Posted by: healthsupportsystems on: January 31, 2009
Researchers from the University Hospital Reina Sofía of Córdoba, Spain have carried out a study in order to determine the influence of the micronutrients of certain fats on cardiovascular diseases, diabetes or cancer, and if their consumption might modify the inflammatory process in healthy people.
To this end, they have studied the consumption in diets [...]
Posted by: healthsupportsystems on: January 30, 2009
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Parents of children diagnosed with autism-spectrum now have [...]
Posted by: healthsupportsystems on: January 22, 2009
Hospital-borne infections are a serious risk of a long-term hospital stay, and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), a lung infection that develops in about 15% of all people who are ventilated, is among the most dangerous. With weakened immune systems and a higher resistance to antibiotics, patients who rely on a mechanical ventilator can easily develop serious [...]
Posted by: healthsupportsystems on: January 22, 2009
A medical practice in rural Wales has started using YouTube to get across health advice to patients. Last year a video clipping on how to use an asthma inhaler properly was launched on the website.
Builth and Llanwrtyd medical Practice has posted a number of short films made by the doctors to offer health advice [...]
Posted by: healthsupportsystems on: January 20, 2009
Radiocarb Genetics, Inc., based in Ohio, USA, has successfully grown the a low radio-carbon food. Lower carbon-14 content is believed by some to increase human longevity.
Radiocarb Genetics, Inc. managed to grow its unique low radiocarbon soybeans in a custom greenhouse. Although the crop was provided with this special CO2 for less than half of the [...]
Posted by: Raj Sundar on: January 19, 2009
Researchers blame a wayward gene found almost exclusively among south asians for the development of heart diseases. In an article published in Nature Genetics, the scientists from India, Britain and the United States said 4 percent of people of South Asian descent carry the mutation and are predisposed to heart failure.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7833753.stm
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/19/stories/2009011957011800.htm
Posted by: healthsupportsystems on: January 1, 2009
Uma Vivek of Health Support Systems routinely publishes articles on interesting new developments in the health care field. HSS does not endorse any third party website or their products or services. HSS does not guarantee the accuracy or usefulness of any information on any linked Web site.
A new gadget has been unveiled by a [...]
