Medicine News

Nov 30, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from Keio University, Japan, have succeeded in creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) from the blood of people aged 110 or older, aiming to discover the key to longevity, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun. Induced pluripotent stem cells (West Laboratory/University of Georgia) There are more than 47,000 people aged 100 or older in Japan, but only about 60 have what is called superlongevity, they are aged 110 or older. The Keio team,...

Nov 29, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers have found that players who head the ball with high frequency have brain abnormalities similar to those found in traumatic brain injury patients,...

Nov 27, 2011 by James Freeman

Researchers from Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, found that children who consumed fish before nine months...

Nov 24, 2011 by James Freeman

A team of researchers from Ireland and Canada suggested that both high and low levels of salt intake may put people with heart disease or diabetes at increased...

Nov 24, 2011 by News Staff

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health found that a group of volunteers who consumed a serving of canned soup each day for five consecutive...

Nov 24, 2011 by Natali Anderson

A team of Scottish researchers found that taking too much paracetamol on a regular basis puts a patient at high risk of an accidental overdose. A paper,...

Sep 26, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Researchers from MIT and Children’s Hospital Boston have built cardiac patches studded with tiny gold wires that could be used to create pieces of tissue...

Sep 23, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Researchers found that children who are poor readers have the same brain difficulty in processing the sounds of language whether they have a high or low...

Sep 21, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Dutch researchers revealed that the more fruits and vegetables you eat, especially white-fleshed goodies, the more you protect yourself against stroke. It...

Sep 8, 2011 by Natali Anderson

German researchers have found that sniffer dogs can help physicians make early yet reliable detections of lung cancer in patients, according to the European...

Sep 8, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Cardiologists at Royal Brompton Hospital, UK have discovered that scanning the heart using cardiovascular magnetic resonance can better diagnose and treat...

Aug 31, 2011 by Natali Anderson

Six new genetic variants associated with type 2 diabetes in South Asians have been identified by a team of international researchers. Writing in the journal...

Aug 30, 2011 by Natali Anderson

A clinical trial of a potential Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) drug farmed from genetically modified (GM) tobacco plants has at long last got underway...

Aug 24, 2011 by News Staff

MIT researchers have shown that activity in a specific part of the brain, known as the parahippocampal cortex, predicts how well people will remember a...