Documents tagged 'Muscle'
Published: 15/11/2008
New blood vessels grown from a patient’s own muscle cells are a step nearer after a genetic success in a US laboratory. The arteries could be used in many operations which currently require mean surgeons have to insert plastic tubing to form new vessels. However, it is still likely to be...
Published: 15/11/2008
media contact: Richard Merritt , (919) 684-4148 merri006@mc.duke.edu ORLANDO - Duke University Medical Center researchers have used cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to demonstrate that heart muscle that had been ’thinned’ by a heart attack could indeed be ’saved’ by...
Published: 15/11/2008
Contact: Laura Sussman lsussman@mdanderson.org 713-745-2457 University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Proves adult stem cells from blood can repair heart HOUSTON (USA) -- Based on promising animal data, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center say that cells...
Published: 15/11/2008
Experimental cancer drugs may also help to prevent the development of a common cause of heart failure. Cardiac hypertrophy - the enlargement of the heart muscle cells - can be fatal. Tests on animals by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania showed the cell enlargement could be...
Published: 15/11/2008
Contact: Michael Childs mchilds@coe.uga.edu 706-542-5889 University of Georgia That cup of coffee in the morning does more than wake you up. It can also help you feel less pain during your morning workout. That’s what researchers at the University of Georgia have found in a recent study...
Published: 15/11/2008
Two treatments for alleviating neck pain have been dismissed by scientists as a waste of money. Researchers in Finland examined dynamic muscle training and relaxation therapy to see if they can cure neck pain. These therapies, which involve learning how to strengthen or relax key muscles,...
Published: 15/11/2008
Scientists have developed a potential treatment for severe incontinence that means the millions of sufferers worldwide could one day throw away their incontinence pads. University of Melbourne scientists, who developed the technique, have now licensed the intellectual property to Continence...
Published: 15/11/2008
As modern technology continues to try to bring more conveniences to everyday individuals, pieces of workout equipment like ab machines are some of the first places to see the effects. However, when a number of pieces of technology hit the market, it can be difficult to tell the difference between...
Published: 15/11/2008
The number one reason that people quit their weightlifting exercise programs is because they are unable to see visible results that they are satisfied with. There are two issues with this, however:
1) It can take six weeks to two months before any results are going to be seen at all regardless...
Published: 15/11/2008
While the two are related, the amount of time you spend doing workouts for your muscles is not necessarily the way to build bigger muscles. Though you clearly need to work out if you expect your muscles to grow larger, if the size of your muscles was solely based on the time you spent using them,...
