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Brain inflammation may be friend, not foe, for Alzheimer's patients

...shes to injury sites and helps repair and clean up wounds in the brain. The work is the latest in a growing body of research that is trying to determine the exact role of inflammation in Alzheimer’s disease. O’Banion notes that some studies have found that taking medications to squelch inflammation, such...

Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine

...y, showed that ancient Egyptian physicians treated wounds with honey, resins and metals known to be antimicrobial. The team also discovered prescriptions for laxatives of castor oil and colocynth and bulk laxatives of figs and bran. Other references show that colic was treated with hyoscyamus, which is s...

Sheffield scientists light up bacteria

...a, allowing scientists to easily identify infected wounds much earlier than using conventional methodologies. The new technology will be of immediate benefit to healthcare industries in general, as well as those involved in detecting infection in battlefield conditions and bacterial contamination, whethe...

Study shows antibiotic-resistant bacteria responsible for increase in muscle infections

...d, less frequently, serious infections of surgical wounds or the bloodstream, and pneumonia. For years, infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus have been treated by inexpensive antibiotics in the penicillin and cephalosporin family. Some years ago, strains resistant to these drugs, called methicillin-re...

MIT material stops bleeding in seconds

...the clear liquid containing short peptides to open wounds in several different types of tissue - brain, liver, skin, spinal cord and intestine. "In almost every one of the cases, we were able to immediately stop the bleeding," said Ellis-Behnke, the lead author of the study. Earlier this year, the same ...

From managing sugar to managing healing

...ently found that applying insulin directly to skin wounds significantly enhanced the healing process. Skin wounds in rats treated topically with insulin healed faster"surface cells in the epidermis covered the woun...

UCSD researchers discover internal compass of immune cell

...be used to coax neutrophils to migrate to infected wounds to improve wound healing. ...

Too mellow for our predatory world

... animals with bite marks from dogs. Although these wounds are not fatal in themselves, they often lead to secondary infections which eventually kill the animals. It appears that while marine iguanas are capable of learning to recognise predators they are unable to efficiently increase their flight initiat...

Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds

...still to be done. Biofilms' involvement in chronic wounds is not widely accepted. This is new territory." ...ts and elderly get bedsores that turn into chronic wounds annually. Due to the poor blood circulation of many diabetics, a foot sore can develop into an open ...

New angiogenesis finding may help fight cancer growth

...lood vessels. Normally, blood vessels form when wounds heal and during menstruation, pregnancy and fetal development. But impaired blood-vessel development and function are also a major cause of blindness, and tumors rely on new blood vessels as they develop. Like most critical body processes, angioge...

Bedsores and bald hides: Novel roles revealed for a 'scaffolding' protein

...sue of Nature, sheds light on how the body repairs wounds and may have implications for preventing or treating chronic wounds such as pressure or bed sores arising from long periods of immobility. Along with the pain and scarr...

Technique speeds up detecting, treating wound bacteria

...es finegoldii--that will probably also be found in wounds but aren't part of those detectable by PCR. Yet. "We will definitely add to the list," he said. "We are currently basing our selection of organisms to detect (through real-time PCR) on the current literature on surgical infections, but we expect to...

Honey helps problem wounds

...eing reinstated: honey helps the treatment of some wounds better than the most modern antibiotics. For sever...ence with what is known as medihoney. Even chronic wounds infected with multi-resistant bacteria often healed within a few weeks. In conjunction with colleagu...

Healing honey: The sweet evidence revealed

...nly rapidly clears existing infection, it protects wounds from additional infection Honey debrides wounds and removes malodor Honey's anti-inflammatory activity reduces edema and minimizes scarring Honey st...

New antimicrobial compound adheres to skin to promote healing

...l or human, bacteria and fungi can infect the open wounds and kill the patient," Ritchie said. "We have foun...ant bacteria and fungi with compounds that cleanse wounds while being gentle on the tissue." Combining Tricide with a bioadhesive came about as a result of ...

Polymer aids in blood clotting, pointing way to new treatment

...arios, Morrissey said, could include treatment for wounds sustained on battlefields or in accidents, or for hemophilia and other diseases with coagulation deficits. "The big picture is that we've found a new function for an ancient molecule," he said. "Polyphosphate has been around for billions of years. R...

Wound monitor 'sniffs out' infections

...e system that can monitor the state of a patient's wounds simply by detecting bad bacteria in the air emitted from the wound. Using state of the sensors we will be able to detect and diagnose the presence of an infection almost instantaneously." The device will use new hybrid sensor technology with a mobil...

World first research to speed up cure for ear infections

...funding we can start our studies to understand how wounds in ear drums heal themselves by examining the cells and molecules in the replacement tissue," Dr Ghassemifar said. "Through DNA or gene profiling of animal models we hope to learn which molecules are active as the ear drum heals and we will then tar...

Stress substantially slows human body's ability to heal

... enough to slow their bodies' ability to heal from wounds by at least one day, a new study has shown. More... can bump the healing back an entire day for minor wounds says that wound-healing is a really sensitive process." Glaser added, "This supports our long-held...

Regenerating worms help elucidate stem cell biology

...lost cells. For example, blood replenishes itself, wounds heal, and the lining of the gut sloughs off and is restored. Nowhere, however, is the process of regeneration more dramatic than in the freshwater flatworm planaria. Cut one of these animals in half, and a week later, two fully functional worms will ...

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