April 13th, 2012 
Jade In the past few weeks, the news has been buzzing with stories about old drugs that surprisingly have a second life. For instance, there were stories that told about Alzheimer’s disease that might be cured by a skin cancer drug, the Ebola virus being inhibited by a drug used to treat Leukaemia and Malaria parasites [...]
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Tags: Alzheimer's disease, drugs, lithium, minocycline, research, science 
Comments Off February 14th, 2012 Jade Do you worry constantly? Is your body low on energy? You may very well be able to place the blame for your state of mind on the gut bugs that live inside of you. Scientists who do study both behavior and gene activity have come across these gut bugs whom appear to help shape brain [...]
January 30th, 2012 Jade Cause of Gastroenteritis: Gastroenteritis otherwise termed as stomach flu or gastric flu. It is an inflammation of stomach and intestine which causes vomiting, nausea and diarrhea.It is not a disease in itself but can be considered as a symptom of other diseases like shigellosis. The strain of norovirus- the bug is the most common cause [...]
September 7th, 2011 Jade The Australian Longitudinal Study on Women’s Health (ALSWH) has released its Women, Health and Ageing report and is warning that we must, as a community, be prepared for the changes that arise from ageing and that both individuals and health care systems will be forced to deal with the eventual health and social changes that [...]
February 15th, 2011 Justin The entertainment industry continues to produce films and programs in a three-dimensional version, while viewers complain of eye fatigue, nausea, dizziness and headache. From the Hollywood film studios to the world’s leading manufacturers of televisions, business tycoons are betting that 3D technology will be the future of entertainment, despite the greatest weakness – millions of [...]
December 10th, 2010 Jade The transplanted heart was beating rhythmically when patient Andrea Ybarra awoke from anesthesia after transplant surgery. In fact, it was beating even before the doctors transplanted it. Ybarra belongs to a small group of people who have received a beating heart during a transplant surgery, an experimental operation which is carried out mainly in Europe. [...]
November 9th, 2010 Jade The heart is a muscle that operates through regulating electrical nerve impulses. When something occurs to prevent the heart from pumping properly, the remedy might be an external electric shock, administered by an automated external defibrillator (AED). These devices monitor the victim’s heart rate and can determine if an electric shock will help. Semi-automatic heart [...]
November 9th, 2010 Jade Oily skin can be a difficult thing to control for many people, and often the myths of why one suffers from oily skin are widely believed to be true. Advices for treating oily skin include watching what one eats to using certain skin care products, leaving one confused and frustrated when some methods just don’t [...]
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