Arthritis and copper bracelets
2008-04-10 05:52:00 There are around 200 kinds of arthritis, the two most common being osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. People with osteoarthritis should improve their diet by cutting down on highly refined and processed foods, saturated animal fats, sugar and salt, and by eating more wholegrain cereals and fresh fruit and vegetables. A healthy diet boosts the immune system and provides the sufferer with extra energy to fight the disease.Many people who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis claim that wearing a copper bracelet reduces their discomfort. However, research into this controversial area has come up with no scientific explanation. It is thought that if wearers believe in the power of such bracelets to help them, then this belief may trigger some form of self-healing. Medical science called this type of self-healing effect generated by our own feelings and thinking as 'placebo'.
Wim Hoz Likes it Cold
2008-03-08 06:40:00 He’s known as ‘The Ice Man.” Submerged In IceScientists can’t really explain it, but the 48-year-old Dutchman is able to withstand, and even thrive, in temperatures that could be fatal to the average person. … In January of 1999 he traveled 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle to run a half-marathon in his bare feet. Three years ...
By: Often Wrong
Bedwetting: Not a Shame
2008-01-28 12:29:00 Bedwetting (Enuresis) is the involuntary passage of urine during sleep and is a very common problem among children. At least one out of ten kids below the age of 6-years has this problem, but the good news is the ratio of kids' bedwetting goes down as they grow older. Only one out 20 is affected up to the age of 10, though there are infrequent cases of bedwetting by youths as old as 18. Only 1% of the children carry this problem to the age of 18.Most bedwetting children possess a small bladder that cannot hold all the urine produced during the night and/or an inherited deficiency. In addition, some kids and in rarer cases teens are deep sleepers who don't awaken to the signal of a full bladder. Compounding the above problems is the fact that often the dream state relaxes the pubic muscles, which eventually leading to bedwetting.Bedwetting can be a result of deep sleeping patterns, sleep apnea or failure of the body to produce a hormone which stimulates re-absorption of water from ...
Canadian breast cancer discovery
2008-01-17 13:58:00 A surprising discovery by Queen's University researchers that happened when their work took an unexpected turn may help women with advanced breast cancer respond better to conventional drug treatments. The Queen's team's findings, to be published online Monday in the international journal Cancer Research, show that a newly discovered "peptide" molecule (a chain of amino acids smaller than a protein) increases the effectiveness of drugs used to kill breast cancer cells by about 350 per cent .Dr. Zongchao Jia and Dr. Vinay Singh, of the Queen's Department of Biochemistry, initially intended to study the structure of a protein implicated in causing drug resistance in breast cancer. When unraveling the structure proved more difficult than expected, the research team looked to a similar protein associated with Alzheimer's Disease.From there, Dr. Jia and Dr. Singh were able to design a a completely new peptide able to counteract the resistance to cancer drugs. "We were excited to fin...
Can a lack of vitamins drive you crazy?
2008-01-16 15:14:00 Vitamins play a key role in brain metabolism. Studies show that even small vitamin deficiencies can derange the mind. Lack of the B vitamins, for example, is often associated with depression, intellectual impairment, and psychosis. One study found that over half of the people admitted to the psychiatric unit of a British general hospital were deficient in at least one of the eight B vitamins.However, vitamins vary in retention rates. Thus nutritionists advise caution when taking vitamin supplements. Too much vitamin A, for instance, can severely injure the eyes, brain, and nervous system.
What makes you right-handed or left-handed?
2008-01-15 14:21:00 Why some 90 percent of people posses a greater degree of strength and coordination in their right hands than in their left - and why the opposite is true for the other 10 percent - is something that remains unexplained.There are many theories. The Greek philosopher Plato believed that human were by nature ambidextrous, and the "folly of our nurses and mothers" imparted the "bad habit" of right-handedness. Today, theories on why individuals have a dominant right or left hand tend to place more emphasis on inheritance and less on learning. Even infants seem to demonstrate, by the direction in which they turn their heads and by their strength of grip, a preference for one side over the other.If your parents are left-handed, the probability that you will be, too, is 23 times higher than if both parents are right-handed. British researcher Marian Annett thinks that most people are born with a gene inclining them to right-handedness. The 18 percent without this gene, she suggests, become ...
IBM and Mayo Clinic: Sony PS3 cell chip to aid medical science
2008-01-13 14:04:00 Some may call the Sony PS3 a gaming system while others call it a high definition Blu-ray player, but not many expect the PS3?s cell chip to aid medical science. This is IBM and the Mayo Clinic?s plans as they have teamed-up and are opening a research facility; the aim of the joint venture is to ...
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Why do amputees feel sensation in missing limbs?
2008-01-04 17:30:00 The strange phenomenon of "phantom limb" is apparently related to an image of the body that persists after the limb or the use of it has been lost. In many cases, the image of the functioning limb has been stored in the brain since early childhood. Almost every amputee has "felt" pressure in a missing arm or leg when it is actually the stump that is being touched. Many amputees feel a persistent mild tingling in the lost limb; others may feel severe pain. Usually the problem disappears over time as the patient corrects his or her body image, but sometimes it becomes so annoying that psychotherapy is needed.One woman felt that the fingers of her missing hand were digging into its palm. Finally she came to believe that she could open her clenched fist and the pain disappeared.If a person is born with a missing limb or loses a limb early in childhood, there is usually no phantom limb effect, presumably because the image of the whole body has not yet been imprinted on the brain.
Does sickness have a smell?
