Home » Archives by category » HEALTH & WELLNESS (Page 65)

82% of Ebola patients are being turned away from hospitals to die at home, spreading infections to family members

82% of Ebola patients are being turned away from hospitals to die at home, spreading infections to family members

Greetings, 82% of Ebola patients are being turned away from hospitals to die at home, spreading infections to family members Source: www.naturalnews.com A lack of available hospital beds in Liberia, Sierra…

MIT Chemists Use Modified Anthrax Toxin to Deliver Cancer Drugs

MIT Chemists Use Modified Anthrax Toxin to Deliver Cancer Drugs

Greetings, MIT Chemists Use Modified Anthrax Toxin to Deliver Cancer Drugs MIT Chemists Use Anthrax to Deliver Cancer Drugs This scanning electron micrograph depicts spores of Bacillus anthracis bacteria magnified…

Cuba sends 461 doctors, nurses to help fight Ebola in West Africa

Cuba sends 461 doctors, nurses to help fight Ebola in West Africa

Greetings, Cuba sends 461 doctors, nurses to help fight Ebola in West Africa Cuba will send a total of 461 doctors and nurses to West Africa to help fight the…

New Treatment Blocks and Reverses Pulmonary Fibrosis

Greetings, New Treatment Blocks and Reverses Pulmonary Fibrosis MicroRNA Mimicry Blocks Pulmonary Fibrosis Using mouse models, researchers from Yale University and miRagen Therapeutics have shown that miR-29 blocks and reverses…

Lung dialysis to help treat COPD successfully tested in Italy

Lung dialysis to help treat COPD successfully tested in Italy

Greetings, Lung dialysis to help treat COPD successfully tested in Italy Lung dialysis to help treat Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was successfully tested in Italy on Wednesday for the…

MIT Engineers Develop New Technologies to Battle Superbugs

MIT Engineers Develop New Technologies to Battle Superbugs

Greetings, MIT Engineers Develop New Technologies to Battle Superbugs New Technologies Could Enable Novel Strategies for Combating Drug-Resistant Bacteria A scanning electron micrograph depicts numerous clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus…

New Two-Step Strategy for Weakening Cancer

New Two-Step Strategy for Weakening Cancer

Greetings, New Two-Step Strategy for Weakening Cancer New Study Reveals Two-Step Strategy for Weakening Cancer A cancer cell under attack by lymphocytes. Credit: thinkstockphotos.com/Rice University Researchers from Rice University and…

Antidepressant medicines change brain architecture

Antidepressant medicines change brain architecture

Greetings, Antidepressant medicines change brain architecture A single dose of drugs used to treat depression can alter brain’s structure only within hours, German researchers have uncovered. The study conducted by…

African News: Ebola death toll rises to over 2800

African News: Ebola death toll rises to over 2800

Greetings, Ebola death toll rises to over 2800 The World Health Organization (WHO) has said West Africa’s deadly Ebola epidemic has killed over 2,800 people so far. According to the…

Colonoscopy? You Might Want To Try Pineapple Instead

Greetings, Colonoscopy? You Might Want To Try Pineapple Instead By MRHEALTH • In Healthy Tips Every year more than 14 million healthy Americans follow the dictate of the medical establish…

Berries strengthen conventional cancer drug treatment

Berries strengthen conventional cancer drug treatment

Greetings, Berries strengthen conventional cancer drug treatment British scientists have suggested that adding wild berries to conventional cancer treatment such as chemotherapy could make it more effective. The study conducted…

Researchers can trick the body into fighting HIV, flu, other infections

Researchers can trick the body into fighting HIV, flu, other infections

Greetings, Researchers can trick the body into fighting HIV, flu, other infections TRAVIS GETTYS (Shutterstock) Scientists have developed a method for “tricking” the body into fighting the spread of some…

More than 700 patients and 40 employees exposed to employee with active case of tuberculosis at West El Paso hospital

More than 700 patients and 40 employees exposed to employee with active case of tuberculosis at West El Paso hospital

Greetings, More than 700 patients and 40 employees exposed to employee with active case of tuberculosis at West El Paso hospital Staff Report Source: www.kvia.com EL PASO, Texas – Several hundred…

New Graphene Sensor Detects Cancer Biomarkers

Greetings, New Graphene Sensor Detects Cancer Biomarkers New Sensor Tracks Down Cancer Biomarkers Illustration of an epitaxial graphene channel biosensor for detection of targeted 8-hydroxydeoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) biomarker. (A) Schematic of…

Insulin pumps capable of saving lives: study

Insulin pumps capable of saving lives: study

Greetings, Insulin pumps capable of saving lives: study The use of insulin pumps to improve therapy for type 1 diabetes patients has provided very positive results including saving the lives…

