Good genes only go so far in resisting aging. For those who want to up their arsenal of beauty boosters, there is a range of over-the counter and prescription medications available to fight skin redness, wrinkles and other beauty battles. Researching why the products were manufactured—and how they work—is important to selecting the best option...
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Daylight saving time—why some have a hard time making the switch
For the most part, adjusting our clocks an hour ahead—as we will do this weekend—comes as good news: it is a welcome change from the long, dark winter. Even though a one-hour time change does not sound like something that could do much harm, it can have some alarming effects on the body’s internal clock, which...
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Proof That the Pharma Business Model Actually Wants People Sick
It happens with regularity during citizen open-mike sessions at FDA drug advisory committee hearings. A queue of “patients” materializes out of nowhere to testify, often in tears, about the crucial need for a new drug or new use approval. Some are flown in by Pharma. It can’t be a generic drug, the “patients” cry, because...
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After Hair-Loss Drug Came Years of Erectile Dysfunction
(Getty Images/CatherineL-Prod) (NEWSER) – Two drugs—one to treat hair loss, the other to shrink enlarged prostates—could wreak havoc on men’s sexual health. Researchers at Northwestern University reported Thursday in the journal PeerJ that among the men they studied who are between the ages of 16 and 89 and who took either finasteride (for their hair or prostate) or dutasteride...
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Popular hair-loss drug Propecia could be linked to long-term mojo meltdown
A new study suggests that Propecia might solve one problem, only to cause another that persists for longer than you’d like Can you save your hair and keep your mojo, too? That’s the question prompted by a new study investigating the sexual side effects of the drug finasteride (better known among the hair loss...
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Ingestible origami robot
Robot unfolds from ingestible capsule, removes button battery stuck to wall of simulated stomach. In experiments involving a simulation of the human esophagus and stomach, researchers at MIT, the University of Sheffield, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have demonstrated a tiny origami robot that can unfold itself from a swallowed capsule and, steered by...
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New Material Regrows Bone
A schematic representation of the experimental design. A team of researchers repaired a hole in a mouse’s skull by regrowing “quality bone,” a breakthrough that could drastically improve the care of people who suffer severe trauma to the skull or face. The work by a joint team of Northwestern Engineering and University of Chicago researchers...
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Bowel cancer medication could help combat early-onset Parkinson’s disease
People with certain forms of early-onset Parkinson’s disease could potentially benefit from taking a medication used to treat certain forms of cancer, according to new research by University of Leicester scientists and funded by the Medical Research Council. The study, which has been published in Science Matters, suggests that folinic acid, which is used in medications...
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Older women taking statins face higher risk of diabetes
Older women taking cholesterol-lowering statins face a significantly increased risk of developing diabetes Older Australian women taking cholesterol-lowering statins face a significantly increased risk of developing diabetes, according to a University of Queensland study. UQ School of Public Health researcher Dr Mark Jones said women over 75 faced a 33 per cent higher chance of...
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Old gut stem cells made to grow like young ones in a dish
This photograph shows villi from an older gut. Intestines experience a lot of wear and tear. Without the stalwart stem cells that live in our gut’s lining, our ability to absorb food would dwindle and bacteria from the digestive tract would be able to breach the bloodstream. Unfortunately, the regenerative abilities of intestinal stem cells...