Sativex Marijuana Spray vs. Cancer Pain: Side Effects & Precautions

Marijuana mouth spray for cancer pain may get FDA nod soon: Marijuana in a mouth spray? Now ain’t that cool? Before you fall of your chair, take note: the spray is a medication and not a new form of smokeless pot. But the great news is that the marijuana-based mouth spray — the the world’s [...]

Sativex Marijuana Spray vs. Cancer Pain: Side Effects & Precautions, Health Care Zone

High Heels, Health Risks, Bad Side Effects, & Muscle Stress

High heels stress muscles, pose injury risk—and change the way future women will walk? If, over the next millennia, women will continue to use high-heeled shoes as modern women do, women in the future may evolve a tottering gait, walking with shorter, more forceful strides than men, with their feet perpetually in a flexed, toes-pointed [...]

High Heels, Health Risks, Bad Side Effects, & Muscle Stress, Health Care Zone

Gardasil for Men (vs. Anal Cancer & Genital Warts): Side Effects & Safety

Gardasil for boys advised by US, Canada health authorities: Do you want to protect your son against genital warts? Or are you a sexually active male gay worried that you may get anal cancer? If you are either, you might be glad to know that the use of Gardasil in males to protect against anal [...]

Gardasil for Men (vs. Anal Cancer & Genital Warts): Side Effects & Safety, Health Care Zone

Brown Fat: Obesity Cure or Weight-Loss Fad? Carpentier & Spiegelman Studies

Can brown fat be used to ‘cure’ obesity? Or is it the new weight-loss buzzword, no less a fad than multivitamins and protein diets that end up causing more harm than good? The answer to both questions is ‘maybe’ — based on the most current information scientists have at hand, including the results of two [...]

Brown Fat: Obesity Cure or Weight-Loss Fad? Carpentier & Spiegelman Studies, Health Care Zone

Citicoline Energy Drink: Improves Brain & Heals Stroke?

Do Citicoline drinks and gels sharpen mind, boost energy? In today’s globalized and hypercompetitive world, people need to speed up just to keep pace. This culture of speed is driving the demand for energy drinks and supplements, marketed on claims that drinking them clears your mind and helps you focus. Last year, Americans spent about [...]

Citicoline Energy Drink: Improves Brain & Heals Stroke?, Health Care Zone

Stem Cell Alzheimer’s Cure? Dr. Larry Goldstein’s Promising ‘Disease-in-a-Dish’

Stem cell ‘disease-in-a-dish’ shows promise for Alzheimer’s cure: Alzheimer’s, a progressive brain disorder that often strikes late in life, is a terrible disease. Sufferers slowly but irreversibly lose their memory, language skills and perception of time and space. Eventually, they can’t even take care of themselves. On both patients and those who love and care [...]

Stem Cell Alzheimer’s Cure? Dr. Larry Goldstein’s Promising ‘Disease-in-a-Dish’, Health Care Zone

Is Stem Cell Therapy for Macular Degeneration Safe & Effective?

Stem cell retinal implant therapy is safe, new study shows: After only four months, an embryonic stem cell treatment for eye disease has improved the sight of two women legally blind for many years — according to the women themselves and scientists behind the world’s first human trial for eye disease stem cell treatments. The [...]

Is Stem Cell Therapy for Macular Degeneration Safe & Effective?, Health Care Zone

Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya, UCF Team Patent iPS Stem Cell Technique

University of Central Florida team patents stem cells advance: The University of Central Florida recently achieved another breakthrough in stem cell research, when a research team from its Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences patented a method of creating human stem cells—a way that bypasses ethical controversies as well as medical concerns. Because they are naturally [...]

Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya, UCF Team Patent iPS Stem Cell Technique, Health Care Zone

Vectalys & iPS Acacemia Ink Stem Cell Patent Pact

Stem cell research boosted by Vectalys, iPS Academia licensing pact: A new licensing agreement between a French biotechnology company and a Japanese developer of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologies over the production and sale of iPSCs promises to boost global stem cell research. With their potential to grow into any type of body tissue, [...]

Vectalys & iPS Acacemia Ink Stem Cell Patent Pact, Health Care Zone

Stem Cell Death? Dr. Zannos Grekos’ Controversial Stem Cell Therapy

Florida probes: Did stem cell therapy kill cardiologist’s patient? They offer hope to many people burdened with incurable and devastating ailments. But some stem cell therapies have ended up serving heartbreak, instead. In the latest of many cases that have cropped up across the globe since the first stem cells were isolated in 1998, a [...]

Stem Cell Death? Dr. Zannos Grekos’ Controversial Stem Cell Therapy, Health Care Zone