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A new brain map created by scientists may be able to identify illness before harm is apparent.
The internal wiring of the brain has never been a reference point for medical professionals analysing brain scans for indications of ageing or illness. There is no baseline, no curve, and no means to determine whether what they are seeing is out of the ordinary for someone that age.
By Francis Dami4 months ago in Longevity
Parts of the world are approaching the boundaries of human survival due to extreme heat.
Surprisingly resilient is the human body. It can operate in a wide variety of temperatures, adapting, compensating, and perspiring its way through circumstances that our forebears would have found intolerable.
By Francis Dami4 months ago in Longevity
The immune system may be able to detect tumours that were previously invisible thanks to a novel cancer medication.
Immunotherapy works effectively for many cancer patients at first, but months or years later, their tumours return. When the disease starts to spread again, doctors have fewer options for treatment since cancer cells frequently develop strategies to evade immune attacks.
By Francis Dami4 months ago in Longevity
Scientists believe they understand why irregular sleep patterns may encourage inflammation in the brain.
Regaining a regular sleep routine should aid in the body's recuperation. It makes sense to assume that the body is damaged by irregular hours and repaired by regular ones. When erratic sleep patterns stop, the brain, like the rest of the body, recalibrates. This may not be the case, though, according to recent mouse studies.
By Francis Dami4 months ago in Longevity
Researchers created a medication to help people lose weight that infiltrates cells like a Trojan horse.
The cell surface is where the weight-loss medications that are currently available to millions of people work. A drug never penetrates the cell when a molecule attaches itself to a receptor and the receptor sends out a signal. A German team examined the identical receptors in a different way and discovered what others had missed. In addition to sending out a signal, binding to a receptor can draw the medication into the cell.
By Francis Dami4 months ago in Longevity
MMR Vaccination and Autism Unfounded
Commentary Actress Jenny McCarthy and the rest of the anti-vaccination movement members (AVM) may not like to hear this particular fact: no evidence exists to verify the link between MMR vaccines and autism. In fact, in the minds of many scientists, researchers and special educators, this accusation has been proven wrong and many have moved on to other possible causes. Genetics and environmental factors are being sought as possible causes while the MMR/autism link has been rightfully discarded.
By Dean Traylor5 months ago in Longevity
Understanding the generational differences.
Understanding the generational differences. How attitudes to risk taking, have changed As a young man (born 1942 so talking about years 1958 to 1970,) Myself, and all my circle of friends, associates and acquaintances, had a drug of choice – not need dealers or injections It was adrenaline—although most of us could not spell it or understand enough about body chemistry to explain it— any and everything with some element of danger was what we sought and loved. Narcotics were very rarely available or even known about. Alcohol was consumed in pubs only and they had legally limited hours of operation. This did not stop extended hours by claiming a “market day” or simply hoping the police did not notice late night drinking. For the benefit of city people, rural market towns in England, often have local laws where pubs could stay open all day on market day, since it was in these pubs that agricultural deals and business was done. Market day in a rural setting was primarily where cattle and other livestock were bought and sold. Laws were generally respected, but their application was tempered with tolerance and if no actual harm was done, then a warning from a local copper was enough. No paper work, no court, no lawyers ever involved.
By Peter Rose5 months ago in Longevity
