Making sense of health news
People who do not feel physically well can be sad, they can also be depressed. There is a big difference. Sadness it is said, is a response to something bad happening in your life, the response to loss or disappointment READ MORE
Recently, biotechnologists in India revealed that onion and garlic food processing leftovers (such as the onion peel) could be used to mop up hazardous heavy metals, including arsenic, cadmium, iron, lead, mercury and tin in contaminated materials. The research appeared READ MORE
A field of medicine known as psychobiotics is emerging In the opening paragraph from a new study from University College Cork investigators explained this emerging science: “The brain-gut-microbiota axis has been put forward as a new paradigm in neuroscience, which READ MORE
In research published in the medical journal Experimental gerontology, investigators in China gave worms tea to test their theory that tea would provide the worms anti-aging, anti-oxidation, and anti-Alzheimer’s protective effects. The Chinese investigators examined puer tea (a traditional Chinese READ MORE
Stimulating bone growth and repair Inflammation is regenerative medicine for subchondral bone New research from doctors in China appears in the June 2017 edition of the medical journal Osteoarthritis and cartilage.It centers around the relationship between stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) in regulating subchondral bone changes READ MORE
In the July/August 2017 edition of the medical publication Semergen published in Spain, doctors wrote: Screening programs for prostate cancer based on the determination of serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) has led to overdiagnosis, and consequently overtreatment of Prostate cancer. READ MORE
In a new and fascinating study published in the nursing journal Biological research for nursing, a research team lead by the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute and the University of South Florida suggests that stress management after breast cancer READ MORE