Taking vitamins or supplements to treat “adrenal fatigue” may do more harm than good, says Todd Nippoldt, M.D., a Mayo Clinic expert in hormone disorders affecting the adrenal glands. “Adrenal fatigue is a term that was invented outside the mainstream medical community to explain a collection of nonspecific symptoms, such as fatigue, body aches, sleep… Continue reading
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Regenerative functions of stem cells
A team of North American collaborators from both industrial research centers (Biotime Inc, Mandala Biosciences LLC and Sierra Sciences LLC) and academic institutes (Ontario Cancer Institute, Burnham Institute for Medical Research and The Scripps Research Institute) have demonstrated successful reversal of the developmental aging of normal human cells. Their findings appear as an ahead-of-print research… Continue reading
Which the others advantages of HPV vaccine
A vaccine designed to prevent cervical cancer also may protect females from post-surgical recurrence of the disease, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). A new study shows that the Gardasil vaccine reduces the likelihood of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related disease recurring after teen and adult women already have had surgery to… Continue reading
Weight-loss surgery is prefered by to exercises and diets
More than half of Britons would rather shift excess weight through drastic surgery than diet or exercise, a new poll has suggested. Women see weight-loss operations as the key to quick results while some men regard it as the “lazy option”, it found. The survey was carried out among 1,305 members of the public on… Continue reading
Scientists looking for new generation treatment of breast cancer
Many women live with breast cancer that does not respond to standard medical treatment, a condition that researchers at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare want to change by aggressively targeting specific genes. Improving quality of life and potentially keeping the cancer under control for a longer period of time are goals… Continue reading
Breast cancer diagnostics from NVidia Tesla GPU
TechniScan, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: TSNI) is featured on NVIDIA’s recently posted blog about speeding the amount of time it takes to get breast imaging results into the hands of doctors and patients. NVIDIA is the world leader in visual computing technologies and inventor of the graphics processing unit (GPU). TechniScan’s Warm Bath Ultrasound (WBU™)… Continue reading
Your lifetime didn’t be shorten if you donate kidney
A study of over 80,000 American live kidney donors found they were likely to live just as long as people who have two healthy kidneys and that the procedure carries very little medical risk. You can read about the landmark study by lead author and transplant surgeon Dr Dorry L Segev, from the Johns Hopkins… Continue reading
Avoiding too much TV for child – this means too much fast and junk food
Here’s another reason not to let kids park it in front of the TV for hours on end: a new study reports that high-schoolers who watch too much TV are more likely to have bad eating habits 5 years down the road. Researchers followed almost 2,000 high- and middle-school children and found that TV viewing,… Continue reading