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Scientists offer explanation for ‘face blindness’

New research provides insight into intriguing disorder

Doctors don’t know why my legs are getting bigger

By Monica Cafferky Doctors can’t tell Mandy Sellars why her legs keep expanding – all they say is that her only option is a drastic amputation. She travelled to the US for a new TV show in search of an alternative… It’s not easy being Mandy Sellars. She has hugely outsized legs that make having a normal [...]

Meet Millie, 7, who still smiles despite disease so rare it affects just FOUR people worldwide

By Daily Mail Reporter Brave Millie Smith can still break into a beaming smile despite suffering from a medical condition which is so rare that it has no name and affects just four people in the world. She was diagnosed at 16 months when tests revealed she had strands missing from her eighth chromosome. The condition has [...]

Pig organs: Ready for humans at last?

Double lung transplant surgery, carried out in 2007? at the Department of thoracic surgery, Foch hospital, Suresnes, France (Image: Foch/Phanie/Rex Features) IN THE not too distant future, a person in need of a heart transplant could be offered a pig’s organ. That’s the hope of a group [...]

Vitamin D Insufficiency Linked to Parkinson’s Disease

by: Reuben Chow, citizen journalist (NaturalNews) Vitamin D, also called the sunshine vitamin, has already been shown in studies to be important for a healthy immune system, preventing and even reversing cancer, as well as strong bones; it has also been linked to lower incidences of depression as well as diseases such as diabetes, heart disease [...]

A New Face for A.D.H.D., and a Debate

By TARA PARKER-POPE When pediatricians diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, they often ask their patients whether they know anybody else with the problem. These days, children are likely to reply with a household name: Michael Phelps, the Olympic superstar, who is emerging as an inspirational role model among parents and children whose lives are affected by attention [...]

Research on mice links fast food to Alzheimer’s

LONDON (Reuters) - Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer’s disease, a Swedish researcher said on Friday. The findings, which come from a series of published papers by a researcher at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet, show how a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol [...]

Selenium may slow march of AIDS

Contact: Amitabh Avasthi axa47@psu.edu 814-865-9481 Penn State Increasing the production of naturally occurring proteins that contain selenium in human blood cells slows down multiplication of the AIDS virus, according to biochemists. “We have found that increasing the expression of proteins that contain selenium negatively affects the replication of HIV,” said K. Sandeep Prabhu, Penn State assistant professor of immunology and [...]

10 Ways to Save Money on Health Costs During the Recession

By Scott Mowbray Istockphoto Whatever the prospects for health-care reform, the sick economy is going to put lots of pressure on Americans. Unemployment will be up, the number of uninsured will rise, companies will surely cut health benefits to employees, and all this stress will be, well, unhealthy. Although there is some evidence that recessions can actually improve [...]

Let’s Talk About Sex

By Sally Wadyka for MSN Health & Fitness If you’re like most guys, you probably think you already know everything there is to know about sex. But it’s what you don’t know—or don’t bother to ask—that could hurt you. We’re not talking about satisfying your partner (although that’s important too!), but about issues that impact both [...]