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A study is in an early stage suggests that this plant-based drugs (marijuana) may one day help fight the disease.

The medical use of cannabinoids or active chemicals found in marijuana, has gained interest in recent years, opening new horizons for the exploration of potential drugs.

Researchers at the University of Alcalá de Henares found evidence that certain chemical components of cannabis stop the growth of prostate cancer cells. The research was published in the British Journal of Cancer. However, experts say the research is still at the exploratory stage and still need many more years of testing to determine the application of the findings in the treatment of human cancer.

After working at first with human cells, Inés Díaz-Laviada and his team also tested a compound in mice and found that it significantly reduced tumor growth. Read the rest of this entry »

Material studied: Blood taken from the vein of the elbow. Patient time spent: 5 to 10 minutes.

Purpose: To evaluate thyroid function. Detects the presence of anti-thyroglobulin antibodies in the blood, indicative of thyroid disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Graves’ disease.

Advance preparation: it is not necessary.

Description of the test is performed by indirect immunofluorescence method.

Results:

normal value: less than 1:100 Titles for thyroglobulin antibodies and anti-microsomal fraction (10% of the population have low levels of these antibodies and 20% of the population above 70 years Deed.

Abnormal values may indicate: Graves’ disease subclinical autoimmune thyroiditis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, pernicious anemia.

Time required for the determination of the test: a few minutes.

Reliability of results: low specificity.

The vaccine works by “wrapping” to cocaine so that it has no effects on the brain, heart or other organ, “” this is the first successful controlled trial of a vaccine against cocaine, say scientists.

According to previous studies conducted with animals and humans, high levels of anti-cocaine antibodies in the blood can prevent addicts experience that feeling.

However, the researchers stressed that the vaccine who managed the high level of antibodies, only maintained it for two months, so it would need repeat injections. Read the rest of this entry »

Iodine is a mineral essential to the process of converting food into energy (metabolic process of cells). It is an important mineral for the proper functioning of the thyroid and the production of thyroid hormones.

Important sources of production of iodine

• Iodized salt (table salt) or sea salt (see note at end).

• Seafood (salmon, tuna, cod, haddock, pollock are good sources of iodine)

• The brown seaweed or kelp, marine plant is very common with high iodine content. If taken algae algae are best used with a uniform content and amencionada iodine as kelp (kombu) or hijiki.

• If you take iodine supplements, you should consume between 100 and 150 micrograms per day to reach a total intake of between 150 and 200 micrograms (or Czech table below adequate iodine intake by age). Read the rest of this entry »

For the lips surrounding a very sensitive and delicate skin almost as sensitive as that which surrounds the eye area, which is why it is one of the areas where wrinkles usually appear which can be caused by several factors.

Causes of the appearance of wrinkles in the area of the mouth:

• A mental attitude and disagreement, excessive concentration, tension, etc., Causing puckering lips.
• often sucking lips, a habit that dries and cracks.
• Bad skin care habits.
• Lack of adequate moisture in this area.
• Diet low in minerals and vitamins to undernourished skin causes susceptible to wrinkles.
• Low intake of antioxidant nutrients that help prevent premature skin damage.
• Severe exposure to sun or cold without protection.
• Lack of exercise of the muscles and good circulation in the area. Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. federal capital, Washington, suffering an AIDS epidemic to record a 3% of HIV-positive, especially among black adults 40-49 years according to a study released Monday by health services in the city.

In late 2008, 3% of the population over 12 years had the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS, according to this study.

In comparison, the rate of infection in Washington, which has about 600,000, is higher than the poorest countries and least developed countries such as Burkina Faso and Ukraine (1.6% of HIV-positive, according to UNAIDS, the United Nations Environment Programme AIDS).

Those most affected are blacks and adults 40 to 49 years (about 7% of HIV-positive in both groups). White women (0.2%) and Hispanics (0.7%) are less affected. Read the rest of this entry »

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that its scientists investigate “We asked our experts to determine whether there is evidence. For now it is too early to say anything about it,” said a spokesman for IABG, Gregory Hartl.

Since the alarm bells ringing in Mexico last April 30, the virus has spread around the world, but not yet considered by WHO as a pandemic. There are more than 5,700 infected in 33 countries, according to the organization in Spain, has already reached the hundreds of patients.

Hartl has stressed that the priority of the WHO remains to determine the risk of the new virus, to assess their development and help countries prepare for a pandemic.

Adrian Gibss scientist, who participated in the formulation of the antiviral oseltamivir (Tamiflu), used in the treatment of the new flu, said that the genetic characteristics of H1N1 viruses would suggest that was grown in eggs, a method used in laboratories.

For his part, Dr Sylvie Briand, expert from influenza program of WHO, has responded to reports of a suspected virus resistance to both oseltamivir and zanamivir, the other drug considered effective for influenza A. Read the rest of this entry »

U.S. health representatives, the Reuters news agency reported that according to tests performed in the United States with the H1N1 influenza vaccine from Sanofi-Pasteur SA and CSL Ltd., only one dose is needed to protect people of the disease.

“I am pleased to tell you that the initial results of tests sponsored by the NIH (National Institutes of Health) corroborate and reinforce the findings of the companies,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

In a press conference, Fauci said that the immune response was swift and that people seemed to be protected 8-10 days after being vaccinated.

Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, said in the same conference that “it is more likely than Americans to get vaccinated against influenza A/H1N1, are immunized and protected against the virus more quickly than thought” . Read the rest of this entry »

Michigan scientists have discovered a bacteria capable of preventing the virus that causes dengue multiplies in the mosquito that spreads the disease. The organism, called Wolbachia, causes an abnormality that causes the death of the embryos of the mosquito Aedes aegypti.

The finding could be used to prevent the spread of dengue, a disease that causes about 100 million infections worldwide, says the study published in PLoS Pathogens.

Dengue is a disease that affects about one third of the world’s population-some 2,500 million people, mainly in developing countries. Although most infected people recover within two weeks, the infection can lead to complications and become a hemorrhagic fever that can be lethal. Read the rest of this entry »

Researchers at the University of Minnesota indicated that the compound called glycerol monolaurate, could be used to combat HIV infection in humans.

The compound has already been successfully tested in five monkeys and the scientists suggested that although his investigation is in preliminary stages, the ingredients may be added to lubricants than women used to fight HIV infection.

“It would be a different way to tackle the problem of prevention,” said Ashley Haase, head of the department of Microbiology at the University of Minnesota, in a conversation with reporters.

According to scientists, glycerol appears to prevent inflammation and protects cells that generally fall under the infection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Read the rest of this entry »