Heart healthy lifestyle may help protect kidney patients from dying prematurely

A new study has found that maintaining a heart healthy lifestyle may also help protect chronic kidney disease patients from developing kidney failure and early death. The findings suggest that patients with kidney disease should be encouraged to improve their heart health. Paul Muntner, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham) and his colleagues used the American Heart Association's recently ...

Doctor using spy watch to record himself abusing patients jailed for 12 yrs

A family doctor who used to record himself abusing female patients using a secret camera hidden inside his wristwatch, has been jailed for 12 years after admitting a string of sex charges. Dr Davinder Jeet Bains, 46, used his position as a GP at a medical practice in Royal Wootton Bassett, near Wiltshire, to assault more than two dozen women, reports the Guardian. The watch has a built-in ...

Boys stem cells successfully treat cerebral palsy

Doctors have been able to successfully treat a 2.5-year-old boy who had suffered from cardiac arrest and brain damage, putting him in a vegetative state, using his own cord blood containing stem cells. The symptoms improved significantly; over the following months, the child learned to speak simple sentences and to move. "Our findings, along with those from a Korean study, dispel the long-held ...

Turning off technology hours before bedtime promotes sound sleep

Using your tablet or smartphone before bed can suppress quality sleep, thus putting you at risk for health problems, a new study suggests. If you want to improve your sleep, researchers advise shutting off your tablet well before bedtime. Nighttime exposure to LED rays illuminating from tablets, computers, TVs, and smartphones can disrupt your body's natural rhythms, and raise your risk for ...

Secrets behind itching revealed

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health report have discovered that a small molecule released in the spinal cord of a mouse triggers a process that is later experienced in the brain as the sensation of itch. The small molecule, called natriuretic polypeptide b (Nppb), streams ahead and selectively plugs into a specific nerve cell in the spinal cord, which sends the signal onward through ...