Category Archives: Health

Why a Consultation with Medical Marijuana Doctor is Necessary?

Marijuana was formerly only used as a psychoactive drug, which had it banned for many years until the advanced medical research found it to be beneficial for several medical and psychological disorders. If you are tired of trying antibiotics and other regular medications for your anxiety headaches, emotional distress, maybe it’s time for you to consult medical marijuana doctors. They offer multiple benefits for health that are not only restricted to humans, rather they are equally fruitful for your pets. Medical marijuana is specifically designed to treat disorders like depression, arthritis, anxiety, and other such health-related issues. However, proper consultation from the marijuana doctor is highly recommended for it to be effective.  (more…)

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Chronic opioid treatment may raise risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, study finds

While opioids are often prescribed to treat people with trauma-related pain, a new UCLA-led study suggests doctors should use caution before prescribing the drug to those they believe may experience severe stress in the future, in order to reduce the risk the patient will develop PTSD. (more…)

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Suntanner, Heal Thyself: Exosome Therapy May Enable Better Repair of Sun, Age-Damaged Skin

In the future, you could be your very own fountain of youth – or at least your own skin repair reservoir. In a proof-of-concept study, researchers from North Carolina State University have shown that exosomes harvested from human skin cells are more effective at repairing sun-damaged skin cells in mice than popular retinol or stem cell-based treatments currently in use. Additionally, the nanometer-sized exosomes can be delivered to the target cells via needle-free injections. (more…)

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Mit der Genschere Krankheiten erkennen

Forschende stellen den Prototypen eines Sensors vor, der schnell, präzise und günstig molekulare Signale für Krebs misst

Die CRISPR/Cas-Methode kann mehr als Gene verändern. Ein Freiburger Forschungsteam nutzt die so genannte Genschere, mit der Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler das Erbgut bearbeiten können, um Krankheiten wie Krebs besser zu diagnostizieren. (more…)

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Higher vitamin A intake linked to lower skin cancer risk

Researchers found that people who ate high levels of vitamin A were 17 percent less likely to get the second-most-common type of skin cancer years later.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — People whose diets included high levels of vitamin A had a 17 percent reduction in risk for getting the second-most-common type of skin cancer, as compared to those who ate modest amounts of foods and supplements rich in vitamin A. (more…)

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Pilz als Untermieter produziert Wirkstoff der Heilpflanze

Forschungsteam der Universität Tübingen und der TU Dresden entdeckt, dass ein Pilz in der Tataren-Aster die bioaktiven Stoffe bildet – Grundlagen für biotechnologische Herstellung

Die Tataren-Aster wird in der traditionellen chinesischen Medizin wegen des enthaltenen Astins als Heilpflanze genutzt; dem Stoff werden auch in der Krebsforschung vielversprechende Eigenschaften zugeschrieben. Doch die Astine produziert die Pflanze nicht selbst, wie lange angenommen wurde, sondern sie stammen von einem Pilz, der im Gewebe ihrer Blütenstände lebt. Das haben Dr. Thomas Schafhauser und Professor Wolfgang Wohlleben von der Universität Tübingen gemeinsam mit Dr. Linda Jahn, Professorin Jutta Ludwig-Müller und Professor Karl-Heinz van Pée von der Technischen Universität Dresden in einem internationalen Team herausgefunden. (more…)

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Study shows how serotonin and a popular anti-depressant affect the gut’s microbiota

A new study in mice led by UCLA biologists strongly suggests that serotonin and drugs that target serotonin, such as anti-depressants, can have a major effect on the gut’s microbiota — the 100 trillion or so bacteria and other microbes that live in the human body’s intestines. (more…)

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