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Master Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Post Count: 2360 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Athlete's foot drug may be MS therapy
----------------------------------------from BBC News Online/Health Two common drugs - one used for treating athlete's foot and another for alleviating eczema - may be useful therapies for multiple sclerosis, scientists believe.  |
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Master Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Post Count: 2360 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Another one abt MS research in progress:
----------------------------------------Identifying new biomarkers for multiple sclerosis source: iSGTW July 15,2015 note that comes not from super computers but from: ""Virtual Imaging Platform VIP is a web portal for medical simulation and image data analysis. It uses computing resources available in the biomed virtual organization of European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) to offer an open service to researchers worldwide."" cheers |
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A video related to research on BMAA and its possible relation to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS:
Secrets to Alzheimer's, ALS and Parkinson's Disease: Dr. Paul Alan Cox at TEDxJacksonHole http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/Secrets-to-Alzheimers-ALS-and-P Says that a dietary supplement called l-serine MIGHT be a suitable treatment for at least one of these. They are testing whether it is; not enough results yet to tell. A web site that MAY offer a more detailed and more technical video (in English) on this: http://www.ur.se/Produkter/170138-UR-Samtiden...dstro-Klimatet-och-halsan The instructions are in Swedish, though, so it's hard to tell if you can't read Swedish. |
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SekeRob
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Not the first article on cross application, using cancer treatment to fight an entirely different disease. A relative is being treated with chemo for Wegener or PGA at a academic medical centre, this one found application for the horrible Multiple Sclerosis, and with good promise: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35065905
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Vitamin D 'heals damaged hearts' http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35959556
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"Up your nose" is where ways are found to new antibiotics: Antibiotic resistance: 'Snot wars' study yields new class of drugs
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SekeRob
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Early diagnostics of Parkinson: http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37196619
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SekeRob
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Got big question marks with this, the fossil fuel industry could have 'sponsored' this 'research', but still, make up your own mind... High power streetlights causing cancer, poor sleeping and heart disease
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/healt...=nl_most-draw8&wpmm=1 As for "Even before the AMA warning, some researchers raised health concerns. Some noted that exposure to the blue-rich LED outdoor lights might decrease people’s secretion of the hormone melatonin. Secreted at night, melatonin helps balance the reproductive, thyroid and adrenal hormones and regulates the body’s circadian rhythm of sleeping and waking.", no problem here most everyone sleeps with the blinds down, for safety, no light, bar the fact that LED light is mostly only used here in the tunnels needing 24/24 illumination... the rest is mostly sodium or TL. |
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SekeRob
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Anthrax is back, it's thought to be due to permafrost thawing bringing old carcases to surface
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/30...indeer-amid-anthrax-fears Scientist have expressed fears of same could happen with smallpox, as that thawing also affect graves. |
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Molecular-level disease imaging, for many possible purposes:
‘Our system is specifically designed to use a quantum bit as a nano-MRI machine to image the structure of a single protein molecule in their native hydrated environments.’ ‘The construction of such a quantum MRI machine for single molecule microscopy could revolutionise how we view biological processes at the molecular level, and could lead to the development of new biotechnology and a range of clinical applications.’ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/articl...ure-single-molecules.html |
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