Health & Medicine.

Posted May 23, 2013:

• Scientists Make Breast Cancer Advance That Turns Previous Thinking on Its Head


• Research Identifies a Way to Make Cancer Cells More Responsive to Chemotherapy


• Technique to Detect Breast Cancer in Urine Developed


• Noninvasive Detection, Diagnosis of Oral Cancer


• Genomic Analysis Lends Insight to Prostate Cancer


• When Oxygen Is Short, EGFR Prevents Maturation of Cancer-Fighting miRNAs


• Scientists Discover How Rapamycin Slows Cell Growth


• Vaccine Blackjack: IL-21 Critical to Fight Against Viral Infections


• Cradle Turns Smartphone Into Handheld Biosensor


• Ferrets, Pigs Susceptible to H7N9 Avian Influenza Virus


• Cinnamon Compound Has Potential Ability to Prevent Alzheimer's


• Biophysicists Measure Mechanism That Determines Fate of Living Cells


• Drug Reverses Alzheimer's Disease Deficits in Mice


• Discarded Immune Cells Induce the Relocation of Stem Cells


• Molecule That Triggers Sensation of Itch Discovered


• New Screening Approach Uncovers Potential Alternative Drug Therapies for Neuroblastoma


• Powerful New Method IDs Therapeutic Antibodies


• Multiple Research Teams Unable to Confirm High-Profile Alzheimer's Study


• Schools Should Provide Students With Daily Physical Activity, Experts Say


• Common Childhood Asthma Not Rooted in Allergens, Inflammation


• New Discovery in Fight Against Deadly Meningococcal Disease: Understanding the Pathway of How the Bacterium Colonizes People


• Frequent Heartburn May Predict Cancers of the Throat and Vocal Cord


• Networks of Neurons in Brain Are Disrupted in Psychiatric Disease


• First Successful Treatment of Pediatric Cerebral Palsy With Autologous Cord Blood: Awoken from a Persistent Vegetative State


• Regenerating Spinal Cord Fibers May Be Treatment for Stroke-Related Disabilities


• The Secret Lives (and Deaths) of Neurons


• Chemists Find New Compounds to Curb Staph Infection


• Biochemistry: Unspooling DNA from Nucleosomal Disks


• Boosting Body's Natural Flu Killers as Way to Offset Virus Mutation Problem


• Breakthrough on Huntington's Disease


• Key Find for Early Bladder Cancer Treatment


• What the Smallest Infectious Agents Reveal About Evolution


• Depression Linked to Telomere Enzyme, Aging, Chronic Disease