New studies gives hope about the future of xenotransplantation

A new promising area of medicine researches is the xenotransplantation, in another word transplantation of animal organs from one animal to another is now giving better expectations since it was first stated. Continue Reading »

Thinking we are full, a good way to keep good shape by taking a gut hormone, according to a new research

Nowadays most people would love to trick themselves as they try to make their stomach to feel full while it’s empty, for now scientists took advantage of this and made new researches to try making this possible to people, and well, they said that there might be a way to do this by taking gut hormones that can do this. Continue Reading »

A new improved way of glaucoma assessment and treatment

A new study conducted by a team of researchers in United Kingdom(UK) is expected to important and have effects, this study will affect the way professionals of healthcare use to measure eye pressure and is predicted to make them able to evaluate the risk of glaucoma in much higher accuracy. Continue Reading »

The vaccination of flu can be highly affected by obesity… according to a new study

Results from a new research say that being overweighed may affect the flu shots and make them less effective, this is according to a published study in October 2011 which provides evidence that explain a noticed phenomenon in 2009 about H1N1 flu, this phenomenon is that the fat people have some type of immunity to flu drugs and vaccinations, so they don’t usually respond to them.  Continue Reading »

Erectile Dysfunction

Although erectile dysfunction (ED) is a frequent reason for consultation in our geriatric consultation services, which is geared to so-called geriatric patient, 75 years, with chronic comorbidity, dependent for their care, and presence of any of the called geriatric syndromes, incontinence, cognitive impairment, falls, ..- Geriatrics Service members of the Hospital de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, published in Spanish Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology, vol.45 No. 06, a review entitled “pathophysiology, Diagnosis and treatment of erectile dysfunction in the elderly”, highlighting the multicausal origin of the disease, its relation to cardiovascular disease, the importance of clinical history and examination for a diagnostic approach (currently underdiagnosed) and choice adecuada.Los therapeutic authors make a good review of those drugs that can promote ED. Continue Reading »