Medicinal Ice Cream Combat Cancer
October 29, 2009 by Qossay Takroori
Filed under Health And Medicine
Over 2 Million dollars spent on cancer project that might help cancer patients cope with their disease. The research study results was revealed last week at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.
With the assistance of dairy giant Fonterra, the researchers developed whats called “medicinal ice cream” which has shown encouraging signs in combating the side-effects of chemotherapy in cancer sufferers. The Daily Telegraph reported today.
ReCharge, the name of the ice cream, shown to relieve diarrhoea, anaemia and lack of appetite in people undergoing chemotherapy. Participants ate 100 100 gram of strawberry-flavored ice cream each day. “The two bio-active milk components developed for ReCharge have the unique potential to assist the body in coping with the side effects of chemotherapy,” Fonterra’s chief technology office Jeremy Hill said in a statement.
There was not much information regarding the study, but the bottom line is that this kind of ice cream “ReCharge” helps cancer patients combat the side effects of chemotherapy treatments.
The World’s First Ovary Transplant Baby
November 10, 2008 by Qossay Takroori
Filed under Health And Medicine
Doctors in from the U.S and British carried out a complex and very challenging surgery where they transplanted an ovary to a 38 year old London woman after suffering from early menopause. The woman is expected to give birth to the word’s first ovary transplant baby next week as the Times Online reported yesterday.
A New Way Of Cancer Treatment
July 26, 2008 by Qossay Takroori
Filed under Health And Medicine
NEW YORK, Palscience –There are several causes for DNA damage, to mention some, carcinogens (mainly radiation) in the surround environment, errors in DNA replication or glitches in the cellular machinery caused by aging. Many intensive studies have been in the past to try stopping the development of that damaged which ultimately causes the deadly disease “Cancer”.
