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02-May-2019 09:01
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https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/dont-ignore-signs-stomach-colon-cancer-can-hit-young Don?t ignore signs ? Stomach, Colon Cancer can hit the young Ms Selina Lee, 41 was diagnosed with an aggressive Stage 3B stomach cancer. Her entire stomach has been surgically removed. For past 2-years, Ms Selina Lee?s life has been nothing short of a nightmare after she went through a divorce and lost her 11-year-old son to sudden illness. In July last year, she suffered yet another blow when she was diagnosed with late-stage stomach cancer ? a disease that is more common hitting among older people. | ||||
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30-Jan-2019 23:44
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Magnesium is one of the most versatile and essential minerals that our bodies require for healthy cell, tissue, and muscle function.
This mineral is a necessity for over 300 chemical reactions that include metabolism, production of nucleic acids and protein, and for maintaining heart health. In fact magnesium deficiency can increase the risk of heart attacks by 53%according to research. |
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28-Jan-2019 00:36
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https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/its-
Said goodbye-after-34-years goodbye after 34 years for MP Lily Neo's clinic in Tanglin Halt.... |
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11-Oct-2018 08:40
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LONDON: Mental health disorders are on the rise in every country in the world and could cost the global economy up to S$22 trillion between now and 2030 if a collective failure to respond is not addressed, a growing crisis could cause lasting harm to people, communities and economies worldwide.
"Lancet Commission" report by 28 global specialists in psychiatry, public health and neuroscience, as well as mental health patients and advocacy groups, said. Some costs is on the direct costs of healthcare, medicines or other therapies, while most are indirect in the form of loss of productivity, and spending on social welfare, education and law and order. The wide-ranging report did not give the breakdown of the potential S$22 trillion economic impact it estimated by 2030. "The situation is extremely bleak," Patel, a professor at Harvard Medical School in the United States, told reporters. He said the burden of mental illness had risen "dramatically" worldwide in the past 25 years, partly due to societies ageing and more children surviving into adolescence, yet "no country is investing enough" to tackle the problem. "No other health condition in humankind has been neglected as much as mental health has," Patel said. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that around 300 million people worldwide have depression and 50 million have dementia. Schizophrenia is estimated to affect 23 million people, and bipolar disorder around 60 million. The Lancet report found that in many countries, people with common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety and schizophrenia routinely suffer gross human rights violations ? including shackling, torture and imprisonment. Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of the medical journal the Lancet, which commissioned the report, said it highlighted the "shameful and shocking treatment of people with mental ill health around the world". Called for human rights-based approach to ensure people with mental health conditions are not denied fundamental human rights, including access to employment, education and other core life style. It recommended a wholesale shift to community-based care for mental health patients, with psychosocial treatments such as talking therapies being offered not just by medical professionals but also by community health workers, peers, teachers and the folks alike Report was published ahead of it first global ministerial mental health summit in London this week. |
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31-Aug-2018 22:56
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With upcoming Sengkang General and Community Hospital, Outram Community Hospital, Integrated Care Hub, and Woodlands General Hospital in the next 5 years, there will be an addition of 3,200 acute hospital beds, and 1,050 community hospital beds. Further, Singapore' s hospital bed to 1,000 people ratio will incline to 2.6-2.8 during 2020-2030 Healthcare expenditure to triple by 2030 with ageing demographics. Based on the projected Singapore' s population growth to 2030, healthcare expenditure is estimated to triple by 2030, rising to SGD 44 billion from SGD 17 billion in 2013. Personal healthcare expenditure would rise to SGD 28 billion from SGS 11 billion in 2013, comprising 64% of total healthcare expenditure, implying the potential growth in private healthcare. Singapore Healthcare market will be facilitated by the rising number of healthcare providers coupled with elevating prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, HIV, cancer and others. The Ministry of Health (MOH) has set out three key shifts for healthcare system which includes effective health promotion and disease prevention, shifting focus from the acute hospital setting to the primary care, community and home settings, while maintaining the quality of services and ensuring appropriate and cost-effective care. |
