Whiskers provide a mouse with essential information to negotiate a burrow or detect movement that could signal a predator’s presence. These stiff hairs relay sensory input to the brain, which shapes neuronal activity.
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center scientists, in collaboration with Chinese researchers, have isolated an enzyme that could be used to predict survival and recurrence rates for nasopharyngeal cancer — a common cancer affecting people from Southeast Asia.
Services that help women understand the way that their inherited genetic make-up influences their risk of getting breast cancer ease distress and decrease their levels of cancer worry. There is, however, insufficient evidence to make recommendations about the best way of delivering these services.
Good performers pay less, poor performers will pay more. The private and voluntary healthcare sector is to get a 15% overall cut in regulatory fees, the Healthcare Commission announced.
Abbott Diabetes Care announced the launch of its FreeStyle Lite? blood glucose monitoring system for people with diabetes after receiving a 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The Honourable Tony Clement, Federal Minister of Health, and the Honourable George Abbott, Minister of Health for British Columbia, announced that British Columbia will establish a Patient Wait Times Guarantee for radiation therapy by March 31, 2010, to be supported by $76.4 million in federal funding. British Columbia will also be eligible to benefit from the $400 million in new funding for Canada Health Infoway, and the $30 million for pilot projects as announced in Budget 2007.
Minnesota’s bill to protect seriously ill patients from arrest for using medical marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation cleared another critical milestone today as the Senate Health and Human Services Budget Division passed S.F. 345 ? the medical marijuana bill ? 6?4.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the first approval in the United States of a vaccine for humans against the H5N1 influenza virus, commonly known as avian or bird flu.
A new mosquito-sized biosensor can detect amazingly small amounts of disease-causing E. coli bacteria in food in a single-step process that takes only minutes, compared to hours required with conventional tests for that common food poisoning agent, researchers in Philadelphia are reporting.
With pre-term births a major international health problem, scientists are reporting an advance toward developing a much-needed, noninvasive test for predicting when pregnant women are about to deliver early.