Ever wanted blue eyes? Now you can! A procedure carried out by Dr Gregg Homer in California can permanently change a person’s eye colour. The treatments takes 20 seconds but it’s one way only and will set you back 3200 pounds. The Daily Mail is rambling on about it being “ethinically insentive” or something along those lines and as per usual trying to find a story where there is none except for the fact that you can now change your eye colour. That’s story enough, no?
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5
Nov
An experimental drug extended the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer by almost five months in a new trial.
Independent monitors halted the trial early because of the clear benefit to men taking the new pill.
An interim analysis of the trial of 1,199 men who were previously treated with chemotherapy found that the drug – MDV3100 – improved overall survival by 4.8 months compared with a placebo.
5
Mar
Eating tomatoes can help reduce the risk of cancer, osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease, scientists have revealed. Not only that but cooked or processed tomatoes are actually better for you than raw ones. U.S researchers found the juicy vegetable is the biggest source of powerful antioxidant dietary lycopene, and unlike other fruit and vegetables it has greater potency after it is cooked. Scientists at the National Centre of Food and Safety in Illinois said the nutrient contains protective mechanisms that help prevent inflammation and blood clots. A strong link has already been established between the wonder veg and a lower risk of certain diseases such as prostate cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis. Dr Britt Burton-Freeman and and Dr Kristin Reimers, who carried out the review, said: ‘Leveraging emerging science about tomatoes and tomato products may be one simple and effective strategy to help individuals increase vegetable intake, leading to improved overall eating patterns, and ultimately, better health.
26
Feb
Researchers have claimed recently that natural ingredients found in a cup of tea, can actually improve brain power and increase your alertness. Good news for the nation.
The effects of these ingredients, an amino acid called L-theanine – which is also found in green tea – and caffeine at levels typically found in a cup of tea, were compared with a dummy treatment. The active ingredients significantly improved accuracy across a number of switching tasks for those who drank the tea after 20 and 70 minutes, compared with the placebo.
17
Jan
We all know smoking is bad. So yanking up prices in tobacco is a really good thing, as many people would surely agree. One in five adults smoke in England causing more than 80.000 deaths a year- is it really worth it? No it surely is not.
Dr Stephen Hecht from the University of Minnesota led a team that studied the level of harmful substances known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in 12 smokers.
Scientists have long believed that PAHs are one of the main causes of lung cancer, but until now it was not known how the chemicals caused DNA damage in humans.
Dr Hecht and colleagues added a labelled PAH, phenanthrene, to cigarettes and tracked its fate in 12 volunteers who smoked the cigarettes.
They found that phenanthrene quickly forms a toxic substance in the blood known to trash DNA, causing mutations that can cause cancer.
The smokers developed maximum levels of the substance in a time frame that surprised even the researchers: just 15 to 30 minutes after the volunteers finished smoking.