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Man Made “Virus” To Heal Hearts Using Gene Therapy

Man Made “Virus” To Heal Hearts Using Gene Therapy

The trials will be applying gene therapy and assessing its effectiveness as repairing damage following heart failure.

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Genetic Patch Cures Usher Syndrome Deafness

A small breakthrough in hearing science has been made. The journal Nature Medicine has published a paper detailing how congenital deafness can be prevented by treatment early in development...

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Laser Use in the Medical Field

Laser Use in the Medical Field

Information about the various types of lasers and what their uses are in the medical field. Laser technology has only been used for a little more than fifty years....

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Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease

In 2009 (or thereabouts) my son caught Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease. I was horrified, as I thought that it was a deadly disease. It seems that it is only...

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Back Pain Research – Is Rest or Exercise the Best Treatment for Modic Changes?

Modic changes refer to the 3 different types of change in the trabeculae. that were first identified and examined by Dr. Michael Modic in 1988. Dr. Modic is the...

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Nanoparticle Galvanic and Kirkendall effect demonstrated

Nanoparticle Galvanic and Kirkendall effect demonstrated

The Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology in Bellaterra, Spain has developed a new way to create complicated nanoparticle shapes. The chemical process hollows out particles made from silver with cationic gold. Cationic gold...

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Does Wi-fi Damage Health? Studies look into Wi-fi and Sperm health

It was not that long ago that the medical community finally declared that mobile phones do not cause brain cancers, or any other serious health problems. However, mobile devices...

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What Psychotherapy is Not: Challenging Two Myths about Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy is a widely misunderstood profession. The media present a variety of images of therapy (e.g., people laying on couches talking to a mostly silent therapist). Some of these...

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Class and Blood Pressure Related Deaths

A recent study by Swedish researchers which was published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health has shown that people who remain in a lower social class are more...

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From Dogs To Ultra High Tech Diagnosis

Today I came across two items on the Internet that both talk of new methods of health diagnosis but sit at opposite ends of the technology spectrum. Firstly I...

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