Health & Medicine : Science World Report

May 17, 2012 03:16 PM EDT

Suspicion Resides in 2 Regions of the Brain

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on my parahippocampal gyrus.

May 17, 2012 12:37 PM EDT

Hybrid Vaccine Demonstrates Potential to Prevent Breast Cancer Recurrence

A breast cancer vaccine already shown to elicit a powerful immune response in women with varying levels of HER2 expression has the ability to improve recurrence rates and is well tolerated in an adjuvant setting, according to new research from a clinical trial led by researchers at The University of...

May 17, 2012 11:05 AM EDT

Zebrafish Could Hold the Key to Understanding Psychiatric Disorders

Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have shown that zebrafish could be used to study the underlying causes of psychiatric disorders.

May 17, 2012 10:21 AM EDT

Children with Rare, Incurable Brain Disease Improve after Gene Therapy

Using gene transfer techniques pioneered by University of Florida faculty, Taiwanese doctors have restored some movement in four children bedridden with a rare, life-threatening neurological disease.

May 17, 2012 08:26 AM EDT

VIDEO: Paralyzed Woman Uses Thoughts to Move Robotic Arm

Using just her thoughts, a 58-year-old paralyzed woman instructed a robotic arm to grasp a cup of coffee and guide it to her mouth where she sipped from a straw, the first drink she has been able to serve herself in 15 years.

May 16, 2012 03:08 PM EDT

Understanding Breast Cancer

In a study published today in Nature, researchers describe nine new genes that drive the development of breast cancer. This takes the tally of all genes associated with breast cancer development to 40.

May 16, 2012 02:19 PM EDT

Health Experts Narrow the Hunt for Ebola

Response efforts to outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Africa can benefit from a standardized sampling strategy that focuses on the carcasses of gorillas, chimpanzees and other species known to succumb to the virus, according to a consortium of wildlife health experts.

May 16, 2012 12:59 PM EDT

Scientists Discover Marker to Identify, Attack Breast Cancer Stem Cells

Breast cancer stem cells wear a cell surface protein that is part nametag and part bull's eye, identifying them as potent tumor-generating cells and flagging their vulnerability to a drug, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center report online in Journal of Clinical Investiga...

May 16, 2012 10:33 AM EDT

Oxford Experts Call for a Sugary Drinks Tax in the UK

Experts at Oxford University are calling for the introduction of taxes on sugary drinks as one measure that would encourage healthier diets and help tackle the obesity crisis in the UK.

May 16, 2012 09:38 AM EDT

U.S. HIV Aid Has Prevented 741,000 Deaths: Study

The United States foreign aid program that sends billions of dollars to African countries for HIV treatment and prevention has cut the number of people dying for any reason in those nations, a new study suggests.

May 16, 2012 08:47 AM EDT

Acupuncture May Help Some People with COPD: Study

Three months of acupuncture improved breathing problems in people with chronic lung disease, in a new study from Japan.

May 16, 2012 08:41 AM EDT

Insecticide Resistance Threatens Malaria Fight

Malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa and India are becoming resistant to insecticides, putting millions of lives at greater risk and threatening eradication efforts, health experts said on Tuesday.