Ocean King Enterprises Inc. of Philadelphia, PA is recalling Ready-to-Eat Seafood Dips, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today issued new global guidance for the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets to protect people from malaria. For the first time, WHO recommends that insecticidal nets be long-lasting, and distributed either free or highly subsidized and used by all community members.
Christmas may come just once a year, but if you are looking for gift ideas that will make an impact long after the decorations have come down, why not give one of Cancer Research UK’s alternative gifts, and help beat cancer at the same time.
The Australian Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator the Hon Helen Coonan, announced at the 2007 Field of Women Live Event at Telstra Stadium that a new information resource would be made available for women to assist them combat secondary breast cancer.
Scientists have discovered a key protein in the toxic brain pathway that leads to fragile X tremor/ataxia syndrome, an inherited neurodegenerative disorder. The finding, in a Drosophila (fly) model of FXTAS, could help unravel the complex mechanisms of FXTAS and lead scientists to develop therapies to target the protein.
Pregnancies in Jerusalem in the 1960s and 1970s may hold vital clues about how pancreatic cancer and diabetes are linked. According to research published in the online open access journal BMC Medicine, women with a history of gestational diabetes had a higher risk of developing pancreatic cancer later in life.
Obesity and aversion to exercise have become hallmarks of modern society — and a new study suggests that a blood protein linked to these lifestyle factors may be an indicator for an increased risk of developing pancreatic cancer. Researchers from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute report their findings in the Aug. 15 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
A protein that dwindles in response to obesity and a sedentary lifestyle may one day help doctors predict which people are at increased risk for pancreatic cancer, new research by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and collaborating scientists indicates.
Organ transplant patients who focus on gratitude improve their mental health. After immunosuppressants, the best medicine for organ transplant patients may be gratitude.
Despite years of effort in reaching out to their local communities, the role pharmacists play as health-care providers still remains unclear to the people who need them the most — elderly Americans with multiple medications for chronic diseases.