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 [...]
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 [...]
Lung cancer test could save lives
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 when lung cancer cells are [...]
Beer can be life extending
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 life.
This comes from Dutch research [...]
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 [...]
Young people screened for Alzheimer’s
According to recent research, it has been found that people who carry faulty gene could be scanned for the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
Find the disease early is essential for the treatment and the postponing of the effects, making life better for sufferers.
Brain scans can highlight any changes in the activity of the brain decades [...]
You start getting old at 27
Everyone has their own idea on what age is considered to be old and as time goes on old age seems to be getting further away or so we think.
New research has thrown up some interesting ideas about old age and when it starts, the problem with these findings is that a lot of people [...]
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 [...]
First test for spinal injury treatment with stem cells
For the first time scientists will be getting the chance to research the benefits of what embryonic stem cells for the treatment of injuries to the spinal cord.
This is a long awaited programmed of research which is successful will change the lives of thousands of people around the world, but first they need to get [...]
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 [...]
Aids treated with stem cells
It is estimated that around forty million people worldwide suffer from the later effects of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). This has become known as AIDs and as of yet there is still cure, although there are treatments which can help prolong the lives of sufferers.
Scientists and researchers have been working with stem cells and it [...]
Drinking coffee causes hallucinations
Sometimes there are some interesting pieces of research that pop up and this particular one is one of those that tick all of the boxes.
A research student at Durham University questioned two hundred students about their experiences with caffeine. This research threw up some interesting findings, where those students who consumed more caffeine reported seeing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]