The genus Rosa from family Rosaceae is one of the most widespread species from the family. One species, rose hip (rose haw), is known as a good source of different types of micronutrients and phytochemicals such as phenolic acids, tannins, and flavonoids. It is known as a traditional treatment in folk medicine. It has been used for...
Year: <span>2019</span>
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Why You Should Have Heart Surgery in the Afternoon
“You know how Carl Sagan said that we have billions of stars? Well, we have billions of clocks,” says Carrie Partch. “Someday I think there’s going to be this palm-to-forehead moment where we all say: I cannot believe we didn’t understand that every form of life on this planet has a clock that links us to...
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Hope for millions of men with enlarged prostates as scientists discover the gland can be shrunk with direct injections of alcohol
Injecting ethanol directly into the prostate could shrink it by more than a third And it reduces how often men need to get up in the night to urinate One expert said the pioneering treatment is ‘excellent news’ Researchers in Venezuela have trialled the therapy on 60 middle-aged men Injecting alcohol directly into the prostate gland could...
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Gel made from the bark of a birch tree speeds up the healing of wounds from burns and reduces skin scarring (and it could be available to buy by the end of 2019)
Birch has anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, expert says Gel using birch sped up healing in 86% of people compared to standard gel The product is being developed by experts who say there is a gap in treatment A chemical found in birch bark helps wounds heal faster and with less scarring than ordinary creams, researchers...
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Is a cure for Aids within reach? Scientists succeed in destroying HIV-infected cells in major breakthrough
Scientists announced a potential breakthrough in the fight against HIV/AIDS Researchers at Paris’ Institut Pasteur found a way to destroy infected cells Currently HIV is treated with antiretroviral drugs which cannot remove the virus Researchers claim to have found a way to eliminate infected ‘reservoir’ cells Scientists have announced a potentially major breakthrough in the...
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Magnetic Brain Stimulation: ‘Huge Amount of Promise’
TMS could still shift the psychiatric treatment paradigm, despite failure in VA trial In June, we reported on a disappointing trial of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for treatment-resistant depression, which found no advantage for the treatment over a sham version in a Veterans Affairs (VA) population. In this follow-up article, we take a look at...
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Skin Lesions Linked With Anti-TNF in IBD
Most paradoxical psoriasiform eruptions were managed locally ORLANDO — Paradoxical psoriasiform eruptions have increasingly been reported among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) being treated with anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) agents, a researcher reported here, describing a case that she had recently seen. The patient was a 27-year-old woman with IBD who presented with a...
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Medgadget’s Best Medical Technologies of 2018
The year 2018 is nearly over, and it is time for us to reveal what we believe were the most notable developments in medical technology. We considered a technology’s clinical importance, the greatness of the leap that it’s making over existing solutions, as well as how we expect it to be adopted by doctors and...
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Scientists hope that newly discovered protein could lead to an effective psoriasis treatment
Psoriasis – a common, chronic skin disease that affects over 100 million people worldwide. It is incurable, even though there are pretty effective techniques for managing the symptoms. However, now scientists from the University of Birmingham have discovered a protein, which could eventually lead to more effective therapies for many skin problems including psoriasis. This...
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Medication for severe acne alters skin microbiome
Isotretinoin, a form of vitamin A, has been prescribed to treat acne for decades. It reduces oil production in the skin, which helps prevent acne from forming. But new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has uncovered a previously unknown benefit of the medication. It shifts the skin microbiome of acne...