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Online Book Helps Children Understand the Effects of Stroke

...n Grandpa Comes Home…," the Internet Stroke Center contains a national registry of clinical stroke trials and extensive information for adult family members and patients on the causes of stroke, what to expect after a stroke and how to help patients during the recovery process. "Adult caregivers need a trem...

Zinc in Body Could Affect Eyes: Study

...eyes. The study found that drusen in eyes with AMD contains very high levels of zinc. "AMD can be considered the Alzheimer's disease of the eye, in that both involve the build-up of proteins and metals like zinc and copper into microscopic clumps," the researchers said. The study could help the developmen...

‘Fingerprints’ to Track Common Infections in Childrn

... on a special gene chip called a microarray, which contains probes for the whole human genome and measures which genes are turned on or off. In this study, researchers analyzed gene expression patterns in leukocytes from 29 children at Children’s known to have one of four common infections: flu (influenza A...

Fatty Acid Supplements may Help Develop Child's Brain

...les a day of the VegEPA - a diet supplement, which contains an omega-3 fatty acid called EPA. Tests done at the end of the three-month study found the children showed an increase in reading age of well over a year, their handwriting became neater and more accurate and they paid more attention in class. A ...

Manufacturers of Infant Formula Milk Asked to Do Away With Exaggerated Nutritional Claims

...tfeeding because of its proven health benefits. It contains beneficial antibodies that are not found in infant formula. Various compositional claims, like closer to breast milk, found on packs of infant formula will no longer be allowed. They will have to go from packs and advertising. The aim is to ensure th...

Mobility can be improved in elders with exercise

...etween the index finger and the thumb, this muscle contains 120 'motor units'--in other words, 120 individual neurons, or nerve cells, and the muscle fibers they activate. 'It's a relatively simple muscle, so you get to see more of a one-to-one relationship between the activity of the neurons and the result...

Healing Bone With Stem Cells

...e, orthopedic surgeons withdraw bone marrow (which contains bone-forming stem cells) from the patient and then process and transplant those cells onto the fracture without the need for bone biopsy. Some 40,000 people have already undergone the procedure, but scientists say the technique could be improved by...

Study Finds Fat Type That can Protect Against Weight Gain and Diabetes

...ms of abdominal fat. Brown fat, on the other hand, contains small lipid droplets tucked behind tiny energy factories called mitochondria. These cells are most prevalent in the necks of infants and between the shoulder blades in mice to help their bodies generate heat, but tend to mostly disappear by adulthood...

FDA and CDC Remind Consumers of the Dangers of Drinking Raw Milk

...teurized, known as raw milk. Raw milk potentially contains a wide variety of harmful bacteria – including Sal...ontaining raw milk. Because even pasteurized milk contains low levels of nonpathogenic bacteria that can cause food to spoil, it is important to keep pasteuriz...

Unique Tomatoes Tops In Disease-Fighting Antioxidants

...nd Food Chemistry. Lycopene is a carotenoid that contains a variety of related compounds called isomers. Isomers share the same chemical formula, yet differ in chemical structure. In the case of tomatoes, the different lycopene isomers play a part in determining the color of the fruit. Several years ago, S...

HL7 Announces Industry’s First Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S

... in an HER system. The standard’s Functional Model contains approximately 1,000 conformance criteria across 13...nd electronic records,” said Dougherty. “The EHR-S contains functions that help providers maintain a legal EHR for business, regulatory and accreditation purpos...

Stem Cells in Liposuctioned Fat can Heal Injuries

... fat to improve their looks. But unwanted fat also contains stem cells with the potential to repair defects and heal injuries in the body. Uncovering the nature and location of these molecular tags could allow scientists to pull off the ultimate trick of taking a patient’s own fat cells and using them for t...

Scientists Produce Neurons from Human Skin

... neurons, which are hosted in the spinal cord, but contains only their extensions, called "axons." The researchers’ challenge was thus to produce neurons from undifferentiated cells rather than multiply neurons from nerve cells. Tests conducted by the researchers demonstrated that stem cells from the skin c...

Researchers Discover Potential Targets To Reduce Risk Of Stem Cell Transplants

... GvHD. This protection is seen even when the graft contains extra immune cells to help the graft "take" or when the graft cells are completely mismatched to the recipient. The findings will be published in the March 1st issue of the "Journal of Immunology." Allogeneic transplants are the best curative optio...

Are Oysters Really Aphrodisiacs?

...s never so easy. Veyron-S proprietary formula also contains the herbs which have been used for centuries by native peoples throughout the Americas as aphrodisiacs and libido-boosters. Together with the oyster extract it gives the perfect effect on male potency. Veyron-S is already available over-the-counter i...

Crushed Garlic Has Health Benefits

...rlic is used extensively in herbal medicine and it contains compounds shown to help prevent blood clots. But most studies have tested raw garlic and cooking can damage garlic's anti-clotting compounds, reported an online edition of health magazine WebMD. Crushing garlic may help prevent that damage, report ...

Tea Tree Oil-containing Beauty Products may Contribute to MRSA Increase

Next time you reach for a cosmetic that contains tea tree oil, give a second thought. You may unwittingly // be giving a boost to ‘bad’ microorganisms- to evolve into stronger, tougher ones. So says a research published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and led by professor David Mc...

Genetic Test for Type II Diabetes Moves Closer

...ated near the telomeric end of chromosome 10 which contains two genes of known biological significance, the in... 11, mapped to a linkage disequilibrium block that contains the hypothetical LOC387761 gene. Professor David Balding, co-author of the study from Imperial's D...

Coffee-time for Those Listening to Their Heart

...f heart attack, Rosner's team explains. "Coffee contains phenolic compounds, which are known antioxidants and may reduce oxidative stress," they opine. From previous studies, coffee has been shown to improve the body's use of insulin and may even protect against type 2 diabetes. Till we know what is ...

Natural Immunity Against Avian Flu may Be Possible

...otection against avian H5N1 influenza virus, which contains the closely related avian type 1 neuraminidase (avN1). In the new study, they group of humans. The researchers immunized mice with DNA that caused their cells to make the neuraminidase from an H1N1 virus found in human outbreaks. They then examined...

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