http://www.biomedicalroadmap.co.uk Biomedical Weblog round-up: News from the world of health, biology, and biochemistry Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:00:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.biomedicalroadmap.co.uk/332-anti-aging-drug-test-tragedy.html 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 ... http://www.biomedicalroadmap.co.uk/330-sleep-is-good-for-you.html 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 ... http://www.biomedicalroadmap.co.uk/328-brain-surgery-turns-man-into-artist.html 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 ... http://www.biomedicalroadmap.co.uk/326-lung-cancer-test-could-save-lives.html 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 ... http://www.biomedicalroadmap.co.uk/324-humans-are-optimistic.html 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 ... http://www.biomedicalroadmap.co.uk/322-coffee-could-be-good-for-you.html 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 ... http://www.biomedicalroadmap.co.uk/320-brain-scans-to-catch-terrorists.html 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 ... http://www.biomedicalroadmap.co.uk/318-it-is-the-sound-of-a-name.html 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 ... http://www.biomedicalroadmap.co.uk/316-beer-can-be-life-extending.html 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 ... http://www.biomedicalroadmap.co.uk/314-what-are-the-most-deadly-pandemics.html