Foods that boost the memory
We cannot live without food, but what we choose to eat can have some lasting effects on how we live and how our bodies perform, it is a matter of nutrition and different foods have different values depending on what you are asking your body to do.
So what foods do we need to eat in [...]
Some cancers die off without treatment
Recent research into the regular checking for breast cancer has thrown up some intriguing questions, rather than providing answers to the question that regular mammograms help fight against breast cancer.
These results published in the Archive of Internal Medicine showed the results of two separate tests.
These tests involved one group of 119,000 women aged between [...]
Online support differs on type of illness
The type of cancer that sufferers have will have a direct effect on the quality of help and advice that the patient can expect to receive from the online support sites, which are out there for these patients.
It seems that the patient who is suffering from a cancer that has a high survival rate will [...]
The world’s first organ stem cell transport
An international collaboration of scientists and medical staff in Spain has seen the world’s first whole organ transplant, which has dramatically changed the life of a thirty year old mother who had been suffering from a damaged windpipe.
The damage was so bad that the woman may have had to have one of her lungs removed, [...]
Disease detection within a minute
A new system has been developed by immunologists, which will detect a virus within a minute. This will require the patient to undergo a surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy; this will measure the amount of near infrared laser light. They will also need to have a swab taken from the nasal passage after which the tests [...]
November 14, 2008Doctors use too much chemo
It is a growing concern that patients who are terminally ill are given chemotherapy in the later stages of their lives, a review of six hundred cancer patients found.
The review discovered that out of these patients around twenty five per cent who had this treatment, that it actually caused death or at the very least [...]
Damaged genes can cause cancer
Recent research has found that it only takes a damaged gene to cause cancer, this discovery although frightening to some people will help future researchers in finding more ways to find out more about cancer and to ultimately treat the disease.
Researchers at the Erasmas MC in Rotterdam, Holland found that the tumour suppressor gene SMAD4 [...]
Could obesity be contagious?
Recent research by Professor David Blanchflower, who sits on the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, and Professor Andrew Oswald, an expert on the economics of wellbeing say that obesity could in fact be contagious.
Although this research may come from a rather unorthodox source, it seems that their point could be valid. They claim that [...]
Eat up your fruit and veg
To most people it is spring that would normally offer the greatest amount of fruit and vegetables, but apparently, this is not so as it is autumn that offers the best opportunities for healthy eaters to get their hands on some of the best produce that the UK has to offer.
It is an ideal time [...]
Anti depression drug could help brain disease
UK medical staff are about to start trails on lithium which is common in drugs for treating depression, however this trial is not going to be a study of treating depression, but rather to see the effectiveness of the drug being able to treat the devastating condition motor neurone disease.
These trails will start in early [...]
Patient dies because doctors too busy
Following a routine operation to remove gallstones, doctors were too busy to check a 29 year old woman patient as she bled to death.
Despite her cries for help and pleas for water the medical staff still ignored her cries for help an inquest into her death was told.
Even the pleas of the woman’s mother had [...]