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Creating brain cells from bone marrow

Researchers have recently found a way of creating brain cells out of bone marrow cells which opens up the possibility of grafts for Parkinson's disease. At the Peterson Medical College scientists grew stem cells from adult bone marrow in a finely-tuned cocktail of growth factors and other chemicals and found they could get them to convert into neurons. Normally such stem cells form mu...

Creating A Greater Awareness Among Smokers

According to findings of a recent study , 70 percent of all cigarettes consumed are smoked by psychiatrically ill individuals.// Researchers studied nearly 43,000 psychiatric patients living in and out of group homes to explore the correlation between patients' mental disorders and their nicotine and drug use. Results showed 28 percent of patients used any tobacco product, 25 percent smo...

Doctors take part in walk: a step towards creating diabetes awareness

The World Diabetes Day is observed on November 14 in order to create awareness related to Diabetes, which is a group of diseases with one thing in common - a problem with insulin, and has reached epidemic proportions. // As a part of the World Diabetes Day, a walk is being organized in Madurai on November 14. The walk will begin at 7.30 am from IMA hall, Panagal road and en...

Creating Awareness about Sports Medicine

As there is a severe shortage of Sport medicos the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) is planned to create awareness in that field. // They are going to organize a three-day intensive course program in sports medicine for doctors from the northeastern states. This is to equate the shortage of sports medicine specialists in the Northeast. The course is being sponsored...

Innovative Method for Creating a Human Cytomegalovirus Vaccine Outlined

Each year, about 40,000 children are born infected with human cytomegalovirus, or CMV, and about 8,000 of these children suffer permanent disabilities due to the virus – almost one an hour. These disabilities// can include hearing loss, vision loss, mental disability, a lack of coordination, and seizures. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CMV is as common a cause of ser...

Creating Memories During Sleep

It is still unclear how the brain actually stores or deletes memories. Several researchers, who study the intricate functioning of the human brain,// feel that the theory of consolidation offers the best explanation. This theory postulates that fresh impressions are stored at first as short-term memories in a region of the brain called the hippocampus. Newly acquired information then gets moved a...

Overuse Of Antibiotics-Creating Monsters Out Of Common Microbes

Health officials are alarmed at the evolution of causal organisms of hitherto common diseases// into ‘superbugs’. This, they warn is the result of overzealous use of antibiotics. One such example is the recent announcement by the U.S Centers For Disease Control (CDC) that gonorrhea has now become resistant to the antibiotic fluoroquinolones. The only line of treatment left is ce...

Indoor Smoking Bans Creating Unhealthy Outdoor Second-hand Smoke Zones

A new study has found that second-hand smoke from smokers clustered outside establishments, which bans the fag, is posing a health hazard of its own, as there has been an increase of pollutants from it. The study was conducted by a team of researchers led by Luke Naeher at the University of Georgia College of Public Health. "Athens is a college town, and we have thous...