Archive for March 2016

Can e-cigarettes actually help smokers quit?

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Can e-cigarettes actually help smokers quit? - ] Medical devices usually come in flavors like "Spiked Nog," "Apple Jaxx," or "Aphrodite case," but proponents e-cigarettes introduced in 06, argued that the pen-shaped nicotine vaporizers could help cigarette smokers to quit the habit. Now, a review of...

Childhood neglect erodes the brain

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Childhood neglect erodes the brain - In perhaps the most famous study of neglect in childhood, the researchers monitored the progress, or lack of celui- one, in children who lived as infants in dark orphanages in Romania and are now teenagers. A new analysis now shows that these children, who have...

'Positive' results for Ebola drug upsets plans for trials

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'Positive' results for Ebola drug upsets plans for trials - Even researchers whose trial of a potential drug for Ebola made headlines last week worked hard to minimize the glare efficiency, it showed. "It is a weak signal in a non-randomized trial," Yves Levy, director of the French Institute of Health...

Why a powerful cancer drug only helps some patients

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Why a powerful cancer drug only helps some patients - A new type of drug that releases the immune system against tumors has been remarkably successful, but only for certain cancer patients. Researchers have found a genetic signature in lung tumors that seems to predict if this immunotherapy drug will...

Eggs' power plants energize new IVF debate

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Eggs' power plants energize new IVF debate - You are currently viewing the summary. See the full text Username Enter your username Sciencemag.org . Password Enter the password that accompanies your username. you have forgotten your username or...

Breast cancer drug may help men with prostate cancer

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Breast cancer drug may help men with prostate cancer - PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania- A new type of drug against cancer originally intended for women with scarce hereditary forms of breast cancer and ovarian cancer can also help a wider band of patients, according to a small clinical study. The drug...

Liberia’s Ebola epidemic ends

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Liberia’s Ebola epidemic ends - Unless a new case is diagnosed in the coming hours, Liberia is expected to announce tomorrow that the country is officially free of Ebola. Cases have been down there since October, and May 9 mark 42 days since the last confirmed Ebola patient in the country was buried...

For HPV vaccine, one dose goes a long way

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For HPV vaccine, one dose goes a long way - The recommended dose for the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine Cervarix may be exaggerated in some quarters, according to a new analysis. The vaccine, which prevents certain types of cervical cancer, has seen poor adoption, particularly in developing countries....

Why last year’s flu vaccine didn't work so well

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Why last year’s flu vaccine didn't work so well - If you had a vaccine against the flu or fall last winter, you learned the hard way that the vaccine does has not worked as well as usual. Now researchers think they know why :. A mutation that allowed some influenza viruses to beat the vaccine When...

Cancer's copper connections

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Cancer's copper connections - connections] You are watching the abstract. See the full text Username Enter your username Sciencemag.org . Password Enter the password that accompanies your username. you have forgotten your username or password? ...

First malaria vaccine takes a key step forward

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First malaria vaccine takes a key step forward - One might think that the first vaccine candidate to protect against malaria as cause of jubilation. But instead, the data on the candidate, known as RTS, S or Mosquirix have dribbled over the past two years, he was greeted with considerable-scratching...

Is a universal flu vaccine on the horizon?

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Is a universal flu vaccine on the horizon? - Each fall, millions of people roll up their sleeves for a vaccine against the flu, hoping to give their immune system a leg on influenza. But flu viruses are thousands of strains that mutate and evolve with the seasons, and the vaccine can not protect against...

Flu study raises questions about U.S. ban

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Into the light: Restoring vision

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Into the light: Restoring vision - India has the largest number of blind children in the world, many of which are born with cataracts. A simple surgery early in life can reverse this condition. But in India, poverty and lack of access to health care shall record most children with congenital cataracts...

Eggs unlimited

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An obscure mosquito-borne disease goes global

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An obscure mosquito-borne disease goes global - You are currently viewing the summary. See the full text Summary outbreaks A little-known virus called Zika caused in the Pacific ocean islands in recent years and arrived in South America this year. Scientists...

Special report: Ebola's thin harvest

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Special report: Ebola's thin harvest - Since November 29, not a single new case of Ebola was reported in Guinea, Sierra Leone or Liberia. If no new cases pop up, the world will be able to declare January 14 as 2 years Ebola epidemic has ended at the end, after more than 28,0 cases...
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