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Health

Amgen’s VEGF Inhibitor Motesanib Proves Effective in Thyroid Cancer

Amgen’s VEGF Inhibitor Motesanib Proves Effective in Thyroid Cancer

A study published in the July 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that Amgen...
» read full story July 04th, 2008 - 15:28
Resveratrol In Red Wine May Be The Secret To Ward Off Damage Of Aging

Resveratrol In Red Wine May Be The Secret To Ward Off Damage Of Aging

Researchers may be closer than ever to discover the secret to longevity, as new research by the...
» read full story July 04th, 2008 - 12:33
FDA Panel: Diabetes Drugs Need More Tests For Heart Risks

FDA Panel: Diabetes Drugs Need More Tests For Heart Risks

New diabetes drugs should be thoroughly studied for potential heart risks before being brought to...
» read full story July 03rd, 2008 - 15:26
Scientists Detect Gene Variant Possibly Linked to Alzheimer’s

Scientists Detect Gene Variant Possibly Linked to Alzheimer’s

Scientists have discovered a gene that almost doubles the risk of developing the most common form...
» read full story June 26th, 2008 - 13:41
Wireless Chips May Interfere with Medical Devices Posing Risks

Wireless Chips May Interfere with Medical Devices Posing Risks

A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that wireless...
» read full story June 25th, 2008 - 14:20
Leukemia Drug Gleevec Might Improve Stroke Treatment As Well

Leukemia Drug Gleevec Might Improve Stroke Treatment As Well

Novartis AG’s efficient leukemia drug Gleevec or imatinib may also be beneficial for stroke...
» read full story June 24th, 2008 - 16:01
Vitamin D May Reduce Risk of Death

Vitamin D May Reduce Risk of Death

A new study by Austrian researchers published in the June 23 edition of the Archives of Internal...
» read full story June 24th, 2008 - 11:06
Treating Herpes with Aciclovir No Good in Preventing HIV

Treating Herpes with Aciclovir No Good in Preventing HIV

A study paid for by the U.S.’ National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, other U.S....
» read full story June 20th, 2008 - 16:14

Changes in Lifestyle Lead to Regression of Prostate Cancer Genes

Changing your lifestyle may have dramatic results at the genetic level, U.S. researchers report...
» read full story June 17th, 2008 - 17:06
St. John’s Wort Not Efficient for ADHD

St. John’s Wort Not Efficient for ADHD

St. John’s wort is no better than a placebo in treating attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder,...
» read full story June 11th, 2008 - 13:02
Human Stem Cells Repair Mice Brains

Human Stem Cells Repair Mice Brains

A new study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell reports that human stem cells have been...
» read full story June 06th, 2008 - 13:59
Moderate Alcohol Intake May Prevent Arthritis

Moderate Alcohol Intake May Prevent Arthritis

Moderate alcohol intake can halve the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, new research shows....
» read full story June 05th, 2008 - 17:13
Family History Adds to People’s Chances to Survive Colon Cancer

Family History Adds to People’s Chances to Survive Colon Cancer

People with a family history of colon cancer may now breathe relieved, as scientific research...
» read full story June 04th, 2008 - 11:59
Low Birth Weight and Prematurity May Raise Baby’s Risk for Autism

Low Birth Weight and Prematurity May Raise Baby’s Risk for Autism

Infants born before term and underweight, especially baby-girls are twice as likely to develop...
» read full story June 03rd, 2008 - 12:20
NIH Awards Scripps & 10 Other Centers to Boost Clinical Research

NIH Awards Scripps & 10 Other Centers to Boost Clinical Research

The Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla was awarded $20 million over a five-year...
» read full story June 02nd, 2008 - 13:57
Kids Exposed To Lead May Show Criminal Behavior Later

Kids Exposed To Lead May Show Criminal Behavior Later

It has long been known that exposure to lead has harmful effects on judgment, cognitive function...
» read full story May 28th, 2008 - 13:22
ADHD in Adults Translates into Nearly 1 Month of Work Lost Yearly

ADHD in Adults Translates into Nearly 1 Month of Work Lost Yearly

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is not only affecting children but also adults and their...
» read full story May 27th, 2008 - 12:57
FDA’s New Sentinel System to Identify Dangers from Drugs

FDA’s New Sentinel System to Identify Dangers from Drugs

As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s drug safety monitoring has been criticized as...
» read full story May 23rd, 2008 - 10:59
Physical Activity Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk

Physical Activity Linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk

It has long been known that physical activity has a great impact on our health. Now, new research...
» read full story May 15th, 2008 - 13:48
Study Prompts Bayer to Pull Trasylol from the Market

Study Prompts Bayer to Pull Trasylol from the Market

Bayer AG’s Trasylol, often used to prevent blood loss during heart surgery, will be pulled from...
» read full story May 15th, 2008 - 11:39
Court Hears More Claims Linking Thimesoral in Vaccines to Autism

Court Hears More Claims Linking Thimesoral in Vaccines to Autism

The parents of two 10-year-old boys who believe that a mercury-based preservative, thimesoral,...
» read full story May 13th, 2008 - 13:38
Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Inefficient in Preventing Alzheimer’s

Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Inefficient in Preventing Alzheimer’s

Just one week after researchers from Boston University School of Medicine stated in a study that...
» read full story May 13th, 2008 - 11:45
California: Stem-Cell Research Granted $271 Million

