required immune answer. However, because of duration and soreness of the procedure, they can hardly be used for preventive vaccination, especially at children.

World Health Organization has published the annual report which says, that the illnesses connected to smoking, take a life of one person every six seconds, killing on the average 5,4 million people a year.

Authors of the report inform that the number of tobacco epidemic victims exceeds death-roll of any infectious disease, therefore unless decisive measures, this figure by 2030 will grow up to eight millions deaths.

“And in 21st century from tobacco can die almost 1 billion people, who have not managed to overcome the weakness for cigarettes, snuffy, hookahs, cigars and tobacco-pipes”, - is said in the report.

WHA has informed that none of the country in the world has completely fulfilled requirements of the International tobacco control convention, which obliges participants to forbid advertising of tobacco products, rise in the price and taxes for their manufacture and sale and forbid smoking in public places for the sake of non-smokers.

Experts from stomatologic school Danedin in New Zealand have proved that often smoking marihuana three times increases risk of periodontitis.
In the research participated 900 young people, who were observed from 18 till 32 years. Scientists have also compared reports on drugs consumption by participants in the age of 18, 21, 26 and 32 years.

“Gum illnesses have been found at a quarter of people, who regularly used marihuana from 18 till 32 years - we have been struck with such significant increase in risk”, - declared head of the research Murray Thomson.

Periodontitis is a disease which leads to tooth destruction. 100 % of adult population of the Earth and 80 % of children have these or that signs of the disease, assert experts of the WHA.

It is necessary to note, that earlier American scientists came to a conclusion that CBD in marihuana structure, prevents cancer.

Local Turkey companies has created the short cigarettes for express - smoking.
The novelty, according to the creators, is faster to puff at and, accordingly, burns down faster, but enables smokers to receive needed for them nicotine doze.

The 7,2-centimetric cigarette, put on the market by Philip Morris, is developed for those people who because of the antitobacco law can not afford habitual long smoking breaks.

In 2006 Turkish authorities has banned smoking in public places.

It is necessary to note, that taking into account the new laws forbidding smoking in public places in some countries, the New Zealand scientists have created an electronic cigarette which allows the smoker to receive nicotine anywhere without pernicious consequences for an organism.

An increased consumption of sweet drinks is connected to substantial risk of gout in men. To such conclusions came authors of the scale long-term research which have covered more than 46 thousand participants. In scientists’ opinion, development of gout is promoted by fructose contained in sweet fizzy drinks.

In the past gout has frequently been called as illness of aristocrats, however now it becomes more and more spread among the widest layers of population. So, within the last several decades gout sickness rate in the USA has increased more than twice. Growth of sickness rate has coincided on time with sharp increase in consumption of sweet fizzy drinks.

The analysis of the received data has shown that the risk of gout development is directly connected to the frequency of sugary soft drinks consumption irrespective of weight of a body, alcohol consumption, age or diet. So, gout cases among the men drinking not less than two bottles soda water a day, were 85 % more often in comparison with those who drank it once a month. For those who daily drank not less than one portion of this soft drink, the additional risk of gout has made 45 %.

Steam-cooked broccoli improves heart work and reduces damages of myocardium in conditions of oxygen lack. To such conclusion came American scientists as a result of experiments on rats, informs Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

In researchers’ opinion, the protective effect of broccoli is explained by high content of some substances, which stimulate thioredoxin’s production. This albumin plays an important role in protection of cells in conditions of broken blood supply of heart muscle.

Protective action of broccoli is not limited to prevention of heart illnesses. Earlier researches have shown that this cabbage reduces probability of breast cancer and prostate cancer.

Two independent teams of the American scientists have declared that they could relieve the patients after kidney transplantation of lifelong taking immunosuppressant. The report on these cases has been published in New England Journal of Medicine.

In the experiments carried out by scientists from Massachusetts hospital and the Harvard Medical School participated five persons, requiring kidney transplantation. Scientists have destroyed a part of patients’ marrow and by means of medicines have destroyed the immune cells, which play a key role in rejection of an alien organ. Then the participants received a marrow and a kidney taken from the same donor.

Two - five years later after transplantation four patients have normally functioning kidney and do not require immunity-inhibiting preparations.

Refusal to take immunosuppressants can considerably improve quality of patients’ life, however additional researches on the safety of a new method are indispensable, believe scientists.

9-years old Australian Demi-Lee Brennan has changed blood type after liver transplant taken from a male donor. Some months after the surgery physicians have found out discrepancy of results in blood tests of the patient: her Rhesus factor was changed from negative to positive. During physical examination it was found out that almost all leukocytes has a male genotype.

In opinion of doctors from the Sydney children’s hospital Westmid, it can be explained by action of stem blood cells, in a small amount containing in a donor liver, which have completely replaced own hemopoietic cells of a marrow. It is supposed, that this could be promoted by a virus infection, which has weakened own immunity of the girl right after the surgery.

In result together with a liver the girl has actually received immune system of the donor. It has completely relieved her of necessity to take toxic preparations – immunosuppressants for prevention of rejection. The patient, who is now 15 years old, lives without drugs for about 5 years.

Authorities of Netherlands have officially declared the beginning of investigation of death cause of 24 patients who were taking part in an experimental technique of pancreatitis treatment with probiotics. The research was carried out in several Dutch clinics from 2004 till 2007.

For this time in a group of 296 patients with a pancreatitis, who were taking probiotics, 24 persons have died, whereas in a control group only 9 deaths have been fixed. Thus, death rate in the first group was 2,5 times higher. The reasons are unknown for the time being.

Bioadditives with probiotics have been given for research by the Dutch company Winclove.

According to the organizers of experiment, results of earlier researches testified that probiotics can promote reduction in intensity of inflammatory processes in a pancreas.