tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447Fri, 25 Oct 2024 02:02:20 +0000Tumorbullynature chemistrynerveneuropathytherapytoxinBe the first to knowhttp://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-1487796720257881670Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:39:00 +00002012-03-29T08:39:51.277-07:00 PARIS — At the age of 71, Dr. Jacques Bérès, a veteran of war zones, left his comfortable Paris life last month to smuggle himself into Homs, the center of the Syrian revolt, to tend to the wounded and the sick.Dr. Bérès, a surgeon who was part of the group that founded Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, appears to be the only Western doctor who has been able to http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2012/03/71-old-french-doctor-smuggle-himself.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-5392674838469871708Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:33:00 +00002012-03-20T03:49:55.459-07:00By Editor  A new analysis on prostate led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found that circumcision before a male’s first sexual intercourse may help protect against prostate cancer.  Published early online inCancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study suggests that circumcision can hinder infection and inflammation that may http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2012/03/by-editor-new-analysis-led-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-6271926721032100019Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:18:00 +00002012-03-21T02:42:00.497-07:00You can now reverse a stroke attack and patients can get back to their normal life instead of  spending years trying to recover from partial paralysis. With the drug known as Recombinant  tissue, Plasminogen Activator (r-tPA) stroke can now be reversed provided it is given within  four and half hours of the stroke onset and under strict and http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/you-can-now-reverse-stroke-but-there-is.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-5775600606695219516Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:12:00 +00002012-03-16T07:55:58.584-07:00 Nothing can survive without energy to fuel its growth this includes tumor, If we can discover where they get their fuel from that channel can be blocked we can stop it. Researchers have gained a new understanding of the way in which growing tumors are fed and how this growth can be slowed via angiogenesis inhibitors that eliminate the blood supply to tumors. This represents a step forward http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2011/08/stagnating-tumor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-1441193493788770046Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:42:00 +00002011-07-27T07:42:04.307-07:00Stem Cells To The Rescue! For the first time in the United States, one man’s heart has been saved by his own stem cells. We went behind the scenes in the lab that saved his life and took a look at the future of stem cells repairing arteries throughout the body.“My great grandchildren will be asked, 'who was the first president?' George Washington. Who was first stem cell recipient?'” John http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2011/07/future-of-by-pass-surgery.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-9098815595108832289Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:29:00 +00002011-07-27T07:41:12.445-07:00The past two decades have witnessed an epidemic spread of obesity-related diseases in Western countries. Elucidating the biological mechanism that links overnutrition to obesity could prove crucial in reducing obesity levels. Researchers found a pathway that directs the brain to sense the body’s glucose dynamics, and they believe that a defect of this glucose-sensing pathway contributes to the http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2011/07/treating-obesity-with-brain-correction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-7622517357155647985Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:06:00 +00002011-03-15T03:15:57.406-07:00 Cancer cells are shown here in culture from human connective tissue, illuminated by darkfield amplified contrast. Image: National Cancer Institute MORE MIT RESEARCH Since the 1920s, scientists have known that cancer cells generate energy differently than normal cells, a phenomenon dubbed the “Warburg effect” after its discoverer, German http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/08/starving-tumor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-4290682157791261612Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:41:00 +00002011-08-05T12:16:32.432-07:00 Is your glass half-empty or half-full? How you answer this age-old question about positive thinking may reflect your outlook on life, your attitude toward yourself, and whether you're optimistic or pessimistic.In fact, some studies show that these personality traits — optimism and pessimism — can affect many areas of your health and well-being. Positive thinking also is a key part of effective http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/positive-thinking-and-self-talk-may.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-2384653294390163341Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:19:00 +00002010-10-29T07:19:53.121-07:00 When a King Country dairy farmer came down with a serious case of swine flu, intensive care specialists said there was no hope. They were set to pull him off of life support, but his family refused to give up.The family demanded that the doctors try high doses of Vitamin C. The hospital told them it wouldn't work, but the family insisted. They had to hire a lawyer to get their way -- but their http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/miracles-of-vitamin-c.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-8183565000892690666Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:19:00 +00002010-10-28T02:19:46.708-07:00By Barbara Loe Fisher On October 17, 2009 I was at the Atlanta airport on my way back to Washington, D.C. when I stopped at a newsstand. Like most weary travelers waiting for a plane, I was looking for something to read that would give me a break from my work, which included, two weeks earlier, hosting the large Fourth International Public Conference on Vaccination 1 for an audience of 700 http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/ugly-story-proves-media-is-lying-to-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-7520643881622176955Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:36:00 +00002010-10-26T00:36:57.536-07:00Throughout October, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, experts from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and its clinical care partner, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, are offering weekly research-based tip sheets regarding breast cancer prevention, screening and early detection, treatment and survivorship. Today’s tip sheet, the fourth and final in the series, is “10 Tips for http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/coping-with-cancer-tips.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-83552623027881255Fri, 22 Oct 2010 09:32:00 +00002010-10-23T09:12:38.491-07:00 Women who have been severely injured are 14 percent more likely to survive than similarly injured men, according to a new Johns Hopkins study, a difference researchers believe may be due to the negative impact of male sex hormones on a traumatized immune system. Published in the September issue of The Journal of Trauma, the study is believed to be the largest in humans to date to http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/women-are-stronger-than-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-8157974109340886326Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:47:00 +00002010-10-21T09:06:44.164-07:00  Modern medical treatments attack the cancer and treat the organs affected by the disease, but pay little attention to the other areas of significance in the person's life. This calls for a new treatment that extends beyond the organs overcome by the disease and focuses on the person as a whole. Guided therapy, relying on the idea that the mind can affect the functions of the body and thus http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/fighting-cancer-from-within.