Vaccine for drug addicts
Researchers from the psychiatry and neuroscience department at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas have been working on a great new vaccine which is set to change the whole way that we see drug addiction.
The problem with drug addiction is the withdrawal process, it is all to easy to slip back under the [...]
Researchers create DNA structure
Building a synthetic organism could make people think about Frankenstein’s monster but when a research team announced that they had created the largest man made DNA structure, this puts them one step closer to being able to create a synthetic organism but we are only talking about micro organisms here.
But it would seem to be [...]
Doctors not to treat old and unhealthy
This is a very serious situation brewing here, doctors who are paid to look after the everyone in the UK are calling for the NHS to withdraw treatment from people who are either too old or people that lead an unhealthy lifestyle.
There are four main categories that the doctors want to be able to say [...]
Arguing at home is the key to longer life
Now in some cases this may be a bit of a nightmare, but according to researchers from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health have been looking into the relationships of nearly two hundred couples.
The study showed that they were split into four groups:
Where both partners expressed anger when they felt unfairly attacked
Where neither [...]
Caffeine connected to miscarriages
As if being pregnant is not serious enough now researchers from the US have discovered that is a pregnant woman is in the habit of drinking two or more cups of coffee a day then they could be putting their baby at risk.
In fact it is thought that on average there is a twelve per [...]
Medication that can cure loneliness
Researchers at the University of Illinois have been working on how being isolated from people can bring on stress and memory loss, this is said to be due to an enzyme that helps the brain, without this the brain triggers feeling of being lonely.
But if this enzyme could be replaced somehow the reverse effect could [...]
Human gene traced back 500 million years
As most of us probably already knew, it seems that researchers at the Chicago university has finally been able to trace the human genome right back to its very origins and it’s in a pond!
Despite the many versions that we have heard for the evolution of man, there has always been a missing link that [...]
Increasing life expectancy ten fold
Researchers from the University of Southern California are looking into how it is possible to extend the human life span to eight hundred years, and their argument is a pretty good one too!
In experiments using the yeast bacteria they have already been able to extend its life expectancy by up to ten time its normal, [...]
Cloned food, is it safe?
This is the sort of question that crops up in the end of the world sci-fi scenarios, but then it was fiction and now it fact. But how safe is it for us to eat food that has been created in a lab?
All of the relevant authorities believe that this type of food is completely [...]
Research or marketing who gets the big budget
In a study undertaken by researchers at York University, have been looking into the how the annual spend of the major pharmaceutical companies is broken down.
Now a company in the medicine making business has to have a serious set up, with well funded and equipped research facilities and all of the other mechanisms in place [...]
New study into cause of Autism
In a study by the Genetics Diagnostic Laboratory, at the Children’s Hospital in Boston, it has been found that there is a link between the deletion and even duplication of DNA letters on chromosome 16 is strongly linked to Autism spectrum disorder, which is a disorder that has a wide range of disabilities, such as [...]
January 10, 2008Doctors give patients placebos
In survey conducted by the University of Chicago it was found that around forty eight per cent of doctors had at some time given a treatment to their patients of which they knew would probably not work or at least had no evidence that it would work.
These placebo treatments may include vitamins, herbal supplements, saline [...]
Omega 3 for a healthy life
Research has found that certain fats can be good for you, which initially would sound great, but these fats are omega 3 and only found in certain foods such as:
Olive oil
Avocado
Seeds
Nuts
Alaskan salmon
Sardines
Kippers
Mackerel
Trout
Herring
Blue fin tuna
Anchovies
Walnuts
Flaxseeds
The secret to a healthy lifestyle is to put more of these foods into your daily diet as this would have [...]
Pesticide found in humans
In research done by the Department of Radiology and Physical Medicine of the University of Granada there has been some astonishing results found the research that they have been doing on how the body carries outside substances, such as pesticides.
In all of the subjects that took part in the study, it was found that there [...]
Researchers working on a cocaine vaccine
Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, are working on a vaccine that could change the dark world of drug addiction forever.
The problem with any addiction is the fact that no matter how long you are free from your addiction, whether it is drink, smoking or drugs, it only takes one lapse [...]
New Year’s health resolutions
For a lot of people making a new years resolution would normally involve either dieting or giving up smoking, but as smokers are now in the minority these days, it would seem that getting fit and healthy would be the favourite one to be concentrating on this year and order to do this it is [...]