Turmeric lowers heart attack risk post surgery

INDO ASIAN NEWS SERVICE

London, Apr 17: Turmeric may help lower heart attack risk in people post bypass surgery, thanks to curcumin, the yellow pigment present in the spice which has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. Bypass surgery improves blood supply to the heart muscle. However, during the surgery More

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Liver cancer can be caused by excess growth hormone

Vienna, Apr 17: In a major discovery, Austrian scientists have found that the overproduction of a growth hormone can cause liver cancer. The scientists at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer Research have shown that overproduction of growth hormone, led by hormonal or metabolic disorders More

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Squeeze Haqqani network: US to Pak

Washington/Islamabad, Apr 17: The United States has said that it will continue to press Islamabad to "squeeze" the al-Qaeda linked Haqqani network, as Afghanistan blamed the Pakistan-based group for the latest brazen attacks in Kabul. Declaring "there were indications of Haqqani involvement More

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Dalai Lama eyes reform in China

Honolulu (Hawaii), Apr 17: The Dalai Lama has said there are hopeful signs that China will push through political reforms in China and Tibet in order to avoid another "cultural revolution." But the exiled Tibetan leader warned that there were still "worshippers of the gun" in Tibetan areas More

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I would have done it again: Norwegian killer

Oslo, Apr 17: Anders Behring Breivik today defended his massacre of 77 people, insisting he would do it again and calling the bomb-and-shooting rampage the most "spectacular" attack by a nationalist militant since World War II. Reading a prepared statement in court, the anti-Muslim extremist More

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