Regular use of dark chocolate may help lower heart and blood vessel inflammations, Italian researchers said.

“In an apparently healthy population, even a small reduction of a low-grade inflammation such as that associated in this study with regular consumption of dark chocolate might have clinically relevant benefits in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease,” Dr. Romina di Giuseppe of Catholic University in Campobasso.

The inflammation was resolute by measuring levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), a biomarker for coronary artery disease (CAD), the researchers reported. Researchers hypothesized that people who eat dark chocolate regularly, which contains enormous antioxidants, might have lower CRP levels.

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Most people are worried about flight cancellation, luggage loss, and various other mishaps while they are going on a vacation aboard. The main thing which, most of us forget during travel is health care. For this purpose everybody should get a visitors health insurance. Here are few handy tips regarding the purchase of insurance policies, benefits of these policies and also the basic thumb rules about managing such insurance.

Visitor health insurance policies are just like any other insurance policies with the only difference being that the visitor insurance provides medical coverage for a short period of time. This insurance protects you from financial disaster, which occurs if you get medical treatment in foreign countries.

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ATLANTA – One in four teen girls have started the course of relatively new vaccine against cervical cancer, federal health officials said. The vaccine protects against viruses, which cause 70 percent of cervical cancer.

The large study represents the figure of vaccination rates for the Gardasil vaccine, manufactured and advertised by Merck Frosst, three-shot chain that targets the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV).

According to recommendation, girls should get the vaccine shots when they are 11 or 12, before sexual maturity.

For the results, researchers verified vaccination information through medical records of 3,000 girls ages 13 to 17. Of the girls in the survey, 25 percent had received at least one Gardasil shot.

“The shots could dramatically reduce the nearly 4,000 cervical cancer deaths that occur each year in the U.S.” vaccine proponents said.

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Men who drink one or two glasses of red wine each day may decrease their risk of lung cancer, even if they are smokers, researchers report. The findings were published in the October issue of the, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

“An antioxidant substance in red wine may help to prevent lung cancer. The findings provide momentum for future research to find out if there is something in red wine that may help to either prevent or treat lung cancer.” said lead researcher Chun Chao.

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