Stem cell therapy can help enlarged hearts due to heart attacks, inflammation and congestive heart failure shrink in size to more normal proportions within a year, a small clinical trial shows. The process involves getting stem cells from the bone marrow of the patients then injecting them into the heart. Researchers noted that cardiac function […]
Public health authorities are still fighting the difficult scourge of smoking and health officials said in a report that banning menthol cigarettes may discourage more people to pick up the habit. A panel of advisers commissioned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration concluded after a year of study that the menthol flavor in cigarette […]
Parkinson’s disease patients can benefit from gene therapy according to a new study published Thursday in The Lancet. Researchers applied the experimental gene therapy on 37 individuals diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Sixteen of them received gene therapy while 21 others had bogus treatments. Motor skills of the participants who had gene therapy improved by 23 […]
Life expectancy in the United States hit 78 years for the first time since records began and continuing the general upward trend since World War II ended. Americans born in 2009 were expected to live up to 78 years and 2 months on average according to the new report by the Centers for Disease Control […]
Obesity rates in the United States have doubled in the last 30 years and today some 34 percent of Americans are considered obese according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But weight loss surgery is now a viable and effective option for severely obese people according to the American Heart Association. […]
Childhood cancer patients are sometimes rendered infertile by the treatments they receive to get rid of the disease. Many of their sperm cells die during the process and they tend to have difficulty having children. If they are advised promptly, young men can store their sperm through a sperm bank, although most are not told […]
Swine flu or the H1N1 outbreak in 2009 could have been handled better by health officials, a preliminary report by the World Health Organization said today. The United Nations health agency had formed a committee to look into how effective it was in handling the pandemic. The panel concluded that WHO committed some mistakes that […]
Emphysema can be detected earlier with a new blood test being developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. If validated by larger studies and approved, the new screening method may be included in an individual’s annual physical examination. The development is good news to smokers who are the most afflicted with emphysema, a lung […]
The number of American cancer survivors have grown by hundreds of thousands each year, so much so that at least one in 20 adults in the country today is a cancer survivor. Some 40 years ago, there were about 3 million cancer survivors in the United States. That number rose to 10 million in 2001 […]
Lupus drug Benlysta became the first medication in more than 50 years on Wednesday to get approval to treat the autoimmune condition. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the approval after an advisory panel endorsed the drug in November. Seven other lupus drugs failed to get past through the clinical trial stage in recent […]
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