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New Findings About Cancer Gene

New Findings About Cancer Gene

Recently the news spread that elephants have 20-times the amount of a cancer suppressing gene, called p53. Elephants have about 100 times the cells of humans, but their cancer rate is only 5% in a lifetime, which lasts 50 to 70 years. Humans on the other hand have a cancer rate of bet
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SAMe, A Supplement For Depression

SAMe, A Supplement For Depression

A simple nutritional supplement, available in health food stores has been found to be effective in treating patients whose depression was resistant to a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). The full name of the supplement SAMe is S-adenosylmethionine. Dr. Mathew Bambling fro
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Melatonin Helps Bone Density

Melatonin Helps Bone Density

Introduction This article is about the fact that melatonin helps bone density. You may have heard about melatonin as a sleep aid. Melatonin is a natural hormone of the pineal gland, but by the age of 50 the secretion is only 5 to 10% from what it was when we were 10 years old. A new s
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Sickle Cell Disease Cured

Sickle Cell Disease Cured

Physicians at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System (UI Health) have done a pilot study involving 12 patients with sickle cell disease that were cured. So far this inherited disease has been considered to be incurable. But a stem cell transplantation from he
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