Posted on July 16, 2008 12:32:26 PM
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There has been increase in the numbers of sexually active 70-year-olds men and women. It clearly shows that age is not bar to have a good sex. The study shows that the old age women are experiencing greater satisfaction during the sex. Most of the women have been reported to reach their orgasm and very few of them reported to not having the one.
Men and women in their 70s are less aware of what is called a “normal sexual behavior”.
Nils and colleagues of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden have studied four representative samples of 70 years old about their orientation towards the sex. These studies were performed on the basis of the interview been taken over 30-year period. More than 1500 people have been interviewed. During the interview they have been asked various questions related to their sex lives with respect to the sexual dysfunctions, marital satisfaction and the sexual activity.
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Posted on March 13, 2008 05:40:31 AM
Seven years ago, when Denise Faustman found that she had a cure for type-1 diabetes in mice, she was denied the opportunity to start clinical trials on humans by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Nor did she receive any support from pharma companies.
In 2003, Faustman successfully treated more mice with type-1, but her application was rejected again by the JDRF. However they did finance three rivals to test her theories. In March of 2006, these tests proved Faustman to be right; about 1/3 of the mice were cured.
Juvenile or type-1 diabetes is marked by the lack of insulin production by the pancreas, often due to immune cells erroneously destroying the beta cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Without insulin breaking down ingested sugar, glucose mounts up in blood, so diabetics have to take injections to replace the insulin that the body is not generating, and keep on blood sugar levels. Diabetes can lead to many other problems like cardiac arrests, strokes, kidney failure and nerve damage that results in amputation.
Faustman produced her remarkable results by giving the animals Bacillus Calmette-Guerin or BCG. Used for over four decades as an anti-TB vaccine, Faustman found that BCG wipes out immune cells named killer T-cells. This prevents the immune system from consuming beta cells, and the latter restored themselves enough to create insulin to cure diabetes in the mice.
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