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, [...]
The secret of grey hair
For a long while the appearance of grey hair has heralded the onset of old age, this is despite some people going grey in their thirties. This means that people have for decades been using dyes and other treatments to make their hair look like it used to.
The cause of grey hair has always been [...]
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 [...]
Anti AIDS drug a success
Clinical trials of an HIV vaccine have been reported as being a success by the researchers at the Tuberculosis Research Centre in India.
Although this is an early stage in the first phase of the trial there have been some great reports coming in with regards to the safety and more importantly the effect that the [...]
Cancer vaccine from Tobacco
This has to be one of the classics, something good coming from something that is considered now to be completely evil. Trials of a new vaccine could become the way to treat the potentially fatal disease non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
This would have been something really special in any case, but you find out that the vaccine has [...]
Men like to have Botox
Men of certain age, which would be around forty to fifty, are becoming more and more interested in cosmetic surgery. This type of medical treatment used to be the domain of wealthy actresses, but these days prices and availability have brought this into virtually everyone’s reach.
However you would have thought that it was women who [...]
A good excuse for not donating blood
Giving blood is great thing, it saves lives and there no getting away with that. But despite all of the good intentions some people are unable to give blood. So if you are one of those people who is being pressured into donating, but would really like a great excuse for not giving a pint, [...]
April 1, 2008Researchers develop Ebola vaccine
Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, USA have been working on finding a workable vaccine which could prevent the deadly Ebola Virus once and for all. The treat of this virus is real and very dangerous. In fact this disease is occurring more and more which means that there [...]
March 4, 2008Frogs skin to help diabetics
A team of scientists studying the small South American Paradoxical frog have found that it may have some unique properties that could help to make millions of peoples lives much better and it is all down to the unique properties that can be found on the frog’s skin.
As the frogs get older they shrink slightly, [...]
Cancer can thrive on stress
As if having the worries that come along with virtually everyone’s daily life are not bad enough it now turns out that according to researchers at the Fox Chase Cancer Centre in Philadelphia that leading stressful life could make it harder to fight against the virus which causes the vast amount of cervical cancer cases.
“Women [...]
Boosting the body’s anti virus defences
It is a well known fact that the more medicines that you take the less chance there is that your body will produce the natural anti virus defences needed to fight against the different types of Flu and other illnesses that have the potential to kill.
However researchers from the McGill University in Canada have been [...]
Tattoos could deliver drugs
Having a tattoo done is something that you either like or hate, whether it is the fact that you have a picture left on your body or just the pain that it causes. But this could be the key to helping vaccines to become more efficient.
Its amazing how this technology could be used in medical [...]
Sound destroys viruses
Researchers at Arizona State University have been working on how to destroy viruses, this is a serious venture because a virus can be anything from flu to something even more deadly, and in many cases there is nothing that can be done to prevent a virus from running its course.
However the research team have found [...]
Vaccine for drug addicts
Researchers from the psychiatry and neuroscience department at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas have been working on a great new vaccine which is set to change the whole way that we see drug addiction.
The problem with drug addiction is the withdrawal process, it is all to easy to slip back under the [...]
Researchers working on a cocaine vaccine
Researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, are working on a vaccine that could change the dark world of drug addiction forever.
The problem with any addiction is the fact that no matter how long you are free from your addiction, whether it is drink, smoking or drugs, it only takes one lapse [...]
Cold virus causes obesity!
There has been a mention of this before, but this time researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Centre at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA, have now found the gene that it is believed to promote weight gain.
The virus adenovirus 36 (ad-36) has been for a long time connected to obesity, however the researchers used tissue [...]
Japanese institutes join forces in vaccine research
Four Japanese institutes that already work in the field of vaccine research are to join forces in a collaboration that it is believed will further the research and development of vaccines in Japan.
The four institutes are National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo University’s Institute of Medical Science, and Osaka University’s Research Institute for Microbial Diseases [...]