New Studies Show How Yervoy and Vemurafenib May Improve The Survival Rate in Melanoma Patients June 6, 2011 — Two new drugs that work in very different ways are being hailed as game changers in the treatment of patients with advanced forms of the deadly skin cancer melanoma. New studies of the experimental drug vemurafenib [...]
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards died of breast cancer at 62-year of her life on Tuesday, December 7, reports Associated Press. John and Elizabeth Edwards were married since 1977. They had four children, and the eldest of them died at a very young age. Elizabeth Edwards was diagnosed with breast [...]
The new electronic cigarette may be the innovative technology to help reduce stress in people who want to quit smoking. Most chain smokers say that cigarettes help them cope with stress. In fact, it is not smoking that leads to dramatic improvement of mood, as discovered by American researchers. A group of scientists from Brown [...]
British scientists have created their own rating of 10 healthiest foods for humans, which surprisingly had tomatoes at the top. List of 10 must products for healthy food includes: 1. The Tomato is the Champion! They have topped the rating of the usefulness of foods, composed by British experts. Scientists considered the availability of vitamins, [...]
Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center conducted a study on 11,500 women and found that the risk of heart attack and stroke increases if the woman had multiple miscarriages, reports BBC News. The experiment was conducted on the women in the age range of 35-60 years. During the study, the researchers tracked the history [...]
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated recently that early signs of the flu season are appearing. On a positive note for those already inoculated, they also indicated that the virus strains manifesting are the ones that match this year’s vaccinations. In line with this the government group are emphasizing that people need [...]
Recent study shows that Magnetic Resonance Imaging in combination with breast mammography detects double the number of cancer cells among breast cancer survivors than high risk candidates. This indicates, according to the researchers, that present breast cancer screening protocols lack the sensitivity in finding these cancer cells among survivors. A University of Washington Medical Center [...]
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden have conducted a study over usage of multivitamins involving 35 thousand women aged 49 to 83 years, which lasted more than ten years. Over a decade of monitoring, 974 women were diagnosed with breast cancer. Specialists also took into account factors such as age, family history of breast [...]
A new, still unknown to the medical fraternity flu virus has been found in Mongolia. The symptoms of this influenza are similar to the so-called ‘bird’ and ‘swine’ flu viruses. The virus is classified as H3N2 strain. In Ulan Bator, already 17 cases of this influenza have been registered. Young children are considered to be [...]
The US congress approved last Thursday a child nutrition bill, which aimed to improve the quality of school meals in the country. With a vote of 264 against 157 in the House, the child nutrition bill, which was also given unanimous approval in the Senate last August, will be sent to President Obama for signing. [...]