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28-May-2018 12:41
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https://www.nhcs.com.sg/aboutnhc/Newsroom/publications/Documents/NHCS%20Murmurs%20Issue%2029%20[Web].pdf https://www.nhcs.com.sg/Pages/Home.aspx -- MELODY TPV &ndash THE MINIMALLYINVASIVE PROCEDURE The minimally-invasive Melody TPV procedure can replace leaky or narrowed pulmonary valves with a specially designed Melody valve attached to a thin, hollow tube (catheter) that is guided to the heart through the vein, without the need for an open-heart surgery. Once the Melody valve is in the right position, the balloon will be expanded to deliver the valve and blood flow is directed between the heart and the lungs. The Melody heart valve is made from a cow&rsquo s neck vein that is attached to a wire frame. Melody TPV is an alternative treatment option to treat a failing pulmonary surgical valve. Although it does not replace open-heart surgery, it has been proven to effectively delay the need for the next surgery. This therapy also reduces the long recovery period and pain that generally come with an open-heart surgery it has been shown to improve symptoms as well. The first Melody TPV procedure was done in Singapore only in 2016, it was first performed in London in 2000, and has now been implanted in more than 10,500 patients worldwide. Alvin eventually decided to go for Melody TPV procedure in June, 2017 and he was discharged soon after, just after 5-days. He has been recovering well since and was relieved that he could avoid another open-heart surgery. Asst Prof Tan Ju Le, a Director of Adult Congenital Heart Disease Programme and Senior Consultant at the Dept of Cardiology, NHCS, has been Alvin&rsquo s attending doctor since his 2nd n 3rd open surgery. She knew that every open-heart surgery brings increased risks and complications due to the internal scarring from previous surgeries. Asst Prof Tan was very concerned, Alvin already had three open-heart surgeries, and that he has barely recovered from his last operation, a 4th surgery would definitely pose a higher risk on top of his already tired mind, heart n body. It was then for Asst Prof Tan proposed a novel alternative treatment that was relatively new to Singapore medical scene &ndash the Melody TPV. The new therapy can make a huge impact on patients&rsquo lives, as is the case with Alvin where we can definitely see an improved quality of life since open-heart surgery brings about significant risks, pain, stress and discomfort. Over time, we hope to educate more patients on effective and better treatment options such as the Melody TPV therapy,&rdquo said Asst Prof Tan. Alvin -- &ldquo &lsquo Hope&rsquo is what I felt &ndash being able to see that there is light in all of the darkness. The Melody TPV procedure allowed me to carry on living life to the fullest and spending time with my loved ones, and I&rsquo m eternally grateful for that!&rdquo Mr Alvin Poh First Patient of NHCS.
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28-May-2018 12:18
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https://www.nhcs.com.sg/aboutnhc/Newsroom/publications/Documents/NHCS%20Murmurs%20Issue%2029%20[Web].pdf Duke-NUS Medical Sch (Duke-NUS) and National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) made a breakthrough discovery that a critical protein interleukin 11 (IL11) is responsible for fibrosis and organ damage. Currently, more than 225 million people worldwide suffer from heart and kidney failure, and there is no treatment to prevent fibrosis. Compared to other Asian regions, the USA and Europe, Singapore has a higher prevalence of coronary artery disease, hypertension, and diabetes &ndash the three most common diseases that lead to heart failure. Kidney failure is also an epidemic in Singapore, with about one new dialysis patient every five hours.
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28-May-2018 12:11
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People also ask?.....What are the benefits of a stem cell?
Is stem cell treatment painful?
What stem cells can be used for?
Can we use our own stem cell?
What diseases can be cured with stem cells?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of stem cells? What are the side effects of stem cell therapy?
How much does it cost to get stem cells?
What do stem cell treat?
What are the stem cells?
Is there a ban on stem cell research?
How long does it take for stem cell therapy to work?
