Health and Medicine

PGX Fights Constipation, Cholesterol and Obesity By | September 23, 2012
There’s more benefit to water than merely flowing under bridges
Natural Ways To Prevent And Treat Bone Loss By | September 16, 2012
Doctors may be reaching for medication too often, when natural means might suffice just as well, without side effects
Neo40: Is It A Miracle Supplement? By | September 9, 2012
L-Citrulline,
This Fall, Think About Lyme Disease By | September 2, 2012
The last stage of Lyme disease occurs five months to five years after the initial infection
New antibacterial coating for sutures could reduce infections after surgery By Gregory N. Tew, Ph.D. | August 29, 2012
"The discovery of new antimicrobial agents that remain active in biomedical device coatings is essential"
Many trendy “microgreens” are more nutritious than their mature counterparts By Qin Wang, Ph.D. | August 29, 2012
Microgreens generally have higher concentrations of healthful vitamins and carotenoids than their mature counterparts
What I Learned From Sitting in a Bar By | August 26, 2012
Carbon monoxide poisoning
The Mortality Rate is Staggering for Lung Cancer By | August 19, 2012
This year another 110,000 men and 90,000 North American women will die of this disease. Of this number, 10 percent of men and 20 percent of women have never smoked.
Dental X-Rays Linked To Meningiomas By | August 12, 2012
No one really knows how much radiation we can receive before it causes trouble.
A step toward minute factories that produce medicine inside the body By Daniel G. Anderson, Ph.D. | August 8, 2012
Nanoscale production units
Leveraging bacteria in drinking water to benefit consumers By Lutgarde Raskin, Ph.D. | August 8, 2012
The water’s pH was a strong factor in determining which bacteria made it into the drinking water
How To Burn More Calories To Lose Weight By | August 5, 2012
Building muscle with protein
“I Did Not Expect To Live In Diapers” By | July 29, 2012
Prostate cancer
A new genre of diagnostic tests for the era of personalized medicine By | July 25, 2012
Companion diagnostics
Alcohol could intensify the effects of some drugs in the body By Christel Bergström, Ph.D. | July 25, 2012
The researchers sought to test whether ethanol made these drugs dissolve more easily
Solving the mystery of how cigarette smoking weakens bones By Gary Guishan Xiao, Ph.D. | July 25, 2012
Smokers produce unusually large amounts of two proteins that foster production of bone-resorbing osteoclasts compared to non-smokers.
What Does North America Offer Immigrants? By | July 22, 2012
"We should have stayed at home and lived longer.”
Enhanced royal jelly produces jumbo queen bee larvae By Chia-Nan Chen, Ph.D. | July 18, 2012
The super-nutritious substance that dictates whether larvae become workers or queens
All-they-can-eat diet for lab mice & rats may foster inaccurate test results By Gale Carey, Ph.D. | July 18, 2012
Having free access to food is likely to affect the results of tests for the toxicity and cancer-causing effects of new drugs and other substances in rodents
Sorry, But What We Told You Is Wrong By | July 15, 2012
Popular medical myths
Unmasking black pepper’s secrets as a fat fighter By Soo-Jong Um, Ph.D. | July 11, 2012
The finding may lead to wider use of piperine or black-pepper extracts in fighting obesity and related diseases.
What You Don’t Know About Genetic Testing By | July 8, 2012
All too often today we are the architects of our own misfortune, not our genes
A Sick Brain and a Great Naval Disaster By | July 1, 2012
Sadly, we do not learn from history.
Efforts to develop new drugs that hopefully will never be used By | June 27, 2012
Acute radiation syndrome
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A new “Achilles’ heel” in fungus that causes dandruff By Claudiu T. Supuran, Ph.D. | June 27, 2012
Dandruff; the embarrassing nuisance
It’s Like Being Trapped under Water By | June 24, 2012
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF)
A non-antibiotic approach for treating urinary tract infections By Beat Ernst, Ph.D. | June 20, 2012
The development of anti-adhesion molecules that specifically interfere with the attachment of bacteria to human bladder cells
What Did I Learn This Week at the Harvard Medical School? By | June 17, 2012
How sick are North Americans? Studies show that the average person over the age of 55 is taking eight or more prescription drugs at any one time
1960s-era anti-cancer drug points to treatments for Lou Gehrig’s disease By Lucia Banci, Ph.D. | June 13, 2012
The anti-cancer drug cisplatin bound readily to the enzyme, preventing hSOD1 from aggregating and dissolving existing bunches
Testosterone for Sexually Frustrated Women By | June 10, 2012
Just as no shoe fits all people, the same applies to the use of testosterone