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How to Avoid Allergies

Mon Apr 23, 11:31 / comments: 0

How to Avoid and Prevent Allergens. (Image credit: Getty Images)

Pollen finally arrives from trees, lawn and weeds. Dust is another famous allergen that is exceedingly hard to avoid. How to Avoid and Prevent Allergens.

Diagnosing Parkinson by examining the colon

Tue Sep 21, 01:04 / comments: 0

The diagnosis of Parkinson's disease could be made by a simple biopsy of the colon

Abnormalities caused by parkinsonism were found in the same neurons in the digestive system, according to a new study. If these results are confirmed, a simple biopsy of the colon would therefore assess the severity of the disease.

End of pandemic influenza A (H1N1)

Tue Sep 14, 09:32 / comments: 0

The H1N1 virus has almost ceased to rage, but this does not mean it has completely disappeared

The world enters the post-pandemic, said the World Health Organization. The H1N1 virus has almost ceased to rage, but this does not mean it has completely disappeared. This is the opinion of members of the Emergency Committee.

An ultra-resistant to antibiotics bacteria threatens to spread

Sat Aug 14, 18:13 / comments: 0

The NDM-1 resistant to virtually all types of antibiotics, including carbapenems

British doctors have discovered a bacterium resistant to almost all antibiotics in patients who have medical tourism in South Asia. This discovery has potential of a global spread.

The cockroaches are perhaps the source of future antibiotics

Wed Sep 8, 09:56 / comments: 0

It is living in unsanitary places that cockroaches have developed molecules effective against bacteria

The cockroaches that live in very unhygienic conditions, have developed bactericidal molecules. British researchers have already identified nine in the brain of these insects.

A patient with anemia cured by gene therapy

Fri Sep 17, 11:22 / comments: 0

Beta-thalassemia is responsible for a deformation of red blood cells, causing their early destruction

For the first time, a man was treated for a common disease, beta-thalassemia by gene transfer. Beta-thalassemia is responsible for a deformation of red blood cells, causing their early destruction.

Malaria: The gorillas infected humans

Mon Sep 27, 10:02 / comments: 0

The parasite is widespread among western gorillas and chimpanzees

This large African monkey, now threatened with extinction, is accused of having sent to us, long ago, the agent of malaria

Hope for Fragile X syndrome

Thu Jan 6, 12:21 / comments: 0

The fragile X syndrome is characterized mainly by mental retardation, which may be associated with behavioral disorders: attention deficit, movements and repeated phrases, autistic behaviors, aggression etc.

It is a glimmer of hope in the fragile X syndrome, the most common cause of inherited mental retardation. A portion of patients respond to a new drug.

Know about Various Ear Diseases

Sat Jan 7, 13:18 / comments: 0

There are various kinds of ear illness that can affect anyone of us, that if have gone unnoticed, could stimulate dangerous troubles, which could affect the sense of hearing, thereby bringing about the demand for hearing aids.

Chariots of death

Wed Mar 30, 10:22 / comments: 0

The toilets are regularly cleaned with disinfectant, unlike the handles of carriages

Preliminary results of a recent American study by researchers at the University of Arizona are clear: over 72% of the 85 carriage handles examined in four states, have markers of faecal bacteria.

Alzheimer's: The real signals for a correct diagnosis

Tue Apr 26, 15:01 / comments: 0

Alzheimer's disease: non-drug treatment is always possible. (credit: lefigaro)

The Journal of the American Association Alzheimer outlines the main diagnostic criteria for the three stages of the disease.

Malaria: A promising discovery

Wed Apr 27, 14:11 / comments: 0

Malaria has since been the subject of much research, but the parasite that causes the disease demonstrated a great ability to rapidly develop resistance to antimalarial drugs

The National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) announced a breakthrough in the fight against malaria. Transmitted by certain species of mosquitoes, malaria affects about 250 million people worldwide and kills between one and three million.