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Study weighs benefits of transplants for leukemia

LONDON (Reuters) – Leukemia patients who have blood stem cell transplants survive just as long on average as those who undergo the more invasive procedure of having a bone marrow transplant, scientists said on Monday.

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Health |

Help In Sight For Ageing Vision

International scientists today reported encouraging results in human trials of the use of the herb saffron for treating one of the commonest causes of loss of sight in old age.Professor Silvia Bisti and Prof.

[ More ] February 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Health |
 

Breakthrough In HIV Research

Researchers have made a breakthrough in HIV research that had eluded scientists for over 20 years, potentially leading to better treatments for HIV, in a study published today in the journal Nature.The researchers, from Imperial College London and Harv…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Health |

DNA repair mechanism may help design drugs to heal sun damage

Scientists at Ohio State University have made a novel discovery that could one day lead to new therapies for healing sunburned skin.

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Health, India |
 

Lead exposure linked to ADHD in kids

Scientists believe that exposure to lead might be linked to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in kids.

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Health, India |

Israeli Scientists Show DNA Evidence Can be Fabricated

(NaturalNews) Scientists from the Tel Aviv, Israel-based company Nucleix have demonstrated that it is possible to create fake DNA samples and plant them as evidence at a crime scene, in a paper published in the journal Forensic Science: Internationa…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Natural, Natural Health |
 

Uncorrelated Activity In The Brain

Interconnected networks of neurons process information and give rise to perception by communicating with one another via small electrical impulses known as action potentials. In the past, scientists believed that adjacent neurons synchronized their act…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Health |

Plant flavanoid may help prevent leukemia

LONDON (Reuters) – Eating foods like celery and parsley which contain the naturally occurring flavanoid apigenin may help prevent leukemia, Dutch scientists said Thursday.

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Health |

New Treatment Approaches for Huntington’s Disease

Scientists at the Brain Research Centre and Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics have uncovered a key cellular mechanism that alters brain cell function in Huntington’s disease, and identified a possible treatment for the disease.The results …

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Health |

Is the mid-life crisis just a myth?

The stereotype that many middle-aged people get depressed and must perk up their lives with sports cars and affairs may be an outdated myth, scientists say.

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Health |