THE TOP TEN HEALTH INNOVATIONS OF 2014.

A great year for health innovations with exciting discoveries, verification, validations and breakthroughs.  The big disease areas are still cancer, heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer’s, however, it’s the methodology of detection, imaging, and the descriptive diagnostics that have been innovated this year.  In some cases these disciplines and techniques bleed...

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Sensitive Blood Test May Help Rule Out Heart Attack

WEDNESDAY Oct. 7, 2015, 2015 — A new, highly sensitive blood test may help doctors quickly rule out heart attack for almost two-thirds of people who seek emergency room treatment for chest pain, a new study suggests. Researchers said their findings could potentially reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and substantially lower health-care costs. “Until now, there...

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Insight into cancer resistance in elephants could aid human treatment !!!!

They are the largest land animals in the world, weighing up to 14,000 pounds and standing up to 4 meters tall. Given their size, elephants should be highly susceptible to cancer – they have at least 100 times more cells than humans – but they rarely develop the disease. In a new study, researchers shed light on the mechanisms behind elephants’ resistance to cancer –...

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HRT safe and perhaps beneficial in women treated for ovarian cancer, major trial shows

Women with the commonest type of ovarian cancer can safely take hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and it could have a beneficial effect on their survival, a long-term clinical trial reports.The 24-year, phase III international trial provides the strongest evidence yet that women with epithelial ovarian cancer – which accounts for 80-90 per cent of cases – can safely take...

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When will the law change to decriminalize doctor-assisted deaths?

When will the law change to decriminalize doctor-assisted deaths? The Supreme Court of Canada gave the government of Canada one year to draft new laws, if it wishes, to govern physician-assisted death. In a legal sense, Parliament could just do nothing; politically, though, that is highly unlikely, as the Conservative government would be seen as abdicating its duty to...

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blood sugar And Alzheimer’s disease?

COULD HIGH BLOOD SUGAR BE A CAUSE OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE? Catharine Paddock PhD While nobody knows exactly what causes the complex brain changes that lead to Alzheimer’s disease, scientists suspect one of the drivers is the accumulation of plaques of a faulty protein called beta-amyloid. Now, a new study of mice shows how too much sugar in the blood can speed up the...

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