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Conjoined twins sharing one brain STUN DOCTORS- Doctors are stunned by the discovery of conjoined twins who are sharing a single brain. Unlike most conjoined twins who are connected by a torso, a foot or a shoulder, 4-year-olds Tatiana and Krista Hogan are able to hear each others thoughts and see what the other is seeing. How is this possible? Because they are joined at the thalamus. That’s the part of the brain that sends motor functions and sensations to the cerebral cortex. Their mother shares that when her daughters are playing, one girl can grab a toy from behind...

Former President William Clinton was hospitalized this afternoon; he was admitted to Columbia's New York Presbyterian Hospital after complaining of chest pains. Famous for his legendary poor eating habits, doctors realized that ordinary measures would probably be defeated in the long term. Instead, they opted for something different; they inserted two stents of an experimental design into one of the President's coronary arteries. In the above photo, a crack surgical team prepares the first of two surgical stents to be placed in ex-President Clinton's artery. Nicknamed the "Bacon Double Cheeseburger Memorial Super Highway," these stents were manufactured for people with...

Drug for deadly prostate cancer Aggressive prostate cancer has a poor prognosis Scientists are hailing a new drug to treat aggressive prostate cancer as potentially the most significant advance in the field for 70 years. Abiraterone could potentially treat up to 80% of patients with a deadly form of the disease resistant to currently available chemotherapy, they say. The drug works by blocking the hormones which fuel the cancer. The Institute of Cancer Research hopes a simple pill form will be available in two to three years. We believe we have made a major step forward in the treatment...

OAKLAND, Calif. June 12 — Coffee may help protect the livers of heavy alcohol drinkers. In a cohort study of Kaiser Permanente members, drinking one to three cups of coffee a day was associated with a 40% decrease in the risk of alcoholic cirrhosis versus drinking less than one cup (P<0.001), according to a report in the June 13 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Moreover, Arthur L. Klatsky, M.D., and colleagues at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research wrote that this protective effect appears to be dose-dependent. Those who drank four or more cups of coffee had an...

LIVE COVERAGE: Military has MEDICAL EXAMINATION and explanation of "causes" of Zarqawi's Death.

A team of scientists from Old Dominion University and Eastern Virginia Medical School has reported killing melanoma s in mice using lightning-fast, high-powered jolts of electricity. The researchers expect their paper to be placed online Wednesday in the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications . It's the culmination of at least eight years of work seeking possible health benefits from short, high-voltage doses of electricity. The results, the researchers think , eventually could translate into an effective cancer treatment that carries no side effects. "We've never had a tumor that didn't respond," said the lead researcher, Richard Nuccitelli , an...

Adult Stem Cell Research Treats Spinal Cord Injury Patient   LifeNews.com Note: Award winning author Wesley J. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. An attorney, Smith's new book Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World was published last year. I have known about this for some time, but because I didn't want to be guilty of the same hyping that is so often engaged in by some therapeutic cloning proponents, I waited until it was published in a peer reviewed journal.Now it has been and the...

It is an unlikely solution, but here is the key to stay young: have short bursts of stress! This is a new revelation suggested by researchers at an anti-ageing conference in London. They say short bursts of stress can help you stay young. According to The Telgraph, Dr Marios Kyriazis, who led the conference, said this exposure to stress will prolong life and help prevent chronic illnesses, like arthritis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Kyriazis, the medical director of the British Longevity Society, argued that moderate stress increases the production of proteins that help repair the body's cells, including brain cells,...

TAMPA - A team of Finnish researchers working with Tampa's Johnnie B. Byrd Sr. Alzheimer's Center and Research Institute has developed a drug that could be a major advancement for people with spinal cord injuries and degenerative diseases including Alzheimer's. The researchers, led by Paivi Liesi, at the University of Helsinki, isolated a combination of amino acids known as tripeptide lysine-aspartic acid isoleucine. When tested in rats, the combination prevented neurotoxins from destroying neurons in the rats' brains. The therapy could slow or even reverse the effects of Alzheimer's disease, the researchers said. It could be a boon for the...