Health & Medicine

Cheaper, more aggressive prostate cancer treatment may also be riskier

By By Karen N. Peart | 14 Mar 2014

World’s first migraine-prevention device gets US FDA nod

12 Mar 2014

The US Food and Drug Administration for the first time yesterday allowed the marketing of a device as a preventative treatment for migraine headaches

Higher levels of omega-3 in diet associated with better sleep

12 Mar 2014

Financial incentives an incentive to healthier choices, reveals largest study of its kind

12 Mar 2014

Smartphones become ‘eye-phones’ with low-cost devices developed by ophthalmologists

By By Rosanne Spector | 12 Mar 2014

Researchers have developed inexpensive adapters that enable a smartphone to capture high-quality images of the front and back of the eye

Key pancreatic cancer defect identified

12 Mar 2014

Discrepancies in clinical trial reporting raise questions of accuracy

By By Karen N. Peart | 12 Mar 2014

Treatment to reduce disabilities in neonatal twins pioneered

11 Mar 2014

UV light aids cancer cells that creep along the outside of blood vessels

By By Shaun Mason | 11 Mar 2014

Blood test identifies those at-risk for cognitive decline, Alzheimer’s within 3 years

10 Mar 2014

Anti-psychotic medications offer new hope in the battle against glioblastoma

08 Mar 2014

New innovation could mean eye injections are a thing of the past

08 Mar 2014

Brain circuits multitask to detect, discriminate the outside world

08 Mar 2014

Fat-busting seaweeds identified

07 Mar 2014

Warmer temperatures push malaria to higher elevations

07 Mar 2014

Research has established that malarial parasites creep to higher elevations during warmer years and back down to lower altitudes when temperatures cool

WHO cuts recommended sugar intake amount by half

06 Mar 2014

Simple blood test could improve treatment for childhood cancer

05 Mar 2014

‘Almost winning’: how near misses for gamblers fire off a ‘win’ response in the brain

05 Mar 2014

Scientists have discovered that near misses experienced by gamblers on slot machine games promote similar neural responses to winning and could lead to further gambling

Combination therapies combat HIV at cell junctions

By By Bill Hathaway | 04 Mar 2014

KwaZulu-Natal woman opens new window for HIV vaccine

04 Mar 2014

Self-administration of flu vaccine with a patch may be feasible, study suggests

04 Mar 2014

The annual ritual of visiting a doctor’s office or health clinic to receive a flu shot may soon be outdated, thanks to the findings of a new study published in the journal Vaccine.

Researchers create graphene coating to prevent blood clots associated with implanted devices

04 Mar 2014

Depression and heart disease - a deadly mix

03 Mar 2014

Heart patients suffering from depression do not respond as well to treatment as patients without deporession, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health finds

New kind of scan finds cancer's sleeper cells

03 Mar 2014

Certain bacteria unbeatable with today’s medicines

03 Mar 2014

Certain bacteria have become unbeatable with today’s medicines, since the way antibiotics are being used is helping to create new drug-resistant “superbugs"