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Alzheimers patients to be treated with the blood of under 30s

Posted in Medicine on 23rd Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

Alzheimers patients in the US will be given transfusions of young people's blood as part of a promising new treatment thats nowhere near as crazy as it sounds.

Blood-brain-barrier disruption with high-frequency pulsed electric fields

Posted in Science on 16th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

Researcher have developed a new technique for using pulsed electric energy to open the blood-brain-barrier for treating brain cancer and neurological disorders.

Injecting Liquid Metal Could Help Kill Tumours, Says Chinese Research Team

Posted in Medicine on 12th Aug, 2014
by Alex Muller

Filling blood vessels with liquid metal starves nearby tissue of oxygen and nutrients.

Blood pressure: 'Extraordinary' number of lives saved

Posted in Medicine on 31st May, 2014
by Alex Muller

Improved treatment of blood pressure has prevented hundreds of thousands of heart attacks, strokes and deaths in England, say doctors.

New blood 'recharges old brain', mouse study suggests

Posted in Medicine on 5th May, 2014
by Alex Muller

Researchers in the US say they might have discovered how to combat and even reverse some processes of ageing, at least in mice.