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Bone-Marrow Transplant Could Cure HIV, Study Shows

Researchers announced on Sunday that some genetically engineered immune cells could find the HIV virus in the body. This could offer a wide way to cure the disease that has been said to be impossible to cure. A study made in the laboratory showed that the T-cells, also called assassin cells, can spot the cells infected by the virus and slow its...

Coping with Stress Means Increasing “Good” Cholesterol

Although the recent study has involved only men, older white men more exactly, the discovery appears to be quite surprising. The so-called “good” cholesterol’s level have appeared to be higher in the men that are coping better with stress, than in the others who are socially isolated and more hostile to everything. The study that...

Being Careful about Diet Means Less Colon Cancer Recurrence Risk

Fat food, red meat, refined grains and any type of food that tastes so good, but harms so much, have been related by the scientists to colon cancer recurrence. The researchers warn the former colon cancer sufferers that junk food and all the already known types of unhealthy food could seriously put their lives in...

Multiple Sclerosis Vaccine Looks Promising

A new vaccine, codenamed BHT-3009, had positive effects in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). A new study, published in the Archives of Neurology, claims that an early phase-I trial done on 30 patients at Montreal Neurological Institute showed the vaccine has passed basic safety tests.The study was led by Amit Bar-Or, M.D., of the...

Coffee Prevents Neurological Problems in Older Women

Two new studies have found that drinking coffee regularly may prevent a series of neurological problems in older women. The first study, by researchers at the French National Institute of Medical Research, has tracked more than 7,000 men and women living in three French cities, but the coffee-related benefits did not show in men.However,...

Rosacea Exacerbating Factors Discovered by U.S.-led Team

An international team led by U.S. scientists have uncovered new information regarding rosacea, a skin condition that is estimated to affect over 45 million people worldwide. Rosacea begins as erythema (flushing and redness) on the central face and across the cheeks, nose, or forehead but can also affect other surrounding areas.The...

Granny's cannabis skin ointment really did work, new study shows

A hundred years ago, an over-the-counter cannabis extract ointment was sold as a household remedy for eczema and other allergic skin reactions, but was later withdrawn from the market as a quack product. Now scientists in Germany have discovered that cannabis does in fact reduce the itching and swelling of allergic skin reactions and...

Children of Smokers Found to Have Increased Cotinine Levels

Researchers in the UK have recently discovered that in families where at least one parent smokes children have a level of cotinine (a toxic metabolite of nicotine) five times higher than normal.The word “cotinine” is an anagram of “nicotine” and is a product of the metabolism of nicotine.The British study included 104 new born babies (12...

Women with Diabetes Left Behind Study Finds

A new study conducted in the US shows that women suffering from diabetes are at higher risk of suffering a stroke than their grandmothers were more than 30 years ago.Heart diseases are the most common cause of death in the US and other parts of the world, and although progress has been made in preventing and treating such group of...

Potential Alzheimer Victims Spotted Through Blood Tests

A Norwegian company that has recently received the Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award invented a new and more accurate method of discovering the potential victims of the Alzheimer disease.Alzheimer, a progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of function and death of nerve cells in several areas of the brain,...

New Zealand Scientists Breed Cows That Produce Low-Fat Milk

New Zealand scientists discovered a cow carrying a mutant gene that produces low-fat milk and now they are breeding a whole herd. The first cow ever found to produce low-fat milk was dubbed Marge by the researchers from New Zealand biotechnology company ViaLactia. Marge was found in a dairy herd during a 2001 test, ViaLactia chief...

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The bodies of six people - 4 adults and 2 children - were found by police in a small brick house in Memphis, Tennessee. Inside the small building were found three other...