Health & Medicine

New meningitis vaccine only cost-effective at low price

15 Oct 2014

Light-activated drug could reduce side effects of diabetes medication

15 Oct 2014

Bio researchers receive patent to fight superbugs

14 Oct 2014

Researchers have received a patent for producing antimicrobial compounds that degrade and destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria by using the pathogen's own genes against it

Sensors to simplify diabetes management

14 Oct 2014

New cancer drug to begin trials in multiple myeloma patients

14 Oct 2014

The skin cancer selfie

14 Oct 2014

Gigapixel camera that takes high-resolution snapshots of the entire body could be simple new tool for whole-body skin cancer screening

Nanoparticles accumulate quickly in wetland sediment

13 Oct 2014

Aquatic food chains might be harmed by molecules "piggybacking" on carbon nanoparticles

Meat and cheese may be as bad as smoking during middle age

13 Oct 2014

Gene interacts with stress and leads to heart disease in some people

13 Oct 2014

‘Smart’ bandage emits phosphorescent glow for healing below

13 Oct 2014

Inspired by wounded warriors, new paint-on, see-through bandage not only protects wounds and severe burns but enables direct measurement of tissue oxygenation

Researchers produce beta cells in huge step for cure for type 1 diabetes

11 Oct 2014

Consumers may be drinking more harmful sugar than soda labels reveal

11 Oct 2014

Soda consumers may be getting a much higher dose of the harmful sugar fructose than they have been led to believe, according to a new study

Long acting HIV drugs to be developed

11 Oct 2014

Scientists isolate blood stem cells

11 Oct 2014

Nanoparticles get a magnetic handle

11 Oct 2014

Testosterone stimulates prostate cancer in animal model

11 Oct 2014

Manipulating memory with light

10 Oct 2014

Hunger games: how the brain 'browns' fat to aid weight loss

10 Oct 2014

Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have uncovered a molecular process in the brain known to control eating that transforms white fat into brown fat, a process that impacts how much energy we burn and how much weight we can lose