Archive for March 4th, 2010

The speedy development of genetic engineering and biotechnologies created favorable grounds for cloning living organisms. The nuclear transfer method proved to be most successful and resulted in the appearance of sheep Dolly that lived for six years. Scientists say that such an approach is best for launching the work for cloning human beings. Parthenogenesis – [...]

Politicians will say it lives in the system that pushed a person towards a crime. A priest will say it lives in a human soul if people let it take possession of their hearts. Neuroscientists seek the cause in the biochemistry of the brain. Do natural born killers exist or is this a myth? On [...]

A real and effective treatment of drug addiction, treating the long-term craving for drugs, treating the patient at home, freeing hospital beds for others? This novel treatment avoids the onset of delayed abstinence syndrome, avoiding the loss of self-esteem, recurrence to drug abuse and misery for the patient and the family. BPTUZ and BPUZ on [...]

Here’s what you need to know. Twenty million Americans take cholesterol-lowering drugs. So you might think that scientists have high cholesterol pretty much worked out. But you’d be wrong. This oily molecule, which lines our cell membranes and provides raw material for our hormones, continues to mystify top scientists. Here’s what we know for sure: [...]

Is it doctors practicing defensive medicine? Or are patients so accustomed to a culture of medical technology that they insist on extensive tests and treatments? Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — maybe even President Barack Obama — are [...]

A world without “the pill” is unimaginable to many young women who now use it to treat acne, skip periods, improve mood and, of course, prevent pregnancy. They might be surprised to learn that U.S. officials announcing approval of the world’s first oral contraceptive were uncomfortable. “Our own ideas of morality had nothing to do [...]

Black Americans are more likely than whites to have beliefs and perceptions about lung cancer that could interfere with prevention and treatment, new study findings suggest. In the study, researchers analyzed the responses of 1,530 people who were asked questions related to lung cancer as part of the 2005 Health Information National Trends Survey. The [...]

    Heart disease stems from damage of the arteries, which eventually affect the heart. There is a common myth that high levels of fat in the blood cause cholesterol to begin to stick to the walls of the arteries. However, without arterial wall damage, cholesterol cannot begin to form a “plaque”, no matter how [...]

Although the precise estimate is still uncertain, researchers found that people who started taking zinc-loaded lozenges or syrups within 24 hours of showing symptoms … a sore throat, say, or runny nose … shortened their cold by one day. By comparison, a normal cold lasts about a week. A new look at the medical evidence [...]

A test was conducted on foodstuffs in a kitchen after an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning which left dozens of people ill. Was it the seafood, the eggs, the fish, the meat or the salad? It was the salad. Studies reveal that what people perceive as the “healthiest” foods may in fact be the most [...]

Increasing the intake of olive oil may reduce the risk of suffering from ulcerative colitis, a new study suggest. The new findings were presented on Saturday at the Digestive Disease Week conference in New Orleans. Researchers at the University of East Anglia’s School of Medicine in the United Kingdom followed more than 25,000 people, aged [...]