NY Times, USA Today multiple online EPpy winners 13 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- The New York Times won three accolades for its Web sites and USA Today won two as the "EPpy Awards" were announced Thursday. | |
Canada eyes OTC sale of Plan B 'morning-after' pill 14 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Canada's national pharmacy regulation body is recommending that "morning-after" contraceptive pills be sold over the counter. | |
Video game, accessory sales jump 47 pct in April 14 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Americans spent $1.23 billion on video games, hardware and accessories in April, up 47 percent from a year earlier, even as the price of more essential items like food and gasoline soared. | |
 Da Vinci to be honored by small helicopter flight 14 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- A Japanese man who developed the world's smallest helicopter will take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the Renaissance genius' original idea. | |
Tips on getting vitamin D for cancer prevention 14 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Evidence is growing that vitamin D, which the skin makes from sunshine, is linked to lower risk of breast cancer and other cancers. But that doesn't mean it's ... | |
 Automotive safety systems get more dependable 8 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
As automotive safety systems become more complex, the risk of failure increases. But European researchers believe they have found a way to improve dependability. | |
Chemotherapy might help cancer vaccines work 10 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Chemotherapy given in conjunction with cancer vaccines may boost the immune system’s response, potentially improving the effectiveness of this promising type of cancer therapy, according to a study by researchers in the Duke ... | |
 New drug combination brings 1-2 punch against acute leukemia 10 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a drug combination that kills leukemia cells by shutting down their energy source and hastening cell starvation. | |
Study shows that administering calcium and magnesium effectively reduces neurological sensitivity 10 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Researchers in the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG) have shown that patients who receive intravenous calcium and magnesium before and after the chemotherapy drug oxaliplatin for the treatment of advanced colon ... | |
Protein predicts Gleevec resistance in gastrointestinal tumors 10 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Excess amounts of a protein called IGF-1R in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) could indicate that the patient would be less responsive to the drug imatinib mesylate (known as Gleevec), according to Andrew ... | |
Lung cancer patients can tolerate post-surgery exercise, and can benefit from it 10 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Patients who have undergone surgical procedures for the removal of lung cancer can tolerate and benefit from exercise regimens started just a month after surgery, according to a new study led by researchers at the Duke Comprehensive ... | |
Common virus may serve as target for vaccine in fight against deadly brain tumors 10 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
By targeting a common virus, doctors may be able to extend the lives of patients diagnosed with the most prevalent and deadly type of brain tumor, according to a study led by researchers in Duke’s Preston Robert Tisch Brain ... | |
Top grades not always needed to become a doctor 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Top A-level results are not always necessary for students to succeed in medicine, according to the authors of a paper in this week’s BMJ. Students with average grades, who come from economically and educationally deprived ... | |
Inject rational argument into embryo debate, says expert 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In the week that the UK parliament debates controversial amendments to the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, Professor John Burn asks at what point a cell becomes a human. | |
Gemstar-TV Guide ex-CEO now wanted for obstruction 12 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Federal authorities said Thursday that former Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. chairman Henry Yuen is a fugitive after he was indicted on a felony obstruction charge that carries a possible five-year prison term. | |
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