Archive for 'Science & Medicine'
Women on the birth control pill may live longer
Posted on 28. Mar, 2010 by Steve W..
Women who took the birth control pill beginning in the late 1960s lived longer than those never on the pill, a new study says.
British researchers observed more than 46,000 women for nearly four decades from 1968. They compared the number of deaths in women on the pill to those who never took it.
In the study, [...]
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Book Review: Grow Your Own Drugs
Posted on 28. Mar, 2010 by Steve W..
Grow Your Own Drugs: Easy Recipes for Natural Remedies and Beauty Fixes
This book is filled with easy to make recipes from all natural ingredients that are readily available. Why buy store bought beauty products and drugs filled with man made chemicals when you can create your own in the purest form available? I’m typically skeptical [...]
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Stay young on red wine drugs?
Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Steve W..
Efforts to slow the march of old age with a pill have been dealt a blow. Drugs that might treat disease by tampering with the biology of ageing are being tested, but new research questions whether they work as thought.
The compounds include resveratrol, a much-touted component of red wine that is thought to prevent the cellular damage [...]
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The upside of Depression
Posted on 03. Nov, 2009 by Steve W..
Happiness has had a tough time of it lately. The backlash against the seemingly endless stream of books about the subject returned 426,789 titles when I used that search term, including one that calls happiness “life’s most important skill”) had already set in last year. At the time, I pointed out that “among people with late-stage [...]
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Stop a Cold in Just 12 Hours
Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by Steve W..
Mugs of tea, a bottle of ibuprofen, and a truckload of tissues won’t get you through every case of the sniffles. Too often, the common cold turns into something more serious, zeroing in on your personal weak point to become a sinus infection, a sore throat, a nonstop cough, an attack of bronchitis, or an [...]
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Swine Flu Still Hits Younger People Hardest
Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Steve W..
The H1N1 swine flu epidemic continues to strike younger people, a U.S. health official said Tuesday, noting that nearly 90 percent of deaths since Sept. 1 were among those under 65 years of age.
“This is dramatically different than what we see with seasonal flu,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’sNational Center for [...]
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Some who get vaccine not in high-risk groups
Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Steve W..
It was bound to happen: Some people who aren’t at high risk for swine flu complications got the much-in-demand vaccine.
Sometimes they were healthy adults or senior citizens instead of kids, pregnant women and people with health problems.
Before Los Angeles County health officials stepped up screening at their flu clinics, Natalie Thompson sailed through the long line and [...]
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History of The Swine Flu
Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Steve W..
Six months ago, swine flu emerged as a massive threat to global health. It seemed to come out of nowhere, but our timeline explains how the origins of the H1N1 pandemic go back more than a century
1889
Prior to 1889, the main flu virus circulating in humans has been from the H1 family. But this year, a [...]
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A 25-year Trek Toward A Cure
Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Steve W..
Discoveries by Nobel laureate Carol W. Greider and her colleagues have led to advances toward potential cures or treatments for certain types of cancer, and for a growing list of diseases rooted in malfunctions of the DNA-protecting enzyme, called telomerase, that she discovered.
In cancer, the overproduction of telomerase enables tumor cells to maintain unchecked reproduction, [...]
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Meet future woman: shorter, plumper, more fertile
Posted on 22. Oct, 2009 by Steve W..
Women of the future are likely to be slightly shorter and plumper, have healthier hearts and longer reproductive windows. These changes are predicted by the strongest proof to date that humans are still evolving.
Medical advances mean that many people who once would have died young now live to a ripe old age. This has led [...]
