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 [...]
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 [...]
Do you have SAD?
For some people it starts during November and carries on through until February or later depending on the how the winter is going. This is seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and it if affecting more people than you would imagine.
But first how do know if you are suffering from this condition? Here are some points that [...]
Emergency ambulance took four hours
When we call 999 for an ambulance, we expect it to arrive within a few minutes, not a few hours. However, the later is becoming normality in some areas as a recent report has found.
One patient who had been poisoned had to wait three hours and forty seven minutes for the ambulance to arrive, while [...]
Birth defects can be undone by stem cells
There has been a lot of work done in the field of stem cell research, this has been met by equally good and bad thoughts on whether this is a good idea or not.
The problem is that although some people are set against this being used as a treatment, the benefits are often outweighing the [...]
Smoking makes girls’ fat
Smoking for girls is a lot worse for them, than it is for boys according to research by the Department of Public Health in Helsinki, smoking is not only a danger to health, but it can make girls put weight on, giving them something else to worry about for the future.
It does not take that [...]
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 [...]
There is a gene that makes kids naughty
In line with what almost every parent already knows, researchers have found that children who appear to be naughty more than others have a great excuse now for there is a naughty gene.
This gene has also been described as the rebel gene because it is found in those people who tend to be popular though [...]
Health fears for Wii users
There are growing fears from medical professionals over the use of the Nintendo Wii, as it is believed that the actions that users carry out when playing the sports games on the Wii are responsible for some serious injuries.
The problem is that these games are being marketed as being healthy and a great way to [...]
Doctors 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 [...]
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 [...]
Robot cancer killer
This may sound a little like a sci fi film idea, but a professor at the University of Maryland has developed a robot, which can seek out and destroy breast cancer cells all in one go, making the diagnosis and treatment possible, cutting down on wasted time.
Because the device is made from titanium and stainless [...]
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 [...]
Classical music helps pregnancy
Mums to be could feel less stressed about their pregnancies if they listened to sounds of nature and classical music according to a recent study. The music must have a tempo of around sixty to eighty beats per minute, which is similar to that of the human heart.
Professor Chung-Hey Chen from the Kaohsiung Medical University [...]
What the pharmacy does not say
These days it is sometimes preferable to visit one of the pharmacists in your area instead of taking time out to visit the local GP. This is because these days they do offer their customers a fuller services, which is come cases could save the time and effort of visiting the GP then going to [...]
September 29, 2008Woman who is blind for three days
A mystery illness has struck an Australian woman, for three days of a week her eyes are completely fixed shut and then for no apparent reason are open again for another three days; this condition has got medical staff baffled.
However, this is not something that has recently occurred, Natalie Adler aged 21 has had to [...]
Man dies in drugs trial
Being diagnosed with testicular cancer is blow for any man, however the chances of surviving the disease are getting better all of the time. Nevertheless, when Gary Foster aged 27 was told that he had the disease with a sixty per cent chance of survival; he wanted to get all the help that he could.
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 [...]
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 [...]