Health

A Study Is Indicating That Folks Who Experience Bad Dreams In Older Age, Without Any Trigger, Are Twice Prone To Parkinson’s Disease. The Study Was Done Using 12 Years Of Data From 3818 Older Men Living Independently, And Questionnaires That Included Sleep Quality Questions. Researchers Plan To Do More Studies In Larger & Diverse Group.

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Researchers Have Injected The First Human Patient With A Virus Engineered Solely To Kill Cancer. The Virus, Vixinia, Was Effective Against Cancer In Animals, Especially For Lung, Breast, Ovaries, Pancreas, And Colon Cancer. Vixinia Is Said To Boost The Body’s Immune Response To Cancer And Make Cancer Cells More Visible To The Immune System.

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Doctors Have Reattached The Hands Of A 5-Year-Old Kid, In What Many Are Describing As The First Of Such Medical Feat in Asia. And also The First Re-Implantation Of A Minor’s Hands In Pakistan. The 10 Hour Surgery Was Performed At The Children’s Hospital In Lahore After The Boy’s Hands Were Cut-Off In A Spinning Blade Machine At Home.

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Spain May Approve A 3-Day Per Month Leave For Workers Who Experience Severe Period Pain. The Law Is Part Of A Reproductive Health Rights Reform, Which Includes, E.g., Enabling Girls Aged 16-17 To Have An Abortion Without Parental Consent. Spain Will Become The First Western Country To Offer Menstrual Leave If The Law Gets Approved.

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Emily Whitehead, Who Was Diagnosed With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia At The Age Of 5 Years Old, After 2 Years Of Unsuccessful Chemotherapy And Rapidly Declining Health, Become The First Child To Receive The CAR T-Cell Therapy At Children’s Hospital Of Philadelphia. Emily Is Now Celebrating 10 Years Of Being Cancer Free. Cool!

A New Study Of About 405,981 British Adults Indicates That Walking Faster Could Add 20 More Years To A Person’s Biological Age. The Researchers Discovered That Walking Faster, Regardless Of Other Physical Activities, Could Lead To Longer Telomeres, Which Are The Protective “Caps” On The Ends Of The Chromosomes That Help Stabilize The DNA.

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Researchers, In A Bid To Create Stem Cells, Rejuvenated A 53-Year-Old Woman’s Skin To Look And Behave Like The Skin Of A 23-Year-Old Woman. Unfortunately, Their Method Can’t Be Used Clinically As It Could Increase Cancer Risk. But The Study May Help Identify Rejuvenating Genes That Could Be Used In Burn Treatment And Human Life Extension.

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Researchers Engineered A Bacteria, Probiotic E.coli Nissle 1917, To Consistently Produce, In The Gut, Effective Volumes Of L-DOPA Drug For Parkinson’s Disease Treatment. Mouse Studies Show That The Method Is Safe & Effective. And Consistent Source Of L-DOPA Could Alleviate Dyskinesias Side Effects. But More Study Is Required For Human Use.

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A New Study, Via Testing 22 Blood Samples, Has Detected, For The First Time, Tiny Particles Of Plastic In Human Blood. And Warn That The Microplastics Could Damage Human Cells. Half Of The Blood Samples Had Plastics From Drink Bottles, Another Third Had Plastics From Packaging Food. The Remaining Quarter Had Plastic From Shopping Bags.

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A 2 Night Study, Involving 20 Persons, Indicates That Sleeping With Light On, At Night, Increases The Risk For Heart Disease And Diabetes. The Study May Have Attributed The Cause To The Body Being Kept More Alert Via The Light Activation Of The Autonomic Nervous System. However, Further Larger Studies Are Advised To Confirm This Result.

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