C M G Buttery

Researchers from the University of Glasgow have piloted a new technique which can dramatically reduce blood pressure in patients. The study showed that, after six months, patients treated in the study experienced significant reduction in blood pressure than those treated with standard methods. The new procedure, similar to angioplasty, uses a catheter inserted into the [...]

ScienceDaily (Nov. 27, 2010) — The fact that the world population is growing older will not only affect our pensions. In just a few decades there will be more elderly people than children in most parts of the world (with the exception of Africa). Comment: this information should give pause falls to those legislators who [...]

        On its front page, the New York Times (11/24, A1, McNeil) reports, “In the study, published Tuesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers found that the men taking Truvada, a common combination of two antiretroviral drugs, were 44 percent less likely to get infected with the virus that causes AIDS than an [...]

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USA Today reports, “One of the nation’s most common forms of sexually transmitted diseases has fallen to its lowest level ever recorded, but there’s still improvement needed,” according to data released on Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In fact, the “annual report card on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) found that the [...]

A number of news media in the last 24 hours have reported about a “breakthrough” in early identification of lung cancer which leads to fewer deaths. In the Journal of Science today is a summary of the issues by Eliot Marshall that should be required reading for all of us. The NCI sponsored this $250 [...]

ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2010) — As dog bites become an increasingly major public health concern, a new study shows that unsupervised children are most at risk for bites, that the culprits are usually family pets and if they bite once, they will bite again with the second attack often more brutal than the first. The [...]

ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2010) — Killing microorganisms has become a national obsession. A pair of antimicrobial compounds known as triclosan and triclocarban are lately the weapons of choice in our war of attrition against the microbial world. Both chemicals are found in an array of personal care products like antimicrobial soaps, and triclosan also is [...]