Archive for May 2018

Panel Approves Limited therapy for menopause

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Panel Approves Limited therapy for menopause - BETHESDA, MARYLAND - The best scientists in a 3-day consensus conference on the management of symptoms of menopause today concluded that, despite its risks, the short-term estrogen therapy is the best way to mitigate the debilitating problems like...

Too much fluoride on Tap?

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Too much fluoride on Tap? - The pits. Fluoride prevents cavities, but too much can damage teeth SIN WASHINGTON, DC -. Protecting the Environment Agency (EPA) should decrease the maximum amount of fluoride, it allows in drinking water, according to a National...

What's special about "Special K"

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What's special about "Special K" - feeling down? Ketamine popular club drug - or "Special K" - may prove to be a powerful antidepressant DEA A drug you. 'Re more likely to find at a rave at a veterinarian's office can be the next big antidepressant. A single...

Healthier With herpes?

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Healthier With herpes? - protection from the plague. Yersinia pestis , which causes plague, is one of two bacteria NIAID / NIH [1945022sourisrésistentsilatenteinfectéeparlevirusdel'herpès] the doctors consider them harmless hitchhikers at best and dangerous...

Solving the Paradox Antidepressant

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Solving the Paradox Antidepressant - Two genes involved in chemical signaling in the brain may help explain why antidepressants increase the risk of suicide in some people, according to a new study. concerns about antidepressant safety arose a few years ago when studies began to indicate that the...

Obesity is Little Helper

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Obesity is Little Helper - bacteria Call the dentist. Receding gums reveal more bone loss around the roots of obese mice teeth ( down ), indicating the disease more severe gum as that found in lean mice ( top ). Salomon Amar / Boston University Fat mouse...

Cholesterol crisis?

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Cholesterol crisis? - A new study shows that a drug widely prescribed drug lowers cholesterol, but can not be beneficial for heart health, a paradoxical result that physicians discuss how the drug works and if it is. effective The study found that the combination of a drug effective cholesterol-old,...

Mutation Spell Bad News for Breast Cancer Patients

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Mutation Spell Bad News for Breast Cancer Patients - Waterproof. A mutation in the enzyme NQO1 NCI breast cancer patients with a mutation makes breast cancer cells more difficult to treat and more likely to spread. in both copies of the NQO1 gene have...

Personal Trainer in a pill

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Personal Trainer in a pill - No pain, only gain. A combination of drugs may improve endurance of the easy way. navy.mil/Wikipedia You want to run a marathon, but too lazy to form? Maybe you can take a pill one day. Scientists have found compounds that, when...

blood test for Mom Picks Up Down Syndrome in Fetus

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blood test for Mom Picks Up Down Syndrome in Fetus - easier to spot. . Down syndrome affects one in 1000 in the general population Jupiter Images A technology guru may have solved a problem that has long vexed the Obstetricians: how to test for Down syndrome,...

Lyme disease: Shoot at Shots

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Lyme disease: Shoot at Shots - Congress is floundering in trouble whether people with Lyme disease should receive long-term antibiotic or if the drugs affect more help. This question, which has been an inexhaustible source of friction among biomedical researchers between researchers and patient-advocates...

IOM to Obama: Get Your Act Together on Global Health

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IOM to Obama: Get Your Act Together on Global Health - A new Institute of Medicine report released today by a large group of scientists and former officials in a committee global health has a message for President-elect Barack Obama, Give us of this change you promised committee, co-chaired by...

Next Chapter for Zerhouni

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Next Chapter for Zerhouni - Elias Zerhouni, the researcher-radiologist who led the National Institutes of Health for six years until he resigned in October, joined the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as principal investigator in its global health program. Although generally...

And win the war against cancer, as

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And win the war against cancer, as - In addition to saving banks, strengthen the housing market cratered, and capping greenhouse gas emissions, President Barack Obama had another ambitious goal for the stimulus plan in his speech to Congress last night: the treatment of cancer. Presumably this is...

Extremist animal rights Target UCLA neuroscientist

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Extremist animal rights Target UCLA neuroscientist - animal rights extremists are not let in their attacks against the California biomedical researchers. According to Los Angeles Times , the FBI investigation into a bombing that destroyed the car of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),...

A new tool to fight against prostate cancer

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A new tool to fight against prostate cancer - smart weapon. A new compound that clogs the androgen receptor tumors decreased prostate cancer drug resistant mice ( bottom line , tumors after 5 days). C. Tran et al. Science For the unlucky 10% of men diagnosed...

A Nose for Disease

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A Nose for Disease - Get a whiff. If you have a disease, this rodent may be able to feel it. Photos.com In 1989, The Lancet was a curious report on a dog kept licking a mole on her leg owner. The mole turned out to be a malignant melanoma. Since then, scientists...

Breaking News on the swine flu

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Breaking News on the swine flu - Since news of swine flu in the United States erupted last week Science journalists have been keeping an eye on the latest developments. Virus expert Jon Cohen is on the scene of some of the first cases in San Diego, California, then based in Paris, Martin Enserink,...

Your Top Flu Primer Award Goes To ...

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Your Top Flu Primer Award Goes To ... - ... Washington post graphic Brenna Maloney and Laura Stanton, who now explain and elucidate how flu viruses work, and specifically what scientists learn about it. ...

The growing number

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The growing number - on the swine flu May 8 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published today reports new details on outbreaks of swine flu in Mexico and the United States, revealing a much larger number of suspected and confirmed cases reported above. Highlights: Mexico May 6 had nearly 12,000...

Microbiologist arrested for smuggling materials

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Microbiologist arrested for smuggling materials - A Canadian researcher is held US after attempting to pass 22 vials of biological materials in the United States. Konan Michel Yao was arrested at the border between North Dakota and the Canadian province of Manitoba, on May 5, according to this AFP...

When the vaccine against the flu Get ready?

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When the vaccine against the flu Get ready? - Despite recent news report to the contrary, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides Science Insider efforts to make a vaccine against the virus causing the swine flu outbreak have not encountered unexpected delays. Confusion...

The Rock-It Scientists

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The Rock-It Scientists - by Geoffrey Beene advertising campaign in the June issue of GQ has 11 biomedical scientists (all men) posing with rock stars such that Seal and Sheryl Crow. Why? It seems that the clothing company has a foundation that funds medical research....

Novartis Reports Advance in swine flu vaccine production

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Novartis Reports Advance in swine flu vaccine production - Novartis announced in a press release today that it has made the first batch of vaccine against influenza A ( H1N1) flu causing the swine flu pandemic. The Swiss pharmaceutical company said it had 10 liters of vaccine that will be used in...

The New York Times on

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The New York Times on - Results Nerve cancer subsidies Yesterday The New York Times featured a front-page story suggesting that the approach the government cancer research funding, particularly at the national Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists -pushes to "play it safe" and steer clear of bold...

Cancer does not discriminate

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Cancer does not discriminate - greater risk. African Americans have the poorest prognosis for some cancers. Simon Jarratt / Corbis For years, researchers know that race is a factor in cancer survival. Black women are less likely than whites to have breast...

Elimination of river blindness in view

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Elimination of river blindness in view - [remedy River. A woman receives ivermectin in his village in Rukungiri, Uganda. Andy Crump / WHO / APOC / TDR Cases of parasitic infection known as river blindness or onchocerciasis, fell dramatically in Africa in the...
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