2007-12-28 14:44:00 There are doctors who rely on their sense of smell as a diagnostic tool, literally finding out what is wrong with a patient by using their noses. Certain diseases apparently have distinctive odors, caused by a change in metabolic processes associated with the patient's condition. A garlic odor is a sign of arsenic poisoning, and a fruity smell on the breath can mean either a diabetic or someone who is starving.Here are some other illnesses and their distinct smells; German measles smells like plucked feathers; scrofula (a form of tuberculosis) smells like stale beer; typhoid like baking bread; yellow fever like a butcher's shop. Alert surgeons frequently check for bacterial infection by sniffing a patient's bandages. A musty cellar odor can mean an infected wound.
Medical science and its help for the people
2007-12-05 11:23:00 Now the days, people have many options available in front of them for making themselves physically fit and more beautiful. We all know about the plastic surgery. Today, plastic surgery has become an integral part of our life with large number of people across the world opting for the plastic surgery for getting rid of their physical appearance problems. Earlier, plastic surgery was only limited to the rich people of the society, however now decreasing cost of plastic surgery has made it accessible to large number of average earners of society.Moreover, plastic surgery has even provided great help to the people suffering from various physical deformations due to accidents or burns. With the latest advancement in the plastic surgery technique it is becoming more and more help for the people. Few of its extensions like breast augmentation has got good acceptance and large number of women are getting its help in reducing or increasing the size of their breast. Even there are number of n...
Woman Gives Birth to Herself
2007-11-14 03:09:00 Sondra Waldron was the first woman in known world history to give birth. To herself. Following a brutal forty-seven hours of labor Yellowpoint Community Hospital, in Yellowpoint, Quebec, the woman?s newborn turned out to be non other than herself. Scientists, doctors, creationists, and religious leaders around the world are bewildered and baffled by the unexpected ...
By: The Butter Stick
Acomplia Pill: One More Point for Medical Science Progress
2007-10-08 22:37:00 Medical science has traveled a long distance in technological advancement. Particularly, last three decades have witnessed great changes in the technology related with diagnosis and treatment of diseases. No branch of medical science whether neurology or gastroenterology is left untouched of this technological revolution. Neurology is the system of coordination and control of body. Many ...
By: Rimonabant 2007
Understanding Infections
2007-09-01 12:12:00 Until the 19th century most illnesses were attributed to divine displeasure or to low-quality air - malaria was named from the Italian for 'bad air'. But diseases such as leprosy were known to be 'catching' from Old Testament times, when all lepers were declared 'unclean' and forced into isolation.In the 1st century BC the Roman encyclopedist Marcus Terentius Varro speculated that disease might be caused by minute particles entering the body, and in the 6th century AD the Hindu doctor Susruta suggested that malaria might be spread by mosquitoes. But the realisation that people or things could transmit 'plagues' was not accepted until the Middle Ages. From about 1380, after the plague or Black Death had exterminated nearly a quarter of Europe's population, ships carrying infection were refused entry to Venice. At Ragusa on the Adriatic, immigrants and traders had to remain outside the city for 40 days to prove they were not infected. This was known as quarantinza, from the I...
The Medical Science Of House, M.D. video interview with the Author
2007-08-10 07:14:00 Andrew Holtz, the author of 'The Medical Science of House M.D' talks about his book and what he thinks of the authenticity of the show House M.DThe Medical Science Of House, M.D. - Free videos are just a click awaySource: Metacafe.comwww.House-MD-Blog.c-om The ultimate House M.D. resource! Watch House MD episodes, read news, gossip and add your thoughts!
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What is the most unusual kind of hallucination?
2007-07-24 04:29:00 Fatigue, among other things, can cause one of the rarest and most fascinating hallucinations known: that of the doppelganger. A person who has this experience sees his mirror image, usually facing him from three or four feet away. It reproduces the viewer's facial expressions, posture, and movements as though reflected in a mirror. The image is said to be transparent, like a slide or movie projected on glass. In some cultures these hallucinations have been interpreted as visitations from the person's soul or as premonitions of death.This hallucination, which usually occurs early in the morning or late at night and lasts only a matter of seconds, can appear to normal minds under stress or fatigue. However, it is more common among people with serious disorders such as epilepsy, brain lesions, migraine headaches, and states of delirium.In particularly bizarre cases, the person may see the double standing in an adjacent room. Others have reported seeing this kind of apparition standin...
Torturous Embarrassment Of Tourette's Syndrome
2007-05-12 04:15:00 The symptoms can be unsettling, to say the least: a person may suddenly start twitching uncontrollably and shouting obscenities. Called Tourette's syndrome after Dr. Gilles de la Tourette, who first described it in 1884, the strange disorder was thought to be a psychological problem, but psychotherapy proved useless in controlling the behavior of Touretters, as sufferers of the syndrome are called.Doctors now believe that Tourette's syndrome is a neurological disorder that affects the chemical balanced of neurotransmitters in the brain. However, little is known, and many Touretters are not properly diagnosed. For some reason it afflicts more males than females. Many researchers think the syndrome may be inherited. It generally begins in childhood with facial tics and can progress to spasms involving much of the body. As one Touretter described it, keeping his muscles from twitching was like "trying to stop a sneeze." Only during sleep are the symptoms absent.In medieval times, som...
eCiggarette Lets You Smoke (kinda), Not Get Cancer
2007-05-11 20:47:00 Chinese company Golden Dragon Group, Ltd plans to market their eCiggarette, a new smoking technology with an old internet technology name, outside of China later this year. These electronic ciggies are battery powered, look like real cigarettes, deliver nicotine to the lungs in 7-10 seconds, and supposedly deliver none of the bad carcinogens that ...
By: Often Wrong
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