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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Breakthrough in stem cell research
A new way of creating stem cells could mean that some of the world’s most devastating disease could soon be studied in great depth with a view to eventually finding a safe and effective treatment.
According to Dr. Andras Nagy, Senior Investigator at the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital, Investigator at the McEwen [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Blood pressure linked to IQ
Recent research has found that high blood pressure in older people can have a marked effect on how they think according to Jason Allaire, an assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh.
So far there is no actual evidence that it is the high blood pressure that is causing this problem, but [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Research into driving and texting
Researchers from the UK have been looking into the effects of driver habits and how they affect the driver’s reaction times. It turns out that surprisingly the habit that is more likely to effect the drivers coordination, may not be the thing that everyone would expect.
The researchers found that drivers who use their mobile phones [...]
Loud music means more drink
For anyone who has ever wondered why pubs and clubs have the music so loud that it is impossible to even hear yourself think, then the answer is very simple. The louder the music the more people are going to drink.
However, this is no medical condition, it is psychological. The idea is that when the [...]
Marijuana could fight superbugs
Plants and substances like marijuana can have a positive effect on those deadly bacterial infections known as superbugs according to reports from scientists in the UK and Italy.
There has been for a long time thoughts that marijuana could fight infections and at the same time being an environmentally friendly treatment, which could be included [...]
Life gene found
Researchers of the Hawaii Lifespan Study at the Kuakini Medical Centre, Honolulu, Hawaii have found that men, who have two copies of a gene that is associated with long life, stand an excellent chance of living well over a hundred years old.
It all boils down to having two letters, but these two letters are quite [...]
The smell of danger
For as long as anyone can remember there have been sayings that go around the fact that humans can smell danger, these may be something like “I can smell danger in the air” and so on. However, this has normally been put down to fear or something similar.
However according to research being conducted by researchers [...]
Fat can be turned into muscle
There has always been the thought that muscle can quickly turn to fat, but it seems that the opposite is also possible, which should bring hope to many people who are struggling with their diets.
However, as we, all know there are good and bad types of fat, unfortunately, it is only the good fat that [...]
Vaccine for Arthritis coming soon
There is a chance that within a few years there could be an injection available for arthritis sufferers which is said to work like a vaccine.
It works by taking cells from the patient; these are then altered and simply injected into the affected joint or joints.
With over 350,000 people in the UK suffering from the [...]
DNA flaw means no learning from mistakes
Experts in child development are looking at a flaw in the child’s DNA as the reason behind why some children fail to learn from their mistakes. We have seen this many times before when a child does something wrong one or two times then eventually, they get it right, but sometimes there are those children [...]