Internet search process affects cognition, emotion

Nearly 73 percent of all American adults use the Internet on a daily basis, according to a 2009 Pew Internet and American Life Project survey. Half of these adults use the Web to find information via search engines, while 38 percent use it to pass the time. In a recent study, University of Missouri researchers [...]

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1930s drug slows tumor growth

Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a gonorrhea medication that might help battle cancer. “Often times we are surprised that a drug [...]

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Muscle: ‘Hard to build, easy to lose’ as you age

Published: Friday, September 11, 2009 – 09:57 in Health & Medicine
Have you ever noticed that people have thinner arms and legs as they get older? As we age it becomes harder to keep our muscles healthy. They get smaller, which decreases strength and increases the likelihood of falls and fractures. New research is showing how [...]

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Pregnancy has no impact on breast cancer, but can delay diagnosis and treatment

A new study finds women who develop breast cancer while pregnant or soon afterwards do not experience any differences in disease severity or likelihood of survival compared to other women with breast cancer. The study is published in the March 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. So-called pregnancy-associated [...]

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That gut feeling may actually reflect a reliable memory

EVANSTON, Ill. — You know the feeling. You make a decision you’re certain is merely a “lucky guess.”
A new study from Northwestern University offers precise electrophysiological evidence that such decisions may sometimes not be guesswork after all.
The research utilizes the latest brain-reading technology to point to the surprising accuracy of memories that can’t be consciously [...]

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The Year (2008) in Biomedicine

Brain Injury in Iraq
In April, we ran a feature exploring the new epidemic of brain injuries in U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the scientists racing to understand the often invisible wounds. One of the central questions–still unanswered–is whether mild brain injuries, undetectable with traditional brain scans, have a long-term impact, especially if [...]

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Good and Evil: A Cancer Vaccine from Tobacco Plants

In the first human trial of its kind, a vaccine grown in genetically engineered tobacco plants has proved to be safe, paving the way to one day use it to help combat a potentially fatal form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA that the experimental vaccine triggered [...]

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Top 3 medical Discoveries(2007)

#1. Stem Cell Breakthroughs :
In November, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and molecular biologist James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin reported that they had reprogrammed regular skin cells to behave just like embryonic stem cells. The breakthrough may someday allow scientists to create stem cells without destroying embryos — sidestepping the sticky ethical issues [...]

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Yeast-Based Oral Diabetes Treatment Discovered

 Research in the Department of Biology at the Faculty of Science and Science Education of the University of Haifa has discovered a substance that may become an oral treatment for diabetes and its complications. The substance, which is derived from yeast, is called Glucose Tolerance Factor (GTF).
“The research is now at the stage where the [...]

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Researchers Knock Out HIV

  
With the latest advances in treatment, doctors have discovered that they can successfully neutralise the HIV virus. The so-called ‘combination therapy’ prevents the HIV virus from mutating and spreading, allowing patients to rebuild their immune system to the same levels as the rest of the population.
To date, it represents the most significant treatment for patients [...]

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Bone Structure ‘Vastly Different’ Than Previously Believed

 
Researchers have discovered that the structure of human bones is vastly different than previously believed — findings which will have implications for how some debilitating bone disorders are treated.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge, the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket, and the BAM Federal Institute of Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, have discovered that the [...]

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Death rate higher after gastric bypass

  
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 16 (UPI) — A University of Pittsburgh study found 6 percent of those undergoing bariatric surgery — a treatment for severe obesity — died within five years.
The study, published in the Archives of Surgery, also found the death rate for those with the surgery higher than that of the general population in the [...]

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A Fountain of Youth in Mitochondria?

Cranking up an enzyme in a cell’s powerhouse–the mitochondria–makes the cell resilient to stress and death, according to a study published today in the journal Cell. The findings could provide a new set of targets for drugs to treat the diseases related to aging, including Alzheimer’s and diabetes. Scientists say that the research might also [...]

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Question formula-feeding by AIDS moms

NKANGE, Botswana, July 23 (UPI) — Efforts to prevent mothers in Botswana from passing AIDS to their nursing infants have apparently backfired, resulting in hundreds of deaths from diarrhea.
A growing body of research indicated that urging mothers with HIV to use formula has left infants without the crucial antibodies breast milk supplies, The Washington Post [...]

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Woman gives birth to her grandchildren

 
DELRAY BEACH, Fla., July 21 (UPI) — A Florida woman gave birth to her own grandchildren through in vitro fertilization after her daughter was treated for cervical cancer.
Ann Stolper, 59, of Delray Beach, gave birth in December to Itai and Maya Chomsky, the twin children of her daughter, Caryn Chomsky, The Miami Herald reported Saturday.
Caryn [...]

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