Health & Medicine : Science World Report

Mar 15, 2012 11:58 AM EDT

Biology Researcher on Verge of Major Breakthrough in Drug Creation Process

New technology being developed at Florida State University could significantly decrease the cost of drug discovery, potentially leading to increased access to high-quality health care and cancer patients receiving personalized chemotherapy treatments.

Mar 15, 2012 10:24 AM EDT

Social Disapproval Not Fear Helps Smokers Quit

Researchers from Canterbury Christ Church University have found that smokers are more likely to stop because of anti-social attitudes towards them than from fear of ill-health.

Mar 15, 2012 10:09 AM EDT

Lung Doctors Expect Respiratory Diseases will Worsen with Global Climate Change

Worldwide increases in the incidences of asthma, allergies, infectious and cardiovascular diseases will result from a variety of impacts of global climate change, including rising temperatures, worsening ozone levels in urban areas, the spread of desertification, and expansions of the ranges of comm...

Mar 15, 2012 09:16 AM EDT

How to Best Help Your Child Lose Weight: Lose Weight Yourself

A study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and The University of Minnesota indicates that a parent's weight change is a key contributor to the success of a child's weight loss in family-based treatment of childhood obesity. The results were published today i...

Mar 14, 2012 03:01 PM EDT

Epigenetic Signatures Direct the Repair Potential of Reprogrammed Cells

A research team has identified epigenetic signatures, markers on DNA that control transient changes in gene expression, within reprogrammed skin cells. These signatures can predict the expression of a wound-healing protein in reprogrammed skin cells or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), cells t...

Mar 14, 2012 02:51 PM EDT

Biologists Uncover Surprising Connection between Breast Cancer Cells and Surrounding Tissue

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Biologist Lee Ligon has found a previously unknown connection between breast cancer tumor cells and the surrounding healthy tissue. The results provide new information on the earliest stages of breast cancer metastasis.

Mar 14, 2012 02:27 PM EDT

The Brazilian Navy Faces Its Worst Enemy in WWI: The Spanish Flu

Few people know about the participation of Brazil in Word War I. Although Brazil remained neutral during most of the conflict, it eventually sent a fleet to support the war effort against the central powers. It was the only Latin-American country to do so. But the Brazilian expedition encountered an...

Mar 14, 2012 02:03 PM EDT

How Cancer Cells Start New Tumor Sites

A Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine study has revealed details of the complex molecular process involving a protein that enables cancer cells to establish tumors in distant parts of the body.

Mar 14, 2012 01:50 PM EDT

Obese Kids Have Hard Time Sticking to Low-carb Diet

When it comes to managing children's obesity, cutting portion sizes and cutting carbohydrates can work equally well -- though carb control is tough for many kids, a new clinical trial finds.

Mar 14, 2012 01:08 PM EDT

'Brain Fog' of Menopause Confirmed

The difficulties that many women describe as memory problems when menopause approaches are real, according to a study published today in the journal Menopause, the journal of the North American Menopause Society.

Mar 14, 2012 12:19 PM EDT

A new Treatment Option for Clostridium Difficile: Fecal Transplantation

Fecal transplantation through colonoscopy is an effective treatment for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), according to a new study in Gastroenterology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association. Additionally, the mortality rate in this study does not appear ...

Mar 14, 2012 12:06 PM EDT

Are Silver Nanoparticles Harmful?

Silver nanoparticles cause more damage to testicular cells than titanium dioxide nanoparticles, according to a recent study by the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. However, the use of both types may affect testicular cells with possible consequences for fertility.