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People who eat spicy foods regularly could live longer
8/05/2015
A new study suggests that a daily diet that regularly includes spicy food is associated with a lower risk of death, including deaths from specific diseases such as cancer.
Molecular tinkering doubles cancer drug's efficacy
8/05/2015
Researchers have packaged a widely used cancer drug into nanoparticles, more than doubling its effectiveness at destroying tumors.
England still struggling to close the gap in cancer survival
8/04/2015
Cancer survival in England remains lower than countries with similar healthcare systems, according to a new Cancer Research UK funded study published in the British Journal of Cancer.
Scaffold-integrated microchips for end-to-end in vitro tumor cell attachment and xenograft formation
8/04/2015
A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Florida State University, and University of Massachusetts has developed a new design of microchip that can retrieve microfluidically...
Yo-yo dieting not associated with increased cancer risk
8/04/2015
Largest study to date reassuring for millions of Americans who struggle to lose weightThe first comprehensive study of its kind finds weight cycling, repeated cycles of intentional weight loss...
Veterans returning from Middle East face higher skin cancer risk
8/04/2015
Soldiers who served in the glaring desert sunlight of Iraq and Afghanistan returned home with an increased risk of skin cancer, due not only to the desert climate, but also a lack of sun protection...
A new way to kill melanoma skin cancers
8/04/2015
Scientists are adding new DNA to the cells of patients in a world-first treatment to attack and kill melanoma skin cancers.
Further evidence of genetic key to deadliest form of skin cancer
8/04/2015
Scientists from the University of Leeds have uncovered further evidence that the protective buffers at the ends of chromosomes - known as telomeres - are fundamental to the understanding of the...
New insight into how the immune system sounds the alarm
8/04/2015
T cells are the guardians of our bodies: they constantly search for harmful invaders and diseased cells, ready to swarm and kill off any threats.
Study finds no benefit in adding third drug to therapy for older patients with afib, heart attack
8/04/2015
Triple therapy has same event rate, more bleeding than dual therapy in patients with afib, heart attackTriple therapy is no better than dual antiplatelet therapy in preventing major adverse...