Health
Submitted by rlewis on 22 September, 2006 - 12:25.
Submitted by rlewis on 14 August, 2008 - 15:03.
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I try and put up good news here, news that will allow so many of us to 'travel in hope'
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| A revolutionary, one shot vaccine, that could cure rheumatoid arthritis is being developed by British scientists and could be available within five years. A team at Newcastle University are in the early stages of trialling a drug that could halt progress of the disease. The condition affects more than 350,000 people in Britain. There is at present no cure. |
Submitted by rlewis on 14 August, 2008 - 09:54.
| 13/08/2008 |
| Daily Telegraph |
| By: Presswatch |
| The cut-price cancer hope |
| Scientists report today that a cheap drug used to treat brittle bones helps halt breast cancer in its tracks. A treatment for brittle bones has a dramatic effect on breast cancer when combined with chemotherapy. The treatment involves the breast cancer chemotherapy agent doxorubicin and the bisphosphonate drug zoledronic acid. The two drugs act together to dramatically slow the growth of tumours, according to scientists from the University of Sheffield and Kuopio University in Finland. |
Submitted by rlewis on 12 August, 2008 - 15:02.
| 12/08/2008 |
| The Times |
| By: Presswatch |
| Why elderly joggers just keep on running |
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Running regularly has long-term health benefits that last well into old age, according to a study. Elderly joggers remained fit and active for longer than non-runners and were half as likely to die early, scientists at the University of California at Stanford found. They were also less likely to succumb to age-related illnesses, including heart disease, cancer and neurological disorders. James Fries and colleagues compared the progress of 284 members of a nationwide running club with 156 healthy but non-running people. All participants were aged 50 or older at the start of the study. Nineteen years into the study, 34 per cent of the non-runners had died, compared with only 15 per cent of the runners.
No hands up? The office cat says that she reckons it may also be that skinny people, or people without arthritis, or hyperactive people or vegetarians, or whatever, may be predisposed to be runners, and it may well be some precondition like these that is the longevity driver.
 The Greypath Office cat
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Submitted by rlewis on 28 July, 2008 - 11:55.
| 25/07/2008 |
| The Guardian |
| By: David Gow |
| Cloned meat safe to eat |
| Beef and pork produced from healthy cloned cattle and pigs are as safe as meat from conventionally bred animals, the European Food Safety Authority said yesterday. |
Submitted by rlewis on 8 July, 2008 - 14:59.
| 08/07/2008 |
| Daily Express |
| By: Staff |
| Stem cells treat liver disease |
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Stem cells taken from the human umbilical cord could treat serious liver diseases such as hepatitis, according to scientists from the Universities of Granada and Leon in Spain.
They say that this method could be an effective alternative to bone marrow donation. After transplanting cells from the human umbilical cord into the liver of a hepatitis infected rat, the rodent's liver function improved as did the quality of the tissue. Presently, the only treatment for terminal liver failure is a transplant but this is limited by a lack of donor organs.
I harp on here about such technology as it gives early hope to so many of us, and the evidence is clear that gene engineering is the general medicine of the near future.
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Submitted by rlewis on 30 June, 2008 - 14:04.
| 29/06/2008 |
| The Independent |
| By: Jonathan Owen |
| Cancer cure trials move from mice to men |
| In a major breakthrough in the search for a cure for cancer, the first human trials are to begin using a technique that has already been shown to destroy the disease in mice. The trials are the culmination of years of research prompted by the discovery of a cancer -proof mouse by researchers almost a decade ago. |
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