Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant
A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord. Darek Fidyka, who was paralysed […]
Breakthrough device heralds future of cancer detection
1 drop of blood & 60 minutes: Early cancer detection can save millions of lives but current diagnostic methods remain costly and invasive. However, a new startup is developing a […]
Collection of Articles about Ebola
Epigraph: Whoso saves one life, it shall be as if he had given life to all mankind. (Al Quran 5:33) The lead article is by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor […]
Ebola outbreak ‘running much faster’ than response
Watch the full interview with Dr. Peter Piot on “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN (CNN) — The current Ebola outbreak is “running […]
Rationality, Fear, Hype and Response to Ebola
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times October 16, 2014 “We have nothing to fear but fear itself,” are the famous words of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, […]
(Ebola?) The US Is Suffering From An STD Epidemic
businessinsider.com: Infectious diseases seem to come and go, sometimes causing scary outbreaks, while other times seeming to disappear. But some infectious pathogens are always with us, lurking just below the surface of society. Sexually transmitted diseases are one major group of diseases that make for ongoing hidden epidemics: In the […]
Ebola Video: Would You Go to Emory University or Dallas Hospital?
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/health/2014/10/15/newday-cohen-second-healthcare-worker-texas-ebola.cnn (CNN) — A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan has tested positive for Ebola, health officials said Wednesday — casting […]
WHO: New Ebola Cases Could Be Up To 10,000 Per Week In 2 Months
GENEVA (AP) — The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, the […]
Ebola Vaccine Would Likely Have Been Found By Now If Not For Budget Cuts: NIH Director
By Sam Stein BETHESDA, Md. — As the federal government frantically works to combat the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and as it responds to a second diagnosis of the disease at home, […]
Ebola: Liberian health workers plan strike
Liberian health officials are appealing to nurses and medical assistants not to go ahead with a national strike, as the Ebola epidemic continues. The National Health Workers Association wants an increase in the monthly risk fee paid to those treating Ebola cases. In the US, President Barack Obama has directed […]
‘Giant leap’ to type 1 diabetes cure
By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website Scientists were able to transform stem cells into insulin-producing beta cells Continue reading the main story in BBC Related Stories Bionic pancreas: […]
Medicine Nobel Prize for cells that form a positioning system in the brain
By Ben Brumfield, CNN updated 6:03 AM EDT, Mon October 6, 2014 (CNN) — The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to John O’Keefe and May-Britt and Edvard Moser for work […]
How the world’s health organizations failed to stop the Ebola disaster
A Perfect Storm…. Possible Pandemic By 2015… CDC Director: ‘A Scene Out Of Dante… WHO: ‘We Could Have Responded Faster’… Mothers Afraid To Touch Their Children… Hopes Pinned On Radical […]
First womb-transplant baby born
Source: BBC Health A woman in Sweden has given birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb, in a medical first, doctors report. The 36-year-old mother, who was born without a uterus, received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s. The British medical journal The Lancet says […]
Effect of Exercise on Genetically high risk Diabetics
Individuals with a relatively large number of genetic factors linked to type 2 diabetes risk showed a smaller protective effect of exercise, a large cohort study indicated. The finding emerged […]
The Health Effects of Leaving Religion
How a loss of faith can manifest itself in the mind and body ………………. Americans are less religious than ever. A third of American adults under 30, and a fifth […]
NYTimes: Artificial Sweeteners May Disrupt Body’s Blood Sugar Controls
Source: NY Times Artificial sweeteners may disrupt the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar, causing metabolic changes that can be a precursor to diabetes, researchers are reporting. That is “the […]
NYTimes: Artificial Sweeteners May Disrupt Body's Blood Sugar Controls
Source: NY Times Artificial sweeteners may disrupt the body’s ability to regulate blood sugar, causing metabolic changes that can be a precursor to diabetes, researchers are reporting. That is “the […]
Activating single gene could extend human lifespan by 30%
In an experiment on fruit flies, UCLA biologists activated just one gene, AMPK, which extended their lifespan by nearly a third, by helping them to get rid of “cellular garbage” […]
HIV-positive man ordered to stop virus by Seattle court
Source: BBC A Seattle judge has ordered an HIV-positive man to stop spreading the disease and to seek treatment after he infected eight people in four years. The man, known […]