Health News

Horse Stem Cell Treatment Leads The Way For First-In-Man Tendinopathy Study

Date: Jun-28-2013
A new first-in-man study that will explore the treatment of Achilles Tendinopathy based on successful stem cell treatments already used in horses will shortly be underway. Thanks to a research grant from the UK Stem Cell Foundation, people who suffer from this painful and crippling condition, will hopefully have access to a new treatment within the next 3-5 years...

A New Model Of Understanding Chronic Pain & Depression May Offer Hope To Sufferers

Date: Jun-28-2013
"Chronic Pain Sensitization Syndrome" (CPSS) is a new medical concept that enables us to understand that when a person is suffering from both chronic pain and depression, the two conditions are likely not to be completely distinct medical disorders, but actually two symptoms of one underlying disease process within that person's central nervous system. According to Dr...

Colorado State University Veterinarians Study Stem-Cell Therapy For Chronic Hepatitis

Date: Jun-28-2013
Colorado State University veterinarians are for the first time investigating the use of stem-cell therapy to treat chronic liver disease in dogs, a novel approach they hope could lead to successful treatments for dogs and people. In a new study, veterinarians are looking at treatment of chronic hepatitis, or inflammation of the liver, with mesenchymal stem cells derived from excess fat tissue of healthy adult donors...

Research By The Montana Center For Work Physiology And Exercise Metabolism Proves Heat Stroke Death Can Occur Even When Properly Hydrated

Date: Jun-28-2013
Prevention starts with recognizing one's own limits Each year, more than 1,000 people die from heat stroke in the United States. Long thought to be the product of dehydration, traditional prevention and treatment of heat related illness has been to drink more water. More recent research by the University of Montana's Center for Work Physiology and Exercise Metabolism (Montana WPEM) has proven that, while proper hydration is important, the key step to preventing heat stroke is to recognize when one is working too hard for the given environment and slowing down or stopping...

Motion Data Collected From Baseball Players To Uncover Why Humans Are Such Good Throwers

Date: Jun-28-2013
Little leaguers and professional baseball players alike have our extinct ancestors to thank for their success on the mound, shows a study by George Washington University researcher Neil Roach, which is featured on the cover of the journal Nature. Of course, the ability to throw fast and accurately did not evolve so our ancestors could play ball. Instead, Dr. Roach's study proposes that this ability first evolved nearly 2 million years ago to aid in hunting. Humans are unique in their throwing ability, even when compared to our chimpanzee cousins...

Issue III Registry Defines Best Syncope Candidates For Cardiac Pacing

Date: Jun-28-2013
Two important studies were released at the Late Breaking Clinical Trials session II at EHRA EUROPACE 2013. The PREFER AF study found that Oral anticoagulation is now used in over 85% of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) eligible for therapy. And ISSUE (the International Study on Syncope of Uncertain Aetiology) determined that cardiac pacing is more effective in patients with presumed neurally mediated syncope (NMS) and asystolic episodes in which tilt table testing proves negative (TT-), than in patients in which the tilt table testing proves positive (TT+)...

Vitamin D Levels Drop After Pediatric Heart Surgery, Increasing Sickness

Date: Jun-28-2013
Until now, there has been no research dedicated to the importance of Vitamin D supplementation in children with congenital heart disease (CHD). However, over the past few years, researchers at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute and Cardiovascular Surgery Program teamed with the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group to understand the impact of cardiac surgery on the Vitamin D status of infants and children, to be printed next month in Anesthesiology...

Zebrafish Study Offers Hope For Patients With Charcot Marie Tooth Disease

Date: Jun-28-2013
Scientists from the University of Sheffield have paved the way for new treatments for a common genetic disorder thanks to pioneering research on zebrafish - an animal capable of mending its own heart. Charcot Marie Tooth disease (CMT) is the most common genetic disorder affecting the nervous system. More than 20,000 people in the UK suffer from CMT, which typically causes progressive weakness and long-term pain in the feet, leading to walking difficulties. There is currently no cure for CMT...

Link Between Heart Attack Risk And Perception Of The Effect Of Stress On Health

Date: Jun-28-2013
People who believe that stress is having an adverse impact on their health are probably right, because they have an increased risk of suffering a heart attack, according to new research published online in the European Heart Journal [1]. The latest findings from the UK's Whitehall II study, which has followed several thousand London-based civil servants since 1985, found that people who believe stress is affecting their health "a lot or extremely" had double the risk of a heart attack compared to people who didn't believe stress was having a significant effect on their health...

Risk Of Stroke Effectively Reduced By Simple 2-Drug Combination

Date: Jun-28-2013
Results of a Phase III clinical trial showed that a simple drug regimen of two anti-clotting drugs - clopidogrel and aspirin- lowered the risk of stroke by almost one-third, compared to the standard therapy of aspirin alone, when given to patients who had minor or transient stroke symptoms to prevent subsequent attacks. Described this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (July 4, 2013 print issue), the clinical trial was conducted at multiple sites in China and designed in partnership with a physician at UC San Francisco...