News tagged with natural healing


Short-term exposure to essential oils lowers blood pressure and heart rate

The scents which permeate our health spas from aromatic essential oils may provide more benefits than just a sense of rest and well-being.

Cardiology created Nov 29, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Discovery could help stem smoking-related diseases

(Medical Xpress) -- Sufferers of smoking related lung diseases could have their debilitating symptoms reduced following the discovery of a potential new treatment.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New synthetic molecules treat autoimmune disease in mice

A team of Weizmann Institute scientists has turned the tables on an autoimmune disease. In such diseases, including Crohn's and rheumatoid arthritis, the immune system mistakenly attacks the body's tissues. But the scientists ...

Immunology created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Manipulating serotonin can promote healthy repair in chronic liver disease

(Medical Xpress) -- Publishing in the leading medical journal Nature Medicine, a team led by Newcastle University academics have identified serotonin receptors which can be targeted with drugs to enhance the natural healin ...

Medical research created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Smart materials that get bone to heal

Bone tissue is very good at self-healing, but in many situations the natural healing process is not sufficient. In a dissertation at Uppsala University, Sonya Piskounova shows how functional materials that ...

Medical research created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rebooting the system: Immune cells repair damaged lung tissues after flu infection

There's more than one way to mop up after a flu infection. Now, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in Nature Immunology that a previously unrecognized popula ...

Medical research created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Molecular movements could lead to new way to treat cancer

Work by researchers at Queen Mary, University of London could point to a new way to treat aggressive types of cancer.

Cancer created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New cotton candy-like glass fibers appear to speed healing in venous stasis wound trial

Imagine a battlefield medic or emergency medical technician providing first aid with a special wad of cottony glass fibers that simultaneously slows bleeding, fights bacteria (and other sources of infection), stimulates the ...

Medical research created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast