Items tagged with Disease

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Virus Tamed to Destroy Cancer Cells Monday, May 25th, 2009 - 18:11:10 - Ehud Rattner Scientists at Oxford University have tamed a virus so that it attacks and destroys cancer cells but does not harm healthy cells. They determined how... read more

Key Gene to Alzheimer's Reversal Pinpointed Friday, May 8th, 2009 - 10:02:47 - Anuradha Menon A team led by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has now pinpointed the exact gene responsible for a 2007 breakthrough in... read more

Kidney Removed Through The Belly Button Monday, April 27th, 2009 - 13:46:07 - Ehud Rattner A surgeon at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago is one of the first in the Midwest to use a new surgical technique that requires... read more

Scientist Hawking 'Comfortable' in Hospital Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 - 16:32:01 - Anuradha Menon Distinguished scientist Stephen Hawking was said to be in a "comfortable" condition Tuesday after spending the night in hospital, Cambridge... read more

Parasite's Conjugal Bed Discovered Sunday, April 12th, 2009 - 16:19:27 - Sarah Gingichashvili Researchers have finally shown that the parasite responsible for leishmaniasis does engage in sex, potentially opening up new opportunities for... read more

Hot Tea Can Increase Risk of Throat Cancer Saturday, March 28th, 2009 - 16:04:31 - Anuradha Menon In the linked case-control study, Islami and colleagues assess the association between how people drink their tea and the risk of oesophageal... read more

Oxycodone Effective Against Shingles Pain Thursday, March 26th, 2009 - 14:05:03 - Anuradha The painkiller oxycodone is effective at treating the acute pain of shingles, an illness that often causes severe pain which can become long-lasting... read more

New Test Can Predict Spread of Breast Cancer Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 - 10:24:55 - Anuradha Menon Scientists at MIT, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical School have developed a test that could help doctors precisely... read more

Researchers Progress Toward AIDS Vaccine Friday, March 13th, 2009 - 16:18:11 - Anuradha Menon Rutgers AIDS researchers Gail Ferstandig Arnold and Eddy Arnold may have turned a corner in their search for a HIV vaccine. In a paper published in... read more

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