The Exoskeleton Helps Paralyzed Patients Walk Again
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The Exoskeleton, a computer-controlled battery driven, helps paralyzed patients walk again.
This breakthrough technology helped Manny Maldonado, a 34-year-old patient at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, walk and smile again. Exoskeleton ...
7-Year-Old Girl Treated With Marijuana for Leukemia
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Doctors treat a 7-year-old girl suffering from leukemia with marijuana, being one of Oregon’s youngest patient to take the drug.
Her mother has been giving the girl marijuana pills to combat chemotherapy’s effects, but her father fears ...
The Phthalates in Cosmetic Products Leads to Early Menopause
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Makeup has fascinated women since ancient times and today we have thousands of makeup products to choose from. But do we really know all the risks the cosmetic products imply and how much harm we do to our bodies?
Recently scientists from ...
Snake Venom Could Cure Cancer and Diabetes
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A recent British-Australian study on snake venom showed that the substance could be turned back into harmless proteins, which means that it could help scientists find a cancer cure.
Australian scientist Gavin Huttley said that this is the ...
‘Special K’ Drug to Treat Major Depression
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More and more specialists believe that ketamine could revolutionize the treatment for major depression.
Scientists from the National Institute of Mental Health and Yale gave ketamine infusions to 30 patients suffering of depression, and noticed ...
Study Shows Coffee Reduces Physical Pain
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Scientists have already discovered many of the benefits offered by coffee, including helping with the weight loss, boosting muscular growth, reducing the risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, protecting against certain ...
New York Investigates Energy-Drink Companies
Eric T. Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, has begun an investigation trying to find out if the multibillion-dollar energy-drink industry tricks its customers offering them misstatements about their products health value and ingredients.
In July ...
ALKS 5461, the Heroin-Like Medicine for Major Depression
Opium is illegal, heroin is illegal, we all know that. But scientists are developing a drug than can combine the characteristics of both drugs, and it would be used in treating anxiety disorders and major depression.
This new drug is known as ALKS 5461 and can ...
Cannabis Used From Adolescence Makes People Less Smart
A recent study showed that cannabis not only dulls the pain, but it also dulls the brain, especially at teenagers.
The study was made on 1,000 children in New Zealand, from their birth to the age of 38. Scientists discovered that those who began to use cannabis ...
Worst Year For West Nile Virus Infections in the US
The Centers for Disease Control declared this year as the worse for West Nile Virus infections and deaths in the States. Until now the virus, which is transmitted by mosquitoes, infected over 1,100 people and killed other 41. Unfortunately the number of victims ...
