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Vaccine may stop breast cancer
The cervical cancer vaccine may also prevent forms of breast cancer, and save tens of thousands of lives each year, research has found.
China to approve single-dose swine flu vaccines
BEIJING (AP) -- The answer may be near to a crucial question about vaccine for the advancing swine flu - one shot or two?...
Blood Thinner Causes Stroke in Some Dialysis Patients
The blood thinner warfarin can prevent strokes in most individuals with abnormal heart rhythms, but the drug may have the opposite effect in kidney disease patients on dialysis, according to...
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Childhood obesity: The increasing vascular drama
Obesity is one of the most important health problems in industrialized countries irrespective of socio-economic status, age, sex or ethnicity. The prevalence of childhood obesity in children has reached alarming...
E-therapy good as in person
Australian scientists have shown that online treatments are just as effective as face-to-face therapy for many common mental disorders.
Booming Middle-Class Diet May Stress Asia's Water Needs
Asia's growing appetite for meat threaten the already water-stressed region with severe food shortages, scientists warned at an international conference in Sweden last week.
HIV subtype linked to increased likelihood for dementia
Patients infected with a particular subtype of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are more likely to develop dementia than patients with other subtypes, a study led by Johns Hopkins...
It's not all in your head: Descending neural mechanisms of placebo-induced pain control
A new study reveals that when it comes to pain control, the 'placebo effect' involves evolutionarily old pain control pathways in the human brainstem, the part of the brain that...
Feelings of hopelessness linked to stroke risk in healthy women
Healthy middle-aged women with feelings of hopelessness appear to experience thickening of the neck arteries, which can be a precursor to stroke, according to new research out of the University...
Immune defect is key to skin ageing
Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have discovered why older people may be so vulnerable to cancer and infections in the skin. The team from...
Gene variation is 'major genetic determinant of psoriasis'
A specific genetic region that has been increasingly identified as the strongest genetic link to psoriasis has an even more significant role in the chronic skin disease than has been...
The Anti-diabetic Effects Of Sodium Tungstate Revealed
The molecular mechanisms of tungstate activity in diabetes have been uncovered. Researchers have identified the pathways through which sodium tungstate improves pancreatic function and beta cell proliferation.
New Test For Safer Biomedical Research Results
In biomedical research with living cells in the culture dish, contamination with bacteria, viruses or other fast-growing cells is always a risk. Scientists have now developed a test system for...
Continued Vigilance Against Drug-resistance Malaria Is Needed
Current combination malaria therapies recommended by the World Health Organization provide adequate treatment for mild malaria, according to a review of the evidence. However, selected trials had high failure rates...
Device For On-The-Spot Blood Analysis
A hand-held device could offer point-of-care blood cell analysis in doctors' surgeries. The chip within the device uses microfluidics -- a set of technologies that control the flow of minute...
Rheumatism Video Discloses Center Of Inflammation At An Early Stage
It can strike anyone: rheumatism occurs just as often as diabetes, arteriosclerosis and cancer combined. Approximately one percent of the population is stricken with the rheumatoid arthritis. Now scientists in...
Small peptide found to stop lung cancer tumor growth in mice
In new animal research done by investigators at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, scientists have discovered a treatment effective in mice at blocking the growth and shrinking the size...
New brain aneurysm therapy lauded
TAMPERE, Finland, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Finnish scientists say they've determined a new treatment for patients suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm -- stent-assisted embolization -- is effective.
Cell filaments linked to brain tumors
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've determined the most common childhood brain tumor is linked to tiny cell filaments once dismissed as vestiges of evolution.
Nepalese suffering water shortage
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- The effects of climate change on Nepal will mean more suffering for millions of people living in extreme poverty, an international aid agency...
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Satellites Used to Predict Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Rather than searching for weird weather or enemy missiles, some satellites are helping researchers to track--and predict--the spread of deadly diseases. [More]
Researchers Design Patches of Cells to Repair Damaged Hearts
Clinical trials are underway for stem cell injections to quicken healing of the cardiac muscle after a heart attack. Although promising results trickle in, other researchers are looking for a speedier way to...
Health cuts hurt long-term care, Alberta group says
Long-term care providers in Alberta are worried about what a government-ordered three per cent budget cut will mean for the quality of care.
N.L. swine flu campaign focuses on washing hands
The government of Newfoundland and Labrador is hoping to get the jump on an expected outbreak of swine flu in the fall with an intensive hand-washing campaign aimed at schoolchildren.
Some N.S. hospitals to eliminate fried foods
Nova Scotia's largest district health authority is banning fried food at its hospital cafeterias starting Sept. 1.
Soluble fibre best for irritable bowels
Soluble fibre is the best line of defence in alleviating symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, Dutch researchers say.