More Doctors taking up alternative treatments
When we talk of alternative treatments, many of us think of herbs, flowers and other things that are given to someone who does not want to take a conventional medicine that has been given to you from the pharmacy.
But this alternative treatment is to do with anti aging, and in the states there are many [...]
Monkeys tested for Mars trip
It was Russia, who pioneered the use of animals in space way back in the early days of the space race, but this did not go down well with everyone, however those days have now gone or have they?
It would seem that the Sochi Institute of Medical Primatology are about to get involved again with [...]
Every face tells a story
With so much interest in security these days, it seems that our faces are to become our passports as facial recognition systems are being installed at airports. But researchers at the Stephen Porter’s Forensic Psychology Lab at Dalhousie University have been studying the way that our faces can betray our emotions.
The research team believe that [...]
STD’s on this for middle aged people
In recent research conducted for the Liberal Democrats it has been found that there is an alarming increase in the rate of sexually transmitted diseases amongst those aged over forty five years old.
It is not known why this trend has suddenly appeared, but it is very worrying for many reasons.
Chlamydia has risen from 1,276 cases [...]
It’s all in the urine
With a renewed interest into all things medieval, we have seen programmes that are following how they people of the time thought, lived and died. But before this interest blossomed there were research teams who have been working relentlessly on finding out the facts on how these people really lived and thought.
Scientists at the Imperial [...]
Keeping your teeth white
Due to the amount of products and advertising that we can see around regarding products that keep your teeth nice and white, we can assume that this is one the major requirement for people keen to look good.
But with all of these products being at the top end of the scale when it come to [...]
Death risk from vitamins
Millions of people every day take some sort of vitamin, mineral or both and without a doubt every single one of them believes that these capsules or tablets are actually doing them good and why not? After all it is what they have been told over a long period of time.
But it seems that there [...]
Fatty diet helps against epilepsy
Epilepsy has for many years been treated by drugs, this has a varied amount of success due to the severity of the neurological disorder. In the most severe cases there has been little hope of the patient being to carry out a normal life style and in some cases being hospitalised for long periods of [...]
April 15, 2008Brain scanners that predict decisions
In a study by John-Dylan Haynes a neuroscientist, of the Max Planck Institute it has been found that our brains already make up our minds when it comes to decisions, even before we have had time think about it.
By using brain scans to see the brain working, it has been noticed that the brain begins [...]
A good excuse for not donating blood
Giving blood is great thing, it saves lives and there no getting away with that. But despite all of the good intentions some people are unable to give blood. So if you are one of those people who is being pressured into donating, but would really like a great excuse for not giving a pint, [...]
April 10, 2008New treatment for damaged spinal cords
Scientists at the North-western University may have a way to repair a damaged spinal cord. This revolutionary treatment is injected into the damaged area, and it will help to prevent scaring and is supposed to help the damaged nerves to grow back.
The treatment is a liquid that contains molecules which will assemble themselves into [...]
Sea winds are a health hazard
There is nothing like walking along the beach taking the sea breeze as travels unhindered across the sea, which is what many people feel like when they visit the beach. But the reality is somewhat different to the dream, as researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, [...]
April 7, 2008Experimenting with recreational drugs
It seems that no only students experiment with recreational drugs, many governments and scientists have seen that there could be potential possible other uses for these drugs. But they have not just been sitting around thinking about it, they have actually been getting stick in and devised some really off the wall experiments.
Just in case [...]
Could caffeine be good for you?
At last good news for the lovers of coffee, instead of being the bad guy of the drinks world because of the caffeine, but it seems researchers have been taking a closer look to see if there in fact any benefits for someone drinking caffeine.
The researchers from the US based Journal of Neuroinflammation have found [...]
UK scientists create first hybrid embryos
The first batch of a new hybrid embryos have been created by scientists at the University of Newcastle, the embryos which are part human and part animal survive for only three days but are hoped to be able to help in the filed of medical research.
This research is still under scrutiny, with MP’s debating on [...]
Researchers develop Ebola vaccine
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA have been working on finding a workable vaccine which could prevent the deadly Ebola Virus once and for all. The treat of this virus is real and very dangerous. In fact this disease is occurring more and more which means that there [...]