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The Man Who Grew Eyes
The train line from mainland Kobe is a marvel of urban transportation. Opened in 1981, Japan’s first driverless, fully automated train pulls out of Sannomiya station, guided smoothly along elevated tracks that stand precariously over the bustling city streets below, across the bay to the Port Island. The island, and much of the city, was razed to the ground in the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995 – which killed more than 5,000 people and destroyed more than 100,000 of Kobe’s buildings – and built anew in subsequent years. As the train proceeds, the landscape fills with skyscrapers. The RokkÅ mounta...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 11, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Watch: Mom Receives Gift of Life From Son's Unexpected Death
Rose Perry received her son's kidney in a transplant after the 24-year-old died from a stroke.
Source: ABC News: Health - May 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Ten-point plan to tackle liver disease published
"Doctors call for tougher laws on alcohol abuse to tackle liver disease crisis," The Guardian reports. But this is just one of 10 recommendations for tackling the burden of liver disease published in a special report in The Lancet.The report paints a grim picture of an emerging crisis in liver disease in the UK, saying it is one of the few countries in Europe where liver disease and deaths have actually increased rapidly over the last 30 years. It concludes with 10 recommendations to tackle the burden of liver disease.The media has approached the recommendations from many different angles, with many sources only ...
Source: NHS News Feed - November 27, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Food/diet Lifestyle/exercise QA articles Source Type: news
Give Thanks for Your Eyes: 7 Amazing Facts
As Thanksgiving fast approaches, we're reminded to give thanks for the wonderful things in our lives: our loved ones, our freedom and most certainly our good health. As humans, we're extremely visual creatures, so as you look upon the joyous gathering of friends and family prior to feasting, consider taking a moment to give thanks for your healthy eyesight as well.
Many of us are guilty of taking some of the most wondrous and spectacular things about how our bodies function for granted. I think it was Ben Franklin who remarked how people marvel at beautiful vistas, but forget about the miracle of the human body. For examp...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 21, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stroke victim has forehead muscles transplanted into her cheek so she can smile
Sara McKay, 45, from Consett in County Durham
says her army husband George, 43, has been her 'lifeline' after having to re-learn to walk and talk due to a paralysing stroke and brain tumour.
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 10, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Young, Healthy People Warned Not To Ignore Signs Of Atrial Fibrillation
BOSTON (CBS) – Heart problems are big problems for Americans, but if you think they only affect the elderly, think again. Younger and otherwise healthy people are having heart problems, too, even if they’re in great shape.
Mark Marshall is only 51. The competitive wrestler was out for a training run when suddenly he felt a flutter in his chest and his vision blurred. “In my mind I’m thinking, you must be dehydrated. I had no idea I was in afib,” he remembers.
But he was, even though Mark had none of the risk factors for atrial fibrillation like high blood pressure, high cholesterol and old ag...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - October 1, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: deanreddington Tags: Health Local News Seen On WBZ-TV Syndicated Local Watch Listen AFib Atrial Fibrillation Mallika Marshall Mark Marshall Source Type: news
August 2014
Can You Recognize a Heart Attack or Stroke?: What To Do When Every Moment Counts...Surviving Sepsis: Taming a Deadly Immune Response...Transplant Reverses Sickle Cell Disease...Mind and Body Therapy for Fibromyalgia...Featured Web Site: Diabetes Health Sense
Source: NIH News in Health - August 1, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
U.S. Southeast: Leads in stroke, obesity, hypertension, diabetes; now kidney disease
Alex CukanATLANTA, June 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. Southeast has the high rates of end-stage renal disease and the lowest rate for kidney transplants.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - June 6, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Statins side effects are minimal, study argues
ConclusionThis meta-analysis pooled results from 29 studies and has shown a very small increased risk of newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus. This is the same as the decreased risk of any cause of death in people taking statins, compared to placebo, to prevent a heart attack or stroke.The researchers point out some limitations to the meta-analysis: Each study did not report on all of the side effects, meaning that for each category of side effect, the number of participants differed. The side effect categories were only included if at least 500 people had reported suffering from it. This means there may be numerous other si...
Source: NHS News Feed - March 13, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Heart/lungs Medication Source Type: news
Cell-based treatment for stroke moves a step closer
Brain infarction or stroke is caused by a blood clot blocking a blood vessel in the brain, which leads to interruption of blood flow and shortage of oxygen. Now a reserach group at Lund University, Sweden, has taken an important step towards a treatment for stroke using stem cells. The research group shows in a new study, published in the scientific journal Brain, that so-called induced pluripotent stem cells have developed to mature nerve cells at two months after transplantation into the stroke-injured cerebral cortex of rats...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 29, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
Stem cell survival after transplantation impacted by melatonin pre-treatment
When melatonin, a hormone secreted by the pineal gland, was used as a pre-treatment for mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) prior to their transplantation into the brains of laboratory animals to repair damage from stroke, researchers in China found that the stem cells survived longer after transplantation. Previous studies had shown that 80 percent of transplanted MSCs died within 72 hours of transplantation. By contrast, the melatonin pre-treatment "greatly increased" cell survival, said the researchers...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - July 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Stroke Source Type: news
