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.
A new treatment for brain cancer
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Nimotuzumab is a humanised monoclonal antibody that works by binding and disabling the epidermal growth factor receptor. It is a protein that is thought to be a pivotal driver in tumour proliferation. It can be used as monotherapy or in combination with chemotherapy and radiotherapy. This is a mode of treatment for brain cancer that can be used alongside conventional therapies. It has a very low toxicity for a better quality life.
Nimotuzumab as a form of targeted therapy that binds with high specificity is thought to minimally affect normal tissues and have fewer toxic side effects. It is in fact proven safe cancer drug to be used on children with brain tumors in a clinical trial in Germany.
Dermabrasion: Skin Technology
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Have you ever wondered why some older people have small holes in their face? It’s because during puberty they have severe acne that left them with scars. An acne refers to lesions or pimples caused when the hair follicles (or “pores”) on the skin become plugged with oil and dead skin cells. Scars from acne can seem like double punishment, first you had to deal with the pimples, now you have marks as a reminder. Most serious scarring is caused by the more severe forms of acne, with nodules more likely to leave permanent scars than other types of acne. The best way to deal with acne is to get treatment soon after the acne appears to prevent further damage. If you have nodules, see your doctor or dermatologist for treatment.
One of the medical breakthroughs for acne scarring is the treatment to diminish or remove the marks.There are various treatments for acne scarring. If you have serious bout of scarring from previous breakout one form of treatment is laser resurfacing. The laser removes the damaged top layer of skin and tightens the middle layer, leaving skin smoother. This can take anywhere from a few minutes to an hour. The doctor will try to lessen any pain by first numbing the skin with local anesthesia. It usually takes between 3 and 10 days for the skin to heal completely. Another method for treating acne scarring is dermabrasion, which uses a rotating wire brush or spinning diamond instrument to wear down the surface of the skin. As the skin heals, a new, smoother layer replaces the abraded skin. It may take a bit longer for skin to heal using dermabrasion it usually last between 10 days and 3 weeks. The newest form of treatment for acne scarring is called fractional laser therapy. This type of treatment works at a deeper level than laser resurfacing or dermabrasion, because fractional laser therapy doesn’t wound the top layer of tissue, healing time is shorter. Fractional laser therapy is quite costly, and it’s not usually covered by insurance.
A person’s acne will need to be under control before having any of these treatments. After the treatment, we don’t’ have to be reminded of how bad are face was when we look in the mirror.
Diet the Effective way to loose weight
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Diet has a very important role in man’s struggle against diseases and disability.
Latest research finds that eating enough quantities of nutritious diets in along with proper exercise are the major contributing factors to one’s physical fitness and health. The research was conducted to American people. It showed that one out of every three Americans is obese. These individuals who are obese are at greater risk for additional diseases, since obesity leads to other health problems, such as diabetes. A team of researchers has examined the effect of exercise on fat accumulation in a new study involving five obese women. In one session the women overate and did not exercise; in a follow-on session they overate and did exercise. The researchers found out that the body’s fat-burning oxidation rate was reduced after one day of overeating; conversely, just one session of exercise increased the rate of fat-burning oxidation; and exercise increased the amount of fat that would eventually be stored in the muscle.
Losing an arm or a leg - or worse, both - in an accident or because of a sickness can be a truly devastating experience. Once the initial shock wears off though, the greatest challenge for the survivors is how they could cope with their new life. Doing simple tasks that were often neglected before could prove to be difficult at first. But over time and with practice, most amputees learn to cope with their loss.
However, scientists from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University give new hope to amputees as a new study could one day enable them to feel with an artificial limb as though it were their own. In an experiment done with the help of two patients who lost their arms, scientists rerouted key nerves to their chests. According to the patients, they could feel their missing arms and hands when pressure, heat and cold, and electrical stimulus were applied in the nerve areas.
IMAGING TECHNIQUES TO CURE EPILEPSY
There are at least three million Americans that have epilepsy and 30 percent of this has seizures that cannot be controlled by medicine. But as of now, new imaging techniques have stridently increased the number of people who are possible candidate for epilepsy surgery. And the children have more benefits on this since their brain is still flexible. Surgery is the only way to completely cure epilepsy but this is crucial because many things can happen inside your brain during surgery that can cause further damages. And to accurately map the brain during surgeries, surgeons place dozens of tiny electrodes directly on the surface of the brain and these sensors allow a digital brain wave machine to generate a high-tech image of what is happening inside the brain.
PENUMBRA — brain vacuum cleaner
It is a disheartening fact that stroke is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of disability in the US. But there is a new tool called Penumbra which is a device suction for blood clots from the brains of stroke patients. It gives possibility of life and cuts the risk of death and disability. A catheter is used as it goes from a small incision in the groin through blood vessels up to the brain where this is a blockage and Penumbra suctions out the clot thus, saving a stroke victim’s life. There is a new study in fact that shows it restored blood flow in 82 percent out of 125 patients.
HEART BREAKTHROUGH
It has always been believe that atherosclerosis which is the buildup of plaque in the arteries, was irreversible. But this year, heart experts has done something that was thought to be almost impossible, they were able to shrink the fatty clogs blocking the heart’s arteries of patients by around 7 percent only with the use of maximum dosage of Crestor which is a cholesterol-lowering medication. Heart medications before are only taken to slow or stop the narrowing of arteries. But this new finding raises the possibility that you can actually reverse the plaque accumulation that starts even as early as childhood.
A fitting transplant
In organ transplants, patients need to take anti-rejection drugs after the operation. Otherwise, their body’s immune system shall reject the organ because it recognizes that the transplanted organ is a foreign one. The patient has to take the medicine for an undetermined length of time and it could be for the rest of his life including its side effects.
One way of avoiding the need for anti-rejection drugs, which is currently undergoing extensive study, is to infuse the donor’s marrow to the patient such that the latter’s immune system can recognize the new organ as its own. This approach had its initial taste of success but it’s not yet perfected. Patients who have undergone this treatment need to take the anti-rejection drugs for less than a year and have not needed to take them again.
Pacifier reduces risk of SIDS
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden and unexplained death of babies aged one month to one year even if they appear to be healthy. It is also known as cot or crib death. The causes of SIDS cannot be determined with certainty although some have might have been identified as risk factors. The same thing goes for its prevention.
One way of preventing SIDS is by giving the baby a pacifier as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). A study conducted in relation to the use of pacifiers showed that there is a 90% reduction of the occurrence of SIDS when babies are offered pacifiers. One reason attributed for the risk reduction is that the pacifier keeps the face of the infant away from the mattress thus suffocation is avoided.
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