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Research has found it may be possible to undo the damage to muscle in children with a form of motor neurone disease. Newborns with the most severe spinal muscular atrophy fail to cry at birth. Spinal muscular atrophy, also know as ‘floppy baby syndrome’, is the main genetic cause of death in children. One in [...]

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A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found women experiencing a heart attack suffer less chest pain symptoms, according to a study of more than one million people in the US. Generally men suffer more heart attacks but women younger than 55 are at higher risk of mortality from one. There [...]

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Research shows teenagers today skip meals to lose weight, despite eating less fat and more vegetables than previous generations! This conclusion was reached after 750,000 11- to 15-year-olds were interviewed over a 30 year period, by Dr David Regis, of the Schools Health Education Unit. The number of youngsters consuming crisps and sweets on most [...]

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Cochrane Collaboration studied 33 trials consisting of more than 1,700 patients. The review comes the day after doctors reported the first case of repairing heart attack damage using heart cells. After a heart attack, the dead heart muscle is replaced with scar tissue, which is not as contractile as the original heart tissue, thus leaving [...]

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A post-exercise cold bath eases sore muscles however experts are unclear if this is safe. Immersing the human body into icy cold water shocks the system and may even be dangerous, according to researchers at the UK Cochrane Centre. After analysing the trial evidence (17 small studies consisting of 366 participants) the researchers concluded a [...]

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Destruction resulting from a heart attack (a.k.a. myocardial infarction) has been repaired with stem cells collected from the patient’s own heart. Scar tissue was halved in the small safety trial reported in the Lancet medical journal. The authors reported an “unprecedented” increase in new heart muscle. The British Heart Foundation said it was “early days”, [...]

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Studies have shown a link between a high calorie diet and memory loss. Researchers investigated mild cognitive impairment (MCI) -an early sign of dementia. The research claims a high calorie diet was linked to having twice the risk of MCI, compared with a low calorie diet. Alzheimer’s Research UK said a healthy lifestyle helps protect [...]

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Scientists have revealed in the body preventing attacks from HIV by starving the deadly virus of the building blocks of life. Viruses hijack other cells and turn them into virus production factories in order to replicate. An article, published in Nature Immunology, reports how parts of the immune system destroy their own raw materials, thus [...]

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Our big price freeze! We are still keeping our prices at £37 per appointment Recent times have been hard financially for many of us, and I do my best to provide any help I can. Which is why I have not increased our prices for the last three years. Therefore you can feel safe in [...]

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A recent study re-confirmed heavy lifting, twisting and bending can damage spinal discs of the back by decreasing the flow of nutrients to the disc cells. An imbalance of nutrients in spinal discs can then lead to the onset of degenerative disease and dysfunction. Published in PLoS Computational Biology, experts say physical activity helps cell [...]

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