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28-May-2018 11:55
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https://www.adelaide.edu.au/news/news87624.html STUDY SHOWS HOW CHINESE MEDICINE KILLS CANCER CELLS Researchers@University of Adelaide have shown how a complex mix of plant compounds derived from ancient clinical practice in China &ndash a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) &ndash works to kill cancer cells. Compound kushen injection (CKI) is approved for use in China to treat various cancer tumours, usually as an adjunct to western chemotherapy &ndash but how it works has not been known. This study, published in de journal Oncotarget, is one of the first to characterise the molecular action of a TCM rather than breaking it down to its constituent parts. &ldquo Most TCM are based on hundreds or thousands of years of experience with their use in China,&rdquo study leader, Professor David Adelson, Director of the Zhendong Australia &ndash China Centre for Molecular Basis of TCM. &ldquo There is often plenty of evidence that these medicines have a therapeutic benefit, but there isn&rsquo t the understanding of how or why it work. |
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28-May-2018 11:47
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQRpR6GLYj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ZWHuLTBKM TCM that help to assist in killing cancer cell. 
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13-Apr-2018 09:44
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https://www.deathtodiabetes.com/olive-oil-and-coconut-oil-reverse-diabetes.php Folks can kiss goodbye to type 2 diabetes n to their expensive pills Breakthrough, a Sri Lankan researcher, specialist in endocrinology with 23 years&rsquo experience. Sri Lanka folks story from Mr. Michel Dempsey, a brave (lucky) attempt to save his wife from diabetes, he came upon n discovered a Sri Lankan tribe that has 0 cases of diabetes or pre-diabetes. Against all odds he was able, with help from a Sri Lankan researcher from university of Peradeniya, to develop a natural treatment to reverse diabetes using the exact same ingredients the tribe has been consuming for decades. With several years of research, study and experiments later, Chaminda, the Sri Lankan researcher, has discovered a simple way to stop diabetes, giving back life once you had before. Wondering why you&rsquo ve never heard of this method?. Answer is pretty simple. Big Pharma. Pharmaceutical industry player has gone to great lengths to keep this information suppressed. The diabetes " market" is worth billions of dollars in expensive prescription pills. Pharmaceutical companies make more money when you&rsquo re sick, which is why they aren&rsquo t in a hurry to let a diabetes cure get out. Metformin makers are hardly about to step aside and lose out on tens of billions of dollars in expected profit can bring in every year. Even though Mr Dempsey was heavily pressured by big Pharmaceutical industry player. He went ahead and created presentation to let diabetics around the world to make the change themselves. Thanks to the power of internet, www......com. Of course, viewers must exercise common sense -- doing away with foods that made the problem worse, and replacing them with ingredients and superfood. |
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11-Apr-2018 20:52
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http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-bans-imports-of-gala-granny-smith-apples-from-the-us
Malaysia has stopped the import of two brands of apples from California because of fears that they could be tainted with the Listeriosis bacteria. Consumption of food tainted with the bacteria could cause high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness, nausea and in severe cases, death. The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore told Zaobao in Singapore does not import the affected batches of apples from the US. US Food and Drug Administration found two strains of Listeria monocytogenes, a bacteria that causes listeriosis, at the company's processing plant in Bakersfield. It has determined that the plant was a supplier of the contaminated apples used to make the affected caramel apples, reported Los Angeles Times. The packaged caramel apples were at the centre of a recent listeria outbreak that resulted in the deaths of several people in the US. |
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18-Jan-2018 17:45
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Pumpkin Paradox A Diabetes Miracle - Pumpkin pie contains diabetes beaters.
The benefits to diabetics are:
1. Lower high blood sugar 30%. 2. Triple the power of your body& rsquo s natural insulin. n 3. Keep diabetes out of your life. Why exactly does pumpkin?. A bigPumpkin pie is spiced up with cinnamon and cloves and both of these spices taste wonderful when you add them to something sweet. let examine it healthy benefits. Researchers have found that cinnamon triples the effectiveness of the natural insulin your body makes.
