Research victories for a diabetes cure
A Harvard Medical School study indicate that it may be possible to stop type 1 diabetes and renew the insulin-producing beta cells that are destroyed by the disease. The scientists used a mix of three drugs designed to tame the out-of-control immune response attacking the pancreas, and an enzyme called alpha 1 anti-trypsin, which is normally produced by the body to ease inflammation.. This has only been tested on mice so far but trials with human patients will be run soon.
At the same time, progress is also being done towards a cure for type 1 diabetes in Sydney, Australia. Scientists from Westmead Hospital transplanted islet cells from a donor’s pancreas into patients’ livers, where the new cells began to produce insulin. This procedure was successfully done on eight patients and the results were very promising: the patients’ need for insulin shots dropped dramatically, to zero in some cases.
Posted by Ella on December 11th, 2009Swine Flu Vaccine in the works
The swine flu pandemic came and spread like wildfire making it one of the fastest spreading viruses in human history, thanks to modern air travel that took it to all corners of the world within 24 hours. Now in the pandemic stage, the virus has skipped the containment phase for virologists were caught off guard for it had already crossed borders when it was discovered and identified. As to problems associated with Swine flu, the much used Tami-flu, the anti-viral drug developed during the spread of the bird flu virus is proving to be quite ineffective against the swine flu virus and there has already been a recorded case of reverse infection where swine were infected by an active virus from a human host, first identified in the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
Human Vaccine Against Bird Flu Within Reach
Before the much known swine-flu there was already a problem associated with a strain of the flu virus that crossed the species barrier, bird flu. Now there have been several strains and the spread of this deadly disease (virologists are saying this is virus is more dangerous than swine flu even if it never reached pandemic status). Though Bird flu is known to be more dangerous than swine flu, it has a higher mortality rate compared to the swine flu pandemic that has also seen a lot of deaths yet they are still way lower than bird-flu. There is another problem that has shown up during the course of two pandemics, the evolution of these viruses that are now making them quite immune to the vaccines that are under development. Australian researchers have been hard at work developing a vaccine for all the strains of bird-flu that have been identified yet they have not yet been released for the public to use due to a need for further research and testing as to the effectivity of the vaccine. This fact also gives clue to the utter complexity bird flu has for swine flu already has a viable vaccine under human testing and is expected to come out of the lab by November this year, bird flu has yet to come out with an effective vaccine.
New Regimen for Thinning Bones
Researchers have found a more effective way of strengthening the bones of elderly women with the use of DHEA, Vitamin D and Calcium supplements that would help curb the debilitating effects of Osteoporosis. As the body ages, the bones tend to lose integrity and slow in their cell production leaving them brittle and weak, prone to injuries. Women are advised to take these three compounds in the form of supplements to help the body regenerate bone tissue as it slows down in middle to late life to promote healthier bones thus not limiting activity due to age. Most elderly women tone down activity due to their bones which have a nasty ability to deteriorate faster than males of the same age. Read the rest of this entry »
Antibiotics Management – Essential for Super-Bug Control
Many of today’s super-bugs have evolved resistance to some of our most potent and safest antibiotics mainly due to misuse of such medication that is worrying medical experts. Super-bugs are called such due to their ability to survive attack from previously effective treatment regimens like the new forms of tuberculosis that are resistant to most antibiotics. Penicillin is still one of our most potent forms of antibiotics but not for long, due to resistance and utter ineffectiveness of the drug against some of the newer strains of bacteria. Drug resistant strains of Staphylococcus, Clostridium and Enterococcus are now roaming our bodies, harder to tame than previous strains due to higher tolerance of present antibiotics. Read the rest of this entry »
Medical Cures from the Deep
The Red Sea is known as one of the saltiest and hottest bodies of water the world over being inland and with little water going in and out. Salinity is due to the overall enclosed arid area which the sea lies and the creatures that live there are truly unique being able to survive the extreme conditions. One of these amazing creatures is the Red Sea Coral which has been found to produce a very potent chemo-preventive and chemo-therapeutic anti-cancer agent known as sarcophine-diol. The said substance has been found to inhibit the growth of cancer cells and has proven effective in use as treatment for skin cancer, inducing the cancer cells to go into early cell death eliminating the disease from afflicted tissue. Read the rest of this entry »
Graying Hair – Exposed
Ever wonder why hair turns gray? Well, you’re not alone for a lot of people are pondering the same story but researchers have once and for all found the answer to this old question, bleach. The graying hair is a result of the suppression of the body’s natural pigment generating factories and with hair, it goes even farther, the body’s cells actually naturally synthesizes hydrogen peroxide or bleach which manifests itself as the cause of graying hair. Wasn’t it wisdom, well sorry guys for that old adage has nothing to do with the fact that graying hair is natural and has nothing to do with your wisdom and brain. Seems the body has a natural bleach factory in the cells which in time generate so much of the stuff it shows in your hair. the hair becomes gray from the bottom up as it is formed as opposed to up going down.
