Many organs and tissues retain the capacity to regenerate new cells – think how quickly skin heals after wounds. It’s long been held that heart cells (cardiomyoctes) on the other hand, lack this ability - that …

If you could exercise for 6 minutes a week and achieve the same results as the gym rat who works out for 1.5 hours 3x/wk, would you? Well, I’m sure there would be a handful …

Yup, it may seem hard to believe, but there’s been talk among households of having “swine flu parties”, similar to the measle parties that used to occur years ago. The hope is that by getting …

This is the latest information (week ending 6/20/09) on the H1N1 (Swine) Flu Pandemic in the U.S. For further information go to the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) published by the U.S. government.

Youth mortality is one of five “signature features” of influenza pandemics and according to the authors of a policy paper reprinted in the June 2009 issue of NEJM, it is the “most striking characteristic of …

Phase II clinical trials have begun on 2 nicotine vaccines in a novel approach to treat tobacco dependence. The vaccine works by causing the body to develop antibodies to nicotine which then bind to the …

Epidemiologists and virologists are concerned about the resurgence of the H1N1 flu virus in the northern hemisphere come the start of our flu season in the fall of 2009. While the virus is making its …

As recently reported in the 4/09 issue of New Scientist, medical researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel have developed a synthetic cartilage able to withstand pressures that caused previous synthetic cartilage …

Here’s the latest stats from the CDC on the H1N1flu infection.
Top 10 States With Confirmed H1N1 flu infection as of 5/20/09 11 a.m.

IL     794
WI     766
TX     556     (3 deaths)
CA     553
AZ     488     (2 deaths)
WA     411     (1 death)
NY     …

When I heard this news report on PRI’s “The World” the other day, I almost turned the car around to race back to my computer so I could immediately research this further. It was a report …