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Colon cleansing – it sounds therapeutic and harmless – after all, what could be harmful in flushing out the colon with water and herbal products? Claims suggest that flushing out the colon regularly will “detoxify” …
In the past, a child born with Down Syndrome (trisomy 21) was felt to have little chance of improving brain function until Dr. Alberto Costa, a physician and neuroscientist had a personal interest in studying …
Correcting birth defects in utero is becoming more and more possible as this news report from National Public Radio (NPR) explained this week. In this report, at 19 weeks gestation, the expecting parents discovered that …
Just how does bacteria manage to evade death from antibiotics? This new research shows that bacteria outfoxes antibiotics by going into a coma-like state by “exposing themselves to near suicidal levels of their own toxins” …
Paralyzed from the chest down in 2006 from a car accident, 26 year old Rob Summers is able to stand for the first time, unassisted for brief periods following the placement of electrodes in his …
This article published in the NY Times shows that the reformulated version of OxyContin, which turns to pasty substance when altered, has prompted more people to turn to other, easier to get drugs of addiction …
In this image of heart cells in a mouse that has had a heart attack, some of the red cells are new cells generated to repair the heart attack damage.
Scientists discovered that mice who received …
This article showcases some of the research currently being done at National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. It was published recently on the National Institutes of Health website.
Scientists funded in part by the National Institutes of Health …
Bedbugs which are on the rise again in the U.S., are notoriously hard to kill largely because they are so hard to detect. They hide in crevices and cracks and unlike cockroaches, don’t respond …
Washington University is part of group who is studying the microbes that live on and in us with their research specifically focusing on a killer of premature babies, necrotizing enterocolitis, a condition in which the …
