Health & Medicine
World’s first migraine-prevention device gets US FDA nod
12 Mar 2014
The US Food and Drug Administration for the first time yesterday allowed the marketing of a device as a preventative treatment for migraine headaches
Financial incentives an incentive to healthier choices, reveals largest study of its kind
12 Mar 2014
Smartphones become ‘eye-phones’ with low-cost devices developed by ophthalmologists
By By Rosanne Spector | 12 Mar 2014
Researchers have developed inexpensive adapters that enable a smartphone to capture high-quality images of the front and back of the eye
Key pancreatic cancer defect identified
12 Mar 2014
Discrepancies in clinical trial reporting raise questions of accuracy
By By Karen N. Peart | 12 Mar 2014
UV light aids cancer cells that creep along the outside of blood vessels
By By Shaun Mason | 11 Mar 2014
Fat-busting seaweeds identified
07 Mar 2014
Warmer temperatures push malaria to higher elevations
07 Mar 2014
Research has established that malarial parasites creep to higher elevations during warmer years and back down to lower altitudes when temperatures cool
WHO cuts recommended sugar intake amount by half
06 Mar 2014
‘Almost winning’: how near misses for gamblers fire off a ‘win’ response in the brain
05 Mar 2014
Scientists have discovered that near misses experienced by gamblers on slot machine games promote similar neural responses to winning and could lead to further gambling
Combination therapies combat HIV at cell junctions
By By Bill Hathaway | 04 Mar 2014
Self-administration of flu vaccine with a patch may be feasible, study suggests
04 Mar 2014
The annual ritual of visiting a doctor’s office or health clinic to receive a flu shot may soon be outdated, thanks to the findings of a new study published in the journal Vaccine.
Researchers create graphene coating to prevent blood clots associated with implanted devices
04 Mar 2014
Depression and heart disease - a deadly mix
03 Mar 2014
Heart patients suffering from depression do not respond as well to treatment as patients without deporession, a new study led by the Yale School of Public Health finds
New kind of scan finds cancer's sleeper cells
03 Mar 2014
Certain bacteria unbeatable with today’s medicines
03 Mar 2014
Certain bacteria have become unbeatable with today’s medicines, since the way antibiotics are being used is helping to create new drug-resistant “superbugs"
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