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-516834356464157207Tue, 19 Oct 2010 08:46:00 +00002010-10-19T01:46:13.235-07:00 GERMAN -Chocolate has been proven scientifically to reduce heart attack by 39 percent, stroke by 48 percent and also lower your blood pressure. A new study conducted by the German Institute of Nutrition suggests that eating a small piece of chocolate daily may reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke.The people in this study ate the equivalent of a 3.5 ounce square of chocolate every day… http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/miracle-of-chocolate.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-1487596533464972672Sat, 16 Oct 2010 08:12:00 +00002010-10-16T01:15:55.624-07:00 Kidney disease patients are healthier and live longer if they've beefed up their muscles, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results suggest that patients may benefit from pumping iron or taking medications to boost their lean body mass. Kidney disease patients who are on dialysis live longer if they havehttp://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/kidney-patients-can-live-longer-by.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-2694728597275998009Fri, 15 Oct 2010 03:56:00 +00002010-10-19T03:47:32.584-07:00Water Cure: A New Medical Discovery It Is Chronic Unintentional Dehydration That Causes Pain and Disease, Including Cancer In The Body... by F. Batmanghelidj, M.D. Dear Friend, At Last: We Can Now Cure Pain and Prevent Disease -- Naturally -- At No Cost: My ground-breaking medical discovery reveals the missing natural element that prevents -- even cures -- the body's painful degenerative http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/rediscovering-miracle-cure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-5807094263963822941Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:43:00 +00002010-10-13T07:33:44.063-07:00Study Offers Hope for Women with ER-Negative Breast Cancer Women who have estrogen (ER)-negative breast cancer may have more drug-treatment options than previously thought, a Creighton (pronounced Cray-ton) University study suggests. The study is reported in the Oct. 11 online version of the journal Oncogene “The prevailing thought is that estrogen signaling is not involved in the http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-hope-for-er-negative-breast-cancer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-5741872099023991076Tue, 12 Oct 2010 07:04:00 +00002010-10-12T07:07:31.009-07:00 Jeanne and Fred Ide had to deal with the emotional as well as physical realities of a seriously ill spouse. A recent study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania shows that the impact of a spouse's illness on his or her partner's health can be as bad as or worse than it would be if the spouse had died. (Staff photo Justin Ide/Harvard News Office) Study http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/havard-studies-losing-spouse-can-kill.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-4056549345096515827Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:08:00 +00002010-10-11T02:28:23.294-07:00Some patient of Breast cancer have bleak resolve when drug given to treat them do not work. But this may be a thing of the past, since the defense mechanism which makes the cancer cells immune to drugs has been found.Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have found how gene expression that may contribute to drug resistance is ramped up in unusual types of breasthttp://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/breast-cancer-genes-which-makes-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-5521173876597718188Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:04:00 +00002010-10-09T11:06:46.223-07:00Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have created an experimental vaccine against beta-amyloid, the small protein that forms plaques in the brain and is believed to contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease.Compared with similar so-called DNA vaccines that the UT Southwestern researchers tested in an animal study, the new experimental vaccine stimulated more than 10 times as http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/vaccine-for-alzheimers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-8464455713332248215Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:03:00 +00002010-10-09T11:03:01.893-07:00 Study suggest that free food as an incentive have showed to reduce weigh in people on weight loss program. Cheryl L. Rock, Ph.D., R.D., from Moores UCSD Cancer Center, La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues, conducted a randomized controlled trial of weight loss and weight maintenance in 442 overweight or obese women (BMI, 25 – 40), ages 18 to 69, over a two year period with follow-up between http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/study-shows-free-food-can-reduce-weight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-508886637802286473Sat, 09 Oct 2010 04:21:00 +00002010-10-09T10:03:12.758-07:00Dense Breast and Breast Cancer  Researchers at Kaiser Permanente have found that patients with a very early form of breast cancer (ductal carcinoma in situ or DCIS) who have higher mammographic density may be at increased risk for subsequent breast cancer, especially in the breast opposite to the one with the initial cancer.  These study results are published in Cancer Epidemiology, http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/fatter-are-more-prone-to-breast-cancer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-393949929520200951Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:48:00 +00002010-10-08T03:54:40.642-07:00Surgeons Create Functional Artificial Pancreatic Tissue for diabeticsSource: American College of Surgeons (ACS) Surgeons from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, are reporting on a whole new strategy for controlling insulin dependent diabetes without daily injections of insulin. The surgeons have bio-engineered a novel matrix that serves as a scaffold for seeding supportive stem http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-hope-for-artificial-pancreas-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-9212656911749645718Fri, 08 Oct 2010 04:12:00 +00002010-10-07T21:21:15.725-07:00bully Kids With Chronic Illness, Disability More Apt to Be Bullied On top of all the other hardships they face daily, adolescent students living with a disability or chronic illness are more likely to be victims of bullying from their peers at school, a new French and Irish study finds. “We were not overly surprised to learn that children with disability are more vulnerable to bullying, http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/chronic-ilness-in-kids-make-them.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5965652484920608447.post-6212458065893810062Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:27:00 +00002010-10-07T05:27:00.742-07:00Low levels of the male sex hormone, testosterone, in older men is associated with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, according to research by a team that includes a Saint Louis University scientist. “Having low testosterone may make you more vulnerable to Alzheimer’s disease,” said John E. Morley, M.D., director of the division of geriatric medicine at Saint Louis University and a study http://discoveryscene.blogspot.com/2010/10/low-sex-hormone-link-to-alzheimers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0