Daisies lead scientists down path to new leukemia drug
Public release date: 2-Oct-2007 A new, easily ingested form of a compound that has already shown it can attack the roots of leukemia in laboratory studies is moving…
Toxic shock: immune system’s anthrax link (important please review)
Public release date: 23-Aug-2007 Human immune proteins crucial for fighting cancer, viruses and bacterial infections belong to an ancient and lethal toxin family previously only found in bacteria, Australian researchers…
New study: Pine bark reduces perimenopausal symptoms
Public release date: 28-Aug-2007 A study to be published in an upcoming edition of the Scandinavian Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology reveals that Pycnogenol® (pic-noj-en-all), pine bark extract from the…
Who will recover spontaneously from hepatitis C virus infection
Public release date: 29-Aug-2007 Twenty to fifty percent of HCV infected patients recovers spontaneously. The hepatitis C patients and their relatives like to know if his/her infection would fall into…
Experimental anti-cancer drug made from corn lillies kills brain tumor stem cells
Public release date: 30-Aug-2007 A drug that shuts down a critical cell-signaling pathway in the most common and aggressive type of adult brain cancer successfully kills cancer stem cells thought…
Many medical residents appear to lack biostatistics knowledge needed to interpret clinical research
Public release date: 4-Sep-2007 Internal medicine residents had low scores in a test of biostatistics knowledge, and about three-fourths of the residents surveyed indicated they have low confidence in understanding…
AVOCADOS MAY HELP PREVENT ORAL CANCER, OSU STUDY SHOWS
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Nutrients taken from avocados are able to thwart oral cancer cells, killing some and preventing pre-cancerous cells from developing into actual cancers, according to researchers at…
Organic farming can feed the world, U-M study shows
Public release date: 11-Jul-2007 ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Organic farming can yield up to three times as much food as conventional farming on the same amount of land---according to new findings which…
Pumpkin: A fairytale end to insulin injections?
Compounds found in pumpkin could potentially replace or at least drastically reduce the daily insulin injections that so many diabetics currently have to endure. Recent research reveals that pumpkin extract…
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