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, [...]
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 [...]
One shot Flu job on the way
Scientists are working on what can only be described as a super drug that could protect everyone against all types of flu from the common variety that we tend to get during the winter to the serious and deadly bird flu.
A single injection of this anti viral drug will protect the patient for life against [...]
Young people’s health worse than ever
Despite the change in diet and lifestyle, it seems that young adults aged between eighteen and twenty nine are not any healthier today than they were up to fifteen years ago.
This goes to show that no matter what information is out there, it is not making an impact on this target group. In fact, in [...]
Exercise the key to health
Most people that exercise is good for you, but what most people do not know, is that regular exercise can actually save your life according to researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis.
The researchers studied over fifty cases and found that those people, who were the most active, were also twenty [...]
Protein can help Alzheimer’s
Catching the devastating condition of Alzheimer’s is essential if the patient is going to be able to be treated, but even then, the chances are that the condition will still take its toll on the patient.
However, researchers from the University of California at San Diego have been studying the effects of injecting natural growth factor [...]
You really are what you eat
According to a recent report from researchers in Melbourne, Australia it looks as if people that regularly eat junk food are not only risking putting on pounds but they could also be affecting the memory stored in their genes.
Studies show that cells have the ability to remember and although this may be only a short [...]
Some additives linked to lung cancer
Food additives are blamed for many things, but it seems that one such addictive is being blamed for the spread of lung disease and cancer.
The culprit is inorganic phosphates, these can be found in processed foods such as cheese, meat and bakery products, what they do is increase the products water content and therefore [...]
Ambulance crew arrested
Calling out an ambulance for most people is serious event; most people only do so when they feel that there is no other alternative left to them. This is what seemed to have happened when Barry Baker dialled 999.
The ambulance crew arrived as you would have expected, but by then the patient was unconscious. The [...]
Illuminated cancer cells easier to track
The studying of cancer has been given a new tool to help with the studying of the disease; scientists have found they are able to use a fluorescent compound, which attaches itself to the cells. This means that they can track it to see if the cancer is growing, dying off or remaining the same.
This [...]
Immune system caught on film
The immune system has been captured on film for the first time by researchers from the Centenary Institute in Sydney, Australia.
They have filmed an immune cell being infected by a parasite and how this continues to grow throughout the body; this has been made possible by the team using a high powered multi photon microscope, [...]
Vitamin pills do not slow ageing process
It seems that the faith in vitamins rolling back the years may have been misplaced by the millions of people who spend millions of pounds on these products.
Recent research from the University College, London, has found that vitamin C and E, which are the ones normally praised as being able to prevent or slow the [...]
Reversal of heart disease
Heart disease is one of the main worries of people as they get older, but of course by then the damage has already been done and there is no chance of reversing that damage, or so we all thought.
Research being carried out by a team in the US and Germany have managed to halt the [...]
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 [...]
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 12, 2008Damaged 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 [...]
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 [...]
Sponge produces cancer fighting substance
Scientists have found that a sponge found off the coast of Florida have a substance which has been found to have qualities which could fight against colon and pancreatic cells, in fact this substance could destroy around fifty per cent of the cells.
However the substance only appears in small amounts in the natural sponge therefore [...]