Health & Medicine

Mistimed sleep disrupts human molecular clock

23 Jan 2014

Guys: get married for the sake of your bones, but wait until you're 25

22 Jan 2014

Among men who first married prior to turning 25, the researchers found a significant reduction in spine bone strength for each year they were married before that age

Dirty Chinese air spreading diseases across Pacific to US: study

22 Jan 2014

Polluted air from China is blowing across the Pacific Ocean in large quantities and contributing to smog in the United States, according to new research by a team of Chinese and American scientists

Drug strategy blocks a leading driver of cancer

By By Jeffrey Norris | 20 Jan 2014

Scientists design protein to prevent prostate cancer cell growth

20 Jan 2014

Scientists cooking up alloy “recipes” for bone implants

18 Jan 2014

Google develops glucose monitoring contacts

18 Jan 2014

Scientists design protein to prevent prostate cancer cell growth

18 Jan 2014

Vitamin D good for patients with Parkinson’s disease

18 Jan 2014

Certain follow-up tests effective in detecting recurrence of bowel cancer

17 Jan 2014

Promising first results in gene therapy trial for inherited blindness

17 Jan 2014

Indian fairness creams, lipsticks high on lethal heavy metals: study

17 Jan 2014

Mercury is present in 44 per cent of the fairness creams and other cosmetics sold in India, although the use of the toxic metal in such products has been banned in India and across the world

Cancer death rates could be halved by 2030 with effective treatment

16 Jan 2014

Patient's own bone-marrow stem cells could treat resistant TB

15 Jan 2014

Gene therapy for Parkinson's disease yields promising results in first patients

15 Jan 2014

How the immune system fights off malaria

By By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 15 Jan 2014

The parasites that cause malaria are exquisitely adapted to the various hosts they infect — so studying the disease in mice doesn’t necessarily reveal information that could lead to drugs effective against human disease

Stem cells used to model disease that causes abnormal bone growth

14 Jan 2014

New research opens door to Alzheimer’s test

14 Jan 2014

Google Glass used in foot surgery in Jaipur

13 Jan 2014

Targeted treatment better than chemotherapy in some lung cancer patients

13 Jan 2014

Bacterial food web may be key to cystic fibrosis

By By Anne Ju | 13 Jan 2014

New clues to how bacteria evade antibiotics

11 Jan 2014

8 million lives saved since surgeon general’s tobacco warning 50 years ago

By By Michael Greenwood | 09 Jan 2014

Chemical imaging brings cancer tissue analysis into the digital age

08 Jan 2014

Stem cell scientists first to track joint cartilage development in humans

By By Shaun Mason | 06 Jan 2014