What Use Is Genetic Testing?
Cost of Genome Sequencing Plunges (dullhunk, Flickr) Genetic testing – sequencing the genome – will be used more and more for individuals – and health services – as the price comes down. The cost is...
View ArticleTrial Of Heart Attack Stem Cell Treatment
Trial Of Heart Attack Stem Cell Treatment (Wikipedia) Stem cells are being tested to improve the success rate of certain heart attack treatments. If a blocked artery causes a heart attack, a common...
View ArticleNew Arthritis Drug Offers Hope
New Arthritis Drug Offers Hope (Wikipedia Image) New potential benefits for arthritis from an existing osteoporosis drug have been identified following a study carried out on mice. The drug was shown...
View ArticleStem Cell Trial To Help Blind
Stem Cell (Wikipedia Image) Embryonic stem cells are to be used to treat blindness in the first trial of its kind outside the United States. The trial, taking place at Moorfields Hospital in London,...
View ArticleIdentifying the Precise Genome of the Black Death
The Black Death, which swept through London in the 14th century, killed around 40% of the population. That was some epidemic. In an effort to understand microbial development and behaviour, with a...
View ArticleViral Liver Failure Avoided By Injection
In world first, a baby boy in London was saved from death due to a virus affecting his liver, by having donor liver cells injected into his abdomen. These injected cells were able to perform many of...
View ArticleCancer Cure in Sight in 5-10 Years
It is illuminating to think back to the 1920’s when very many were still dying from the effects of bacterial infections – tuberculosis, syphilis, gonorrhoea, blood poisoning. If you had told people...
View ArticleTransplants Extend Human Lives
When the first heart transplant was carried out it was a startling event. But fantastic as it was, the poor patient had to exist on immunosuppressant drugs for the rest of his life. Okay, he was still...
View ArticleWalking To Replace Wheelchairs
A Californian company has developed a “wearable robot” which can replace a wheelchair for those paralysed below the waist, but whose arms are OK. The machine is based on ten years of bionics research...
View ArticleStem Cells Used To Treat Eye Disease
Stem cells have been used to treat a Yorkshire man, in the first operation of its kind outside the United States. The man, 34, suffers from an inherited ailment called Stargardt’s disease which causes...
View ArticleNanotechnology Regrows Blood Vessels in Just Seven Days
Nanotechnology is the controlled use of tiny, molecule-sized particles. In medicine these have massive potential. In this study these tiny particles were used to cause a rat to regrow blood vessels to...
View ArticleMemory Loss Reversed in Animals
Fruit flies lend themselves to valuable medical research, not least because a surprisingly high proportion of their genes exist also in the human genome. In other words genetically, we are very like...
View ArticleAtherosclerosis is an Immune Disease
This report advances the view that atherosclerosis has a significant auto-immune component (the body is “attacking itself”) in the same way as AIDS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cancer, Crohn’s Disease,...
View ArticleObesity Causes Serious Diseases
Obesity is responsible for generalized inflammation in the population, a recent study confirms. Generalized inflammation, also called asymptomatic inflammation (because you can measure it in the...
View ArticleGlycation Causes More Rapid Aging
Glycation is the combination of sugar with protein to form a tarry mess of non-functional tissue. This happens as we age, and certain things can cause it to happen more. Glycation is responsible for...
View ArticleTips for Good Circulation
Circulation is a problem for many people: but there are some simple, and natural, ways to deal with poor circulation for many people. Circulation is so important for health because the blood takes...
View ArticleBerries can help your Memory
As we get older our brains are subject to increasing damage from oxidation and inflammation, which results in a decline in our cognitive abilities. Research done in the US suggests that eating berries...
View ArticleRegular Jogging adds Years to your Life Expectancy
Recently the results from a long-term cardiovascular study were presented and the findings were very interesting. Researchers in Denmark documented the health of approximately 20,000 adults living in...
View ArticleNew Research into “Bubbles” which Spread Cancer
When cancer has been diagnosed the next important step is for Doctors to find out whether the cancer has metastasised, or spread from its original site to somewhere else. New research is focusing on...
View ArticleKeeping Yourself Healthy – with Blood Tests
Why should you spend your time – and money – getting blood tests done? Firstly, it’s so you can stay in control of them. You don’t want to rely on the limited tests which your doctor is likely to do....
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