Researchers from Rice University are using microsponges derived from seaweed to help diagnose heart disease, cancers, HIV and other diseases quickly and at far lower cost than current clinical methods. The microsponges are an essential component of what are dalled Programmable Bio-Nano-Chips (PBNC). PBNCs capture biomarkers — molecules that offer information about a person’s health [...]

Simply looking at your body reduces pain say researchers from the University College London and the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, In an interesting result, researchers found that viewing your hand reduces the pain experienced when a hot object touches the skin. This is alternative medicine at its most basic and simple. Researchers also found that [...]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved of a novel, and perhaps natural, new technology to diagnose cancer. The approach uses brightly glowing nanoparticles, C Dots, to attempt to “light up” cancer cells C dots are silica spheres that enclose several dye molecules. The c dots are structures to attach to cancer cells. [...]

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have found an enzyme in cells that protects against the measles virus. virus, Cells lacking the enzyme become highly vulnerable to the virus’s destructive effects. Researchers suspect the enzyme works by by altering the virus’s genetic material, RNA. The enzyme also protects against several other respiratory viruses, including influenza [...]

Vitamin A supplements are still an effective way to reduce childhood death and disease says a new study by Cochrane Collaboration researchers. The study results strongly endorse the use of vitamin A supplementation,which reduce the incidence of measles and diarrhea and ultimately save lives. Vitamin A deficiency is a common problem in low and middle [...]

Acupuncture could potentially become an alternative to patching for treating amblyopia (lazy eye) in some older children, according to a report in the Archives of Ophthalmology. About 0.3 percent to 5 percent of individuals worldwide have amblyopia, according to background information in the article. About one-third to one-half of the cases are caused by differences [...]

A New Zealand dairy farmer is being called the Miracle Man after doctors tried and force the family to cut off life support, becuase he would not survive his case of swine flu. Not only did the farmer have swine flu but a form of leukemia. Using the vitamin C therapy he recovered from the [...]

Ultrasound can speed the healing of fractures. A randomized controlled trial reported in the open access journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders has found that the use of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) in patients with tibial fractures which showed inadequate progress toward healing resulted in 34% greater bone mineral density (BMD) in the fracture area after 16 [...]

Researchers from England and South Korea conducted a review of studies of th use of Acupuncture in stroke rehabilitation. This research involved a review of studies published in English language and Asian journals, and included just 10 studies with a total of 711 patients who had had strokes. The study is published in the Canadian [...]

More and more is coming to light about the major impact that stress has on our health. In fact continued stress is now considered a serious disease state by many health professionals. Stress has many form, from the common notion of emotional stress, to various kinds of physical stress on the body. Importantly, stress can [...]