California: Stem-Cell Research Granted $271 Million

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine awarded 12 academic and non-profit institutions...
» read full story May 08th, 2008 - 14:38
More Women Suffer from Alcoholism

More Women Suffer from Alcoholism

More women than previously thought have problems with alcoholism, probably because after the World...
» read full story May 06th, 2008 - 23:06
Obesity Hard to Control as Fat Cell Number Remains Unchanged

Obesity Hard to Control as Fat Cell Number Remains Unchanged

As obesity has begun to reach alarming rates globally, scientists are more determined than ever to...
» read full story May 05th, 2008 - 13:16
Blindness May be Improved with Breakthrough Gene Therapy

Blindness May be Improved with Breakthrough Gene Therapy

Gene therapy has restored vision partially in patients who were blind in experiments by Seattle...
» read full story April 28th, 2008 - 18:48
Cells from Menstrual Blood May Fix Hearts

Cells from Menstrual Blood May Fix Hearts

Japanese researchers from Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo and colleagues from the...
» read full story April 25th, 2008 - 15:28
Gene Mutation in African-Americans Mimics Beta-Blocker Drugs

Gene Mutation in African-Americans Mimics Beta-Blocker Drugs

New research revealed that a gene variant carried by about 40 percent of African-Americans...
» read full story April 22nd, 2008 - 15:22
Army Funds Research Aimed at Developing New Ways to Help Wounded

Army Funds Research Aimed at Developing New Ways to Help Wounded

As more and more soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan return home suffering from serious...
» read full story April 18th, 2008 - 12:51
Use of Hypertension Drugs Leads to Hip Bone Loss in Older Men

Use of Hypertension Drugs Leads to Hip Bone Loss in Older Men

Powerful diuretics, commonly prescribed drugs for heart failure and hypertension, can also steal...
» read full story April 17th, 2008 - 13:55
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Science

Study: Melanoma Cured 100% through Blood Cell Therapy

Study: Melanoma Cured 100% through Blood Cell Therapy

The results of a new study conducted by a research team at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research...
» read full story June 22nd, 2008 - 11:36
California Awards $271M in Stem Cell Grants

California Awards $271M in Stem Cell Grants

California has approved funding worth $271 million in total to create twelve stem cell research...
» read full story May 08th, 2008 - 20:21
Scientific World Loses Genetics Pioneer Joshua Lederberg, 82

Scientific World Loses Genetics Pioneer Joshua Lederberg, 82

Scientific world has lost Joshua Lederberg, University Professor and president emeritus of the...
» read full story February 05th, 2008 - 12:14
Lab Announces Breakthrough In Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Lab Announces Breakthrough In Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Scientists at the Advanced Cell Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, announced on Thursday that...
» read full story January 11th, 2008 - 14:45
Americans Warned Not to Vote a Leader Who Doubts Evolution

Americans Warned Not to Vote a Leader Who Doubts Evolution

Just a day after ordained Baptist minister Mike Huckabee won in Iowa in the first stage of choosing...
» read full story January 05th, 2008 - 18:22
Scientists Have Created First Primate Cloned Embryos

Scientists Have Created First Primate Cloned Embryos

Researchers at the Oregon Health & Science University have created for the first time cloned...
» read full story November 14th, 2007 - 21:18
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Movies

Spike Lee Gets Taste of Own Medicine

Spike Lee Gets Taste of Own Medicine

Spike Lee has recently been very outspoken against Clint Eastwood regarding the lack of...
» read full story June 13th, 2008 - 10:48
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Specials

Immunotherapy Proved Efficient in Melanoma Patient

An article in the New England Journal of Medicine describes how immunotherapy helped a 52-year-old...
» read full story June 20th, 2008 - 13:05
Homosexuality - Something You Are Born With?

Homosexuality - Something You Are Born With?

Believed or not, homosexuality is not only a matter of choice but also something very well printed...
» read full story June 17th, 2008 - 11:37
"Green Our Vaccine" Takes Jim Carrey to a March

"Green Our Vaccine" Takes Jim Carrey to a March

Wednesday, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy along with other national autism advocacy groups...
» read full story June 05th, 2008 - 13:44
Genome Institute’s Renowned Director, Francis Collins, to Resign

Genome Institute’s Renowned Director, Francis Collins, to Resign

The National Human Genome Research Institute is losing one of its prestigious researchers in the...
» read full story May 29th, 2008 - 12:54
Truckers Banned Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix As Well

Truckers Banned Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix As Well

Following the Federal Aviation Administration’s decision to ban use of anti-smoking drug Chantix...
» read full story May 23rd, 2008 - 16:22
Quitting Smoking – A Group Thing, Study Says

Quitting Smoking – A Group Thing, Study Says

New research on quitting smoking shows that people willing to do it are more likely to give up the...
» read full story May 22nd, 2008 - 12:55
Alarming Disparities in Life Expectancy across the US

Alarming Disparities in Life Expectancy across the US

Americans’ life expectancy is stagnating or falling as obesity, high blood pressure, different...
» read full story April 22nd, 2008 - 11:38
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Technology

Study Warns: Heart Defibrillators Vulnerable To Hacker Attacks

Study Warns: Heart Defibrillators Vulnerable To Hacker Attacks

U.S. researchers unveiled on Wednesday that even humans can be vulnerable to hacker attacks. How...
» read full story March 12th, 2008 - 15:36
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