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A new nasal spray may give snake bite victims at shot at survival. As many as 125,000 people die each year from from venomous snake bites. The challenge? Getting to a hospital in time to get a dose of anti-venom. Most victims die on the way. Drugs used to treat snakebites aren’t easy to use in the wild. So researchers developed a nasal spray to deliver anti-venom drugs (anticholinesterase agents such as neostigmine.) They have been used for decades on snake bite victims, but the challenge is they have to be administered with a needle. In April 2013, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences and the University of California, San Francisco tested delivery of the life saving medicine via nasal spray. In India a doctor has since successfully used the spray to reverse facial paralysis in a patient who had been bitten by a krait, a common venomous snake found in Indian and south Asian jungles. One bite from a krait has enough venom to kill two grown men. The patient recovered from the facial paralysis in half an hour, and was back on their feet within two weeks. Related Articles: Hearing aid design may benefit from understanding bugs Cancer breakthroughs: Here come drugs that block tumors Antibiotics treatments in mice leads to breakthroughs in extending life Improve Your Memory by Listening to White Noise While You Sleep Want to learn how to live beyond 100 years? Read the future tech book Super You   Super You is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and quality bookstores...

Two doctors have invented a heart replacement device that is keeping a man alive without a heartbeat. The gadget which replaced his failing heart pushes blood like water through a garden hose. So there is no heartbeat. Amazing. See how it was done in this short (under 4 minute) mini documentary. Heart Stop Beating is the story of Billy Cohn and Bud Frazier, two doctors from the Texas Heart Institute, who in the spring of 2011 replaced a dying man’s heart with the device they developed, demonstrating that life  is possible without a pulse or a heart beat, with the right technology. The documentary is called: Heart Stop Beating (click the link to see it now).           Related Articles: Hearing aid design may benefit from understanding bugs Heart replacement device from Texas Scientists discover protein linked to memory loss and autism Recipient of 23rd face transplant doing well Want to learn how to live beyond 100 years? Read the future tech book Super You   Super You is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and quality bookstores...

If you think eating bacon will kill you, think again. According to health and fitness guru Mina Yun: 1) Bacon fat is 50% monunsaturated (the same kind as olive oil), and has antioxidants that are more powerful than vitamin E. 2) Bacon from pastured pigs that forage in the sun is also a good source of vitamin D. 3) Bacon is high in saturated fat and cholesterol, but that doesn’t matter because there’s nothing wrong with saturated fat and cholesterol.  (read: “The Cholesterol Myths” by Uffe Ravnskoff.) 4) Bacon’s high-fat content keeps you satisfied and levels out your blood sugar, which will keep you from eating that donut later on, which will help you lose weight. 5) Sodium nitrite – a traditional curing salt for bacon, as well as a growing health concern – might not be such a bad thing, afterall. 6) Not all bacon is created equal. Choose wisely. Don’t believe it? Read Mina’s post here: http://www.purfitness.com/why-bacon-is-good-for-your-waistline/ Related Articles: Super grains of the Mediterranean diet Bacon is good for your waistline (and won’t kill you) A grande-sized reason to drink coffee: Live longer! Little Miss Wife: Wine is good for your health and soul Hugh Hefner’s Midwestern longevity diet Want to learn how to live beyond 100 years? Read the future tech book Super You   Super You is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and quality bookstores...

Cancer breakthroughs in June have stunned the medical world and cleared the way for development of drugs that halt cancerous growths in their tracks and prevent their spreading. The new science gives millions of people suffering from the disease hope and a new tool to fight for their lives. A summary of the new research from the University College London: Researchers say they’ve observed for the first time how cancer spreads throughout the body and metastasizes. Cancerous cells tend to follow healthy cells through the bloodstream. The infected cell sniffs out healthy cells by sensing the chemical makeup of its environment. The discovery means drugs that disrupt this interaction would essentially prevent  (the spread of cancer cells). It will take several years before scientists have a handle on a therapy based on the research. Breast Cancer Breakthrough Another major breakthrough brings hope to breast cancer patients. Researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute announced a drug already on the market in Europe, approved to treat osteoporosis, can also stop late-stage breast cancer. The drug bazedoxifene binds to the estrogen receptor and interferes with its activity and degrades the receptor to get rid of it. The drug affects cancerous cells dependent on estrogen and cells that have developed a resistance to the most frequently-used drugs designed to treat breast cancer. Click HERE to read more Related Articles: Hearing aid design may benefit from understanding bugs Cancer breakthroughs: Here come drugs that block tumors Antibiotics treatments in mice leads to breakthroughs in extending life Improve Your Memory by Listening to White Noise While You Sleep Want to learn how to live beyond 100 years? Read the future tech book Super You   Super You is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and quality bookstores...

Researchers may have a new tool in the fight to cure neurological diseases after they discovered the role of an important brain protein which helps store learning as long-term memories. In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, they said further research into the Arc protein‘s role could help in finding new ways to fight neurological diseases. The protein might also be connected to autism. Research has also revealed the protein is lacking in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. Scientists recently discovered that Arc is depleted in the hippocampus, the brain’s memory center, for patients suffering from Alzheimer’s. Read more at BBC.co.uk Related Articles: Hearing aid design may benefit from understanding bugs Heart replacement device from Texas Scientists discover protein linked to memory loss and autism Recipient of 23rd face transplant doing well Want to learn how to live beyond 100 years? Read the future tech book Super You   Super You is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and quality bookstores...