Friday, 19 November 2010

Hot Medical News

Hot Medical News


Drug Resistant Malaria Spreading in South East Asia

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 03:08 PM PST

Malaria is evolving, at least that’s how the recent descriptions read for the emergence of new strains of the mosquito-borne infectious disease. The World Health Organization is warning that Malaria which is resistant to the latest antimalarial drugs appeared about two years ago, and is now ready to cross over from south east Asia into Africa.

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Pomegranate Juice May Ward Off Complications in Dialysis Patients

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 02:30 PM PST

While most closely associated with antioxidants (holding the ability to lower cholesterol and blood pressure) in the health sciences field, pomegranate juice may just have found a new claim to fame.  A new study suggests that kidney disease patients on dialysis were better able to ward off complications if they were administered pomegranate juice.

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Genetic Link to Anorexia Found

Posted: 19 Nov 2010 11:06 AM PST

Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have found both common gene and rare gene variants associated with the anorexia nervosa, a common eating disorder. Findings from what is the largest genetic study of the psychiatric disorder ever undertaken provide intriguing clues to the nature of genes active in neuronal signaling in the interconnections between brain cells.

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Researchers

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