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Source: BBC News Okay before you get all grossed out a little information for all of you, bone used for transplant currently is either your own (taken from a portion of your leg or spine) or from a cadaver donor (yes, that’s from a dead person. “That’s Frankensteen.”) So wood isn’t looking so bad now, huh? Italian [...] Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Antimicrobial (Drug) Resistance Quick Facts Increasing use of antimicrobials in humans, animals, and agriculture has resulted in many microbes developing resistance to these powerful drugs. Source: U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention According to the CDC, some 3,000 pregnancies a year are ffected by spina bifida or anencephaly (, neural tube defects caused by the incomplete development of the brain and spinal cord). Studies have shown that women taking 400 mcg of folic acid daily both before and during pregnancy [...] Source: The Wall Street Journal Along with the groundswell of lukewarm support for Health Care Reform in the United States comes the screeching noise from the physician’s lobby arm over Tort Reform. And on cue, the Central Budgeting Office goes to work making numbers work. Guess what? They found out that money could be saved with a [...] Source: BBC News Arti-arteries. Nanotechnology (yeah, I don’t know what it means either) is being used to produce artery-like materials from polymers (they’re not just plastic anymore). While no one knows how any of it actually works (sarcasm) the implications are amazing. Scientists are actually constructing materials to use as bypass grafts which actually mimic human blood [...] Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine and NIH Medline; HealthDay It’s cold out here in most of the United States. Really cold. So why aren’t your seasonal allergies taking a rest? Your indoor air quality may still qualify you for three more months of stuffiness, sneezing, watery eyes and asthma. With the windows closed tight and the [...] Source: The Lewis Law Firm, PC From our families to yours. Have a Happy and Healthy New Year’s eve and every day thereafter. ~Posted by David Marc Schwadron, Esquire Source: The New England Journal of Medicine; BBC Health Yes, that’s right. Scientists have now found another “bad” cholesterol which contributes to the development of heart disease. (Somebody please, stop them!) We already know of LDL, the other “bad” cholesterol which is not to be confused with HDL, the “good” cholesterol. The latest to join the [...] Source: Journal of Biological Chemistry; BBC Health No, not those mushrooms. The cordyceps mushroom is a rare parasitic mushroom that, perhaps ironically, grows upon caterpillars. The extract cordycepin is demonstrating some interesting results in the treatment of cancer. The only problem seems to be rapid biodegradability (the substance breaks down quickly in the body) which researchers [...] Source: BBC Health You might want to re-think those little hand sanitizer gels and wipes we are all fond of carrying around or the antibacterial soaps. Researchers now believe that so-called super bugs (antibiotic resistant bacteria such as MRSA and VRE) can be taught drug resistance from resisting surface disinfectants. The latest research involves Pseudomonas Aeruginosa [...] |
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