The Male Pill is on its way
The creation of a male contraceptive pill could be either the greatest or worst thing that could affect mankind ever since it has been possible for women to conceive without the aid of a man. There has been much talk of this over the years, but it now seems that the male pill could soon [...]
March 27, 2008Can humans have super powers?
It is the thing that fuels many sci fi books and films which cover the subject of people with extra powers, but there has been some research into how the brain works and it is believed that maybe the brain is capable of extra powers after all.
The case for this comes from the study of [...]
Sleeping at work improves productivity
This may not be what any employer would like to hear, but researchers from the University of Dusseldorf in Germany have been looking into the effects of taking a nap while being at work. They have found that by having a little cat nap during the working can help improve memory and mental performance as [...]
March 25, 2008Sorting your body clock out
In this day and age it is really difficult to get and in fact keep a proper routine, as there are so many different circumstances that affect our lives. That is not including all of the daily working pressures that build up these days too.
But with a hectic lifestyle it is always going to be [...]
Smoking pleasure not happiness
For non smokers watching those that like to have the odd cigarette every now and then would imagine that the smokers actually get some sort of happiness out of it. But recent research from the Peninsula Medical School in the UK would appear to have put this down as a myth, as it seem that [...]
March 19, 2008Injury pain can last for a year
Being involved in a serious accident like a car crash can have very long term effects, even if the injuries are not that serious, in fact it has been found by researchers that around sixty per cent of people involved in an accident will still be feeling some sort of pain up to a year [...]
March 18, 2008Mobile phones changes proteins
There has been much written about the possible side effects of using mobile phones, some evidence seems to state that they can cause health problems, while other say that there is no risk. Yet millions of people continue to use a mobile phone and so the research continues too. In Finland a research team have [...]
March 14, 2008Clean homes good for Asthma
You cannot escape the adverts for cleaning materials in the press and on TV, while at the supermarket there is a whole isle devoted to cleaning materials. But could there be a link between the increase in bleaches, paint strippers, carpet cleaners, and all of those other cleaners and the increase of the child asthma.
In [...]
Link between cannabis and Alzheimer’s
Research in the medicinal properties of cannabis has come up with what could be a serious treatment for a very debilitating disease, Alzheimer’s which suffers gradually lose memory, which can be terrible for both the sufferer and the family too.
However researchers from Spain and Israel have found that one of the compounds out of the [...]
Two year old given Viagra
This is not the sort of thing that you would normally expect to see, but as with many other medicines they can be used for treating other illnesses other than the ones that they are most famous for. In this case two year old Oliver Sherwood has to take Viagra in order to simply stay [...]
March 10, 2008Smokers quit after finding out the age of their lungs
A British study that has been published in the British Medical Journal, into effects of smoking has found that there could be a cheap, easy and very effective of way of enabling people to stop smoking. This is when a smoker is told by their doctor how old their lungs have got due the habit, [...]
March 7, 2008Scanner shows what you are viewing
Neuroscientists at the University of California at Berkeley have been working on a computer system that is connected to a magnetic resonance imaging machine which can look inside the body in real time. This has given the idea that this could be used to see if the brain reacts to what it sees.
They tested the [...]
Marijuana not as bad as we think
Over the years there has been much research into Marijuana and how it can be used as a medicine etc, but in recent studies being carried out by the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, they have been looking into the actual effects of the drug on teenagers.
The first thing to come out in the study [...]
Frogs skin to help diabetics
A team of scientists studying the small South American Paradoxical frog have found that it may have some unique properties that could help to make millions of peoples lives much better and it is all down to the unique properties that can be found on the frog’s skin.
As the frogs get older they shrink slightly, [...]
Gene that blocks HIV
Researchers at the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Alberta has been working with gene technology and in fact in the process have found a gene which can actually block the HIV infection from advancing.
The gene that is called TRIM22 has been tested in a cell culture where it was seen [...]