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  Researchers from the University Hospital Limerick in Ireland discovered a new human organ called as Mesentery. It can be found in the human digestive system. Mesentery is described as a double fold of the peritoneum, the abdominal cavity lining, which keeps everything together. J. Calvin Coffey, an Irish researcher who lead the study, stated that humans have an organ in the body which hasn’t been acknowledged until now. After the discovery of this new organ, the next step is to find out its function. But since its function is still unknown, researchers are investigating whether its distinctive cell type is responsible of how it works. Coffey also stated that…
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  Experts urge malnutrition be cured to prevent health catastrophe Otherwise governments act on it, malnutrition can harm 50 percent of the globe’s population come 2035, U.N. Agencies and experts agree. This all-pervading setback includes both famine and obesity. Currently, this food problem has spread throughout a third of the population which costs the world economy roughly $3.5 trillion annually in healthcare and lost productivity, according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Tweaking at the margins won’t suffice and radical transformation of our food systems is needed to nourish – not just feed – 9 billion people, Patrick Webb, professor of nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition…
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A new study suggests that non-frequent smokers still have a higher chance of dying early than non-smokers. Smoking just once per day gives one a 64% chance of dying early. Those who smoke less than one cigarette per day are also nine times more likely to die of lung cancer. On the other hand, heavy smokers or those smoking one to 10 cigarettes per day have an 87% chance at an early death than non-smokers. They are also 12 times more likely to die of lung cancer. Although this research is too limited as most of its repondents were older and caucasian, this is an important research as it is…
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  A new life-saving method has been devised to lengthen the time needed by doctors to perform lung transplants. Surgeons will be given double the time to perform each operation with the ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) in contrast to their typical six hours. The technique works to keep the lungs functioning, given that they are out of the human body for almost half a day, that is crucial to the recipient’s survival. Getting the organs to the patients on time is a matter of life and death. Fortunately, the EVLP can push the organ delivery for over 12 hours to the operation. The EVLP ices the lungs and pumps liquid…
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  A USB stick to test HIV (human deficiency virus) is introduced to quickly and accurately analyze how much virus is in a patient’s bloodstream. It can pinpoint HIV in a drop of blood that will then send electrical signals that can be interpreted by a computer. The device is the result of combined efforts of researchers in Imperial College London and a U.S. firm DNA Electronics. Given that the technology is in its early stage, it is already crucial to efficient and regular monitoring of patients’ virus level. According to the journal of Scientific reports, the initial run on the device could provide results for only 20.8 minutes at…
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A new method to fight off peanut allergy has been devised that makes use of a wearable skin patch which trains the body to build up immunity to peanuts. According to a research published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, it had a fifty-percent success rate on its initial test run that enabled takers to tolerate doses of peanut protein that are 10 times more than they could before undergoing the therapy Children from ages 4 to 11 years old are found to benefit more from the immunotherapy. Those who are older than 12, on the other hand, didn’t seem to enjoy the same advantage. Although the method…
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  A new method has been devised to counter contagious diseases by producing copious human antibodies in cows. The said technology engineered by SAB Biotherapeutics, a private biomedical company in South Dakota, follows the same procedure done during the Ebola outbreak when doctors injected plasma from recuperating patients to affected patients. Although the method was a success, it only worked on a small scale. The amount of plasma extracted from recovering patients was not enough to battle the outbreak; that’s when cows come into the picture. The human body can produce 4 liters of antibodies in a month at an average, which can be dwarfed easily by a cow’s ability…
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  Mouse eggs are fertiled to produce offspring in the lab. This experiment is done by Japanese scientists. They have said that the experiment might be too risky and contentious if this will be done in human reproduction. Good thing about this experiment is that it may be useful to treat infertility but the process is going to be complicated. Embryos will turn to be normal but it’ll be fewer than expected. Lab-grown eggs will possibly have abnormalities. Stem cells that fertilized in the lab as well were grown into mature eggs. The data gathered interest not just the scientists but also the clinical interests to patients who lacks eggs…
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  A recent study in the U.S. has found that secondhand smoke is indeed linked to stroke. Dr. Michelle Lin of John Hopkins School of Medicine and her co-authors said that there is an increased risk of stroke to non-smokers who reside with smokers. They also noted that stroke survivors who are exposed to secondhand smoke are twice as likely to die than those who aren’t. In fact, 1 out of 4 Americans (58 billion people) non-smokers are exposed to secondhand smoke. Angela Malek of Medical University of South Carolina noted that adults who are exposed to secondhand smoke aren’t only at risk of stroke but also lung cancer and…
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