Feed your hair with Chalet
Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 10:17
Last update: about 8 years ago
The saying by Hippocrates, "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food," is still very much valid today and it is applicable to one's body or physique. When one manages to eat a well-balanced...
Unavoidable typos in DNA help fuel cancer
Saturday, 13 May 2017, 15:08
Last update: about 8 years ago
Cancer patients often wonder "why me?" Does their tumor run in the family? Did they try hard enough to avoid risks like smoking, too much sun or a bad diet? Lifestyle and heredity get the most...
Tips for finding opioid alternatives for surgical pain
Friday, 12 May 2017, 15:07
Last update: about 8 years ago
Headed for surgery? Specialists say talking to your doctors ahead of time may turn up ways to control post-operative pain while minimizing use of those problematic painkillers called opioids. Among...
Those with blurry close-up vision get some new help
Thursday, 11 May 2017, 15:07
Last update: about 8 years ago
Squinting while texting? Always losing your reading glasses? An eye implant that takes about 10 minutes to put in place is the newest in a list of surgical repairs for the blurry close-up vision that...
A&H Magazine: Is it coeliac disease or gluten sensitivity?
Thursday, 11 May 2017, 09:00
Last update: about 8 years ago
A&H Magazine
While both coeliac disease and gluten sensitivity are a cause of great discomfort and often pain because of the ingested protein called gluten, the two conditions differ significantly....
FDA OKs immune-boosting drug for advanced bladder cancer
Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 15:06
Last update: about 8 years ago
U.S. regulators have approved a new drug that harnesses the immune system to treat bladder cancer that has spread after chemotherapy or surgery. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday...
Doctors tie Zika virus to heart problems in some adults
Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 15:04
Last update: about 8 years ago
For the first time, doctors have tied infection with the Zika virus to possible new heart problems in adults. The evidence so far is only in eight people in Venezuela, and is not enough to prove...
Risk & reward: Stopping a cancer drug to see if you're cured
Saturday, 6 May 2017, 16:10
Last update: about 8 years ago
Imagine you had a life-threatening cancer that a wonder drug had kept in remission for years. Would you risk quitting? Thousands of people with a blood cancer called chronic myelogenous leukemia,...
Old mold from penicillin discoverer auctioned for $14,617
Friday, 5 May 2017, 16:09
Last update: about 8 years ago
How much is an old, dried out piece of mold worth? Apparently more than $14,600 if it was created by the doctor who discovered penicillin. The nearly 90-year-old swatch of mold has a rather...
A 'sci-fi' cancer therapy fights brain tumors, study finds
Thursday, 4 May 2017, 16:08
Last update: about 8 years ago
It sounds like science fiction, but a cap-like device that makes electric fields to fight cancer improved survival for the first time in more than a decade for people with deadly brain tumors, final...