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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...

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