What are the health benefits of turnip greens?
12/01/2014
Find out about the health benefits of turnip greens including increasing iron absorption, preventing osteoporosis and cancer, and improving blood sugar in diabetics.
The benefits and risks of breast cancer screening
12/01/2014
There has been much recent debate on the benefits and risks of screening for breast cancer using BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in the general adult population.
Lung cancer therapy found effective in older African Americans
11/30/2014
University of Cincinnati researchers have found in a phase-2 clinical trial that a Food and Drug Administration-approved therapy could be effective in treating both older and African American...
New insights into how p53 tumor suppressor binds to the human genome
11/30/2014
Scientists from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have learned new details about how an important tumor-suppressing protein, called p53, binds to the...
Better tests and treatments may result from new insights into breast cancer spread
11/30/2014
A study combining tumor cells from patients with breast cancer with a laboratory model of blood vessel lining provides the most compelling evidence so far that a specific trio of cells is required...
New ways identified to drain cancer's 'fuel tank'
11/29/2014
Cancer stem cells are particularly difficult to eradicate and are at the heart of why it is so hard to more effectively treat cancer patients, as the post-treatment survival of cancer stem cells...
Drug combo effective against colorectal cancer
11/28/2014
Genes make proteins and proteins tell your body's cells what to do: one talks to the next, which talks to the next, and to the next.
Immunotherapy breakthrough for advanced bladder cancer
11/28/2014
An antibody drug that stops cancer cells evading the immune system helps achieve a breakthrough in developing a new therapy for advanced bladder cancer.
More public health interventions required to tackle grim reaper of 'lifestyle' diseases
11/28/2014
More public health interventions, along the lines of the smoking ban, are needed to tackle Britain's devastating toll of 'lifestyle' diseases, including heart disease and cancer, according to...
Saatchi Bill threatens to undermine Hippocratic Oath
11/28/2014
The Medical Innovation Bill tabled by Lord Saatchi and currently making its way through the UK's House of Lords "strikes at the heart of evidence-based medicine" and risks "opening the door to the...