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New Breakthroughs in Breast Cancer Treatment for Patients

While drugs such as tamoxifen have been a huge success in treating breast cancer, for a significant proportion of sufferers the drugs either fail to work, or…

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New Research Validates Choices Stamp for Easy Healthy Eating

Importantly, simple labels seem to work as well for the less health conscious and lower-educated, and across countries. Findings also show the importance of…

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New Genes Linked to Lupus Uncovered, Paving Way for Treatments

In an international genetic study of more than 3,000 women, researchers found evidence of an association between Lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus or SLE)…

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‘Nature’ – new findings in pain research published

Our bodies sense painful stimuli through certain receptors located in the skin, in joints and many internal organs. Specialized nerve fibers relay these…

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Breakthrough In Leukaemia Treatment: Targeting Resistance Pathway

The scientists found that death-resistant Acute Myeloid Leukaemia cells are given their resistance by a genetic anti-oxidant pathway called hemeoxygenase-1 or…

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil: Key to Combating Degenerative Diseases

Since then many studies on the benefits of olive oil have been conducted. According to several studies performed in Italy, Spain and Greece (the main…

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New Gene Test Improves Prostate Cancer Detection Accuracy

At present, men with suspected prostate cancer are identified mainly using what are known as PSA tests. However, the test has a relatively low sensitivity and…

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Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs May Not Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

The study involved 929 Catholic clergy members who were an average of 75 years old, free of dementia at the beginning of the study and enrolled in the…

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Uncovering the Global Tobacco Lobby: Insights from UCSF Research

Patricia McDaniel, Gina Intinarelli and Ruth Malone from the University of California, San Francisco dug deep into documentary data from tobacco industry…

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Preventing Stunting and Deaths in Young Children in Poor Countries

Professor Simon Cousens, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, is one of the authors of a paper which appears as part of the Lancet Maternal and…

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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Bulimia Nervosa Treatment

Bulimia nervosa (BN) is often associated with depressive symptoms and treatment with antidepressants has shown positive effects. A shared deficient…

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Lipoic Acid: Potential Aid in Reducing Atherosclerosis & Weight

Although the results cannot be directly extrapolated beyond the laboratory, researchers report that “they strongly suggest that lipoic acid supplementation may…

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Type 1 diabetes triggered by 'lazy' regulatory T-cells

A research team led by Dr. Ciriaco A. Piccirillo of McGill University’s Department of Microbiology and Immunology has discovered that in some individuals, the…

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Molecules might identify high-risk acute-leukemia patients

Researchers say the findings should improve the understanding of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and could lead to new therapies for patients with few treatment…

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Cell Death Suppression Boosts M2 Vaccine Effectiveness

Scientists from Cure Lab, Inc. in collaboration with Boston University School of Medicine published new findings indicating that unmodified M2 may have a…

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Science Tackles 2,500-Year-Old Drug Issues Through Innovation

“Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed,” warned the father of medicine, Hippocrates,…

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