Brain can use recycled energy
The human body is an incredible thing, there is no doubt about that and researchers are only just finding out some of the inner workings of the body. One such study has found that the brain is able to function on recycled energy in emergencies or when the body is working at higher levels.
Researchers from [...]
Woman who is blind for three days
A mystery illness has struck an Australian woman, for three days of a week her eyes are completely fixed shut and then for no apparent reason are open again for another three days; this condition has got medical staff baffled.
However, this is not something that has recently occurred, Natalie Adler aged 21 has had to [...]
Man dies in drugs trial
Being diagnosed with testicular cancer is blow for any man, however the chances of surviving the disease are getting better all of the time. Nevertheless, when Gary Foster aged 27 was told that he had the disease with a sixty per cent chance of survival; he wanted to get all the help that he could.
The [...]
Research into driving and texting
Researchers from the UK have been looking into the effects of driver habits and how they affect the driver’s reaction times. It turns out that surprisingly the habit that is more likely to effect the drivers coordination, may not be the thing that everyone would expect.
The researchers found that drivers who use their mobile phones [...]
Bionic eye coming soon
Sight is a very important thing and gradually losing it over a long period of can be very distressing. However, a new development in the field of replacement lenses to combat the problems of long and short sight.
This happens with age as the lens of the eye hardens and becomes inflexible, this will eventually turn [...]
Marijuana could fight superbugs
Plants and substances like marijuana can have a positive effect on those deadly bacterial infections known as superbugs according to reports from scientists in the UK and Italy.
There has been for a long time thoughts that marijuana could fight infections and at the same time being an environmentally friendly treatment, which could be included [...]
Where the germs are
The very thought of germs for some people is enough to make them feel ill, but what should be considered is that we as in humans are actually covered in germs anyhow. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that everyday things that we come in contact with are also covered in germs.
It should be [...]
Life gene found
Researchers of the Hawaii Lifespan Study at the Kuakini Medical Centre, Honolulu, Hawaii have found that men, who have two copies of a gene that is associated with long life, stand an excellent chance of living well over a hundred years old.
It all boils down to having two letters, but these two letters are quite [...]
Sport improves brain functions
There is no doubt that being involved in sport can improve many functions of the brain, after all a sportsman will need to be alert and make snap decisions, but it is not necessarily just the people who actively take part in sport, fans can benefit too.
The concept of sport means that unlike watching TV [...]
Detecting cancer with lasers
It is a well known fact that catching cancer early can vastly improve the patient’s chances of surviving the disease.
In research being carried out by Dr. Patrick McCann, and a small group of internationally known researchers at the University of Oklahoma, are working on an early detection system using lasers, which can find specific [...]
The smell of danger
For as long as anyone can remember there have been sayings that go around the fact that humans can smell danger, these may be something like “I can smell danger in the air” and so on. However, this has normally been put down to fear or something similar.
However according to research being conducted by researchers [...]
Fat can be turned into muscle
There has always been the thought that muscle can quickly turn to fat, but it seems that the opposite is also possible, which should bring hope to many people who are struggling with their diets.
However, as we, all know there are good and bad types of fat, unfortunately, it is only the good fat that [...]
LSD a viable treatment
There is no doubt that LSD has had a bad press over that last forty years or so and it is probably right too, but like so many of these pioneering drugs, LSD could now be used to treat thousands of people who would otherwise be suffering in silence.
Rick Doblin of Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic [...]
New drug boost for cancer sufferers
A revolutionary new drug, which uses the body’s own immune cells, has left some cancer patients completely free of the disease.
These results have been met with excitement after a trial of thirty-eight patients who suffer from non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma saw fifty per cent of the patients see a reduction in the tumours, while four patients had [...]
DNA flaw means no learning from mistakes
Experts in child development are looking at a flaw in the child’s DNA as the reason behind why some children fail to learn from their mistakes. We have seen this many times before when a child does something wrong one or two times then eventually, they get it right, but sometimes there are those children [...]
August 11, 2008Anti AIDS drug a success
Clinical trials of an HIV vaccine have been reported as being a success by the researchers at the Tuberculosis Research Centre in India.
Although this is an early stage in the first phase of the trial there have been some great reports coming in with regards to the safety and more importantly the effect that the [...]
All Americans overweight in forty years
In research funded by the US Government, it has been announced that all Americans will be overweight in forty years.
That may seem a long way off, but that sort of time can quickly come around and the problem is that once it reaches that point then there is a long way back for everyone.
The [...]
Laugh then collapse
There is a rare condition known as cataplexy, where if the patient experiences any sudden or strong emotions, such as laughing can quite simply collapse. This is can be very embarrassing as well a dangerous and is connected with the sleeping disease narcolepsy, where the patient can suddenly and without any warning fall asleep.
There are [...]
Cannabis can help colon cancer
There would seem to be a whole host of medical treatments related to the cannabis plant, whether this is a product of the campaign to legalise the plant for medical treatments or just simply that the plant is one of those miracle plants that has just been given a bad image, it is hard to [...]
July 31, 2008New treatment for HIV
Millions of people worldwide could be set to benefit from a new treatment of HIV. Research undertaken jointly by the University of New South Wales’ (UNSW) National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (NCHECR) has shown that Raltegravir a new drug has had some good results in tests.
What this drug does is actually cut [...]