Treatments for chronic inflammatory diseases are one step closer as University of Queensland researchers discover a way to stop inflammation in its tracks. A chronic disease is a disease that is long-lasting or recurrent. The term chronic describes the course of the disease; or its rate of onset and development. A chronic course is distinguish from a recurrent…
Researchers from Medical Research Council (MRC) conducted a study in which they suggested; that identifies insulin as a primary signal that helps communicate the timing of meals to the cellular clocks located across our body; commonly known as the body clock. New research has found it is not just what you eat, but when you…
In the study, conducted in UK, Denmark, and Greece, 1,500 athletes were ask to complete a questionnaire about two hypothetical doping situations. Participants were male and female elite football players; so competing just below professional levels. In the first of the hypothetical scenarios; so the athletes were ask to imagine they were trying to improve…
The human body has powerful healing abilities. But treating brain disorders is no easy task, as brain cells neurons have limited ability to regenerate. Nonetheless, stem cells are a form of natural backup; a vestige of our days as still-developing embryos. The difficulty is that with age; neural stem cells ‘fall asleep’ and become harder…
An older person’s physical health than sadness; potentially increasing inflammation, which is associated with such chronic illnesses as heart disease, arthritis and cancer; according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. “As most people age; they simply cannot do the activities they once did; or they may experience the loss of a spouse…
The study shows that Ketamine, categorize as a “dissociative anesthetic;” is used in powder or liquid form as an anesthetic, usually on animals. It is inject, consume in drinks, snorted; or added to joints or cigarettes. At high doses, users experience an effect referred to as “K-Hole;” an “out of body” or “near-death” experience. Due…
The study shows that lymphoma is generally easily treatable today, many aspects of the disease still remain a mystery. A team at the Max Delbrück Center led by Professor Claus Scheidereit has now identified an important signaling molecule in the biology of this lymphoma; lymphotoxin-alpha (LTA). It helps the cancer to grow unimpeded for example;…
You don’t have to go to the gym for a strength-training workout. With these three moves, your own body weight provides the resistance needed to develop key muscles. Start with the classic wall sit. Press your back into a wall and slide it down the wall as you walk your feet out in front of you, bending…
Dementia is not a specific disease. It’s an overall term that describes a group of symptoms; with a decline in memory or other thinking skills severe enough to reduce a person’s ability to perform everyday activities. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60 to 80 % of cases. Vascular dementia, which occurs after a stroke; is the…
Oncologists may soon have an accurate and inexpensive way of differentiating between types of ovarian cancer; that will improve how patients are treated; thanks to findings from a national research study co-led out of the University of Alberta. “One of the issues with ovarian cancer is that we cannot fully decipher between subtypes,” said Lynne…
The study, published today in the journal JAMA Pediatrics; was conducting by an international team led by Prof. Frank Elgar, of Mcgill University, and other Canadian researchers together with scholars from Ireland, Poland, Romania, and Israel. The researchers utilized 35 years of data from the World Health Organization’s; Health Behaviors in School-Aged Children (HBSC) study, a…
In breast cancer, there are cases of women and men whose cancer returns in their bones 20-30 years after they were treated for their primary disease and thought they were cancer-free. What was happening in bones that allowed the cancer cells to remain there for up to 30 years; alive but in a sleeping state,…