If You Think You'll Feel Better, You Will
For the study, a medical team induced pain by injecting concentrated salt water solution into the jaws of 14 healthy young men who agreed to the experiment. The injections were given while the men underwent positron emission tomography (PET) scans. The men were told they would receive pain medicine....
Danny
General Anesthesia For Heroin Detoxification Is No Good
Research studies were trying to determine whether use of general anesthesia for heroin detoxification is better then other methods of detoxification. It turned out it wasn’t better but only more expensive and could, however, lead to adverse life threatening events. Anesthesia-assisted opioid...
Danny
Potential Brain Cancer Treatment Found
Researchers from ST. Louis University did an animal study on fighting the cancer and managed to develop a company, named JV-1-36, that can penetrate the blood brain barrier, and reach cancer cells that way. There have been many drugs found that can kill the cancer but none of them could have sneaked...
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Babies recognize unfamiliar musical rhythms far more readily
It seems that babies have better ability to pick up languages, distinguish faces from foreign cultures and recognize unfamiliar musical rhythms far more readily than adults can. The researchers were monitoring how long the babies stared at a cartoon; they paired the same cartoon with two different...
Mom and Dad's disapproval a greater deterrent than the law
Latest survey shows that parental influence on their children should not be underrated. According to the same survey, a number of drugs that are used, kept or sold has risen 41 % for high school students and 47% for middle school students, since 2002. Teen perceptions of immorality, parental...
Weight Linked to Breast Cancer in Women With Gene Mutation
In a new research made by an international team of scientists discovered that women who carry a breast cancer gene can reduce their risk of developing cancer by attaining a healthy bodyweight. Now, the findings don’t provide guidance for those who don’t have genetic mutations and don’t...
Mick
Umbilical cord 'stem cell' hope
Here is another interesting but still just a preliminary work. Scientists believe they have found a way to get plentiful stem cells from umbilical cord blood to treat people with diseases. They have identified cells within human umbilical cord blood that appear to be very similar to embryonic stem...
Danny
Breast cancer drug' study welcomed
A study that gives knowledge about the effectiveness of drugs used for treating breast cancer is always very welcome. This study involved two chemotherapy drugs, docetaxel (Taxotere) and paclitaxel (Taxol) and 449 women with advanced breast cancers whose treatments had failed before. Both of these...
Danny
Minor Depression Can Become Major Problem
Looking at its possible long-term effects, it appears that minor depression is not so minor after all. A minor depression is defined as having some, but not all, of the many symptoms of depression ( sadness, apathy,…sleeping and eating disorders ) for at least two weeks. A new research suggests...
Mick
First steps taken towards designer babies
In the spotlight these days in UK are sex selection, designer babies and internet sperm banks. UK’s fertility laws are being questioned and some new questions have been aroused among which the most important sex selection. Sex selection is already allowed in order to avoid babies being born with...
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