MS stem-cell treatment ’success’
Stem-cell transplants may control and even reverse multiple sclerosis symptoms if done early in the disease, a study suggests.
Archive for January, 2009
Better care ‘if doctors rest’
Doctors working fewer hours in line with a European directive can have direct benefits for patient safety, research finds.
Chemicals ‘may reduce fertility’
Chemicals commonly found in food packaging and carpets may be damaging women’s fertility, US scientists say.
MS stem-cell treatment ’success’
Stem-cell transplants may control and even reverse multiple sclerosis symptoms if done early in the disease, a study suggests.
Better care ‘if doctors rest’
Doctors working fewer hours in line with a European directive can have direct benefits for patient safety, research finds.
Chemicals ‘may reduce fertility’
Chemicals commonly found in food packaging and carpets may be damaging women’s fertility, US scientists say.
Concussion effect ’spans decades’
People concussed in their youth show subtle signs of mental and physical problems even more than 30 years later, say researchers.
Worry over tan jab mole changes
An unlicensed medicine which can be injected for a tan may be responsible for skin mole changes, say doctors.
Confusion on acupuncture benefit
A review of acupuncture has concluded that it is hard to find a difference between “true” and “sham” versions.
Premature octuplets ‘doing well’
All eight octuplets born prematurely in the US are breathing on their own and doing “very, very well”, doctors say.