Health & Medicine
Manchester’s ‘first step’ to perfect drug combinations
24 Oct 2011
Scientists at The University of Manchester have discovered a way of speeding up the creation of perfect drug combinations, which could help patients recovering from critical health problems such as stroke, heart attacks and cancer.
Virtual reality helps treat social anxiety
24 Oct 2011
Early origins of chronic mid-life diseases: Low birth weight and poverty have long-term effects
22 Oct 2011
Genetically influenced responses to alcohol affect brain activation
By By Debra Kain | 19 Oct 2011
Antiviral drugs may slow Alzheimer’s progression
18 Oct 2011
Antiviral drugs used to target the herpes virus could be effective at slowing the progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), shows a new study
Sniffing out the brain's predictive power
15 Oct 2011
Researchers find that the brain smells what it expects rather than what it sniffs
Monitoring how T cells respond to HIV
By Anne Trafton, MIT News Office | 15 Oct 2011
One of the obstacles to developing an effective AIDS vaccine is the difficulty in measuring how well a potential vaccine primes the body to defend itself against HIV.
Inhaler treatment for lung cancer
12 Oct 2011
Safer and more efficient lung cancer treatment through a nebuliser may replace current intravenous delivery
Study identifies earliest stages of Alzheimer's
12 Oct 2011
Light can detect pre-cancerous colon cells
By By Richard Merritt | 11 Oct 2011
This technology could be a non-invasive way for physicians to detect abnormal cells, or dysplasia, which have the potential of turning cancerous
Immune mechanism blocks inflammation generated by oxidative stress
By By Scott LaFee | 07 Oct 2011
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