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Apr 16, 2012 (AFP)

Cosmetic surgery to make the chin look more prominent has soared in popularity in the course of a year, making it the fastest growing trend among men and women,...

Firewall can stop medical device 'hacking'

Apr 12, 2012 (UPI)

U.S. researchers say a prototype firewall can keep hackers from interfering with wireless medical devices such as pacemakers and insulin-delivery systems. A tea...

Summer temperature variability may increase mortality risk for elderly with chronic disease

Apr 12, 2012 (SPX)

New research from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) suggests that seemingly small changes in summer temperature swings-as little as 1 degrees C more than u...

Rapid method of assembling new gene-editing tool could revolutionize genetic research

Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)

Development of a new way to make a powerful tool for altering gene sequences should greatly increase the ability of researchers to knock out or otherwise alter ...

First targeted and programmable nanomedicine to show clinical antitumor effects published

Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)

BIND Biosciences has published preclinical and clinical data in Science Translational Medicine showing promising effects in solid tumors and successful clinical...

Herbal remedy blamed for high cancer rate in Taiwan: study

Apr 09, 2012 (AFP)

A toxic ingredient in a popular herbal remedy is linked to more than half of all cases of urinary tract cancer in Taiwan where use of traditional medicine is wi...

First targeted nanomedicine to enter human clinical studies

Apr 05, 2012 (SPX)

A team of scientists, engineers and physicians from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Harvard Medical School (HMS), Massa...

FDA to research prescription treatments

Apr 03, 2012 (UPI)

Weapons of mass destruction may have faded from the national discussion of public health threats but the U.S. government continues to plan strategies to fight b...

Harvard's Wyss Institute Creates Living Human Gut-on-a-Chip

Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created a gut-on-a-chip microdevice lined by living human cel...

A 24-karat Gold Key to Unlock the Immune System

Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)

Developing a drug or vaccine requires a delicate balancing act with the immune system. On one hand, medications need to escape detection by the immune system in...

Sanofi teams up with India to make cheap ARVs in S.Africa

Mar 30, 2012 (AFP)

French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has signed a partnership with India's Hetero to manufacture cheap anti-HIV drugs in South Africa, the company said on Friday....

E. coli bacteria becomes a factory - to make cheaper, faster pharmaceuticals

Mar 29, 2012 (SPX)

Escherichia coli - a bacteria considered the food safety bane of restaurateurs, grocers and consumers - is a friend. Cornell University biomolecular engineers h...

New plastics 'bleed' when cut or scratched - and then heal like human skin

Mar 28, 2012 (SPX)

A new genre of plastics that mimic the human skin's ability to heal scratches and cuts offers the promise of endowing cell phones, laptops, cars and other produ...

Why getting healthy can seem worse than getting sick

Mar 26, 2012 (SPX)

A new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology helps explain why the immune system often makes us worse while trying to make us well. The research offers a ne...

Nuclear medicine: a vital but troubled industry

Mar 25, 2012 (AFP)

Life begins at 40, but not for a small and ageing fleet of nuclear reactors vital for millions of life-saving medical procedures each year and using material th...

China vows to slow reliance on executed inmates' organs

Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)

A Chinese health official has vowed executed inmates will no longer be the main source of organs for transplants in three to five years, as the country sets up ...

Tiny tools hit brain tumors with big radiation

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

For the past 40 years, radiation has been the most effective method for treating deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas. But, although the targeting technolog...

AIDS orphanage revives Swazi ghost town

Mar 23, 2012 (AFP)

Lost in the mountains of Swaziland, Bulembu became a ghost town when the local mine closed, cutting off its lifeblood. Now the town is coming back, centred on a...

Lung doctors expect respiratory diseases will worsen with global climate change

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

Worldwide increases in the incidences of asthma, allergies, infectious and cardiovascular diseases will result from a variety of impacts of global climate chang...

Columbia Engineering and Penn researchers increase speed of single-molecule measurements

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

As nanotechnology becomes ever more ubiquitous, researchers are using it to make medical diagnostics smaller, faster, and cheaper, in order to better diagnose d...