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Nexavar Fails in Melanoma Phase III Trial
German drug maker Bayer AG and Onyx Pharmaceuticals on Monday announced they ended a Phase III...
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Ozone Exposure Is Deadly
A study that analyzed data on 18 years showed that the risk of respiratory problems has been...
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Caffeine Prevents Skin Cancer?
Caffeine might offer some protection from skin cancer, researchers at the University of...
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Beach Vacations May be Linked with an Increased Risk of Skin Cancer
Beach vacations during childhood may increase children’s future risk of deadly skin cancer...
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American Academy Of Pediatrics Urges Doubling Vitamin D For Children
The deficiency of vitamin D during
childhood and adolescence has outcomes later in life like the...
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Vitamin D Receptor Gene Variant Linked To Melanoma
According to a report released by Italian researchers, a variation of the gene for BsmI, the...
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Gene Variant for the Vitamin D Receptor Linked to Melanoma
Researchers at the University
of Padova in Italy have identified
a possible link between...
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Is Tanning Bed Use Safe? Definitely Not, Experts Confirm
Exposure to ultraviolet rays, no matter
where you get them from, is not good for you. At least...
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Moisturizers May Increase the Risk for Skin Cancer in Mice. New Report Says
As more studies say that the incidence of
the most lethal form of skin cancer, melanoma, has...
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Melanoma Cases Raise Considerably Among Younger Women
Researchers browsing through the cases of melanoma, the
deadliest form of skin cancer, found that...
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Ineffective Sunscreens Increase The Risk Of Developing Skin Problems
The summer is here, and as many of us head to the beach, we
are unaware that our vacation could...
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Few Sunscreens Offer Protection, Study Says
A study carried out by the environmental and advocacy group Environmental Working Group, found out...
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Most Sunscreen Products Are Inadequate
The Environmental Working Group has found out that four out of five brand-name sunscreens are not...
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Sunscreen Each Day Keeps Cancer Away
Although much has been attempted to get through to people about the deadly dangers of ultraviolet...
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Lack of "Sunshine" Vitamin D Linked to Death
A new study has further highlighted the importance of the Vitamin D group of substances to human...
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CDC Head Warns of Complacency and Bird Flu
Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned at a...
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Researchers Announce New Bird Flu Vaccine
Researchers have announced in this week's New England Journal of Medicine the development of a new...
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FDA Encourages Patients to Kick CFC Inhalers Now
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recommended that patients no longer use classical...
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Low Levels of Vitamin D May Lead to Aggressive Breast Cancer
Vitamin D is a steroid hormone precursor that has recently
been found to play a role in a wide...
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Shiny Lip Glosses Increase Cancer Risk
A
new study by dermatologist Christine Brown at Baylor
University Medical
Center in Dallas found...
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To Get Tanned or Not to Get Tanned, This Is the Question…
A question most people knew the answer, until the Indoor
Tanning Association launched an...
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Global Warming May Lead to an Increased Number of Heart Deaths
High temperatures and air pollution may lead to a higher death
rate from heart disease or stroke,...
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FDA To Introduce New Rule For Sunscreen Products
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed a new set of standards
for sunscreens that sets...
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Light Helps Beat the Winter Blues
Berlin/Leipzig - Autumn is a time when nature prepares to rest, and a lot of people begin to...
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Three Chemists Win Nobel Prize
One Japanese and two American scientists won this year’s
Nobel Prize for chemistry for taking the...
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The Nobel Prize In Chemistry Shared By Three Scientists
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded today to two Americans
and one Japanese for their...
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Japanese, US Researchers Awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Stockholm - Three US-based researchers shared the Nobel prize for chemistry Wednesday for work on...
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Hubble Space Telescope Fails at the Right Time
A very short while before October 14, when the scheduled
upgrade mission for the aging Hubble...
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Tanning Beds Are Not Safe, Cause Skin Cancer, Studies Warn
Tanning beds have been a subject of controversy for many
years with many dermatologists warning...
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Study Warns: Melanoma Cases Increase By 50 Percent Among Young Women
Cases of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, are rising among young women, according to a...
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Martian Soil Could Support Life
NASA scientists felt that they won the big lottery ticket when they saw the results that came from...
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Tips to Keep a Healthy Skin and Avoid Skin Cancer
As the new summer season approaches, more people will desire
to stay out for as long as possible,...
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Report Warns on Deadly Effects of Ozone Pollution
Short-term exposure to current levels of ozone pollution is
directly linked to poor health in...
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Red Giant Star Found to Have Massive Tail
A dying star situated 400 light years away from us exhibits an unusual and massive tail of heated...
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Astronauts installing new camera on Hubble
Washington - US astronauts on Thursday were conducting the first spacewalk to upgrade and repair...
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South Korean scientists create glowing cloned dogs
Seoul - Scientists in South Korea have become the first to clone dogs with...
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Astronomers Find Carbon Dioxide In Another Planet's Atmosphere
Carbon dioxide has been detected in the atmosphere of
a planet 63 light-years away by astronomers...
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Is There Liquid Water On One Of Saturn's Moons?
A recent research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, shows huge plumes of water vapor...
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Enceladus Geyser-Jets Pumped By Underground Hot Liquid Water
For almost three decades now, scientists have been intrigued
by Saturn’s six-largest moon,...
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Chemists Win Nobel Prize For Green Fluorescent Protein
This year, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to three
scientists that used a protein taken...
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Three Chemists Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them...
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Hubble Malfunctions And Delays Repair Mission
The aging Hubble telescope, which has peered into the depths
of space for 18 years was due to for...
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NASA Postpones Hubble Mission To October 14
Due to the closure of the NASA's Johnson
Space Center
in Houston, as
a result of Hurricane Ike,...
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Rescue Shuttle Endeavour Moved To Launch Pad
For the first time since 2001, both of NASA’s launch pads are
occupied. One of them will be the...
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Update: NASA Says No To Martians, Maybe To Life
There have been a lot of assumptions lately about what the
latest chemical discovery on Mars means...
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Melanoma Cases On The Rise Among Younger Women
Researchers browsing through the cases of melanoma, the
deadliest form of skin cancer, found that...
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NASA Celebrates The Return Of Space Shuttle Discovery
NASA is celebrating the return of the space shuttle
Discovery and the successful end of the...
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Phoenix Analyzes The Martian Dust
The “microscopy” part of the Microscopy, Electrochemistry
and Conductivity Analyzer of NASA's Mars...
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NASA Delays Hubble Mission For Early October
NASA officials announced today that the upcoming mission for
repairing the Hubble telescope would...
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NASA Releases Largest Collection of Hubble Images
In celebration of the 18th anniversary of Hubble’s launch, NASA
released a series of 59 new images...
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Scientists Amazed By New Images Sent By NASA’s Messenger
Thanks to the news images sent back to Earth by NASA's Messenger
spacecraft the scientists are...
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Hubble Telescope to Be Overhauled in August
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will be repaired and overhauled in August, a month earlier than it...
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South Korean Researchers Cloned Fluorescent Cats
These days, it seems that science out wins art. Up to now artists could get their imagination free...
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China's Chang'e-I Enters Moon Orbit
The Chinese scientists announced today that China’s Chang'e-I
moon probe entered a lunar...
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Saturn Moon Found to Be Full of Holes
Hyperion, one of Saturn’s most bizarre moons, has added a new feature to its oddity, thanks to...
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