Cranberry juice, long dissed as a mere folk remedy for relieving urinary tract infections in women, is finally getting some respect. Thanks to Prof. Itzhak Ofek, a researcher at Tel Aviv University's…

Mitch Waldrop has written an informative piece on the Science 2.0 movement in Scientific American: Science 2.0: Great New Tool, or Great Risk? Consistent with the content of the article, Mitch…

Methadone is a possible cause of sudden cardiac death even when it isn’t overdosed but is taken at therapeutic levels primarily for relief of chronic pain or drug addiction withdrawal, a new study by…

Stress, to put it bluntly, is bad for you. It can kill you, in fact. A study reveals that stress causes deterioration in everything from your gums to your heart and can make you more susceptible to…

Donated, freeze-dried tendon grafts loaded with gene therapy may soon offer effective repair of injured tendons, a goal that has eluded surgeons to date. According to study data published today in…

It seems like common sense but a new study adds empirical weight to commonly held beliefs about health: 1) Don't smoke 2) Exercise 3) Moderate alcohol intake 4) Eating 5 servings of fruits and…

The Commonwealth Fund has issued another indictment of US health care, this one stating that the United States showed the least improvement among 19 countries when it comes to preventable deaths. The…

A team of U.S., Israeli and German scientists used computational biology techniques to discover 480 genes that play a role in human cell division and to identify more than 100 of those genes that…

CALGARY, Canada, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX: ONC, NASDAQ: ONCY) ('Oncolytics') reported today that a research group led by Dr. Richard Vile of the Mayo Clinic College…

BASEL, Switzerland, January 7 /PRNewswire/ -- - For non US or non UK Media Only - Oral Chemotherapy Tablet Option Reduces the Time Patients Need to Spend in the Hospital Data recently published in…