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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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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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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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Research has found heart damage can be caused by carrying out high levels of endurance exercise, such as training for marathons, triathlons or alpine cycle races. The study carried out on 40 athletes had MRI scans which showed most had their heart muscles stretched, with 5 of them showing permanent damage. The researchers observed the [...]

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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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Lower back pain and back ache is on the rise. One of the reasons for this is we are spending more time sitting than ever before. Think about it. Someone who has an office or desk based job sits at work, sits to and from work, then sits at home. Our bodies are designed to [...]

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