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 VitaBeat Health News - January 8, 2009
| Alzheimer's patients and researchers are being paired together in order to further the research being done on the mentally debilitating disease. Patients in the early stages of the disease are given an opportunity to focus on new relationships that take their focus off of the illness, while researchers get the opportunity to put a face with their studies. Scientist Sarah Cole of her 68-year old patient and newfound friend, "We don't really worry about what she can't do. We just worry about what she can do." | | Technology has found its way into the neverending diet wars. It's called the My Food Phone diet and it used camera-phones as a source of nutritional guidance. Makers of the My Food Phone cell phone diet service instruct dieters to take pictures of what they are about to eat with their camera-phones, e-mail them to the service site with a brief description, where a registered dietician will receive and review it. | | Scientists at John Hopkins University are studying trials on pigs resulting in 50% to 75% restoration of their damaged hearts by transmitting adult stem cells transplanted from bone marrow. Now, two patients have signed up for the human trials and are set to begin. According to the report, the study of 48 heart attack patients that will ultimately take part in the phase 1 study, which is designed to test the safety of injecting adult stem cells into their hearts. | | Alzheimer patients and researchers are being paired together in order to further the research being done on the mentally debilitating disease. Patients in the early stages of the disease are given an opportunity to focus on new relationships that take their focus off of the illness, while researchers get the opportunity to put a face with their studies. Scientist Sarah Cole of her 68-year old patient and newfound friend, "We don't really worry about what she can't do. We just worry about what she can do." | | Technology has found its way into the neverending diet wars. It's called the My Food Phone diet and it used camera-phones as a source of nutritional guidance. Makers of the My Food Phone cell phone diet service instruct dieters to take pictures of what they are about to eat with their camera-phones, e-mail them to the service site with a brief description, where a registered dietician will receive and review it. | |
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