BBC NEWS | Health | Pepper ‘to treat pigment disease’
Pepper ‘to treat pigment disease’
Black pepper could provide a new treatment for the skin disease vitiligo, research suggests.
Vitiligo is a condition in which areas of skin lose their normal pigment and become white.
Researchers discovered that piperine - the compound that gives black pepper its spicy, pungent flavour - can stimulate pigmentation in the skin.
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A stressful life may make it tougher to fight the virus which causes the majority of cervical cancer cases, say scientists.
HPV is a sexually transmitted infection - but only a small percentage of women who catch it develop cancer.
US researchers, writing in the journal Annals of Behavioural Medicine, said that stressed women had a weaker immune response to the virus.
But the study did not prove that stress was the root cause of the problem.
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