" Make Eating A Lifestyle Change" It blood-work results, prove in two months it dropped triglycerides from 1374 to 76 using a nutrition-based-regimen which includes cinnamon, and at the same time dropped cholesterol from 274 to 133. My doctor became a believer and insisted and written. Mother Nature seems to cause us to crave cinnamon.
Lately, scientists have been taking a close look at these " sugar-loving spices and were finding that they& rsquo re astonishing effective medicines for diabetes. Believe it or not, cinnamon turns out to be an amazing diabetes drug. In fact, its chemical structure is intriguingly close to . . . insulin!
Cinnamon may also triple effectiveness of the natural insulin your body makes. Well, if got diabetes n or if are@risk. This simple fact could be life-changing - it was for me.
Type II diabetes happens when the insulin in your body becomes less effective. Imagine turning it around with a pinch of cinnamon!.
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28-Dec-2017 09:09
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16 Illnesses Water Can Prevent and Heal
Water is by far the most important resource in the world, yet it garners the respect of so few. The human body can go about 3 weeks without food, it cannot survive for more than 3 days without water. Water is essential to every bodily function. No other liquid can sustain your body. About 80% of the human brain is water, blood contains 83% water, the lungs 79% and muscles 76%. All in all, the human body is comprised of about 75% water. Every function in the body is dependent on a steady supply. Water transports such things as hormones, chemicals and nutrients which are vital to efficient organ function. Without water we would not be able to digest or absorb minerals or nutrients and our kidneys would fail from toxic overload. Water is, in fact, a sort of miracle elixir ? but have you ever thought of it?. Here are just a few of the amazing things that water. keep skin vibrant and suppleescort toxins from the bodysupport healthy metabolismimprove energyremove body heatlubricate jointsimprove mental and physical performance. Arthritis -- In US. 52 million adults folks needed it. Gout -- Being a form of arthritis.Water helps to remove uric acid and other toxins from joints that build-up causing swelling and pain. Osteoporosis -- Painful condition is characterized by low bone mass and a structural breaking down of bone tissue. Over 10 million Americans suffer from osteoporosis and over 34 million have low bone mass ? a precursor to this disease. Heart Disease -- Often called silent killer, taking lives of almost 2,200 people daily ? Heart disease is rampant and we seem to be able to do little to control it. However, it appears as though there is a strong relationship between water and coronary health. One study demonstrated that drinking 5 or more glasses of water per day can cut the risk of dying from a heart attack by 50%. Constipation -- An annoying and often painful condition that millions of suffer from. If having less than 3 stools per week you are constipated. If you have less than one stool a week, you are severely constipated....and many others. https://www.google.com.sg/amp/s/www.thealternativedaily.com/16-illnesses-water-can-prevent-heal/amp/ |
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17-Nov-2017 08:33
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Going firther n deeper in humam bio-research.
In a major medical breakthrough, researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School and National Heart Ctr. Singapore have discovered a protein that is primarily responsible for fibrosis, which causes widespread organ damage such as heart and kidney failure. The finding is published in Nature Medicine, a major medical journal, debunk established literature that the protein, known as interleukin 11, was harmless and dormant. Since the 1990s, scientists have known another protein ? transforming growth factor beta 1 ? was the major cause of fibrosis, then treatments targeting it with drugs or antibodies caused severe side effects such as chest infections or skin cancer. How research team behind the breakthrough discovered that interleukin 11 is even more important. It is the ?master switch?, which means turning off interleukin 11 will stop the production of collagen and proteins that contribute to fibrosis. Speaking to reporters. Professor Stuart Cook, who led the 20-man research team, said they have found out how to prevent the growth of fibrosis with antibodies that they developed to target interleukin 11. |
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13-Oct-2017 14:43
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The human genome is littered with sequences left behind from ancient viral infections. &ldquo It' s fascinating to imagine how, during the course of evolution, primates began to recycle these viral leftovers into something that' s beneficial and necessary to human re-generation.
Stanford University School of Medicine have found genetic material from a retrovirus called HERV-H is not only active, is crucial in allowing a fertilised human egg to grow into an embryo. Suggesting many millions of years ago humanity was started by viral infections changing our DNA and could explain extraordinary evolutionary - turning us into modern humans. " These virally derived molecules have been shown to be directly involved with and vital steps of human growth development," Dr Vittorio Sebastiano, asst Prof of obstetrics and gynaecology. &ldquo What' s really interesting is that these sequences. " We' re starting to accumulate evidence. &ldquo In such manner, they may even have contributed species-specific characteristics and fundamental cell processes, even in humans.&rdquo Ancient viruses deposited genetic code into the blueprint of humans Photo: AP Photo/Center for Disease Control Stanford found that early human embryos are packed full of viral RNA molecules created by left-behind genetic material, in finding out if these molecules affected how a fertilised human egg becomes pluripotent &ndash or able to become any tissue in the body., including growing skeleton and bones. RNA usually works as a messenger molecule, reading a gene made up of DNA code, and telling the body to make a protein, the viral RNA was found to actually alter the activity of genes. Until breakthrough scientists had thought genetic material from viruses was inert and unable to cause any genetic changes in the body. But the new study suggests not only is it still functioning, it' s crucial to human life. When scientists removed, virus code the fertilised eggs were unable to grow. The virus in question is called the HERV-H retrovirus. Such viruses spread by inserting their genetic material into the genome of an infected cell. If the infected cell is a sperm or an egg, the retroviral sequence can also be passed to future generations. |
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13-Oct-2017 13:27
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Hemo: an ancient mystery that ancient viruses are buried in your DNA
Some may be shielding us from disease while others raise risks for conditions like cancer A strange protein courses through veins of pregnant women. No one is sure what it's there for. What so unusual is that it is not made by the pregnant mother. Instead, it is made in her foetus and in the placenta, a gene that originally came from a virus that infected our mammalian ancestors more than 100 million years ago. Hemo is not the only protein with such an alien origin: Our DNA contains roughly 100,000 pieces of viral DNA. All together, they make up about 8 per cent of the human genome. And scientists are only starting to figure out what this viral DNA is doing to us. University of Oxford virologist Aris Katzourakis and his colleagues recently published a commentary in the journal Trends In Microbiology which explored such possibility. Some of our ancient viruses may be protecting us from disease others may be raising our risks for cancer, among other conditions. Dr Katzourakis said in an interview. "We're barely at the beginning of this research." Most of our viral DNA comes from one group in particular: retroviruses, a group that includes HIV. A retrovirus invades a host cell and inserts its genes into that cell's DNA. These viral genes co-opt the cell's machinery, using it to make new viruses that escape to infect more cells. If a retrovirus happens to infect an egg or sperm, its DNA can potentially be passed to the next generation and the generation after that. Once retroviruses become inherited stowaways, scientists refer to them as endogenous retroviruses. At first, endogenous retroviruses coax cells to make more retroviruses that can infect other cells. But over the generations, the viral DNA mutates, and endogenous retroviruses eventually lose the ability to infect new cells. Even after being hobbled, these endogenous retroviruses can still sometimes make their proteins. And they can also reproduce, after a fashion. They can force cells to make copies of their DNA, which are inserted back in the cell's own genome. After a single infection, an endogenous retrovirus may build up hundreds of copies of itself in its host's DNA. Some endogenous retroviruses are unique to humans, but others are found in a variety of species, on a study showing that one retrovirus common in mammals is also present in fish like cod and tuna. But sometimes these viral genes manage to switch on anyway. In many kinds of tumour cells, for instance, scientists find proteins produced by endogenous retroviruses. That discovery has fuelled a long-running debate: Do endogenous retroviruses help cause cancer? Recent studies suggest they can. A team of French researchers engineered healthy human cells to make a viral protein found in many tumours and watched the cells grow in a petri dish. The protein caused the cells to behave in some suspiciously cancer-like ways. They changed shape, as cancer cells do, becoming long and skinny. And they also started to move across the dish. In addition, the viral protein caused the cells to switch on other genes that have been linked to cancer. COMPLICATED - It's a lot more complicated than that. We're barely at the beginning of this research. Tufts University virologist John Coffin suspects there is less to these viral proteins than meets the eye. And some viral proteins are important for reproduction. Placentas make viral proteins, and scientists have found that some types, known as syncytins, fuse together placental cells, a crucial step in foetal development. "My speculation is that without syncytins, mammal evolution would have looked very different," Dr Coffin said. Five years ago, French biologist Odile Heidmann and her colleagues went on a search for more endogenous retroviruses in the human genome. Dr Heidmann, who works at Paris cancer research institute Gutave Roussy, discovered a stretch of viral DNA that had been overlooked. She and her colleagues named it Hemo. Dr Heidmann was surprised to find versions of Hemo in other species. Among primates, the gene that makes this protein has barely changed over the ages. Its consistency across many species shows that the gene and its protein must have an important job to do. "It isn't simply a relic," she said. Mutations to Hemo must have been harmful or even fatal to the unfortunate animals who had them. The placenta produces Hemo, and so do cells in the early embryo itself. But so far Dr Heidmann and her colleagues have not been able to figure out why. She said, Hemo proteins are a message from foetus to mother, dampening the mother's immune system so that it does not attack the foetus. Early embryo is a hotbed of activity for endogenous retroviruses, recent studies have shown. To understand why embryonic cells make viral proteins, scientists have run experiments to see what happens when viral genes are silenced. Experiments suggest viral proteins help the embryo develop a variety of tissues. Cells in an embryo can turn into any tissue. As these stem cells divide, they can lose this flexibility, committing to becoming one kind of cell or another. After that, cells typically shut down their viral genes. Viral proteins appear to help keep stem cells from losing this potential. And Dr Gkikas Magiorkinis of the University of Athens has speculated that this feature might have a sinister origin. Viruses might have exploited embryos to make more copies of themselves. By keeping their hosts as stem cells for longer, the viruses were able to invade more parts of the embryo's body. "When the host grows, it copies in the retrovirus in most of its cells," Dr Magiorkinis said. Stem cells can produce eggs and sperm in embryos. The viruses may be raising their odds of getting into the next generation. Dr Katzourakis said. |
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10-Oct-2017 09:05
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Nails turnibg black or green?.
They should be checked as they reflect one's health or death. Doctor found about a pinhead-sized black patch at the base of her big toenail and Doctor noticed it for more than six months. Then Madam A did not apply it regularly as she was too busy with her work. The black nail did not cause any pain or discomfort. A year later, when she visited the clinic for a minor ailment, her doctor noticed that the black patch on the toenail had grown bigger. She was promptly referred to a dermatologist, who arranged for a nail matrix biopsy. The test, which involves surgically removing a small sample of cells from the nail matrix, confirmed that Madam A had malignant melanoma, the most dangerous type of skin cancer. It is potentially fatal. Melanonychia, or black nail, is a common condition showing brown to black discolouration of the nail, mostly due to benign causes. Still, it is important to examine and investigate a band or line of pigmentation - known as longitudinal melanonychia - in a single nail as it may be a sign of melanoma. WHY DO NAILS TURN BLACK? Our fingernails and toenails are hard and translucent structures made up of keratin and are not normally pigmented. Pigmentation results from the deposition of melanin by pigment cells (melanocytes). Typically lie dormant in the nail matrix where nail originates. As melanin continuously deposited in the cells of the growing nail, a pigmented streak arises. This is called longitudinal melanonychia. Our nails reflect our health. They are offering important clues to our life style It typically starts as a single brown-black pigmented band or streak extending from the cuticle along the nail plate to its free edge, and may affect single or multiple nails. The pigmentation may go on to cover the entire nail. Melanin deposits can be due to having more pigment cells, such as in people from ethnic groups with darker skin. Or it could be due to pregnancy, nail-biting, injury and friction, the side effects of certain medications and underlying chronic conditions. It can also result from an increase in melanocytes due to a benign "mole" or lentigine in the nail matrix, or melanoma of the nail unit. The latter commonly affects the thumbs, index fingers and big toes. Some types of bacteria, fungal infection of nail, can also produce melanin that discolours the nails. Nicotine stains from cigarettes, certain medicated lotions and dirt can also stain our nails. WHEN SHOULD I WORRY? Black lines or patches on nails very often go unnoticed because there are no symptoms. Or may simply be dismissed as a minor cosmetic concern. Having a black nail more commonly affects dark-skinned people and, less so, Caucasians. It can start at any age, including childhood, and affects both males and females. Melanoma is the most common cause of death among skin cancer cases in Caucasians. Melanoma is very uncommon in Asia, including Singapore. When detected early, nail melanoma can be treated. If left alone, cancer can spread and turn deadly. It is thus important to see a dermatologist early. Any new onset of longitudinal melanonychia in a single nail warrants a biopsy test to ensure that it is not linked to melanoma. Nails reflect our health. One may spot abnormalities of l nail-plate surface and nail shape, cuticle and nail fold, or experience a loss of nails and skin growth. Unhealthy nails can also take on other colours. Nails look yellow, may be a sign of lymphatic obstruction in cardiopulmonary disease, also known as the "yellow nail syndrome". A pseudomonas bacterial infection can cause nails to turn green, while chronic kidney failure or liver disease may be reflected as certain patterns of white nails. White streaks or spots may be caused by nail injury or even a manicure. They could also be due to certain fungal infections that affect the superficial nail plate. Painful red patches or red lines on a nails could arise from tumours in the nail bed. As for the colour blue, it could be linked to certain medications. Fortunately for Madam A, the melanoma on her toenail was at an early stage and scans did not show that the cancer had spread elsewhere. Her toe was successfully amputated and she was rid of the cancer.
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22-Aug-2017 08:55
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SINGAPORE ? A groundbreaking new treatment which could enable heart failure and heart attack patients to ?self-repair? damaged heart cells has been discovered in the Republic.
The inability of heart cells to regenerate and repair themselves is what makes heart attacks and failures severe and debilitating, making heart disease the leading cause of death worldwide. In Singapore, cardiovascular diseases account for nearly 20 per cent of all deaths every year. In a 3-year study, researchers from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and the National University Health System (NUHS) discovered that a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule ? which they named ?Singheart? ? is found in larger amounts in the heart cells of patients with heart diseases. This single-stranded equivalent of DNA prevents heart cells from dividing, and hence self-healing. 3Singheart RNA, scientists found, could be ?neutralised? by injecting viruses carrying artificial and complementary molecules into heart cells, hence enabling heart cells to regenerate themselves and self-heal. Revealing more about the research ? which was published on Aug 9 in scientific journal Nature Communications ? Associate Professor Roger Foo said yesterday: ?In contrast to a skin wound, where the scab falls off and new skin grows over, the heart lacks such a capability to self-heal, and suffers a permanent scar instead. If the heart can be motivated to heal like the skin, the consequences of a heart attack would be banished forever.? Assoc Prof Foo, 48, is the study?s lead author and the principal investigator at both GIS and NUHS? Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI). The team conducted tests on adult mice, in which heart attacks were induced before they were injected with complementary molecules. After 4-weeks, they discovered mice?s hearts had fully recovered. The Singapore team is planning on conducting human trials within the next 5-years and hopes its research can benefit hospitals and clinics across the world. Research study is funded by the Asian Network for Translation Research and Cardiovascular Trials programme. It is also supported by the National Medical Research Council of Singapore, and the Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) Young Investigator Grant, which was awarded to first author and GIS? former senior research fellow Dr Kelvin See last year. |
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