Posts Tagged ‘People’
About 120 people from five states battled 90 degree temperatures Sunday and competed in the second annual Riverstock Triathlon.
What would you like with your crayfish? A side of muscle degeneration? Soy Sauce Urine?
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Did finding out the sanitation situation not scare you off crayfish? Then how about muscle degeneration? Dozens of people in Nanjing were struck down with a strange form of food poisoning from our little lobster friends: rhabdomyolysis . The Nanjingren were hospitalized after suffering unbearable muscle pains shortly after eating crayfish. Symptoms have included sore joints, a sore back, pale ...
Scientists reverse muscle wasting due to cancer in mice
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
London, August 24 : A new study suggests that only one injection may be needed to reverse muscle wasting in cancer, if an experimental technique used in mice can be made to work in people.
New scaffold supports growth, integration of stem cell-derived cardiac muscle cells
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
These days people usually don't die from a heart attack. But the damage to heart muscle is irreversible, and most patients eventually succumb to congestive heart failure, the most common cause of death in developed countries.Stem cells now offer hope for achieving what the body can't do: mending broken hearts. Engineers and physicians at the University of Washington have built a scaffold that ...
Functional muscle transfer surgery allows people with foot drop to walk without braces
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
A new surgery that involves an expendable, functioning muscle from the top of the leg and a nerve below the knee can give people with foot drop a new bounce in their step.