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African American –healthier if vegetarian

de daniela, November 3rd, 2011

Recent studies developed at Loma Linda University in California suggest that the effects of following a vegetarian diet and adding to it 3 times per week of exercise training can reduce significantly the risk of diabetes among African Americans.

There’s no single vegetarian eating plan, although people who eat a vegetarian diet generally fall into these groups:

  • Vegans eat only plant-based foods. They don’t eat foods from animals, including meat, poultry, fish, milk, eggs and cheese.
  • Lacto-vegetarians consume milk and milk products along with plant-based foods. They omit eggs as well as meat, fish and poultry.
  • Lacto-ovo vegetarians eat eggs, milk and milk products, such as cheese and yogurt, in addition to plant-based foods. They omit red meat, fish and poultry.
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de daniela, October 5th, 2011

Bronchitis represents the bronchial wall thickening and an exces of mucus production. Inflamation can be caused by a serie of bacteria and viruses . In acute bronchitis at cold symptoms  we can expect at cough and sometimes to shortness of breathing.

When should we consult a doctor?

- when you’re feeling ill

- when the symptoms are lasting more than a month

- when we have shortness of breath.

- when the bronchitis is repeated several times

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Promising new gene therapy for HIV

de Cristina Cusoveanu, September 18th, 2011

In the past few years, gene therapy has been a searing research field, raising hope but mostly triggering disappointment. Although it is still an unstable area, it offers a new approach for an HIV cure, being perhaps the most promising alternative for treatment. HIV researchers recently announced at a conference in Boston that they have developed a gene therapy that may help combat the virus and potentially eliminate it.

This study is based on the 2007 ‘Berlin Patient’ case, when Timothy Ray Brown, an HIV sufferer healed completely after a bone marrow transplant. The new therapy, developed by Sangamo Bio Sciences in Richmond, California, focuses on modifying white blood cells in order to make them resistant to the virus. The new immune cells are introduced back into the patient’s body and multiply, eventually leaving no room for the virus to expand. Six male patients were involved in the research and five of them showed improvement a year after the infusion. But Dr. Jacob Lalezari of Quest Clinical

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Progeria, clues on the aging disease

de Evelyn Fox, September 11th, 2010

Progeria is a very rare genetic disorder. Its meaning is “prematurely old”. It isn’t a hereditary disease, but it can occur by chance in very rare occasions. The children suffering from this disease mature earlier. Usually this can be seen at the 18th month, because when they are born they look very healthy.

Megan Nighbor is one of the children who must give over her fate. She is 10 year old and she suffers from progeria. According to her mother the first signs to understand the disease were Megan’s hair. When she was born she had very thick dark brown hair which was not normal for a baby of her age, but by the time Megan turned 18 month she started to experience hair fall, and aging very fast.
However nothing has changed on the girl’s way of behaving. She runs, and plays like all the other children do.

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Staph Infection Symptoms

de Robert Mint, August 14th, 2010

What is Staph?

Staphs are gram positive parasitic bacteria that cause septicemia or infections by irregular colonies’ formation.

What is Staph (Staphylococcal) Infection?

A staph infection can result in skin changes, blood poisoning and infection in internal organs and can be life-threatening if ignored. It is caused by the toxin production of staphylococcal bacteria. These bacteria enter the body through open cuts and result in itching of the skin and irritation of internal organs.

Symptoms of Staph Skin Infection

The symptoms of staph skin infection are as follows:

* Bright red rashes or pus-filled blisters
* Skin bumps
* Swelling of eyelids
* Inflammation of body tissues along with fever
* An infected tissue near the nails
* Infected acne
* Infection of lymphatic vessels.

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