Cases of rare and severe infant respiratory illness enterovirus 68 confirmed in 14 states as it spreads quickly among children across America

Cases of rare and severe infant respiratory illness enterovirus 68 confirmed in 14 states as it spreads quickly among children across America

Greetings, Cases of rare and severe infant respiratory illness enterovirus 68 confirmed in 14 states as it spreads quickly among children across America As of Wednesday both Minnesota and New…

Finding new genetic links to prostate cancer

Finding new genetic links to prostate cancer

Greetings, Finding new genetic links to prostate cancer Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, including Center Director Thomas A. Sellers, Ph.D., M.P.H., Jong Park, Ph.D. and Hui-Yi Lin, Ph.D., have discovered…

Cuban brigade against Ebola reaffirms solidarity with Africa

Cuban brigade against Ebola reaffirms solidarity with Africa

Cuban brigade against Ebola reaffirms solidarity with Africa Cuban brigade against Ebola reaffirms solidarity with Africa. 53585.jpeg Geneva (Prensa Latina) The decision announced this week by Cuba to send a…

Ebola death toll exceeds 2,500: WHO

Ebola death toll exceeds 2,500: WHO

Greetings, Ebola death toll exceeds 2,500: WHO The World Health Organization says the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has killed over 2,500 people so far with more than 5,000 having…

Cancer Patient Whose Cancer Was Cured With Measles Fundraises For More Research [VIDEO]

Greetings, Like many people diagnosed with cancer, Stacy Erholtz didn’t know if she would survive for long. But thanks to an altered version of the measles virus that reduced her…

Nobel in action: Japanese woman undergoes revolutionary stem cell transplant

Nobel in action: Japanese woman undergoes revolutionary stem cell transplant

Greetings, Nobel in action: Japanese woman undergoes revolutionary stem cell transplant AFP Photo / Anne-Christine Poujoulat AFP Photo / Anne-Christine Poujoulat A breakthrough stem cell transplant has been carried out…

HIV-positive Texas school teacher accused of having sex multiple times with teen

Greetings, HIV-positive Texas school teacher accused of having sex multiple times with teen Texas school teacher who was arrested this week on a charge of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy…

(Video Inc.)Enterovirus D68 makes its way to the Northeast, officials confirm

(Video Inc.)Enterovirus D68 makes its way to the Northeast, officials confirm

Greetings, Enterovirus D68 makes its way to the Northeast, officials confirm The mysterious respiratory virus that’s been making children sick across the United States has made its way to the…

Health Discoveries: Scientists discover antibiotic produced by vaginal bacteria while exploring ‘microbiome’

Health Discoveries: Scientists discover antibiotic produced by vaginal bacteria while exploring ‘microbiome’

Greetings, Scientists discover antibiotic produced by vaginal bacteria while exploring ‘microbiome’ By David Ferguson Scientist examining test tube specimen via Shutterstock A new study reveals that microorganisms inhabiting areas of…

Health…Researchers Reset Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to a Fully Pristine State

Health…Researchers Reset Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to a Fully Pristine State

Greetings, Researchers Reset Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to a Fully Pristine State Researchers Reset Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to a Fully Pristine State A newly published study details how scientists…

Yale Study Shows More Health Symptoms Reported Near ‘Fracking’ Sites

Yale Study Shows More Health Symptoms Reported Near ‘Fracking’ Sites

Greetings, Yale Study Shows More Health Symptoms Reported Near ‘Fracking’ Sites More Health Symptoms Reported Near Fracking A new study from Yale University found that natural gas drilling may increase…

Health: Researchers Reveal a New Pathway to Help Treat Perinatal Brain Injuries

Health: Researchers Reveal a New Pathway to Help Treat Perinatal Brain Injuries

Greetings, Researchers Reveal a New Pathway to Help Treat Perinatal Brain Injuries A New Pathway to Help Treat Perinatal Brain Injuries A team of researchers has uncovered a new pathway…

Prediabetes may increase certain cancers risk

Prediabetes may increase certain cancers risk

Greetings, Pre-diabetes may increase certain cancers risk Large study has revealed that Prediabetes could increase the risk of several types of cancer by 15 percent. A meta-analysis comprising 16 studies…

Bacteria from bees possible alternative to antibiotics

Bacteria from bees possible alternative to antibiotics

Greetings, Bacteria from bees possible alternative to antibiotics Working bees on honey cells (stock image). Raw honey has been used against infections for millennia, before honey — as we now…

New cancer immunotherapy drug approved

New cancer immunotherapy drug approved

Greetings, New cancer immunotherapy drug approved A new type of cancer drug that harnesses the body’s immune system to fight tumors has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug…