Frankincense tested as possible breast, colon cancer treatment
Credit: Sarah Pack Cancer surgeon and researcher Nancy DeMore is leading a clinical trial using frankincense to try to treat breast and colon cancer at...
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A new class of drugs aims to exploit cancer cells’ weaknesses
In recent years, new cancer treatments have brought hope to people who once had limited options. But for others, the wait for an effective drug...
Phone calls work better to remind people about colon cancer screening
PORTLAND, Ore. (Oct. 6, 2017) -- Live phone calls significantly outperform text messages and letters as a way to remind patients to complete and return...
Women can breathe sigh of relief when using vaginal estrogen to treat menopause symptoms
CLEVELAND, Ohio (Oct. 11, 2017) -- News flash....hot flashes aren't the only bothersome symptom of the menopause transition. Many postmenopausal women also experience sexual dysfunction...
How serious is postmenopausal bleeding?
CLEVELAND, Ohio (October 11, 2017) - If you're postmenopausal, you shouldn't be bleeding. The very definition of menopause is having gone more than 12 months...
JCU scientists find scorpions target their venom
Dr Jamie Seymour from JCU's Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM) said a typical scorpion predator would be a small mammal, while its...
Can you hear me now? Ensuring good cellular connections in the brain
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- (Oct. 11, 2017) To have a good phone conversation, you need a good cellular connection. What's true for mobile...
Pumas found to exhibit behaviors like social animals
Jackson, Wyoming -- Pumas, long known as solitary carnivores, are more social than previously thought, according to a new Panthera study published in the peer-reviewed...
‘Ridiculously healthy’ elderly have the same gut microbiome as healthy 30-year-olds
Credit: Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, Western University In one of the largest microbiota studies conducted in humans, researchers at Western University, Lawson Health Research Institute...
TSRI chemists use modified DNA nucleotides to create new materials
Credit: Courtesy Romesberg Lab LA JOLLA, CA - Oct. 11, 2017 - DNA evolved to store genetic information, but in principle this special, chain-like molecule...
‘Killer’ toothaches likely cause misery for captive orca
Credit: Supplied An international research team has undertaken the first in-depth investigation of the teeth of captive orca (killer whales) and have found them a...
Study exposes the dark side of coffee cultivation in Uganda
Credit: Kate Cassidy, Lehigh University New research led by Kelly Austin, associate professor of sociology at Lehigh, explores unequal exchange in the coffee industry. She...
Researchers create map of the gut’s microbial landscape
Cambridge, MA - Oct. 10, 2017 - A collaborative effort by a team of researchers from three institutions including the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in...
An engineer’s guide to the embryo
Credit: MechMorpho Lab/Lance Davidson PITTSBURGH (Oct. 11, 2017) ... In roughly 48 hours, the single cell of the fertilized frog egg will undergo dramatic change...
Fever in early pregnancy linked to birth defects, animal study shows
Credit: Liu, et al. Fevers in a mother's first trimester of pregnancy increase the baby's risk for some heart defects and facial deformities such as...
