A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review has found only limited evidence for an association between eating tomatoes and a decreased risk of certain cancers. Review found no evidence that tomatoes reduced the risk of lung, colorectal, breast, cervical, or endometrial cancer.
A new study confirms that treatment of early stage lung cancer should not be delayed.
A new study shows that COPD patients experience significantly more psychiatric problems than those in the general population.
Never-smokers with early stage lung cancer have significantly better survival than smokers with the disease.
Those with heavy hearts ? in the literal not figurative sense ? long have been known to be prone to cardiac arrest and sudden death. But many are not, and who among them is subject to serious risk is a mystery.
Nearly 90 percent of all babies born in the United States ? more than double the percentage in 2005 ? live in states that require screening for at least 21 life-threatening disorders, according to the latest March of Dimes Newborn Screening Report Card.
Chronic mild stress in pregnant mothers may increase the risk that their offspring will develop cerebral palsy — a group of neurological disorders marked by physical disability — according to new research in mice. The results may be the first to demonstrate such effects of stress on animals in the womb.
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review has found only limited evidence for an association between eating tomatoes and a decreased risk of certain cancers, according to an article published online July 10 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Cosmetic surgery techniques, such as having a patient sit or stand while incision sites are marked so they blend into natural lines of the body, can improve the aesthetic result of thyroid surgery as well, researchers say.
Prof. Karen Avraham, chair of the department of human molecular genetics and biochemistry at Tel Aviv University?s Sackler School of Medicine, represented EuroHear, a consortium of 25 European, Israeli and U.K.-based research teams, at the European U nion conference ?Hearing and Seeing: European Research to Fight Deafness and Blindness,? held at Paris?s College de France on July 2-3, 2007.