WASHINGTON (April 14, 2012): Two Merck drugs for treating male baldness and enlarged prostate will now carry extended labels to add more possible sexual side […]
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Men who drink sugary drink daily up risk of heart disease
BOSTON, March 15 — A new study has found that men who drink about a can of full-calorie soda or sugar-sweetened juice a day could […]
Read More →Common sleeping pills linked with higher death risk
PARIS, Feb 29 — Commonly-prescribed sleeping pills are linked to a more-than fourfold risk of premature death, according to an American study published in the […]
Read More →Can Lack of Sleep lead to High Blood Pressure?
Answer: Possibly. It’s thought that sleeping less than six hours a night could be linked to increased blood pressure. People who sleep five hours or […]
Read More →Successful Human Tests for First Wirelessly Controlled Drug-Delivery Chip
About 15 years ago, MIT professors Robert Langer and Michael Cima had the idea to develop a programmable, wirelessly controlled microchip that would deliver drugs […]
Read More →New ‘Smart’ Nanotherapeutics Can Deliver Drugs Directly to the Pancreas
ScienceDaily (Jan. 12, 2012) — A research collaboration between the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston has developed “smart” […]
Read More →For the Herd’s Sake, Vaccinate
West Hartford, Conn. I HAVE chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Three months ago, I underwent an allogeneic stem-cell transplant, in which my wise, 52-year-old white blood cells were […]
Read More →“Gold standard” stem cells created by British scientists
British scientists have created the first known batch of “gold standard” stem cells which could one day lead to a new wave of treatments for […]
Read More →Boys need the cervical cancer jab too
Few politicians will ever admit they are wrong, so I salute health ministers who have finally capitulated to medical opinion and last month announced a […]
Read More →Daily Aspirin blocks bowel cancer
A daily dose of aspirin should be given to people at high risk of bowel cancer, say scientists. Two pills a day for two years […]
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