Vitamin :: Misusing vitamin to foil drug test may be toxic
Taking excessive doses of a common vitamin in an attempt to defeat drug screening tests may send the user to the hospital or worse.
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Chemotherapy :: Gene screening points way to more effective chemotherapy
Using a technology that can quickly screen all 20,000-plus human genes for biological activity, scientists have isolated 87 genes that seem to affect how sensitive human cancer cells are to certain chemotherapy drugs.
NHS :: Hewitt unveils super website NHS Choices
Any choice of hospital for hip ops – to start 1yr early Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt announced a package of measures to help patients in the most disadvantaged communities make choices about their healthcare and empower them to shape services around their needs and experience.
Bipolar Disorder :: Lithium builds gray matter in bipolar brains
Neuroscientists at UCLA have shown that lithium, long the standard treatment for bipolar disorder, increases the amount of gray matter in the brains of patients with the illness.
Dieting :: Dieting does not work
Diets do not lead to sustained weight loss or health benefits for the majority of people, revealed by US researchers.
Down Syndrome :: Fragile X, Down syndromes linked to faulty brain communication
The two most prevalent forms of genetic mental retardation, Fragile X and Down syndromes, may share a common cause, according to researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine.
Eye :: Eye diseases gave great painters different vision of their work
After writing two books on the topic of artists and eye disease, the Stanford University School of Medicine ophthalmologist decided to go one step further and create images that would show how artists with eye disease actually saw their world and their canvases.
Flu Vaccine :: Bypassing eggs, flu vaccine grown in insect cells shows promise
An experimental flu vaccine made in insect cells ? not in eggs, where flu vaccines currently available in the United States are grown ? is safe and as effective as conventional vaccines in protecting people against the flu, according to results published in the April 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Diabetes :: High prevalence and heavy cost of type 2 diabetes complications
A first-of-its-kind report looking at the prevalence and cost of type 2 diabetes complications shows that an estimated three out of five people (57.9 percent) with type 2 diabetes have at least one of the other serious health problems commonly associated with the disease, and that these health problems are taking a heavy financial toll on the United States.
Infertility :: Researchers find gene mutation that causes infertility
Up to 15 percent of couples of childbearing age struggle with the heartache of infertility. Now there is the promise of new hope with Cornell researchers’ identification of a mutation in a gene that causes male infertility in mice.