Scientists allowed to create baby with two genetic mothers
Mitochondria disease is passed on from a mother's egg. Mitochondrial disorders cause serious health problems in children, and many of them die prematurely because of the inability to produce the energy for growth. There is no effective treatment for mitochondrial disease at the moment. However,...
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Toxic tests on unborn babies 'alarming'
Any toxic chemicals that pass from mother’s blood to a fetus may cause birth defects. It is possible that babies are being exposed to perfumes, flame-retardants, and non-stick chemicals when they are the most sensitive. It is especially emphasized chemicals possible affect on brain’s development...
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Smokers risk blindness
A new survey has shown that smokers have double chances of losing their sight than non-smokers. It turned out that smoking causes age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which can lead to blindness. However, ignorance about this condition is widespread. Only about 7% of people who participated in...
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Anorexia may be caused by change in brain chemical
A new study done on anorexia showed that women who have had a certain type of this disorder show a change in the activity of a chemical in their brain that is associated with anxiety and other affective disorders. In anorexia nervosa a sufferer is obsessive in their pursuit of thinness and fear of...
Mick
Chemicals in New Orleans bigger concern than cholera
Five people, who survived hurricane Katrina that hit the region of New Orleans, died from a bacteria-caused illness. However, public health officials are more concerned about toxic chemicals in the water covering New Orleans than they are about a cholera outbreak. It’s been more than a week since...
Mick
Drug breakthrough in blood pressure
It looks as if a new drug was found for treating high blood pressure that seems to be more effective than the drugs being used at this moment. High blood pressure is very important to be treated as it leads to heart attacks. A trial that lasted 5 years was conducted in Sahlgrenska University...
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Anorexia patients still restrict food after therapy
Even though anorexic women show substantial weight gain and major reductions in psychological symptoms after three months of hospitalization, they continue to eat much smaller meals than women who have never had the disease. Even though treatments in the hospitals are often successful, 30 percent to...
Danny
Top-quality olive oil 'like painkilling drug'
A new reason for buying the best olive oil is that newly pressed extra-virgin olive oil contains a compound that mimics the pain-relieving activity of ibuprofen, a member of the class of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The scientists have discovered olive oil contains the compound...
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New - unsettling - theory on BSE origins
The first case of BSE was identified in 1986 in Britain. The first human case of vCJD was also diagnosed in Britain in 1995. It had always been thought that the brain-wasting mad cow disease passed to cattle through remains of sheep infected with scrapie, the sheep equivalent of BSE, that were...
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Brain Regions Blamed for Bad Investment Ideas
A new researched showed that two parts of brain are in control of making safe and risky investment decisions. In a group of adult volunteers who were asked to make investment decisions between two stocks and a bond by pressing a button researcher scanned the participants' brains and learned the...
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