Research
Clamping Umbilical Too Soon May Interrupt ‘Natural Stem Cell Transplant’
Delaying clamping the umbilical cord for a slightly longer period of time allows more umbilical cord blood volume to transfer from mother to infant and, with that critical period extended, many good physiological “gifts” are transferred through ‘nature’s first stem cell transplant’ occurring at birth.
The USF review is published in a [...]
Texas Children’s Cancer Center first in Texas to magnetically lengthen nine-year-old’s leg
HOUSTON – (April 15, 2010) – Nine-year-old Morgan LaRue is the first cancer patient in Texas to benefit from a groundbreaking procedure that will magnetically lengthen her leg, sparing her the possibility of up to 10 future surgeries as her body grows. The implant and extension took place at Texas [...]
Genes Found for Successful Smoking Cessation
Physicians may some day have a new tool for tailoring smoking cessation treatments to a patient’s individual genetic makeup.
Researchers from Duke University Medical Center and the National Institute on Drug Abuse scanned the entire genetic makeup, or genome, of [...]
Study Shows African-Americans Have Highest Stroke Rate
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – African-Americans age 65 and younger are more than twice as likely to have a stroke compared with Caucasians in any region, and people who have a stroke are more likely to die in the South than elsewhere, according to researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health.
The [...]
Plasma produces KO cocktail for MRSA
MRSA (methicillin-resistant Straphylococcus Aureus) and other drug-resistant bacteria could face annihilation as low-temperature plasma prototype devices have been developed to offer safe, quick, easy and unfailing bactericidal cocktails.
Two prototype devices have been developed: one for efficient disinfection of healthy skin (e.g. hands and feet) in hospitals and public spaces where bacteria can pose a lethal [...]
Emotions can increase or decrease pain
Getting a flu shot this fall? Canadians scientists have found that focusing on a pretty image could alleviate the sting of that vaccine. According to a new Université de Montréal study, published in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), negative and positive emotions have a direct impact on [...]
Keeping Hearts Pumping with “LifeFlow”
TAU’s smart I.V. device to save lives at disaster sitesWhen paramedics rush to the scene of a multi-car pileup or a terror attack, their first task is to assess who needs immediate care. But blood hemorrhaging can obscure damage, and the gruesome mess means paramedics can’t always determine who should be treated first.Tel Aviv University’s [...]
Aggressive microdermabrasion improves the appearance of aging skin
Aggressive microdermabrasion appears to improve the appearance of aged human skin, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.“The significance of this study lies in the fact that this procedure is minimally wounding,” says Darius J. Karimipour, M.D., who conducted the research while a clinical assistant [...]
Obese and Overweight Women Have a Higher Risk of Giving Birth to Baby with Heart Defects
The largest study of obesity during pregnancy and babies with heart defects in the United States finds that women who were overweight or obese before they became pregnant had an approximately 18 percent increased risk of having a baby with certain heart defects compared with women who were of normal body mass index (BMI) before [...]
Washing Away Painful Wounds
More than six million people in the U.S. suffer from persistent wounds — open sores that never seem to heal or, once apparently healed, return with a vengeance. “The problem is chronic,” says Prof. Amihay Freeman of TAU’s Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology. To solve it, he’s developed a unique device that uses a [...]
