38 Warao Indians have died in remote villages in Venezuela, and medical experts suspect an outbreak of rabies spread by bites from vampire bats.
Medical tests have yet to confirm the official cause, but their symptoms suggest rabies, according to two researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and other medical experts.
The two UC Berkeley [...]
“Free” British national health care is not able to live up to its promises. The British have had a National Health Care System for 60 years, but according to their own reports it is not giving the population adequate care.
Self-reported receipt of care consistent with 32 quality indicators: a national population survey of adults over [...]
Scientists from The University of Texas School of Public Health testing a travelers’ diarrhea vaccine have found that patients getting the vaccine were significantly less likely to suffer from significant diarrhea than those who got the placebo, based on research in this week’s Lancet. The vaccine is a [...]
The name of the drug is Dimebolin Hydrochloride (Dimebon) which is an antihistamine drug used clinically in Russia since the 1980s.
In new research , Dimebolin has garnered interest since it has been shown to have beneficial effects on persons with Alzheimer’s disease. In 2000, animal research showed potential benefit in Alzheimer’s disease models. New results [...]
The Netherlands, with its very permissive marijuana laws, is known as the cannabis capital of the planet. Surprisingly, a survey published this month in PLoS Medicine, a journal of the Public Library of Science, indicates that the Dutch don’t actually experiment with marijuana as much as most people would expect. Despite much tougher drug laws [...]
In spite of any evidence of danger from drinking Red Bull Energy drink, it has been banned in France until this week. The fear is based on the ingredient taurine which appears to be innocuous and is present in the human body even in those who don’t drink energy drinks.
Energy drink Red Bull is back [...]
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Dr.Tony Means, PhD, and Duke University researchers halted the activity of a brain enzyme, CaMKK2, in mice which caused them to lose weight by decreasing their appetite.
They have located an target in the brain which could potentially function as an appetite suppressant, weight loss promoter and help to control blood sugar.
Scientists have sought to understand [...]
Recent research indicates that men who have lower levels of vitamin D a greater risk of heart attack (myocardial infarction).
Deaths from cardiac disease are more frequent in higher latitudes and during the winter months - when and where the sun rarely shines - and are less frequent at higher altitudes. This disease pattern is consistent [...]
