April 20, 2010 -- A study by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) carried out in Krakow, Poland has found that prenatal exposure to…
Apr 20, 2010
LA JOLLA, CA -- April 19, 2010 -- Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have provided an answer to the 40-year-old mystery of how certain genetic mutations lead to Type 1 diabetes.
Apr 19, 2010
Johns Hopkins epidemiologists say that prostate cancer patients who gain five or more pounds near the time of their prostate surgery are twice as likely to have a recurrence of their cancer compared with patients whose weight is stable.
Apr 19, 2010
What is the memory capacity of the human brain? Is there a physical limit to the amount of information it can store? --J. Hawes, Huntington Beach, Calif.
Apr 19, 2010
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Pathology have discovered a set of four biomarkers that will help predict which patients are more likely to develop aggressive colorectal cancer and which are not.
Apr 19, 2010
Kansas City, Mo -- April 19, 2010 -- Approximately 7 percent of elementary school children across the bi-state, Kansas City metropolitan area are infected with the fungus Trichophyton tonsurans (T.
Apr 18, 2010
Boston, MA -- A tobacco company's new, dissolvable nicotine pellet--which is being sold as a tobacco product, but which in some cases resembles popular…
Apr 18, 2010
NEW YORK--Will exotic orchids soon be subjected to the same genetic scrutiny as some luxury caviars?
Apr 18, 2010
Vienna, Austria, Friday 16 April 2010: Results from two French studies presented today at the International Liver CongressTM 2010 press conference will help inform clinical practice in the treatment of patients with severe or acute alcoholic hepatitis.
Apr 16, 2010
Researchers in China are reporting that they have found a way to determine which somatic cells -- or differentiated body cells -- that have been reprogrammed into a primordial, embryonic-like state are the most viable for therapeutic applications.
Apr 16, 2010
The eruption of an Icelandic volcano that sent a huge plume of ash into the atmosphere and caused sweeping disruptions of air traffic over Great Britain and…
Apr 16, 2010
TORONTO -- April 16, 2010 -- Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) today announced results from a one-year, longitudinal health…
Apr 16, 2010
HOUSTON -- (April 15, 2010) -- Nine-year-old Morgan LaRue is the first cancer patient in Texas to benefit from a groundbreaking procedure that will magnetically lengthen her leg, sparing her the possibility of up to 10 future surgeries as her body grows.
Apr 15, 2010
President Obama promised to eliminate 34 tons of plutonium from the U.S. nuclear weapons program as part of this week's nuclear security summit.
Apr 15, 2010