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脳腫瘍に対する新治療法
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二ノツズマブはヒト化モノクローナル抗体で上皮細胞増殖因子受容体を結合し、無効にすることで機能します。 これはタンパク質で、腫瘍の増殖における中心的な原因であると考えられています。 これは単剤療法として使用されたり、また、 化学療法や放射線治療とともに使用されることもあります。 ニモツズマブは従来の治療法と並行して使用できる脳腫瘍の治療法です。 また、毒性は非常に低く、健康改善の役に立つものです。
高い特異性で統合される標的療法としてのニモツズマブは正常組織に最小限の影響を与え、有害な副作用はそれほどないと考えられています。 実際に、ドイツで行われた臨床実験では、実証された安全な抗がん薬として脳腫瘍を患った子供に使用されました。
Posted by Ella on January 6th, 2009皮膚剥離：スキンケア技術
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老人の中には顔の肌に小さな穴がある人がいることを不思議に思ったことがありませんか。 これは思春期に激しいニキビを患った際の傷によるものです。 ニキビは 病変や吹き出物とも呼ばれ、 皮膚の毛包（毛穴）が脂質や死んだ角質細胞が詰まったときに発生します。 ニキビによる傷は二重の処罰のようなもので、最初に吹き出物の対処をしなければならず、そしてその傷は今でも当時を彷彿させます。 最も重度の傷は、より深刻な種類のニキビにより引き起こされ、 ブツブツは他の種類のニキビに比べ消えない傷を残す傾向がより高まります。 ニキビに対処する一番の方法は、ニキビの進行を防ぐためにニキビが発生すると同時に治療を受けることです。 ブツブツが現れた場合には、治療を受けるために医師や皮膚科医師に相談しましょう。
ニキビの傷に対する医学的大発明の中に、傷を減らしたり除去する治療があります。ニキビの傷に対する治療は様々なものがあります。 過去の 吹き出物からできた傷に対する不快感がある場合は、レーザーを使用して肌をきれいにすることが一つの方法です。 レーザーは損傷した一番上の層を取り除き、中間の層を引き締め、肌を滑らかにします。 この治療は数分から一時間の間で終わります。 医師は局部麻酔を施して皮膚の感覚を無くすことで痛みを少なくします。 通常、皮膚が完全に治癒するまでに３日から１０日間の時間がかかります。 ニキビの傷の治療における他の方法として皮膚剥離があり、 これは回転式のワイヤーブラシや回転式のダイヤモンドの器具を使い肌の表面を摩耗する方法です。 肌が治癒するにつれ、新たな滑らかな肌が擦りむけた肌を取って代わります。 皮膚剥離を利用した治療の肌の治癒には多少の時間がかかり、通常１０日から３週間の時間を必要とします。 ニキビの傷の治療に新たな形態はフラクショナルレーザー治療と呼ばれています。 この種類の治療は、レーザーを使った肌の治療や皮膚剥離に比べ、深いレベルで作用し、組織の表面の層を傷つけないため、治癒にかかる期間があまりかかりません。 フラクショナルレーザー治療は多くの費用がかかり、通常は保険の適用外です。
これらの治療を開始する前に、ニキビを制御する必要があります。 治療後は、鏡を見ても昔のひどい顔を思い出させられることもありません。
Gut Chemical – Anti Obesity
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There is a discovery that will possibly pave the way for new approaches in dealing with obesity. It is in a form of a fatty substance made by the gut. What it does is it signals the brain when it is time to stop eating. The fat derived chemical is known as NAPE. And it is present in humans and animals alike. It has been observed that when the mice being tested were given a fatty set of meal, their Nape level shot up, the substance was then synthesized and injected to the animals greatly diminishing their appetites. After a five day testing and dose of Nape, the animals lost weight and their eating greatly reduced. Many see this as a viable solution to the worldwide fight against obesity. Scientists are working doubly hard to develop the new discovery.
Posted by Ella on November 30th, 2008