It has long been known that eating potatoes is good for bowel health, but new research suggests that they may also have a beneficial effect on the whole immune system. Especially if eaten cold or in a potato salad, Anne Pichon reports in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI.
New adjuvant treatments for breast cancer are cost-effective at improving survival, according to two new studies. Published in the August 1, 2007 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the two studies looked at the cost-effectiveness of different drugs for the management of adjuvant therapies for early breast cancer.
American Medical Association experts backed away from a controversial proposal to designate video game addiction as a mental disorder similar to alcoholism, saying psychiatrists should study the issue more.
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop TB Partnership launched a $2.15 billion two-year programme to save over 100,000 lives.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new project expanding its efforts to encourage Medicare beneficiaries to take advantage of Internet-based tools to track their health care services and provide them with other resources to better communicate with their providers.
Scientists at the University of Virginia and the Medical College of Wisconsin have discovered that a gene that participates in the regulation of the body?s biological rhythms may also be a major control in regulating metabolism.
Hundreds of thousands of cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) can be prevented and as many as 134 000 lives saved through the implementation of a two-year response plan, published/launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Stop TB Partnership.
Treatment with the oral antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and prophylaxis for people exposed to infected patients could be one of the most cost-effective strategies for reducing illness and death during an influenza pandemic.
Most young Singaporean students who will be traveling next week and during July will be vacationing, relaxing and sightseeing. But not 18-year old Nicholas Tan Xue-Wei, who will soon depart for the U.S. to attend ? and present a research paper ? at The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP’07), June 25 to 28, in Las Vegas.
Pioneering work to reduce the use of animals in scientific research — and ultimately remove them from laboratories altogether — has received a major boost at The University of Nottingham.