Becoming Pregnant and Having MS
Many women with multiple sclerosis wonder how this illness will affect their chances of becoming pregnant, with regards to such factors as their fertility. There is actually a lot of good news regarding pregnancy and MS, because fertility is not at all affected by this illness.
The bad news is that there are a number [...]
Parkinson’s Diet
People suffering from parkinson’s disease may not know that there are many nutritional options out there that can help alleviate PD symptoms. What kind of changes can you make to your lifestyle in order to help make you feel just a little better?
Processed foods cause a lot of health problems in modern western society, so [...]
When Dealing with Asthma and the Desire to Move, Car Transporters are There to Help
People live with asthma everyday. Asthma is a recurring illness that has certain triggers. They keep coming out with better treatments for asthma, although they still do not know what the causes are. Genetics, birth defects, environmental factors such as smoking, and other things are all under investigation by researchers as possible causes for the [...]
Simple Ways To Prevent Getting The Swine Flu
The swine flu has scared many people recently because of the potential danger of easily getting infected. The virus is spreading from human to human and has been proven to be deadly for many in Mexico. Prevention in “catching” the swine flu is similar following the same steps in preventing you from catching [...]
Stem cells
The concept of stem cells is more and more widely debated outside the medical circles where it started from. Stem cells are unspecialized cells that have the extraordinary capacity to develop into any kind of specialized cells necessary in the body, not to mention the fact that they have the capacity to renew themselves through [...]
Stem cells
Stem cell transplantation is a necessity for many cancer patients who undergo a very intense chemotherapy treatment. All the medication used to destroy the cancer cells affect all the body cells that have a high division rate, which includes bone marrow, hair follicles and digestive linings. The problem is that an anti-cancer treatment triggers the [...]
Stem cells
Chemotherapy as a cancer treatment destroys the blood generating cells in the bone marrow, which is why transplants are often necessary in order to increase the life expectation of patients treated for tumors. Stem cell transplantation thus represents the major treatment solution for thousands of people who need such a form of regenerative therapy. Before [...]
Stem cell transplant
By stem cell transplant, doctors refer to the transfer of stem cells into the body of a patient undergoing anti-cancer treatment such as chemotherapy. The drugs used for the reduction of tumors damage the blood generation cells as well. Therefore, the stem cell transplant will be the only way to support the body to cope [...]
Stem cell therapy
Stem cell therapy has grown from the huge potential identified in some body cells to develop specific functions depending on the tissue or organ where they are located. This process of conversion from unspecialized to specialized is known as differentiation or specialization. Most of the time, stem cell transplantation serves for regenerative medicine in the [...]
Stem cell research
A huge controversy touches upon stem cell research because of the way embryos are created, used and destructed for study purposes alone. On the other hand, stem cell research gives hopes to the medical world about the possibility to cure diseases like Alzheimer, Parkinson’s, heart attacks, diabetes, strokes and many others. Yet, lots of people [...]
