Anti aging drug test tragedy
A family run pharmaceutical firm, Amro Biotech has been the centre of a police investigation after an employee and daughter of the founder died after testing an unlicensed anti ageing drug developed by the firm.
Yolanda Cox suffered an allergic reaction to the drug known as just B71, it has been developed by the company to [...]
Sleep is good for you
Sleep has for a long time been known to help with repairs to the body, but what about the mind. There is a well known saying “I’ll sleep on it” this implies that if you have a decision to make by leaving until the next day you would have had time mull it over.
Recent research [...]
Brain surgery turns man into artist
A few years ago 49 year old Alan Brown had difficulty doing even the most basic style of drawing and after suffering from a stroke and then having to undergo a sixteen hour long brain surgery operation, things were not looking too great.
After spending a long time recovering he began to pass the time by [...]
Lung cancer test could save lives
Researchers in the UK have developed a simple blood test that could save the lives of thousands of people; test is believed to be the first to be able to detect lung cancer.
The test is able to detect the presence of certain proteins in the blood, which are only produced when lung cancer cells are [...]
Humans are optimistic
If an outsider looked at the human race, they would notice that for thousands of years history has been repeating itself. This is because right from the early days of mankind there have been struggles with war, disease, famine and even economic failures.
Yet mankind survives and a study from the university of Kansas and Gallup [...]
Coffee could be good for you
Once again, something that we take for granted is back on the good for you list, coffee was once labelled as being bad for us and yet now according to recent research it turns out that coffee can have some beneficial effects, so what now.
The research has found that a cup of coffee can help [...]
Brain scans to catch terrorists
Sometimes technology edges towards the scary and a brain scanner that can detect terrorists would appear to be either one of the most brilliant or maybe one of the most scariest forms of technology around.
But nevertheless the EU are testing this new way of catching terrorists that is being developed through the Human Monitoring and [...]
It is the sound of a name
The naming of a baby is one of things that on the one hand are a personal matter as it could be the name of a relative or friend, whereas on the other hand there is the pressure from celebrity names as these too have an influence on the naming of a child.
If we look [...]
Beer can be life extending
At last the news that drinkers have been waiting for, drinking beer can add around two and half year onto the end of your life, but those fancy wine drinkers have got it made for a mere half a glass of wine a day will add five year to your life.
This comes from Dutch research [...]
What are the most deadly pandemics?
There cannot be many people who have not heard of swine flu, it is a descendent of the Spanish flu that killed millions of people throughout the world, just after the First World War. yet this is not a pandemic yet despite the fact that the illness has crossed several borders.
For it to be classified, [...]
Chewing gum helps with maths
Chewing gum in school is an absolute no, no as it can get the student into big trouble, but if a recent study is correct then students could be missing out on a valuable educational aid.
Research carried out under laboratory conditions have shown that chewing gum can help in reducing stress, improving alertness and relieving [...]
Old and senile should do the right thing
The has been a lot of coverage regarding assisted suicide and how this effects the families etc. But it seems as if that was not bad enough there are suggestions that older people who are found to be suffering from dementia should do the right thing and stop wasting the resources of the NHS.
The right [...]
Being trapped in your own body not able to communicate with the outside world has to be a nightmare and yet for around forty per cent of coma patients this is happening, today.
This is because this forty per cent have been misdiagnosed and should be receiving a different type of treatment.
A UK based research [...]
Young people screened for Alzheimer’s
According to recent research, it has been found that people who carry faulty gene could be scanned for the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
Find the disease early is essential for the treatment and the postponing of the effects, making life better for sufferers.
Brain scans can highlight any changes in the activity of the brain decades [...]
Modified tobacco can treat HIV
Researchers working for the University of Louisville’s Owensboro Cancer Research Program are reporting that they have been testing a gel that has been produced from a plant that is close to the tobacco family as a viable treatment for HIV.
It has been found that the plant nicotiana benthamiana contains a protein known as griffifthsin, this [...]
Getting stronger bones
Osteoporosis is a serious disease if left untreated, but amazingly it can be mastered and a full life can be had from the sufferer, but it does take work and time.
Getting on top of any disease is always going to be a marathon and in some cases, the journey can be longer than expected, however [...]
GM embryos will change the future
The world’s first genetically modified human embryo has been created by a research team at Cornell University in New York, but there are warnings that this could be research gone too far.
Such research has been frowned upon in most countries; in the UK, the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) have said that this work [...]
You start getting old at 27
Everyone has their own idea on what age is considered to be old and as time goes on old age seems to be getting further away or so we think.
New research has thrown up some interesting ideas about old age and when it starts, the problem with these findings is that a lot of people [...]
The secret of grey hair
For a long while the appearance of grey hair has heralded the onset of old age, this is despite some people going grey in their thirties. This means that people have for decades been using dyes and other treatments to make their hair look like it used to.
The cause of grey hair has always been [...]
Is the legalisation of pot coming?
Work on marijuana as a medicine has been around for some time, but there has always been a shady line between what is the medical business and that of the recreational user.
The problem for business of science is that they understand the properties that marijuana has. This plant can then go on to be an [...]