Preventing and slowing down dementia-like brain disorders including Alzheimer’s disease and others, is one of the main focuses of today’s scientists and researches, and a great deal of new ideas and findings related to dementia-like conditions are being published nowadays. In particular, curcumin has been recently reported as one of the best herbal remedies for improving our brain function ans preventing dementia. Also, a natural component found in red wine has shown potential in prevention the development of Alzheimer’s disease. A few weeks ago, more of related findings were published. Read the rest of this entry »

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal and the most aggressive types of cancer, and it is estimated that every year about 8,000 people in the United Kingdom are diagnosed with this terrible disease. The survival rate of pancreatic cancer sufferers remains incredibly low, making this type of cancer the fifth cause of death in modern UK. That is why today’s scientists are working very hard on looking for effective, safe and promising treatments for pancreatic cancer. One of those was recently reported by the Cancer Research UK experts in Cambridge as a new potentially effective tool to combat the disease. Read the rest of this entry »

For decades, scientists around the world have been trying to find new technologies and approaches to boosting the effectiveness of the existing cancer treatments in order to increase the chances of millions of sufferers to get cured from this serious disease. According to the most recent findings, received during the studies on brain cancer treatments, it can be effective to use vitamin C to speed up and boost the effectiveness of radiation therapy. It is reported that showering brain tumor cells with this vitamin can assist in softening the cells up and speeding up the elimination of the tumors. Read the rest of this entry »

American specialists at Yale University School of Medicine found out that such factor and time of the day can play a serious role in the reactions of our immune system, this way manipulating our chances to get one or another type of infection. Their scientific work was focused on looking at the reactions of protein in the immune system on various changes in chemical processes we go through during our daily cycle. According to the experts, our body clock can be a serious factor, and the severity of an infection, to a certain extant, most likely depends on the time of the day when the body has got it. Read the rest of this entry »

Alzheimer’s disease is definitely one of the most serious and terrible diseases of modern times, which currently has no known cure or treatment. Nowadays, numerous research and studies are being carried out to better understand the causes and possibly find some effective remedies for this disease. In particular, it was recently discovered that red wine component can be potentially used to prevent dementia. One more study resulted in clearing up the role of iron and other metals in developing Alzheimer’s disease. Recently, the findings of one more interesting study were published in the journal Scientist: American researchers managed to find the clues to an effective Azheimer’s treatment when testing a  known cancer drug. Read the rest of this entry »

Those who suffer from such health condition as gout are recommended to use skimmed milk on a regular basis as a newly discovered remedy to reduce the symptoms of the disease. It was recently found out that using skimmed milk enriched with two compounds, G600 milk fat extract (G600) and glycomacropeptide (GMP), can be a great natural solution for reducing such common symptoms of gout as flare-ups which are usually causing lots of pain and discomfort. Those are the findings of a new research reported this month in British Medical Journal and in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. Read the rest of this entry »