Most minor discomfort is a sign of … not much. Maybe you had a heavy meal, a stressful day, a hard workout — and by the next day you feel fine again. But a handful of trivial-sounding symptoms can sometimes be red flags for something more serious. Since it’s often hard to distinguish between the [...]
Filed under: Body, Disease on March 14th, 2009 | No Comments »
WHAT if we could rid the world of AIDS? The notion might sound like fantasy: HIV infection has no cure and no vaccine, after all. Yet there is a way to completely wipe it out – at least in theory. What’s more, it would take only existing medical technology to do the job. Here’s how [...]
Filed under: Body, Disease, News on March 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. “The patient [...]
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TUESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) — Although commonly taken to improve memory, new research suggests that the herb ginkgo biloba won’t help prevent dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. “We found that giving a standardized dose of ginkgo biloba over a period of time does not slow down the incidence rate of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease,” said [...]
Filed under: Disease, Mind, Vitamins on November 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
A popular epilepsy drug can reverse the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, scientists have discovered. Treatment with valproic acid stops further damage to the brain and improves memory, tests show. The experiments in mice have proved so successful that the researchers are now testing the drug on Alzheimer’s patients. With the disease affecting around 500,000 [...]
Filed under: Disease, Mind on October 28th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
