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Stem Cell Treatment for Muscle Injuries?

Stem Cell Treatment for Muscle Injuries? Can stem cell therapy cure muscle injuries? A recent experiment involving mice suggests that it can. However, whether the same positive results seen in experimental mice can be replicated among human patients remains a question.

When stem cells were injected into mice with muscle injuries, the muscles were not only restored but also grew twice as large. This finding, by researchers from the University of Colorado, may help the medical community find new treatments to muscle diseases such as muscular dystrophy. It might also pave a way for people to resist muscle erosion due to aging.

The study, reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine, found that the injured muscles of young mice which were injected with stem cells from young donor mice increased in size by 170 percent. Additionally, the new muscles lasted during the mice’s lifetime – about two years.

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Bad Negative Effects of Too Much Texting + Social Networking

Bad Negative Effects of Too Much Texting + Social Networking. Here’s an important note for all parents out there: You should add a new set of rules that govern your kids’ texting and social networking activities.

A study from Case Western Reserve University suggests that high school children who spend most of their time sending text messages or surfing social networking sites may be at risk for several worrisome behaviors.

The study, which involved more than 4,000 high school students in 20 urban Ohio high schools, enumerates these behaviors: smoking, depression, eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, and absenteeism.

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What Causes Cryptorchidism? Painkillers During Pregnancy?

What Causes Cryptorchidism? Painkillers During Pregnancy? What is cryptorchidism and what causes it? Cryptorchidism is the absence of one or both testes from the scrotum because of its/their failure to “descend”.

What causes this disorder is yet to be established but some European researchers are now suggesting that painkillers — paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen — taken by mothers during their pregnancy may be a contributing factor.

In a study published in the Human Reproduction journal, the researchers – led by Henrik Leffers of Copenhagen’s Righospitalet – found that women who took a combination of more than one mild painkillers during their pregnancy had an increased risk of giving birth to sons with undescended testicles.

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Silicone or Saline Breast Implant: Which is Better?

Silicone vs Saline Breast Implant: Which is Better? Which Has the Higher Satisfaction Score? After mastectomy, women who received silicone implants for breast reconstruction tend to be more satisfied with the result, compared to those who received saline implants, a survey claims.

The survey reveals that women who received silicone implants had higher “satisfaction” scores with the look and feel of their breasts after breast surgery.

Dr. Colleen M. McCarthy, surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and the lead researcher of the study, clarifies that the scores did not show that women with saline implants are unhappy with the result of their surgery. “These women were still very satisfied with saline implants,” she told Reuters Health but adds that there is a difference in the magnitude of satisfaction between those with silicone implants and those with saline.

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Vigor-25 Side Effects and Risks: Is Male Potency Supplement Good or Bad?

Vigor-25 Side Effects and Risks: Is Male Potency Supplement Good or Bad? If you are using Vigor-25 male “performance” supplement to keep you going and going like the legendary Energizer bunny, you should be aware of the drug’s risky side effects.

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Vigor-25, which is being marketed as a “natural dietary supplement to enhance male sexual performance”, contains sildenafil which may interact with prescription drugs and can lower your blood pressure to dangerous levels.

Says Deborah Autor, director of the Office of Compliance in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research: “This product is dangerous to consumers because it claims to contain only natural ingredients when it actually contains a prescription drug ingredient. Tainted products place consumers at risk of injury and death, especially those consumers with underlying health conditions.”

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Prostate Cancer Detection Test: Early Warning Signs?

Prostate Cancer Detection Test: Early Warning Signs? How do you know you’ve got prostate cancer? Doctors use the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) test but this cannot detect early cancer stages and is not very accurate because, to use the words of the Daily Telegraph, it “often indicates problems where none exists”.

Now, a recent research from Bristol University in the UK suggests that early warning signs of prostate cancer can be discovered through protein “growth factors” which are present in higher levels among men with prostate cancer.

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