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The use of anabolic steroids

The use of anabolic steroids has been observed in essentially all levels of sport – from the high-school football team to professional sports. In professional body building, steroid use is as much part of the sport as is the training, tanning, and body waxing. Rumors also swirl around male Hollywood actors who must get in incredible shape to convincingly play a…

Dancing as therapy

As we grow older we suffer a decline in mental and physical fitness, which can be made worse by conditions like Alzheimer’s disease.

A new study, published in the open-access journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, shows that older people who routinely partake in physical exercise can reverse the signs of aging in the brain, and dancing has the most profound effect.

“Exercise…

Language is learned in brain circuits that predate humans

. Now, new evidence strongly indicates that language is in fact found out in brain structures that are extensively utilized for lots different functions or even pre-existed human beings, say researchers in PNAS.

The studies combines outcomes from a couple of studies related to a total of 665 members. It indicates that youngsters study their

New regulator for liver regeneration

The liver is the only visceral organ that possesses the remarkable capacity to regenerate. The liver can regenerate after either surgical removal or after chemical injury. … The process of regeneration in mammals is mainly compensatory growth because only the mass of the liver is replaced, not the shape.

The liver, however, is able to replace damaged tissue…

Anxiety cells in the brain The findings from the study were also published the same week that new research from the US revealed that previously unknown “anxiety cells” have been discovered for the first time.

A new UK study suggests a more unusual risk factor for being bitten by a dog, finding that anxiouspersonality types are more likely to be nipped by man’s best friend. Researchers from the…

Treat Your Depression with Grapes

Currently available antidepressants are largely restricted to targeting the systems that regulate serotonin, dopamine, and other related neurotransmitters, and these treatments do not specifically address inflammation and synaptic maladaptations that are now known to be associated with major depressive disorder.

Including grapes in your diet may have a positive…

A bit of history … BOXING

The origins of boxing date back to antiquity. Some famous meetings are described in the Iliad and in the Aeneid. The fighters used to protect their hands with leather laces reinforced with lead plates. Boxing began to be part of the Olympic program in 668 B.C. and the literature handed down the names of the winners of the Olympics over a period of more than a millennium.…

The negative consequences

The negative consequences of cigarettes are placed, by those who smoke, in a distant future that does not need to worry: an effect that makes it stop even harder.

Those who deal with smoking from a scientific point of view are repeating it for some time: there is no “safe” smoking threshold. Yet for smokers, the harmful consequences of cigarettesare a distant prospect in…

The most discussed issues in healthcare today are cost savings and access to care. There is no denying their rightful preeminence in the public discourse. Something which has received more attention in the past but has been surpassed by the aforementioned topics in both lay and healthcare policy press has been patient safety.

Perhaps the best definition of patient safety is that of the World…

The FDA recently announced its Digital Health Innovation Action Plan. This plan was both important and necessary. Digital health differs significantly from drugs and traditional medical devices around which the FDA has developed its structure and policies over decades. Digital health software technologies have far less involvement by clinicians in product development than Pharma or medical device…

“I really believe in the role that nutrition plays in achieving individual psychophysical wellbeing. Citing a maxim ‘we are what we eat’, which is why I consider it essential to be aware of what I bring into my body: for this, when I go shopping, I try to choose foods with high nutritional value, and in fact I prefer put in the basket foods such as rice harvested by hand rather than meat at zero…

Surrendering and thinking that after 50 years can not have a healthy and tonic skin is not the ideal choice. With the right anti-age creams and healthy habits, food and otherwise, you can start your own battle against aging and the much hated wrinkles.

Maintaining a young skin begins with prevention.

“Prevention is better than cure”, the famous 16th century phrase by Erasmus of Rotterdam appears…

Corriere and Aiom (Italian Association of Medical Oncology) have developed 6 free apps, in eight languages, on the main tumors. The app explain with tabs and drawings what the symptoms may be like diagnosis, possible treatments, prevention strategies: everything you need to know about the most common forms of cancer. They can be launched as normal internet pages from computers, tablets or…

A study conducted in Singapore showed how from a simple and harmless microorganism already present in the human intestine, it is possible to create intestinal anti-cancer bacteria.

The alliance between broccoli and intestinal bacteria may soon be the most effective weapon against colorectal cancer. A study conducted at the University of Singapore and published in the journal “Nature Biomedical…

West Nile virus In 2018

After the West Nile virus appeared on the U.S. East Coast in 1999, it spread across the entire country in just a few years, sickening thousands of people and striking down whole flocks of robins, crows, and other birds. Now, a new study suggests the mosquito-borne virus may have had an unexpected helper: light pollution. Birds infected with West Nile can spread the virus…

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