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Singing Can Help Retrain The Brain

Feb. 21 | Researchers have recently discovered that victims of severe brain damage who do not have the ability to communicate may regain their communication by singing. It is believed that melody is helpful to the brain so it can rewire itself. When the brain rewires,...

AIDS Epidemic Can Be Contained in 5 Years Scientist Says

Feb. 21 | The Times of London reporter Mark Henderson claims that an unspecified leading scientist says that he can contain the aids epidemic within five years through the use of anti-retroviral treatment and aggressive treatment of people who currently have the...

Researchers to Start Using Progesterone Hormone to Heal Traumatic Brain Injuries

Feb. 20 | The American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in San Diego has recently announced at an annual conference, that clinical trials will continue to research the use of progesterone in patients suffering from traumatic brain injury. 17 US medical...

Doctors Call Coma Patient Rom Houben Communications False

Feb. 20 | Rom Houben was a young man critically injured in a car accident back in 1983. For 23 years doctors believed he was in a coma. In 2006, Steven Laureys reevaluated Houben and made a startling discovery that he was actually conscious but paralyzed. Doctors...

Bottlenose Dolphins May Assist Diabetes Researchers

Feb. 20 | The National Marine Mammal Foundation announced on February 19, 2010, that dolphins may become the first natural animal model allowing researchers to study type II diabetes (also known as adult onset diabetes), which affects up to 5% of the world’s...

Frank Lautenberg the second oldest Senator has stomach lymphoma

Feb. 19 | Frank Lautenberg, the second oldest Senator in the US, has been diagnosed with stomach lymphoma, his office revealed on February 19. The 86-year-old Democrat collapsed in his home on Monday and was treated for a bleeding ulcer, later diagnosed as B-cell...

Genetic code of cancer cells used to track and treat tumors

Feb. 19 | It has long been known that cancer cells arise due to defects in their genetic code. More recently the genetic code of certain cancer cells has been used to track and treat many types of tumors. Recent research has shown many cancers contain the same...

New Test Genetically Fingerprints Cancer

Feb. 19 | According to recent reports, United States based researchers may have found a new way to detect cancerous cells. The researchers from John Hopkins University unveiled that they could detect cancers by recognizing changes that occur in cancerous cell’s...

Study Shows Rural Areas Are Less Healthy Than Suburbs

Feb. 18 | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin’s Health Institute released a set of reports on Wednesday that compare health data for all of the over 3,000 counties in the 50 states that make up the United States of America. These...

Happiness Is The Key To a Healthy Heart

Feb. 17 | Happiness is not only good for the soul, but the heart as well according to new research. This may sound like a difficult task to those prone to be grumpy or who live a stressful life that keeps them in a bad mood. The study has been published in the...