The Spider, TOGA System – Latest Advances in Weight Loss Surgery
July 27, 2010 – 1:38 am | No Comment
Obesity surgery has been found to be the sole long-standing effectual method of weight reduction for people with morbid obesity. Obesity surgery classically appears to work superior as compared to diets, exercising or medications, however similar to all surgeries, there are associated risks, principally amongst these being the operative exposure of the abdominal area and the resultant scars. However, there are least-invasive means, inclusive of  [...]
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Avocado Cure To Arthritis And A Novel Eye Test To Caution Of A Stroke
October 19, 2009 – 1:20 am | 2 Comments
Avocado Cure To Arthritis And A Novel Eye Test To Caution Of A Stroke
Avocado cure to Arthritis The pain and inflammation experienced due to osteoarthritis could now be allaying with a potent blend of avocado and soybean oil. Scientists have discovered that both these foods had the presence of the compounds known as phytosterols that were believed to possess powerful anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties. During the study carried out at the Lapeyronie Teaching Hospital in France, patients ailing with hip and knee arthritis were administered 300mg or 600mg of an extract derived from avocado and soyabean oil. Subsequent to 6 weeks, merely 43% of those that underwent the treatment required to take anti-inflammatory medications, in comparison to the close to 70% of those in the control group. The patients given the extract also cited improvement  [...]

Can A Pill Restore Aging-Related Muscle Wasting?
October 15, 2009 – 2:30 am | No Comment
Can A Pill Restore Aging-Related Muscle Wasting?
Re-building muscles that have undergone ageing-associated wasting might one day be as easy as popping a pill. Researchers think that they just might have unraveled the secret to regaining lost muscle youth. The solution lies in a protein that produces signals that elicit muscle restorative process in the stem cells. Currently, it is anticipated that a muscle-bolstering drug could be manufactured that could dawdle the ageing process. During the course of the study, U.S. and Danish scientists have evaluated the capacity of stem cells or ‘master cells’ that reinstate damage in tissues – for building muscle. The researchers have established that aging has been found to be directly proportional to the weakening of the chemical messages that notify the stem cells to get functional.  [...]

Rare Condition Of Twin Births From Different Paternal Sources
September 24, 2009 – 1:20 am | No Comment
Rare Condition Of Twin Births From Different Paternal Sources
An unusual occurrence called as heteropaternal superfecundation was cited in the cases of twins from Dallas that have two fathers. This sort of happening is so atypical that there are merely few of such cited cases globally. The eleven months old twins Justin and Jordan have visibly dissimilar facial characteristics. The parents of the twins, Mia Washington and her fiancée, James Harrison revealed this astounding facet to a television news channel when they were called to speak about their story. Making a clean breast about matters, Mia conceded to being in an affair with one more man during the point in time when the conception of the twins took place. She stated that she was astonished that such an extraordinary occurrence had transpired with her. Mia revealed that her twins were  [...]

Hope For Paralyzed Patients To Walk Again
September 22, 2009 – 2:40 am | No Comment
Hope For Paralyzed Patients To Walk Again
Researchers of a latest study have revealed a three-forked strategy for treating spinal cord damage that helped rats with paralysis to be able to walk without the need of brain signalling. Due to damage caused to the nerve fibers that transmit and receive data from the brain, there is a major impediment in conducting information. The major spotlight on the research being undertaken for spinal cord injuries has been to delve into means of recuperating those marred nerve fibers and connections that have till date met with partial triumph in humans. During the course of the latest research, rats were administered a treatment that was a fusion of drugs, electrical stimulus to the spinal cord and remedial locomotor guidance technique. The amalgamated treatment assisted the rats in walking  [...]

Novel Means To Effectual Usage Of Liposuctioned Fat
September 17, 2009 – 5:30 pm | No Comment
Novel Means To Effectual Usage Of Liposuctioned Fat
A study undertaken reveals that the extensively available fats derived from human beings, easily collected employing liposuction, are noted to transmute into stem cells more effectually as compared to skin cells, thus providing the researchers a viable substitute to embryonic cells. Mr. Shinya Yamanaka from the Kyoto University, located in Japan had shown that skin cells that are very much alike embryonic stem cells, had the capability to be genetically altered to develop into any other form of cell. This procedure was identified as averting the annihilation of embryos and allowing researchers to develop novel treatments by creating stem cells from ailing patients. Ever since Yamanaka’s endeavours three years back, scientists have hunted for means to rise above the duo shortcomings  [...]