SAN FRANCISCO (August 1, 2009) -- Patients with second primary lung cancers (SPLC), when compared to those with one primary lung cancer (OPLC), are more likely…
Aug 1, 2009
Bethesda, MD (Aug. 1, 2009) -- Patient satisfaction with their medications and the quality of interactions with their doctor reflect the success of…
Jul 31, 2009
Bethesda, MD (August 1, 2009) -- The antidiabetic medication metformin is associated with a reduced risk of pancreatic cancer in diabetics, according to a new…
Jul 31, 2009
HOUSTON - Taking the most commonly-prescribed anti-diabetic drug, metformin, reduces an individual's risk of developing pancreatic cancer by 62 percent, according to research from The University of Texas M.
Jul 31, 2009
July 30, 2009 -- Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health are working with Argentina's…
Jul 31, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA---This month's Ophthalmology, the journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, reports on use of bevacizumab (Avastin), to benefit…
Jul 31, 2009
Chestnut Hill, Mass. (July 31, 2009) -- Using a composite metamaterial to deliver a complex set of instructions to a beam of light, Boston College physicists…
Jul 31, 2009
Johns Hopkins experts in applied physics, computer engineering, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, microbiology, pathology and surgery have unveiled a…
Jul 31, 2009
Washington, DC -- Cancer researchers at Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have successfully tested a small, engineered antibody they say shuts down growth of human glioblastoma tumors in cell and animal studies.
Jul 31, 2009
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (31 July 2009) -Scientists are racing to arm Afghanistan against a new invader-a deadly, airborne wheat rust disease that threatens wheat…
Jul 30, 2009
As both a science and a journalism major, I have many appalling moments while watching broadcast news - moments when the reporter on television is stating some very obviously erroneous or exaggerated scientific facts.
Jul 30, 2009
Certainly there is strength in numbers, but only if those numbers can effectively communicate with one another.
Jul 30, 2009
Markets identify the benefits humans derive from ecosystems, called ecosystem services, and associate them with economic values which can be bought, sold or traded.
Jul 30, 2009
A team of physicists from the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham have shown that electrons in narrow wires can divide into two new particles called spinons and a holons.
Jul 30, 2009
