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Melamine scare exposes problemsThis summer, the world's attention was focused on China as the nation prepared to host the world's largest sporting event - the Olympics. But amidst the fanfare and excitement, tragedy struck. On July 16, 2008, 16 infants in China's Gansu province were diagnosed as having kidney stones as a result of drinking milk that was contaminated with the toxic chemical melamine. 3 Comments |
New method allows stem cells to be imaged in heartThe promise of stem cell therapies is growing ever closer to becoming realized in the medical setting. In a recent study, a team from the Hopkins School of Medicine used imaging technology to watch adult cardiac stem cells as they colonized the injured heart of a rat. Post a comment |
Ginkgo extract does not prevent dementiaGinkgo biloba has been prized for centuries for its suspected memory-boosting effects. But the largest study to date has shown that ginkgo does not, in fact, decrease the risk of dementia. The study, which appears in next week's Journal of the American Medical Association, followed over 3,000 volunteers who were 75 years or older. Post a comment |
Drinking milk may lessen allergy symptomsA new study from Hopkins and Duke University pediatricians suggests that giving increasing amounts of milk to children with milk allergies can actually lessen or erase the symptoms of the allergy over time. Doctors recruited 19 children between the ages of six and 17. Post a comment |