A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine recently has shown that there is a link between exposure to small air pollution particles and development of blood clots in the deep veins. They showed that exposure to increased concentrations of particulate air pollution in the year before diagnosis was associated with increased Deep Vein [...]
Increased frequency of congenital male urologic anomalies, such as undescended testicles and hypospadias, occurred in boys whose mothers had higher levels of certain chlorine containing chemical pollutants, according to scientists at the American Urological Association meeting in Orlando Florida. Studies recently presented, reported that maternal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals – [...]
Due to organ donor shortages and a desperate need for organs, transplant programs look at using organs from questionable sources like homeless people and other high risk people.
A 70-year-old woman has died, and a 57-year-old man is critically ill in a Boston hospital after each received a kidney from a donor infected with a hard-to-detect [...]
Most people don’t even know that it’s possible to “get high” with an asthma inhaler-It may not be , but that isn’t stopping a lot (25% of kids in this study) from trying anyway.
According to University of Michigan researchers, one fourth of teens who use an asthma inhaler state that they are trying to get [...]
It sounds like a badly written Sci-Fi script but a company called Cyberdyne (Japan’s CYBERDYNE, Inc.) is developing a suit that will augment human strength and give you the ability to do things that would not ordinarily be possible for you. The mechanical suit will also hold the possibility of making handicapped people move around [...]
Orexin-A is a naturally occurring, highly excitatory, chemical released by the hypothalamus. Orexin-A eliminate the signs and symptoms found in individuals who have sleep deprivation. Orexin A thus far has shown no negative side effects. The benefits of this drug include an improved cognitive ability and dramatic improvement in function of sleep deprived [...]
Multiple sclerosis is a disease in which the immune system attacks the myelin coating around nerves. Multiple sclerosis symptoms are extremely variable and range from mild to debilitating. In the relapsing remitting form, new symptoms occur in discrete attacks. Multiple Sclerosis is poorly understood and difficult to treat. Multiple sclerosis research from University of [...]
Researchers from Washington U School of Medicine ( St. Louis) working on diabetic mice have discovered in great detail the immune system cells that are the likely cause of type 1 diabetes. Scientists were able to look at the immune system cells from insulin-producing cells in the pancreas known as the islets of [...]
Alzheimer’s disease is a chronic progressive neurologic disorder that robs patients of their memories and ability to think. Alzheimers progression is a slow insidious process that is associated with the deposition of protein lesions or amyloid plaques in parts of the brain that are associated with memory formation and retrieval. The cost of alzheimers [...]
Due to the intoxicating effects marijuana possesses, it has been made illegal in most countries. But this very quality is due to the fact that it marijuana mimics the effects of chemicals that the brain already uses for many important functions. Brain mechanisms use cannabis like compounds called endocannabinoids to [...]
