Showing posts with label health tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health tips. Show all posts
Vaccine for all tumour treatments soon
The TeloVac jab could revolutionise the treatment of cancer. But it is hoped it will be effective against many other tumours, including those of the skin, lung and liver. Breast and prostate cancers may also be within its grasp. Rather than attacking the cancer cells, like many existing drugs, it harnesses the power of the immune system to fight the tumours.
It works by encouraging the immune system
Boy, 2, first to have extra DNA strand
Two-year-old Alfie Clamp from Nuneaton in Warkwickshire was born blind and with severe disabilities, which led doctors to carry out various tests. They found out that his seventh chromosome had an “extra arm” which has never been documented anywhere in the world before, according to the Daily Mail.
Doctors were baffled at his condition, which is so rare it does not have a name. They also do not have no idea whether the medical
Drinking milk can help keep your eyes healthy
A study has found females with the highest levels of vitamin D were almost two-thirds less likely to develop age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is the most common cause of blindness.
Around 200,000 Britons each year get AMD and there is no preventative treatment, although laser surgery and drugs can limit the damage caused by the condition.
It is the commonest cause of sight loss in
Allergy Season Sparks Alarm Among Americans
The scar of allergy is about to hit the turf of America. With the change in climatic milieu in the allergy season, a cohort of medical experts has sent alarming signals in the society.Following the trend of last year, pollens are going to sweep the areas of America resulting in runny noses, itchy eyes and antihistamine-induced sleeps among the people.
Responding to the furore, Dr. William Burks, Professor and Chief of pediatric allergy and immunology at Duke University Medical Center, claimed that acerbic pollution in the air
R.I. Salmonella Claims 2 Lives
In a sad incident, another person died in the salmonella outbreak, making the toll reach 2 till now. This incident has been linked with the salmonellaoutbreak at DeFusco’s Bakery in Johnston.According to the report released by the state Health Department, it was revealed that a person in 90s have died on Thursday in a hospital. However, the spokesperson declined to name the hospital in which this incident has occurred.
It was believed that the man died after consuming a product made at DeFusco nakery on March 19.
Emergency CT Scans Are On the Rise
Reports claim that theemergency CT scans for the kids are on the rise. It has now become a case of worry as so many small kids are getting the radiation in their body."We found that abdominal CT imaging went from almost never being used in 1995 to being used in 15% to 21% of visits in the last four years of [our] study", Children's Hospital of Cincinnatiresearcher David B. Larson, MD, MBA, says in a news release.
It was reported that from the year 1995 to 2008 the trend to get the CT scan in kids have increased 5 times. It was also found that nearly 90% of the scans are not done by well qualified person of paediatrics.
Hike In Share Prices Of ImmunoGen
It has been a great week for ImmunoGen Inc. as it has got a hike in its share prices. Theshare prices went up after the companyclaimed that the research work on potential breast cancer treatment has achieved a success in a midstage.
The stock prices jumped by $2.08 or 22.4 percent to reach $11.38 in the afternoon trading station. Shares of the company have reached $12.03 in the last decade.
This biotechnology company is making a medicine called T-DM1 in collaboration with Swiss drugmaker Roche. This drug medicine is composed with the breast cancer drug trastuzumab. This drug is commercially marketed as Herceptin by Roche’s
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