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US seniors ’smarter’ than English seniors

Researchers from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Cambridge and the University of Michigan have carried out the first international comparison of cognitive function in nationally representative samples of older adults in the US and England and discovered that US seniors performed significantly better that their English counterparts. The finding ...

Ginger Capsules Help Chemo Nausea

Ginger capsules can be an inexpensive, natural way to fight nausea. Chemo induced nausea is more than just a quality-of-life issue, doctors say. Many cancer patients avoid chemotherapy treatment and some refuse chemo altogether because of nausea, hurting their chances of beating the disease. Many medicines do a good job of ...

A Stem Cell Cure for Common Cause of Vision Loss

Scientists have created the first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. Surgeons predict it will become a routine, one-hour procedure that will be widely available in six or seven years. The breakthrough treatment involves replacing a layer of degenerated cells with new ones created from embryonic ...

Fluorescent Chemical Dye Brain Surgeons Remove Gliomas

Gliomas are malignant brain tumors that arise from glial (supporting) cells of the brain. Gliomas are frequently resistant to chemotherapy drugs. These glioma tumors develop thin extensions that infiltrate normal brain tissue and, in addition, individual tumor cells may produce extensions or "satellites" in surrounding tissue. Therefore, it has been ...

New TB Vaccine in Development

Two billion people, one third of the Earth's population—have been exposed to the tuberculosis pathogen. Each year, 8 million people become ill with tuberculosis, and 2 million people die from the disease worldwide. An urgently needed new tuberculosis vaccine has completed a vital step in testing, an important advance at time ...

Lipoic Acid Helps in Lowering Triglycerides

Lipoic acid is a natural compound found at low levels in some foods, including red meat and green leafy vegetables. A powerful antioxidant, it's been of considerable research interest in recent years for its apparent ability to reduce mitochondrial decay in cells and perhaps slow the process of aging. Studies ...

Newsflash–Sleep is Good for Your Brain According to New Research

A new study published in the April 3 edition of the Journal Science has found new molecular and structural evidence of that sleepy feeling - specific proteins were identified that build up in the brains of sleep-deprived fruit flies and then drop to lower levels in the brains of ...

Caffeine is Useful for Athletes

Competitive athletes can consume caffeine and expect to see a reduction in post workout pain--caffeine affects the adenosine system in the brain and spinal cord, and this system is involved in pain sensation. University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Robert Motl's latest published study on the ...

PSA Test For Prostate May Not Be as Helpful as Doctors Had Hoped

The PSA blood test, used to screen for prostate cancer, saves few lives and leads to risky and unnecessary treatments for large numbers of men, two large studies have found. The findings, the first based on rigorous, randomized studies, confirm some longstanding concerns about the wisdom of widespread prostate cancer screening. ...

Brain Injury Patients May Seem OK , Then Get Sicker

Trauma surgeons and neurosurgeons weighing in on the Natasha Richardson tragedy have stated that she might have survived if she had had surgery shortly after the injury occurred. At first, Natasha Richardson said she felt fine after she fell on a Canadian ski trip. But that's not unusual for people who ...

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