NEW ORLEANS There could be a way to look inside your body and find undiagnosed cancer. Thats exactly what a simple test is doing. The test is here in the New Orleans area and already saving lives. … [+6187 chars]
Research has proven that regular exercise can help you live a longer, healthier life. In fact, according to Harvard Health Publishing, people who are overweight can potentially live as much as four m… [+4498 chars]
Experts have hailed a cutting-edge vaccine that could prevent pancreatic cancer from returning. Early trial results suggest the personalised vaccines prime the body to stop the deadly disease comin… [+3473 chars]
Treatment will begin and end in a dermatologist’s office for most patients who get melanoma. They won’t need the array of advanced treatments discussed in an accompanying article. They won’t see med… [+4866 chars]
More than a dozen rectal cancer patients in the United States have seen their cancer disappear after undergoing experimental immunotherapy, in what doctors are calling an astonishing result. The pat… [+4693 chars]
Carbohydrates may be your worst enemy if you are trying to lose weight. The "Today" show recently highlighted a perspective piece that suggests the key to losing weight is more about cutting carboh… [+5168 chars]
An interesting study was published in the June 2022 issue of PLOS Genetics, and it has to do with height. Researchers evaluated more than hundreds of thousands of people to see if their height had a… [+2760 chars]
Your mood is impacted by a variety of factors, but perhaps one of the most significant is the neurotransmitters within your brain. Of these, dopamine and serotonin are some of the most criticalthey w… [+576 chars]
Its strange to find yourself awake at 3 a.m., when the world is dark, your stomach is grumbling and the kitchen is beckoning. Youre hungry for something. Its not breakfast its not any meal so chips a… [+5473 chars]
Summary: A new study of drosophila reveals a link between circadian rhythm, diet, lifespan, and eye health. Unexpectedly, researchers found processes in the fly eye that appear to drive the aging pro… [+7311 chars]
In 2009, Dr. Scott Folk treated two patients in western Missouri who had fallen ill after getting bitten by ticks. Most tick-borne diseases, from Lyme disease to Rocky Mountain spotted fever, share … [+3845 chars]
In 1959, German microbiologist Anton Mayr took a strain of vaccinia, a poxvirus used to inoculate against smallpox, and started to grow it in cells taken from chicken embryos. After several years of … [+8379 chars]
