In a new study, researchers are reporting a key progress in using stem cells to repair hearts damaged by heart attacks. Stem cells donated by strangers proved as safe and effective as patients’ own cells for helping restore heart tissue. Doctors are excited because this suggests that stem cells could be banked for off-the-shelf use […]
A new analysis of past studies suggests that dieters who eat meals and snacks high in protein might lose a bit more weight than those who get less protein and more carbohydrates – all other things being equal. Over an average of 12 weeks, people assigned at random to a high-protein diet lost about 1.8 […]
A one-on-one educational strategy used among Orthodox Jews apparently led to a U.S. outbreak of mumps in 2009 and 2010 even though most of those infected had been properly vaccinated, according to a U.S. study. The researchers said the outbreak, detailed in the New England Journal of Medicine, signifies how close, repeated contact with an […]
The best medical innovations for next year include an almond-size device that’s implanted in the mouth to relieve severe headaches and a hand-held scanner resembling a blow dryer that detects skin cancer, the Cleveland Clinic said on Wednesday. Doctors and researchers at the Cleveland Clinic voted for what they thought were the biggest, most significant […]
GlaxoSmithKline has increased its bet on a promising drug for HIV/AIDS by redrawing a deal with Japan’s Shionogi which gives it a much bigger economic interest in the new product. Dolutegravir, a once-daily drug that has performed strongly in clinical trials, is seen by analysts as a prospective multi-billion-dollar-a-year seller and a strong competitor to treatments from […]
Because a dazzling beauty is what every girl’s desire, a woman did everything just to look as beautiful as Jeniffer Lopez. Ratphila Chairungkit, 25, is a Thai street food vendor who risked every penny she has and searched the Internet to find how to have a “cheap Botox”. For five years, she had a lot […]
Aspirin, one of the world’s oldest and cheapest drugs, has shown astonishing promise in treating colon cancer in people with mutations in a gene that’s thought to play a role in the disease. A major study found that among patients with the mutations, those who regularly took aspirin lived longer than those who didn’t. Five years after […]
Monster Energy Drink, known to have high caffeine content, has been cited in five deaths and one non-fatal heart attack, according to reports that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating. Another report has been added to FDA about the energy drink agency which was recently sued by the family of a 14-year-old Maryland girl with […]
Antiretroviral therapy, years ago was considered a miracle which was only available to HIV patients in the West, is now no longer scarce in many of the poorest parts of the world. Pills are cheaper and easier to access, and HIV is not the same killer that once left thousands of orphaned children in sub-Saharan […]
According to a U.S. study, girls who had been vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) weren’t more likely to get other sexually transmitted infections or to become pregnant. However, the statement is opposed to the ultimately goal of preventing cervical cancer and somehow worries on the part of some of the girls who has acquired the vaccine since it […]
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