Ladies: tired of hiding your legs because of those dreadful spider veins? No more hide and seek to find those sexy legs! With summer only days away, doctors have come up with a minimally invasive procedure to have the legs you deserve.
According to NYTimes.com, the FDA recently approved a new solution called Asclera, which can be injected into the varicose veins to make them collapse and disappear. This new ‘miracle drug’ (aka sclerotherapy,) can treat anything from the tiny spider veins up to the bulging varicose veins.
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Previous studies have suggested that strengthening your brain power and talking on cell phones can prevent Alzheimer’s disease; however, an expert panel says that there is no definite evidence that any of these things can actually act as prevention methods. According to Reuters, experts also say that supplements, drugs and social interaction are unsuccessful in preventing the disease.
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We all know that smoking can cause cancer, but now there actually might be a way to predict which smokers will eventually develop lung cancer. According to Reuters, “Researchers have identified a group of genes that are especially active in lung cancer patients– even in healthy tissue… The main gene is called PI3K and it affects a pathway of other genes.” Also, this gene is in the windpipes of smokers, which means that patients do not need any more dangerous and uncomfortable lung tests.
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Low-fat or low-carb, which one do you prefer? Which one works best for you? Do you even know? Well you’re in luck if you don’t; a new study revealed that a genetic test can help people choose which diet is more effective in helping them lose weight. The study followed 133 overweight women for a year. All the women “with a genetic predisposition to benefit from a low-carbohydrate diet lost 2 1/2 times as much weight as those on the same diet without the predisposition,” reports Ron Winslow from The Wall Street Journal. Also, women with a “genetic makeup that favored a low-fat diet lost substantially more weight than women who curbed fat calories without low-fat genes,” says Winslow.
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The use of cocaine can change how genes function in the brain to change. Researchers came across this finding by performing a study on mice. This study showed that “chronic cocaine addiction kept a specific enzyme from doing its job of shutting off other genes in the pleasure circuits of the brain, making the mice crave the drug even more,” states Reuters.
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New research shows that many of the same genes that cause people to consume alcohol may cause people to smoke marijuana as well. Despite the fact that marijuana is “the most widely used illegal drug in the U.S…. little is known about the genes that influence its use,” states WebMD.
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Researchers found proteins in cells that naturally battle the flu. This discovery could potentially allow scientists to create better ways to make vaccines and keep people safe from the flu.
According to ABC News, researchers stated that “a family of genes acts as cell sentries that guard cells from an invading influenza virus… [and] this prevents the virus from even getting into the cell.”
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