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Incision-Free Endoscopic Obesity Surgery

Doctors at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have performed the first non-surgical procedure in the United States to treat obesity by shrinking the size of the stomach. The investigational procedure was performed using direct endoscopic visualization with specialized instruments that are passed into the stomach through the ...

Harvard Researchers Help to Crack HIV Puzzle

HIV using a few basic components creates dramatic health effects. The HIV virus contains only nine genes that encode 15 proteins, these few proteins cause havoc in the human immune system. This bare bones attack by HIV could have an Achilles Heel. HIV hijacks human proteins in order to propagate. ...

Why Do NonSmokers Get Lung Cancer?

Lung cancers in never-smokers have a different molecular profile and better response to targeted therapy than cancers in smokers. In some respects lung cancers in never-smokers represents a different type of cancer than that in smokers. Men who report never smoking have a 1.1% cumulative risk of dying ...

Melamine in Chinese Milk Products Sickens Thousands, 3 Dead

Chinese government officials stated on Wednesday a third child had died after drinking melamine contaminated milk and the number of those who were ill grew to many thousands. An official said the health problem has existed for at least a month. The number of sick children due to ...

Bisphenol-A Questions About Safety

Bisphenol-A video Bisphenol-A (BPA) is a chemical widely found in food packaging and polycarbonate bottles which may have some negative effects on health. BPA is considered an endocrine disruptor which could impact numerous systems in the body. It doesn't seem to be good for lab animals-cancer, diabetes and fertility problems appear ...

Pyridomorphinan May Help Prevent Alcohol Abuse

A study testing pyridomorphinan (SoRI-9409) derived from Naltrexone will be published in the December 2008 issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) estimates 15.1 million people are alcohol abusing or alcohol dependent. There are at the present time only 3 FDA approved ...

Erythropoietin (EPO) Can Improve Memory

A drug used to boost the production of red blood cells in many patients and occasionally used by athletes to boost endurance(usually banned from sports), has an unexpected side effect--it makes you smarter. Erythropoietin (EPO) improves cognition of human subjects in the research findings by an unknown mechanism. A mouse model ...

Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD)

Progress in the treatment of AMD has come a long way in recent years. New treatments including gene therapy are in the research phases and appear very promising in the fight against this serious and all too common cause of vision loss. From the NIH : Thirty Years Ago ----Age-related Macular Degeneration ...

Science Proves That Chinese Food Is Good For You

A medical study looking at patients who have had a heart attack found that a purified extract of Chinese red yeast rice, reduced the risk of repeat heart attacks by 45%, revascularization (bypass surgery/angioplasty), cardiovascular mortality and total mortality by one-third and cancer mortality by two-thirds. The study, ...

Blackberries Are A Delicious Weapon Against Cancer

Black raspberries have already been shown to help prevent colon cancer. New research shows that they also are promising preventative treatment to avoid esophageal cancer. A combination of preventative natural chemicals, such as those found in freeze dried black raspberries, may effectively inhibit cancer cell development, according to a new study ...