New research from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center finds that the protein HER2 plays a role even in breast cancers that would traditionally be categorized as HER2-negative - and that the drug Herceptin, which targets HER2, may have an even greater role for treating breast...
I really can't say I'm surprised, but a new study out from TIME magazine shows just how much Americans are overpaying for hospital care. More »
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Food allergies can be incredibly stressful to the people who suffer them, and for kids, they can be even more bothersome, and now there's another reason to check for food allergies in children: their growth. More »
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1. Today's most widely grown food is _______________?
a. alfalfa
b. wheat
c. barley
d. rice
2. A crop that was developed in association with a word leader is_________?
a. apples/Charlemagne
b. rice/Confucius
c. corn/ Montezuma
d. sugar beat/ Napoleon
3. New major food crops developed in...
A study at Colorado State University is looking at the health effects of Bikram yoga, a form of yoga in which practitioners follow a prescribed set of 26 poses in a room heated to 105 degrees. The sketchy thing? The majority of the funding for the study comes from the founder of Bikram yoga...
Hospital beds tend to get used simply because they're available - not necessarily because they're needed, according to a first-of-its-kind study that supports continued regulation of new hospitals. Michigan State University researchers examined all 1.1 million admissions at Michigan's 169...
A search for genes that change their levels of expression in response to nutrient deprivation has uncovered potential clues to the mechanism underlying the health benefits of omega fatty acids. In the journal Genes & Development, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers describe finding...
New Vanderbilt-led research published in the New England Journal of Medicine has identified the relatively unknown human metapneumovirus (MPV) as the second most common cause of severe bronchiolitis in young children. Senior author John Williams , M.D., associate professor of Pediatric...
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara are researching cocaine addiction, part of a widespread problem, which, along with other addictions, costs billions of dollars in damage to individuals, families, and society. Laboratory studies at UCSB have revealed that the diminished brain function and learning...
Clasado, the manufacturers and suppliers of Bimuno®, a unique trans-galactooligosaccharide prebiotic, have announced the results of a clinical study on the use of the Bimuno (B-GOS) to alter bacteria in the human gastrointestinal tract as a candidate to help prevent and manage Metabolic...
JAMA Neurology Study Highlights In a study of elderly patients, Natalie L. Marchant, Ph.D., of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues suggest there is no evidence that vascular brain injury (VBI) increases the likelihood of beta-Amyloid (Aβ) deposition, a diagnostic criterion...
An analysis of policy documents from Medicaid programs, suggests that current policies to manage conflicts of interest (COIs) of members of Medicaid drug selection committees are not transparent and vary widely, according to a report published Online First by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA...
In their natural environment bacteria develop by forming communities of micro-organisms called biofilms that afford them greater resistance.These biofilms on farms and premises where food is processed lead to considerable economic losses besides being a potential source of contamination and...
...that i can study for my quiz? Which of the following activities are Muslims not allowed to take part in?Answer drinking alcohol
eating pork
both drinking alcohol and eating pork
none of the above
When a Muslim prays five times a day, which Pillar of Islam is being...
A new study has correlated "short sleep" (defined as five to six hours of shut-eye) with eating higher amounts of calories. So, rather than "you are what you eat", we can now say "you eat how you sleep." More »
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Nearly 1 in 10 Failure Rate Could Accelerate Spread of Drug Resistance In the largest ever study of its kind, new research shows that substandard and falsified tuberculosis medicines are widely used and likely contribute to the rise in drug-resistant strains of the disease. Researchers tested...
Melbourne scientists have discovered how female steroid hormones can make dramatic changes to the genetic material in breast cells, changes that could potentially lead to breast cancer. Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia, have...
Recent natural disasters illustrate vulnerability of older people: majority of deaths from the Great East Japan Earthquake (2011) and Hurricane Katrina (2005) occurred among older people. Researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York and Simon Fraser University's...