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 [...]
Recently published research shows that a cure for Parkinson’s disease could could be developed with a patient’s own stem cells.
The Griffith University researchers published a paper in Stem Cells journal showing that adult stem cells taken from the noses of human Parkinson’s patients gave rise to dopamine-producing brain cells when transplanted into the brain of [...]
The Food and Drug Administration informed healthcare professionals that a Boxed Warning was added to prescribing information for Regranex that describes an increased risk of death from cancer in patients treated with three or more tubes of Regranex compared with those patients who did not use the product. FDA recommends that Regranex be used only [...]
Researchers have developed a virus which is used to kill cancer cells in patients with advanced end stage cancers. The treatments which are experimental offer an alternative for patients who have exhausted other options and can’t take any more chemotherapy or radiation. The virus approach to killing cancer cells has the advantage of leaving normal [...]
Here is an interesting story showing that the development of autism has a strong genetic component. A number of parents who used the same sperm donor had children who developed autism. The sperm donor was an individual with high intelligence and other desirable characteristics according to the sperm bank information.
The first child described is [...]
