3 strikes needed to kill brain cells in Parkinson's disease: study

Using steroids for bodybuilding can damage kidney function

By: intellectual

WASHINGTON - Anabolic steroids, taken by some athletes to gain muscle mass and strength, can destroy kidney function, says a new study.   The study revealed that the habitual use of steroids has serious harmful effects on the kidneys that were not previously recognized. Leal Herlitz, MD (Columbia University Medical Center) and her ...

2 days ago

Three Americans Share Nobel Prize for Medicine

By: dustgeer

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded this year to three American scientists who solved a problem of cell biology with deep relevance to cancer and aging. The three will receive equal shares of a prize worth ar

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Calcium is crucial when mending a broken heart say scientists

By: camorim

 Calcium is crucial for heart regeneration by cardiac stem cells following cardiovascular problems say scientists in an article to be published in the journal Circulation Research1  this 9th of October. The study also identifies the body molecules controlling calcium levels in the stem cells and reveals, how their manipulation, can lead ...

about 1 month ago

New CNN Poll: Over Half Of All Adult Americans Do Not Want The H1N1 ...

By: fantasma

According to a new CNN poll, more than half of all adult Americans say that they don't want to get the H1N1 flu vaccine. It turns out that all the fatal cases of the H1N1 flu in Ukraine that were tested in the U.K. had mutated. A third woman in Portugal has lost her baby after taking the H1N1 swine flu vaccine. Authorities in the Canadian ...

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