Women who take folic acid supplements for at least a year before becoming pregnant can greatly reduce their risk of delivering a baby prematurely, researchers said on Thursday.
Folic acid, a B vitamin, already is known to prevent major birth defects that involve a baby’s brain or spine.
This study shows it may provide yet another […]
Canadian researchers have created a portable device that could be useful in conducting medical tests just like a lab filled with equipment does. This unit is just the size of a shoebox and was developed bye University of Alberta team.
The researchers hope that this invention will result in cheaper, faster and much more easily […]
Now, marijuana will be available at just the touch a button! Sadly, it will NOT be available to all; instead only those who have been prescribed with it can avail of this new technology.The first ever vending machine that dispenses medical marijuana debuted in Los Angeles. The herb marijuana is prescribed by doctors to many […]
Scientists at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in western Japan have implanted a small camera in the brain of a mouse. They plan to use this experiment to see how memory is formed. They hope that eventually this could be applied to humans to treat illnesses like Parkinson’s disease.
The study used a camera […]
A Canadian study has suggested that young women with large breasts tend to have a significantly higher chance of developing Type 2 diabetes later in life than those who are not top heavy.
The study indicates that women who wear a D-cup bra at age 20 are almost 60% more likely to develop diabetes than […]
Researchers are now studying Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS), a surgery that is used to treat Parkinson’s disease as well as other movement disorders.
They are looking at it because this treatment could have the potential to treat a variety of conditions, even to restore someone’s memory.
Now, a new study has found that hypothalamic DBS […]
South Korean researchers say a new vaccine, placed under the tongue, worked in mice, and may spare humans not only from the painful prick of a needle but also the discomfort some people feel from the inhaled vaccine.
The team led by Dr. Mi-Na Kweon of the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul conducted the […]
A teenage boy from Louisville dies this Saturday in the US, shortly after receiving a new heart in a transplant surgery that was hoped to be successful.
The 13-year old boy Marquis Popp was recovering from a heart transplant surgery that he had undergone on Tuesday at the Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville.
When Popps was born, […]
If you are a couch potato, you must know that this could make you a whole decade older biologically than someone who is physically alive. This was proved in a British study of people’s “chromosomal clocks”.
Researchers at St.Thomas Hospital in London measured the lengths of telomeres in the white blood cells of around 2,401 […]
Finally, there’s a ray of hope for sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease. Scientists claim to have discovered the key to reversing the effects of dementia.
The researchers at University of Sunderland in Britain have found that regular exposure to safe low-level, infra-red light could turn back the brain’s biological clock and reverse memory loss.
In fact, […]
