Preventative medical tricks
There are many things that people can do to keep themselves healthy and it does not even mean just eating healthy or getting the right amount of exercise there are many other simple day to day practices that can be done in order to get and stay healthy.
Here are few ideas:
Laugh
Get Sunshine
Drink Water
Sleep
Give Hugs
Cut back [...]
Water bettered by Tea
We are always being told to drink plenty of water, but sometimes the amount that is recommended is just too much to handle, this is especially so when people are having to travel to work or go on long journeys.
But it now seems that water may not be the only thing, for research being carried [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Vaccine for Arthritis coming soon
There is a chance that within a few years there could be an injection available for arthritis sufferers which is said to work like a vaccine.
It works by taking cells from the patient; these are then altered and simply injected into the affected joint or joints.
With over 350,000 people in the UK suffering from the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The human brain changes
A damaged brain can be caused by many things, but mainly an illness or accident would be the main cause for some sort of brain damage, which means that some people are finding that things they used to take for granted not being there anymore.
These functions can be anything, which is why it can be [...]
Cancer vaccine from Tobacco
This has to be one of the classics, something good coming from something that is considered now to be completely evil. Trials of a new vaccine could become the way to treat the potentially fatal disease non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
This would have been something really special in any case, but you find out that the vaccine has [...]
The wonders of green tea
In a study that appeared in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, a team of Greek researchers have said that drinking green tea on a regular basis could prevent heart disease.
In the research, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, a cardiologist at the Athens Medical School in Greece also concluded that green tea also had the potential [...]
3D Mammogram in use
Getting the jump on cancer is essential to winning the fight against it in the long term, so in some cases the only way to be ahead of this disease is to have technology on your side. This is where the 3D mammogram comes into its own.
Being tested by scientist’s ay the Mayo Clinic in [...]
Cancer treatment tested on human patients
A treatment that has successfully cured cancer in mice, is about to be tested for the first time on humans. The treatment has been developed by researchers at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre in the US.
The process involves the white blood cells, in particular the granulocytes which are used as a transfusion. This [...]
Staying healthy the easy way
Keeping healthy is the priority of many people today, but maybe not enough people! As obesity seems to be on the rise this has become a real problem, but only because people get out of the habit if staying fit.
Here is what you can do to stay fit:
Fruits & Vegetables - Up to nine servings [...]